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FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Win Tix to Cedric Burnside,...

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/29

by Mercury Promotions Who's ready to have some fun? Well, the Mercury is here to help with FREE TICKETS to see some of Portland's best concerts and events; our way of saying thanks to our great readers and spread the word about some fantastic upcoming performances! (Psst... if you want to say thanks to the Mercury, please consider making a small monthly contribution to keep us alive and kickin'!) And oh boy, do we have some fun events

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Good Morning, News: Federal Agents Who Shot at Alex...

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/29

Absolutely no vagueposting allowed by Suzette Smith If you appreciate the Mercury's interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution to support our editorial team. Your donation is tax-deductible. You can also subscribe and have our papers delivered! Good Morning, Portland! You like that rain yesterday? YOU'D BETTER because that's the last we're seeing of the sun

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Don’t need no credit card to

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/29

by Anonymous Hi Friends, [Redacted] here again, your friendly neighborhood chief of antifa counterintelligence (not my choice in title). Once upon a time a coworker at the day job asked me if we should sweep the boss’s office for bugs. I told them nah, because they already have our phones. Some people freak out to this knowledge, but the important thing is to have fun with it. I mean what other generation is better prepared to perform

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Revered Portland Restaurant República Has Announced...

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/29

Considered the flagship of its restaurant group, República represents a devotion to "Mexico-forward" cuisine and multi-course cultural storytelling. by Suzette Smith By way of his newsletter Between Courses, Angel Medina has announced plans to close Portland's revered fine-dining restaurant República in February. Considered the flagship of the local mini-empire República & Co., República also represented

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Profile Theatre’s Tiger Style Delivers Great Comedy...

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/29

Profile Theatre's Tiger Style is the best bargain in Portland theater. by John Rudoff Profile Theatre's Tiger Style is the best bargain to be found right now in Portland theater. You buy a ticket to a comedy and get—as a free bonus—a dazzling array of vignettes dissecting Asian American education, life, relationships, and myths. It's giving a side eye to corporate life, showing how families break up and make up,

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Mercury Music Picks: We're Launching a New Section,...

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/29

Nolan Parker by Nolan Parker Angels exist, I swear! If you were at the sold out Austra show on Monday, you would have witnessed Portland-born, Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist Colin Self descending from the heavens to bless us mere mortals with their angelic vocals and cherub-like presence. If you're looking for something to believe in, believe in music—it's one of the very few things with ability to unite

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Art Snack: Portland's Weapons Connection, Newbery...

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/28

It's a peculiarity of mine; I don't even try to rationalize it anymore. by Suzette Smith It's the new year and theater companies are announcing their literal schedules for 2027, bless their boots. They're your over-prepared friends trying to get everyone to pitch in for the group trip, except their group trip involves selling tickets for a Tony-award winning production. Welcome back to Art Snack, a smol attempt at

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Get Your Tickets Now for the Undisputable Geniuses of...

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/28

Featuring hosts Adam Pasi and Nariko Ott, Portland's best stand-ups, and super special guest Matt Braunger! 😍 by Wm. Steven Humphrey Let's celebrate, because... IT'S BACK! The biggest night of Portland comedy is returning to Revolution Hall on Friday, March 27! You like laughing your guts out, right? Then you won't want to miss the Portland Mercury’s Undisputable Geniuses of Comedy 2026, featuring Portland’s

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Good Morning, News: Councilors Shoot Down Proposed...

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/28

by Courtney Vaughn If you’re reading this, you probably know the value of the Mercury's news reporting, arts and culture coverage, event calendar, and the bevy of events we host throughout the year. The work we do helps our city shine, but we can’t do it without your support. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is

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I One Million % Abhor You

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/28

by Anonymous We used to work together. There was a falling out based on your unaccountability, privilege, and unconstructive criticism of creative types, for which you are completely incapable of doing said creative things. 5 years later, how on earth, we work at the same place. You worked in a different department but because you are so damn slow, and so damn lazy, you came to my department, not by earning it, but because nobody wants

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Your Objective Is?

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/28

by Anonymous I normally read on the bus so my head is down the entire ride so I don't have to look at human behavior, which for me, is quite aggravating because I'll see what doesn't inspire me. I am a misanthrope. But I was wiped out to read so I was mostly staring out the window. But, from the corner of my eye, I noticed someone sitting sideways with their nasty shoes on the seat that's walked in piss, shit, and mud, and likely

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What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome Documents Justin...

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/27

Music journalist Jonathan Bernstein first knew the singer-songwriter as a fan. by Melissa Locker When Justin Townes Earle rolled into Portland in 2016, he had already lived a long life for a 34-year-old. Born in Nashville, Earle had been making music since he was a kid and earning plenty of comparisons to his father, country rabble-rouser Steve Earle, along the way. Determined to bust out of his father’s shadow, he

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SAVAGE LOVE: The Roomies

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/27

A nosy roommate, sexy nurses, and the need for "less exciteable" genitals. by Dan Savage About a year ago I moved in with childhood best friend and his husband. We’re all in our mid-thirties. It’s been going great, and I consider the three of us to be fairly close. About a month ago, the husband and I stopped at the local pharmacy on the way home, which is how our various medications wound up in a pile on the

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I Un-Mellow Your Yellow

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/27

by Anonymous I'm all for saving water, but you leaving your pee soaking in the toilet to avoid a flush is futile. Why? Because, when I sit down to take a number 2, there's no way in hell I'm going to allow your urinary splashback to spray my open butthole. What kind of a strategy is this?

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Good Morning, News: Info on ICE in Oregon, Bovino...

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/27

by Taylor Griggs The Mercury provides news and fun every single day—but your help is essential. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us. Thanks for your support! Good morning, Portland. The rain returns this week. Maybe not today, though. More likely tomorrow. But also, who knows? Weather forecasters can only

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Stopping the Slow Creep of ICE

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/27

Limited detention and transportation capacity have likely helped keep Oregon's immigration detention rate among the nation's lowest. But ICE may be trying to change that. by Abe Asher The beginning of 2026 has seen another surge of violence from immigration enforcement officers—including in Portland, where U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers shot two people in East Portland on January 8. In response to

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The Pickathon 2026 Music Lineup is Here!

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/27

Nolan Parker by Nolan Parker It feels like just yesterday Jimetta Rose & The Voices of Creation and Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek were transforming the Woods Stage into a forested cathedral out at Pendarvis Farm in 2025. Alas, we are, in fact, at almost exactly the furthest—when thinking in terms of linear time—point away from Pickathon we can possibly be. From July 30 to August 2, 2026, Pickathon will be

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The Mercury’s Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for...

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/26

Warm up with electropop, meta-theater, and flavor-packed wieners. by Lindsay Costello Guard your buns, because this Monday marks the beginning of the Mercury's Wiener Week! Plus, electropop and avant-garde musicians are coming to town, and did you know you can see a film at Laurelhurst Theater for only seven bones on Tuesdays? On a more serious note, if you're in a blue mood due to... everything happening all the

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THE TRASH REPORT: Feuds for Thought

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/26

It's celebrities (and ICE) against each other and the world in this week's gossip roundup! by Elinor Jones Hey friends. I am writing this on Sunday. My daughter and I like to snuggle on the couch and watch dumb Instagram reels on my phone together on the weekends, and but yesterday ICE shot a man to death in Minneapolis, so I had turn my phone away from her to make sure a news feed wasn't autoplaying his murder

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Good Morning, News: The Border Patrol Murder of Alex...

Portland Mercury ·

2026/01/26

by Wm. Steven Humphrey If you’re reading this, you probably know the value of the Mercury’s news reporting, arts and culture coverage, event calendar, and the bevy of events we host throughout the year. The work we do helps our city shine, but we can’t do it without your support. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there

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