The Mercury‘s Pride week picks!
Kamala Puligandla
Posted inQueer
They Are Fa-mi-ly!
Siblings Sarah and Seth Gottesdiener are a force of queer sibling
fierceness to be reckoned with.
Queer Issue 2009
Posted inBooks
A Cartographer’s Delight
Reif Larsen Puts Himself on the Map with The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
With his first novel, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Reif Larsen redefines both the map and the novel. “A good map is like a good story,” he told the Mercury in a phone interview. “It gives you something to sink your teeth into; it reveals the map maker.” Stories and maps have long served […]
Posted inHomo
Cinco de Mayo Dance Party!
Portland is Burning is one of the most invigorating, queer dance parties around town. The last time I went, I even met two very nice dudes who hit on my girlfriend and were politely declined, but still reported that they were having a great time! That, my friends, is a lot of fun. Tonight at […]
Posted inArtsy
Thelma Johnson Streat Showcase at Ampersand
Thelma Johnson Streat is a renowned painter, dancer and educator from the Pacific Northwest who was known for promoting intercultural dialogue and understanding in the 1940s. Not only was she the first African-American woman to have a painting displayed in the MoMA, but she dedicated her life to showing people around the world the value […]
Posted inGreen
Big Plastic Boat
If you’ve never heard of the Great Pacific or Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch, it’s an area nearly the size of Texas, that is completely filled with floating and disintegrating plastic marine debris, trapped by the North Pacific Gyre. If you want to know the details, the Algalita Marine Research Foundation is very informative. But the […]
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The Quiet Monitor
Tonight at 7:30, Gordon Hempton will be at Powell’s to read and talk about One Square Inch of Silence, the book he co-wrote with John Gordon. The book came out in March of this year and chronicles Hempton’s adventures across the country to “capture the sounds of American landscapes” in the name of ecological sound […]
Posted inMisc.
Easter Ham Mystery
As an unreligious person, I was rather confused the other day when I heard a very persuasive Fred Meyer ham commercial on the radio. I was only partially listening until there was mention of a “crispy brown sugar crust” after which was point, I was rapt, attentive to the description of tender, spiral-cut meat and […]
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Portrait of Insomnia
Angela Cash’s new photo series “Insomnia” opens tomorrow at Pushdot Studios (1020 SE Caruthers) with a reception from 6-9pm. These well-composed portraits capture the quiet, persistent restlessness of sleepless nights in vivid detail. Much like her series “Waiting”, Cash’s new photographs are beautifully lit, managing to feel both comfortingly soft and strikingly forlorn. And, well, […]
Posted inFashion
Drag Yourself to Open Casting Call at the Red Cap Garage
RuPaul’s Drag Race is a highly entertaining show that I recommend to anybody who watches Project Runway or America’s Next Top Model and wishes that the contestants were more fabulous, could dance and would say, regarding other contestants on the show, “I would be a lesbian with her.” But let’s face it, drag is meant […]
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That Wells Tower is So Hot Right Now!
Wells Tower first caught my attention in McSweeney’s 23 with “Retreat”, a story about brothers in Maine who go moose hunting together, an endeavor that I now never wish upon myself or anybody I know. His first book, a collection of short stories called Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, came out earlier this month and has […]