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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Portland This...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/08/08

Foster Summer Soiree, Washington Park Summer Festival, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15 by EverOut Staff This weekend is absolutely stacked with fun shit to do, from Music Millennium's 32nd Annual Customer Appreciation BBQ to the Foster Summer Soiree and from the Washington Park Summer Festival to the World Naked Bike Ride 2.0. If you'd like more ideas, check out our top event picks of the

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Good Morning, News: Israel Prepares to Occupy Gaza...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/08/08

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. Good Morning, Portland! What's that weather doing today? SUNNY today (high of 81), A LIL CLOUDY tomorrow (high of 85), and then it's TOO HOT on Sunday and Monday (hovering just below 100, your urban heat map may vary). BUT WHAT

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Recent In-Custody Death Reignites Calls For a...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/08/08

Portland Police Bureau says it wants another agency to take over calls involving behavioral health. The region already has one that police rarely use. by Courtney Vaughn Note: This story has been corrected to clarify the process for requesting Project Respond to accompany police on calls. As Portlanders await a medical examiner’s report and grand jury review of the death of Damon Lamarr Johnson, the fatal incident

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Second Run Portland: Shinji Sōmai’s Moving Is the...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/08/07

Plus, Sogo Ishii’s punk-inflected vision and two cinema vérité documentaries head to the screen this month. by Lindsay Costello Portland’s late-summer screenings feel especially thoughtful, turbulent, and aliiiive! This month, we’ve got fresh restorations and poetic takes on youth, class, and artistic longing on the docket. A coming-of-age sparkler by Japanese director Shinji Sōmai gets its due, and

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Ticket Alert: Air Supply, Freddie Gibbs, and More...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/08/07

Plus, Ira Glass and More Event Updates for August 7 by EverOut Staff Ready or not, here comes another batch of tickets. Aussie soft rock duo Air Supply celebrates their 50th anniversary this year. Rapper Freddie Gibbs will tour with producer the Alchemist for their collaborative album Alfredo. Plus, spend an evening with radio royalty Ira Glass at the Schnitz. Read on for details on those and other newly announced

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FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/08/07

by Mercury Promotions Who's ready to have some fun? Well, the Mercury is here to help you win FREE TICKETS to see some of Portland's best concerts and events—our way of saying thanks to our bodacious readers and spread the word about some ripper upcoming performances! (Psst... if you want to say thanks back to the Mercury, 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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POP QUIZ PDX: How Much Do YOU Know About the Portland...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/08/07

(Psst! Read our 25th Anniversary Issue for all the answers, cheater!) by Wm. Steven Humphrey CALLING ALL BRAINIACS! It's time once again to put your brainy-brain to the test with this week's edition of POP QUIZ PDX—our weekly, local, sassy-ass trivia quiz. And this week, it's A VERY SPECIAL EDITION of the Pop Quiz! Since it's the Portland Mercury's 25th anniversary of rubbing readers the wrong way, we've devoted

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Good Morning, News: Mayor Wilson Blasted for...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/08/07

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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Drinking the Pickathon Kool-Aid

Portland Mercury ·

2025/08/06

And liking it! by Nolan Parker It’s wild to me—as it is to so many friends and literally every single person I talked to over the weekend—that I had never been to Pickathon until this, the farm music festival's 25th year. I never understood it, I never got why anyone would pay so much money to see a line-up that, yes, always has a handful of really incredible artists, but is largely composed of smaller local bands

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EverOut's How-To Guide For Burger Week 2025

Portland Mercury ·

2025/08/06

Tips From a 10-Year Veteran of Portland’s Greatest Food Event by Bri Brey A Brief History of Portland Burger Week Since Burger Week is so ingrained in the fabric of Portland’s food history, you may assume that it has been grilling since the dawn of time. But in fact, the inaugural Portland Mercury Burger Week took place in 2013, launching with a lineup of 12 restaurants. As a hands-on experiment with the goal

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In It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley Youth Is Too Real

Portland Mercury ·

2025/08/06

Reminiscence bump is a real thing, and relates to the way one sees the landscape of their life as they get older. Oddly enough, you remember your youth more vividly than later periods. by Charles Mudede It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley, a documentary by Amy Berg (Deliver Us from Evil), offers those who study human memory an excellent examination of what's called a "reminiscence bump." Reminiscence bump is a real

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Good Morning, News: RFK Jr. Cancels Lifesaving...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/08/06

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! It's going to be unseasonably cool today, and we're set to get some rain this morning! This is great news. 😍 Back to the

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Know Your Neighbors

Portland Mercury ·

2025/07/28

by AnonymousIf you haven't figured it out yet, there are sick people getting off on reporting 'suspects' to ICE and associated agencies. These people should know that their participation may become publicly known at some point, depending on the specifics of each case and event. Others should take a look around and do their own investigations about who is participating in attacks against our community members. Remember, we don't invest

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Project Pabst Day 1: DEVO Was Right!

Portland Mercury ·

2025/07/27

Gustaf plays the rubber chicken, Iggy gets dropped, and Gouge Away are PDX-Based. by Nolan Parker The return of the hotly anticipated Portland music festival Project Pabst was worth the wait, paying emotional dividends with every set from Nasalroad’s massive opener energy all the way to Iggy’s closing words, “Fuckin’ goodnight! Fuck everybody!” Greeted by the now iconic giant unicorn right inside the festival's

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Miss You

Portland Mercury ·

2025/07/27

by Anonymous I like when I could hang around and chat with you. I miss it. That was a lovely time that I looked forward to. Being around someone I enjoy. Guess we can't go back in time. You're still interesting to me despite all the shitty painful garbage.

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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Portland This...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/07/25

World Naked Bike Ride, HONK! PDX, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15 by EverOut Staff Leave the house this weekend for recession-busting events from the Portland World Naked Bike Ride to HONK! PDX and from Portlandia Mermaid Parade and Festival to East Portland Sunday Parkways. For more suggestions, check out our top event picks of the week. SATURDAY SHOPPING Fancy Pants: A Vibey Clothing Swap and Self-Care

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Portland-area Nurseries May Be Killing Trees w AI

Portland Mercury ·

2025/07/25

by Anonymous (A)Ironically, despite signs that purchasing a tree plants a new tree, a popular Portland-located Nursery indicates that they don't value those trees and may be undermining their own environmental sales pitch by utilizing AI based, power grid guzzling, environment destroying, security monitoring of customers, employees, cars, and anyone with the misfortune of getting caught on camera. Turing AI, producer of their security

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Good Morning, News: Hulk Hogan Has Died, Rose Quarter...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/07/25

• OK Chicken and Khao Soi hesitantly enters the haunted confines of Portland's old Pok Pok manor. 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. Good Morning, Portland! Weather time! High of 80, low of 60—no rain! Now let's dew the news🏄IN LOCAL

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To The Doll at the Weed Shop Downtown

Portland Mercury ·

2025/07/25

by Anonymous Hi Dear, While I'm sure proper etiquette is something new to you, given your broken deer heel walk, but stiffing paying consumers (you remember, the little scruntch up of the receipt with the change you were going to hand back) is generally frowned upon. I get this is Portland, and perhaps you just really need rent, (or the mones, am i rite, lolll) but bish please control those urges.. I mean I can coach you on your mindset

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Project Pabst Update: The Damned Drops, FIDLAR Pick...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/07/25

The Damned cancelled! FIDLAR picked up the jack! Hot damn—we're excited to night club with Iggy Pop, whip it with Devo, and follow Death Cab for Cutie into the dark! by Nolan Parker Back in February when the monolithic lineup for this year's Project Pabst sent us reeling, the Mercury published a round-up of favorite acts not to be missed at the fest—sadly, one of the bands we were looking most forward to

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