Happy Pride, Portland! I know, I know—technically we celebrate Pride in July, unlike the rest of the country, because we like to keep Portland “weird” (à la Austin, Texas), and we’re still too hip to follow trends like celebrating annual occasions at the correct time. The legendary Stonewall Riots, in which Martha P. Washington and […]
Anthony Hudson
Anthony Hudson is a Grand Ronde and Siletz artist, writer, and former clown. His first book, Lamp Back: Plays and Other Grievances—collecting nearly a decade of Carla Rossi performances and more—is being published this fall by Northwestern University Press.
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The Faults in Our Stars (May 2026)
The only horoscope column in the universe.
What follows is one of the many articles in the Mercury‘s 2026 Music Issue. Find a print copy here, subscribe to get a copy mailed to you here, and if you’re feeling generous and want to keep these types of articles coming, support us here.—eds. Good news, Ozians! After the breakaway success of my humble astrology column led to […]
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The Faults in Our Stars
The only horoscope column in the universe. (April 2026)
[What follows is one of the many articles in the Mercury‘s 2026 Transportation issue. Find a print copy here, subscribe to get a copy mailed to you here, and if you’re feeling generous and want to keep these types of articles coming, support us here.—eds.] Great news, everyone! The breakout success of my humble astrology […]
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The Faults in Our Stars
The only horoscope column in the universe.
“Like sands through the hourglass, these are the stars of our lives…”—Nostradamus Ours is an unprecedented time in astrological studies. Astrologers are setting themselves on fire in the streets. Conjunction-junctions are appearing with functions unseen since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Civil War, French Revolution, and the (First) American Revolution. Saturn’s move into […]