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Blair Stenvick
Blair Stenvick is a former news reporter and culture writer for the Portland Mercury.
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Good Afternoon, News: Portland City Council Legislates by Nextdoor, NASCAR’s Coming, and Dreams Stalled in Congress
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! This is where you should be posting your public testimony, apparently. Cindy […]
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Homeless Youth Create “Good Films About a Bad Year” in Thursday Night Showcase
A still from music video Animal Control. Courtesy of Outsisde the Frame In one scene of the short documentary Riders on the Storm, an Oregon Metro employee tries to help an unhoused couple living in a tent find shelter during last summer’s devastating wildfires in Clackamas County. But the worker comes up short: The Clackamas […]
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Good Morning, News: New Oregon Congressional Map, Another Gov Candidate, and Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Imperiled
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! Oregon now has a new Congressional district map, with a sixth seat. […]
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Good Morning, News: Newberg Students Speak Out, Shaping Downtown Portland’s Future, and the Theranos Trial
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Good Afternoon, News: Clean & Safe Gets Pushback, Schools and COVID Confusion, and Another Portland Heat Record
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An Oregon Christian Summer Camp Gets Skewered in Hilarious Stage Show Wild Wild Christian
Simone McAlonen reads her own adolescent diary entries about attending a Christian summer camp in Wild Wild Christian. Adrian Aguilar Update, 10/19: Wild Wild Christian is back in Portland for one night only, this Saturday, October 23 at 9:30 pm at the Curious Comedy Theater. Get your tickets here. Original story: Like a lot of […]
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Good Morning, News: Oregon Redistricting Drama, PPB Chastised in Court, and First Abortion Lawsuit in Texas
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! There’s drama this week at the Oregon State Capitol. aimintang / getty […]
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Good Morning, News: Nabisco Strike Continues to Escalate, PPB Dodges Charges for Killing Man, and Oregon Hospitals Delay Surgeries
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! Security guards got in between striking protesters and vans full of picket-line […]
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Good Afternoon, News: Portland’s Rebuttal to Texas Abortion Ban, Schrader Disappoints Again, and Dutch Bros Goes Public
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Q&A: In Philomath, Devon Walker-Figueroa Recounts Her Rural Oregon Upbringing With Narrative Poems and Searing Imagery
COURTESY OF MILKWEED EDITIONS I burned through Philomath: Poems, the debut poetry collection from Devon Walker-Figueroa, in one sitting. A narrative coming-of-age poetry collection laced with searing imagery and gut-punch single-line revelations, Philomath is about Walker-Figueroa’s childhood in Benton County’s rural community, Kings Valley, and in nearby town Philomath. (You can read the collection’s titular […]
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Good Morning, News: Bleak Outlook for Oregon COVID Hospitalizations, Portland Arts Venues Get Political, and the California Recall
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