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Your Guide to Passover & Easter 2021: Portland Takeout Specials, Restaurants with Outdoor Dining, and More

Celebrate Easter with cookies and cakes in a spring-friendly pastel palette from Papa Haydn. Papa Haydn Spring is finally here, which means Passover (March 27–April 4) and Easter (April 4) are both approaching, and both holidays call for some festive meals. We’ve gathered this list of the restaurants in Portland offering Passover and Easter specials. […]

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Your Guide to a Socially Distanced Weekend in Portland: Spring Equinox, Museum Reopenings, and More

OMSI’s newest exhibition, Dinosaurs Revealed, opens this Saturday! While tickets are sold out for this weekend, you can still go see the museum’s other attractions, or you can try again another weekend—the dinos aren’t going anywhere until September. OMSI via Facebook It’s spring, baby! This weekend’s roundup of IRL events and activities revolves around the […]

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Ways to Support AAPI Communities and Businesses in Portland

In addition to admiring the Lan Su Chinese Garden‘s rare Chinese native plants and traditional stonework in person, read on for a link to their list of Portland-based AAPI organizations accepting donations. Soren Jorgensen Even before Tuesday’s shooting in Atlanta, which left eight people dead—six of whom were women of Asian descent—a study compiled by […]

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This Week In Portland Food News: A New Birria Cart Arrives, Kachinka Says Goodbye, and A New Food Cart Pod Is Headed For Montavilla

Try specialties like birria ramen at the newly opened food cart Birrieria Pepe Chile. Birrieria Pepe Chile This week in the Portland food scene, a new birria cart has landed on N Williams Ave, Kachka’s Slavic bar spinoff Kachinka is officially closed for good, and a new food cart pod is headed to Montavilla in […]

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The Best Things To Do from Home in Portland This Week: March 15-21, 2021

Two Black men relive their respective stories of abuse in John Oluwole’s Portland Playhouse production Triggered Life, premiering online this Thursday. Portland Playhouse EverOut is The Mercury’s new website devoted to things to do in Portland and across the Pacific Northwest. It has all the same things you’re used to seeing from Mercury EverOut, just […]

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This Week In Portland Food News: Two New Vegan Options Arrive, Jojo Is Getting A Restaurant, and Farmhouse Kitchen Thai Cuisine Opens a Second Location

The San Francisco-based Farmhouse Kitchen Thai Cuisine, known for its bountiful takeout feasts like the “Little Lao” table set (pictured), has opened a second Portland location in the Pearl District. Farmhouse Kitchen Thai Cuisine EverOut is The Mercury’s new website devoted to things to do in Portland and across the Pacific Northwest. It has all […]

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Weekend Watch List: Drive-In Classics, The Father, and More

The Cinema Unbound Drive-In at Zidell Yards wraps up this weekend (along with its virtual Portland International Film Festival counterpart), capping off with David Lynch’s cult-classic adaptation of the epic sci-fi Dune on Sunday. Cinema Unbound EverOut is The Mercury’s new website devoted to things to do in Portland and across the Pacific Northwest. It […]

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