“Wait a minute… what do you mean another of our absolutely bonkers conspiracy theories didn’t come true?!?” Rick Loomis / Getty Images Here’s your daily roundup of all the latest local and national news. (Like our coverage? Please consider making a recurring contribution to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) • Portland Commish Jo Ann […]
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Review: Nomadland Is a Gentle Epic
Fern (Frances McDormand) will take you places. Searchlight Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection Watching director Chloé Zhao’s gentle epic Nomadland is a transportive experience—quite literally, since much of the film is spent inside or around converted vans, zooming down interstates or sneakily parked on empty lots. It’s dreamy, even spiritual, to see characters left behind […]
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Sundance Film Fest Review: Ma Belle, My Beauty Is the Queer, Poly Escape We Needed
Things get sort of complicated, but at least they’re in the south of France? Courtesy of Lauren Guiteras and Sundance Institute [If you’re a movie fan who’s always wanted to attend the Sundance Film Festival, but couldn’t make the trip, you’re in luck! Due to the pandemic, Sundance is streaming online and you can get […]
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Weed + Quarantine + Zoom Karaoke with Friends = Stoned Quaroke!
[The following article is from our “High-Brr-Nation Cannabis Guide” which is packed with fun, interesting stories about surviving the winter with weed. Check ’em out here!—eds.] This pandemic is full of surprises, and few of them are pleasant. But I’ve discovered something over the past few months that is one of this era’s rare silver […]
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Biden’s Signin’: Here’s What the Executive Ordered During His First Full Week in Office
President Biden is signing a lot of things that are not $2,000 checks for every American. Getty Pool Last week, President Joe Biden signed over two dozen executive actions and proclamations, largely undoing many of Trump’s most destructive policies. He primarily focused on bolstering the federal government’s coronavirus response, reversing Trump’s ass-backward environmental rollbacks, halting […]
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Weed + Quarantine + Zoom Karaoke with Friends = Stoned Quaroke!
This pandemic is full of surprises, and few of them are pleasant. But I’ve discovered something over the past few months that is one of this era’s rare silver linings. It’s stoned Zoom karaoke. Or, if you want to call it by its proper name: quaraoke. One of the things I miss most from pre-pandemic […]
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Flippin’ Georgia: 75,000 New Voters, Perdue Disses Raffensperger, and Lots of Cash
Fuck fuck fuck! The Georgia Senate runoff? Is TOMORROW. MEGAN VARNER/GETTY IMAGES 2021 is about to pop the fuck off. The contentious January 5 runoff in Georgia, an election that will determine which party has the power in the Senate, will be held TOMORROW. Here’s the latest on what’s happening in what’s become the center […]
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Flippin’ Georgia: A Quick Refresher on Georgia’s Very Moderate Democrats
Warnock and Ossoff’s support for cannabis could prove pivotal in the Senate, as more opportunities for the country to reverse our backward stance on the tiny green plant make their way through Congress. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty If you can believe it, the contentious January 5 runoff in Georgia is less than a week away. It’s an […]
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Flippin’ Georgia: 1.4 Million Cast Early Ballots in Senate Runoff
Someone save Rev. Raphael Warnock’s ears! Drew Angerer/Getty We are now almost two weeks away from the contentious January 5 runoff in Georgia, an election that will determine which party has the power in the Senate. Here’s the latest on what’s happening in what’s become “the center of the political universe”: 1.4 million people have […]
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Flipping Georgia: Early Voting Commences, Perdue’s Shady Finances, and Loeffler’s KKK Pose
Peep the stickie. Megan Varner/Getty Images We are practically breathing down the neck of the January 5 runoff in Georgia, an election that will determine which party has the power in the Senate. In both Georgia Senate races on the November 3 ballot, no candidate received 50% of the vote, which forced a runoff as […]
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Flipping Georgia: Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s Brain Is Holding Her Hostage!
Does Loeffler realize that calling Warnock a “radical liberal” actually makes him seem cool? PBS It’s less than a month until the January 5 runoff in Georgia, an election that will determine which party has the power in the Senate. In both Georgia Senate races on the November 3 ballot, no candidate received 50% of […]
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Flipping Georgia: Trump’s Conspiracy Theories Could Hurt Georgia GOP Senate Races
Being the center of a MAGA conspiracy theory isn’t too great, eh? Megan Varner/Getty The countdown is on to the January 5 runoff in Georgia, an election that will determine which party has the power in the Senate. In both Georgia Senate races on the November 3 ballot, no candidate received 50% of the vote, […]