Table 19 is casually alternative in some small ways, and shamelessly appeals to my single-girl tendency to cringe at all the silly traditions and unrealistic ideas associated with matrimony. Anna Kendrick plays Eloise, a maid of honor who gets demoted at the last minute after the bride’s brother Teddy (Wyatt Russell) dumps her via text. […]
Jenni Moore
Jenni Moore is a former music editor and hip-hop columnist and current freelancer at The Portland Mercury. She also writes about comedy, cannabis, movies, TV, and her hatred of taxidermy.
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Geek Out and Get Woke with These Essential Podcasts
From Whiskey Sour Feelings Hour to Pod Save America, here’s what’s keeping us sane. CLOCKWISE FROM RIGHT: ANOTHER ROUND BY JON PREMOSCH / BUZZFEED, CODE SWITCH BY HUGO ROJO / NPR, AND 2 DOPE QUEENS BY MINDY TUCKER When the world’s on fire, it can be difficult to remember we’re living in a golden age […]
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Geek Out and Get Woke with These Essential Podcasts
From Whiskey Sour Feelings Hour to Pod Save America, Here’s What’s Keeping Us Sane
From Whiskey Sour Feelings Hour to Pod Save America, Here’s What’s Keeping Us Sane
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Wedding Bashers
Anna Kendrick Makes Table 19 Mildly Amusing
Anna Kendrick makes Table 19 mildly amusing.
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Black People Being Funny
The NW Black Comedy Festival Launches This Week
The NW Black Comedy Festival launches this week.
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A Valentine’s Day Playlist for the Lovers and Haters
ISTOCK/damedeeso For better or for worse, today is Valentine’s Day. Whether you’re spending the evening with someone special, celebrating yourself, or moping alone by candlelight and cursing romance, the Mercury‘s music team has the soundtrack covered with a playlist of songs that capture the best and worst of love. See if you got a Mercury […]
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Record Review: The Last Artful, Dodgr & Neill Von Tally, Bone Music
PORTLAND HIP-HOP TWITTER (yes, it’s a thing) was ablaze last week as the online community rejoiced over the release of local rapper the Last Artful, Dodgr and producer Neill Von Tally’s highly anticipated new album, Bone Music. Bone Music quickly caught the attention of Pitchfork contributor Mehan Jayasuriya, who did a lovely and thorough dissection […]
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Release Date for Dear White People is Announced, Pisses off White Nationalists
YESTERDAY a super-short trailer for upcoming series Dear White People announced its April 28 release date, and simultaneously pissed off a bunch of the alt-right. (I know, shocking.) Some of them, including former BuzzFeed writer and current Twitter abuser Tim Treadstone (aka @BakedAlaska), demanded a boycott of Netflix, calling the show “anti-white.” Funnily enough, when […]
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Don’t Miss These Screenings at the Portland Black Film Festival!
ONCE WORD spread that legendary actress Pam Grier—the star of films such as Foxy Brown and Jackie Brown—was coming to the Portland Black Film Festival for a Q&A and a screening of her 1973 blaxploitation landmark Coffy, tickets for that showing sold like hot buttered biscuits. What a wonderful “Happy Black History Month” gift to […]
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Sneaker Wave
Record Review: The Last Artful, Dodgr & Neill Von Tally, Bone Music
The Last Artful, Dodgr and Neill Von Tally’s Bone Music centers on the realities of working class life.
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Pam Grier—and a Whole Lot More—at the Portland Black Film Festival
We Talk to Curator David F. Walker About the Fest’s Must-Sees
We talk to curator David F. Walker about the fest’s must-sees.
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Ro James Is Finally Taking His Edgy R&B on Tour
RO JAMES Representing the new generation of genre-melting R&B. SARAH MCCOLGAN I BECAME a fan of Ro James about a year ago, when his sensual slow jam “A.D.I.D.A.S.” (which stands for “All Day I Dream about Sexing [you]”) popped up on my Spotify Discover Weekly playlist. It’s almost absurdly steamy, incorporating sweet falsetto vocals that […]