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With honor and distinction, Erik Henriksen served as the executive editor of the Portland Mercury from 2004 to 2020. He can now be found at henriksenactual.com.
What if Portlanders—not corporations—owned our internet?
Erik Henriksen A few days ahead of schedule—and a few days before Waterfront Park will be taken over by Cinco de Mayo—Better Naito is back, reserving one lane of Naito Parkway for bikers, pedestrians, and… uh, anybody else, I guess? As long as they aren’t in a car? Everyone’s absolutely welcome! (Fuck rollerbladers.) Much to […]
Rankin/Bass Yeah, yeah—Earth has a ton of substances that can numb and distract us from the excruciating pain of existence. They’re fine. But you know what would be better? If we could take drugs from the magical worlds of fantasy and science fiction! Please, join me in my TARDIS for an exceedingly questionable survey of […]
Erik Henriksen Portland TV station KATU got a shoutout this morning on the corner of SE 16th and Hawthorne, where a massive banner—assembled from bedsheets, safety pins, and spray paint—covered the front of the three-story-tall Warnell Apartments building. Located on a major commuting thoroughfare and next to two busy stops for TriMet’s 14 bus line, […]
From The Reluctant Radical to Koyaanisqatsi, the Portland EcoFilm Festival has you covered.
Everything you need to know about pipe-weed, death sticks, and other made-up drugs.
Any movie featuring a UFO DEATH CULT is aces with me—which brings us to The Endless, the new, widely acclaimed indie horror movie that looks weird and intriguing and creepy and, yes, like it features a UFO DEATH CULT. The Endless will be opening in Portland at the Hollywood Theatre on Friday, April 27 (and […]
Starting April 13, one of Portland’s favorite theaters will show new releases.
There’s a phenomenal sequence early in Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One: Countless vehicles rev their engines at a starting line, the air electric. There’s the DeLorean from Back to the Future. There’s Adam West’s Batmobile. There’s Speed Racer’s Mach 5 and the Akira motorcycle. But it’s not important what the vehicles are so much as […]
Stay up to date on Portland news and politics. Looking for fun? Here are the best Things to Do in Portland today. Sebastian Reuter / Getty CENSURED CENSUS—”At least 12 states signaled Tuesday that they would sue to block the Trump administration from adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 census, arguing that the […]
In which Steven Spielberg makes a bunch of action figures fight.
1983’s Videodrome is fucked up in the way that just about all Cronenberg movies are fucked up… and now you can experience it just as Cronenberg intended: In a dark room full of strangers, all of whom are nervously squirming throughout the film’s entire runtime! The NW Film Center is screening the creepy Cronenberg classic […]
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