It's finally here, in this week's Mercury—the only guide you'll need to this spring's arts and culture offerings! From Walidah Imarisha's latest book (tackling the prison industrial complex), to friendship lit from Paul Lisicky, to Samantha Wall's NW Art Award-winning drawings referencing multiracial identity, to comedian Noel Fielding's impending arrival, we've got a packed lineup of everything you should put in front of your eyeballs over the next few months. You can read it all here, or pick up a hard copy, the better to see the splashy beauty of our cover photo, and page through our arts listings.

Put your streaming entertainment on pause (The Great British Baking Show will still be there, I promise), dig that lightweight jacket out of your closet, and get out of your sad winter hovel and into Portland's art world! Spring is coming!