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You took away my favorite venue

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/28

by Anonymous Thanks for taking away one of my favorite venues. You say its because you were losing cash, but we all know you got a huge grant from covid, a loan from your parents, bought horses, and basically ignored your business; and whined about it. Look, give up, just fucking give up - stop bringing everything else down around you because you don't care. Now I have to drive outside my neighborhood to see a decent show? Fuck you

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Portland-Area Starbucks Baristas Remain on Strike...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/27

Nationwide, unionized baristas say the company has failed to negotiate fair terms as the coffee chain racks up labor violations and complaints. by Abe Asher Workers at unionized Starbucks locations across the Portland area remain on strike this week and say they will not return to work until Starbucks resolves complaints about its labor practices and returns to the bargaining table. Roughly 2,000 workers at 95

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POP QUIZ PDX: Embarrassing ICE, Oregon on Film, and...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/27

See how well YOU score on this week's brainy, local news & entertainment quiz! by Wm. Steven Humphrey LET'S GO, TRIVIA BABIES! 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 we'll be testing your knowledge on recent, local big events, including the always embarrassing clowns of ICE, award-winning Oregon

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Oregon Sues Trump’s USDA Over Yanked SNAP Benefits...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/26

Attorney General Dan Rayfield and 21 states ask district court to reinstate Green Card holders’ eligibility for benefits. by Jeremiah Hayden Oregon and New York are leading a new lawsuit alongside 20 other states, arguing the Trump administration violated the law when it attempted to pull food assistance benefits from immigrants with lawful resident status in the United States. A complaint filed in the US

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THE BLACK BYLINE: Netflix’s Perfect Neighbor Proves...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/26

Neighborly racism, and the faux safety of body cameras. by Donovan Scribes (fka Donovan Smith) “Some things you can't escape Death, taxes, and a racist society that make Every nigga feel like a candidate For a Trayvon kinda fate Even when your crib sit on a lake Even when your plaques hang on a wall Even when the President jam your tape” —J. Cole, “Neighbors,” 2016 NO HOODS A new Netflix documentary, The Perfect

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When Wonder Ballroom Says All Ages, They Mean All Ages

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/26

Ryan J. Prado by Ryan J. Prado On April 10 of this year, the Wonder Ballroom opened its doors for an evening of live music from Nashville folksters, TopHouse. The show was typical of the diverse booking by Wonder’s team, endearing itself to the equally diverse group of concertgoers in attendance—a unique Portland music-going community comprised of a wide swath of ages and genre interests. A constant that separates

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Good Morning, News: Oregon AG Vows to Investigate...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/26

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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Finding meaning in the mundane

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/26

by Anonymous I saw you today for just a bit. You were talking like you're really feeling down and the shit weather is getting to you, but joking your way through like you do. We exchanged silly fake smiles like we're not feeling empty inside. I wanted to just give you a hug. The truth is you are a wonderful person but you let the pressures of the world harden you. I can see the sweet, vulnerable human you are, even if it's under several

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Oregon to Feds: Rein in Your Officers or We'll Prosecute

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/26

Top state attorney says his office will investigate federal officers’ criminal conduct during protests and immigration enforcement by Courtney Vaughn Prosecutors in Oregon are warning the US justice department to rein in federal agents who’ve repeatedly used excessive force on protesters, immigrants and even local police. A joint letter from Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield and district attorneys from

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Mercury Music Picks: Going to Bootcamp and a Benefit...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/25

Nolan Parker by Nolan Parker FUCK THANKSGIVING—SAY IT BACK. Here are a few places in the Portland-area to donate to this Thursday: Friends of Tyron Creek NARA NW Native Arts & Cultures Foundation NAYA Family Center Painted Horse Recovery Portland Indigenous Marketplace Tuesday, November 25 Bootcamp / Arsenal Mall / Conspire / FTC / Body Double For fans of Dry Socket, Gouge Away, Cerce Headed to a delicious

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Seeing Ursula K. Le Guin’s Many Sides

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/25

Oregon Contemporary’s tribute to the novelist and multi-practice artist gets in the weeds in the best way possible. by Lindsay Costello A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin isn’t a typical exhibition. Ursula Kroeber Le Guin wasn’t a typical artist. Curated by her son, Theo Downes-Le Guin, the new show installed at Oregon Contemporary is, by his definition, “nonobjective”—a sprawling love note unembarrassed by

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SAVAGE LOVE: Happy Spanksgiving

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/25

Unrequited crushes, obsessed with gym grunts, and a Thanksgiving to forget—forever. by Dan Savage I’m gay and go to a small liberal arts school. I have a crush on this one guy, but he brought up — unprompted — that he’s Aro/Ace. I really like him. We have great conversations in a lab we have together, and I think he’s super attractive. But every time I’ve tried to extend our friendship outside of the lab by

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Names are distractions; the patterns are ossified

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/25

by Anonymous The reason rent is unbearable and homelessness shapes our lives now is because the same small, self-reinforcing circle of elite thinkers has had a monopoly on “serious economic ideas” for forty years. It’s a closed ecosystem where columnists, policymakers, think-tank economists, and university insiders circulate one another’s arguments until they harden into consensus. That consensus, Crimson-coded, always tilts toward

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Good Morning, News: Phil Knight Throws Money at...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/25

by Taylor Griggs 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! It's going to be rainy and chilly today, with highs around 48 degrees. My end of November recommendations: take vitamin D and listen to Kate Bush's

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Oregon's Dismantling of Longstanding Houseless...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/25

For a decade, residents lived in the Sandy River Delta wilderness. Last month, they were forced out, sending dozens of people to the streets and back into a system that has already failed them. by Kevin Foster From relative stability in an established community, to being repeatedly swept on the streets of Multnomah County, unhoused residents formerly living in the Sandy River Delta highlight a breakdown in the

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Portland and Guillermo del Toro Are Symbiotically Bound

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/24

Guillermo del Toro sincerely concluded: I discovered I was a 14-year-old girl in Victorian times. by Dom Sinacola “All my movies, from Cronos to Pinocchio, are a version of Frankenstein of some sort,” Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro told a sold-out crowd at the Tomorrow Theater on November 11. Rather than try to remember how Blade II (2002) fits into that statement, I was willing to take del Toro’s word for

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

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/24

This week: Indigenous foodways, absurdist comedy, and a film screening benefiting Gaza. by Lindsay Costello It's Thanksgiving week, which translates differently for everyone: Some will be stoked for the time off work, others dreading the family dynamics, and a whole lot of us angry about the holiday's connection to colonial violence and white supremacy. This week, you'll find ways to lean into all of those Big

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A random thought

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/24

by Anonymous This is purely hypothetical, but let's say you are an unpopular, economy destroying, rapist, swindler, president, who has had a barely concealed close relationship with a know pedophile. If some desperate autocrat, in a crumbling country, had, say video evidence of your misbehavior with underage girls, would you be willing to bend to that autocrats will, and sell out a brave, smaller country, that was resisting that

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THE TRASH REPORT: "No Thank You" to Many Garbage Men,...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/24

Line up, trash pandas! Your garbage can of gossip awaits. by Elinor Jones Hello, and welcome back to the Trash Report! Happy Thanksgiving week! Let me start this column with something I'm thankful for, which is that today's children's aren't fed a lot of horseshit about Pilgrims and colonialism, so I don't have to decorate the house for this holiday, which is one less thing to deal with. This has been a hilarious

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Good Morning, News: Billups Pleads "Not Guilty," Feds...

Portland Mercury ·

2025/11/24

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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