THURSDAY SEPT 17 • Crowd favorite Eileen Fisher is being featured this week at Mercantile. Stop in during the three-day event for a look at new fall arrivals, a chance to win a linen cashmere scarf, and $25 off any purchases from the collection. Mercantile, 729 SW Alder, Thurs Sept 17-Sat Sept 19 • Adorn turns […]
Marjorie Skinner
Marjorie Skinner is the Portland Mercury's Managing Editor, author of the weekly Sold Out column chronicling the area's independent fashion and retail industry, and a frequent contributor to the film and other arts and feature sections of the paper. She has been writing about Portland life and culture for the Mercury since 2001, produces one of Portland's largest annual spring fashion shows, and occasionally answers emails.
Posted inFood and Drink
MOAR Pizza for NE 42nd: Former Apizza Scholls Manager to Open Red Sauce Pizza
There’s been a rush of new food establishments on NE 42nd avenue in the past few years, kicked off with the arrival of Old Salt, and continuing with the in-progress Pizza Jerk from Bunk‘s Tommy Habetz. And so it continues to continue… with even more pizza! Owner Shardell Dues confirms that Red Sauce Pizza plans […]
Posted inFashion
Opening Tomorrow!: Le Souk Le Souk
Anna Margaret is in the process of bridging one of Portland’s longstanding divides: Eastside vs. Westside. Margaret—who’s in the process of legally ditching her former surname “Fickle” (“No man names anymore,” she explains)—is the founder of Branch Birdie, a textile-heavy shop that’s winding down in the cozy insider-y Montavilla neighborhood, gateway to East Portland. She’s […]
Posted inPortland
“Citizen Oversight Is Always Good”: Mercury Letters to the Editor
KINOKO EVANS E-TICKET TO THE FUTURERE: “Ticketless to Ride” [News, Sept 2], regarding concerns over the transition of Portland’s public transportation to digital fares. DEAR MERCURY—I’ll give you that TriMet runs through public money like a 12-year-old girl with a Hot Topic gift card. But your story about the coming e-fare system smells wrong. You […]
Posted inFashion
This Week’s Style Events: Grayling Giveaways, Tilde, & More!
NOW! • Tilde is celebrating the launch of their spiffed-up, online shopping-friendly new website, as well as their ninth anniversary later this month. In honor of both benchmarks, they’re offering 15 percent off entire purchases made now through Sept 18. • Kush is having a rug sale on its selection of gorgeous, pricey rugs from ’round […]
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New In: Fashion/Retail/Design News with Harlow Jewelry, RoM Shoes, and JBird’s Leather Sunglasses
• It’s been kicking around for a few months, but jewelry shoppers in the vicinity of NE Alberta might want to duck into Harlow, the brick ‘n’ mortar version of designer Ruthie Crawford’s six-year endeavor. Described as “modishly elegant,” Crawford got her start at jewelry during a crossroads in life, when she had a newborn […]
Posted inCrafty
Grrrl in Motion: Alien She’s Riot Grrrl Capture
To begin Alien She properly, you have to go back to school. Specifically, the sparkling Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design building’s 511 Gallery, part of the new PNCA campus. There you’ll find enough music, zines, and ephemera documenting the formative early ’90s era of the Riot Grrrl movement to immerse yourself […]
Posted inFashion
The Weekend Shopper: Labor Day Edition
• First Friday in Montavilla doubles as the first anniversary of Union Rose under its new ownership. To celebrate there will be 25 percent off all Hubris Apparel (including already marked-down pieces). Union Rose, 7909 SE Stark, 6-9 pm • Get on down to the nexus of West End shopping this weekend for a sidewalk sale […]
Posted inMovies & TV
Meru Tops the Average Mountain-Climbing Doc
MERU “Boy! When they said this was a fifth-floor walk-up, they weren’t kidding! Ba-dump-bump!” Mountain-climbing documentaries are straight up and down. The objectives are clear, the risks known, and the complications inevitable. Yet there’s reason for the genre’s cult appeal: It’s the everything-yet-nothing mythology of struggle, kitted out in the very latest from the North […]
Posted inPortland
“We Are Stars!”: This Week’s Mercury Letters
CARLI DAVIDSON INVESTMENT RE: “North Portland Rising” [News, Aug 26], regarding one renter’s efforts to save a 115-year-old house in his neighborhood from demolition for new market-rate apartments. DEAR MERCURY—The big, bad developer dismissed [Judge] Finklea’s concerns because “he’s a renter with no money, no resources.” Finklea objects to the project because “people who move […]