Friday, Aug 21 Mercantile‘s fall shopping event isn’t just about offloading last season, but it is about those who are seriously loading up for next: Take $75 off purchases of $350 or more, and $175 for those of $750 and up, now through Aug 31. New arrivals include collections from Alexander Wang, Max Mara, Rag […]
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.
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Portland Made, Wildfang, & Sara Bergman: The Day’s News in Portland Fashion, Retail, and Design
• Portland makers of all things, fashion-related or not: Another reminder to look into hooking up with the Portland Made Collective (basic membership is free), and take part in the important, metrics-building work being done to foster Portland-made products as an “international marketing force.” They’re currently over 500 strong and counting. If you want to […]
Posted inFood and Drink
Point/Counterpoint: The Mercury Argues About Dog Food
Point: Why aren’t there more dog menus at Portland’s dog-friendly establishments? My husband and I are new parents—dog parents, that is. Much like the parents of human babies who increasingly surround us (seriously, back off), it’s a job that requires a tiresome amount of baggage. Our rapidly multiplying friends are stuck toting diapers and breast […]
Posted inPuppy
Four Paws on the Street: PAW Team Is Our Pick for Portland’s Pet Charity of the Year
There are so many non-profit pet organizations in this part of the world that it borders on ridiculous. There are boutique rescues all over Oregon, dedicated specifically to greyhounds, dachshunds, huskies, pit bulls, etc.—if a breed exists, there’s a niche for it in the Pacific Northwest’s network of charitable animal efforts. The overwhelming majority of […]
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The Runners-Up of the Mercury‘s Pet Photo Contest
By now I hope you’ve familiarized yourselves with our Pet Issue‘s photo contest winner Gary and his world. However we also had some very fine runners-up in this endeavor, and they shall not be overlooked. You can see all the pets in our slideshow, but here are a few of the alternates for our three […]
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Four Paws on the Street
PAW Team: Our Pick for Portland’s Pet Charity of the Year
PAW Team: our pick for pet charity of the year!
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Magic Friends: The Mercury‘s Annual Pet Issue!
I suppose you could live without pets. You could have white upholstery and travel without special arrangements, and never slip on cold vomit on your way to the bathroom at 3 am. But why on earth would you want to? Pets provide stress relief, force you to be functional and responsible (but only just so, […]
Posted inArtsy
Behold!: Gary, the Winner of the Most Glamorous Pet Photo Contest!
The past few weeks have been a little more magical around the old inbox than usual, thanks to our first-ever glamorous pet photo contest! We asked you to send in snaps of your beautiful, glamorous pets, and boy did you ever. It was really, really delightful yet really, really difficult to sort through the bounty […]
Posted inFashion
This Week’s Style Events: The Caravan Traveling Market, Bridge & Burn, Prairie Underground, and More!
Thursday, Aug 20 Mercantile is ushering fall with a four-day trunk show for Frame Denim, with $25 off purchases from the line during the event. 729 SW Alder, through Sunday, Aug 23 Friday, Aug 21 End of season sales keep on cropping up, and Bridge and Burn‘s kicks off this week with up to 70 […]
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New In: Fashion/Retail/Design News with OMSI’s Maker Faire, Fade to Light, and Coalesce
—The 2015 version of the OMSI-hosted Maker Faire is coming up right quick on Sept 12 & 13. Unlike most gatherings involving locally made goods, this is more about exposing the process and inspiring visitors to do their own making rather than commerce—there are way more robots than tea towels involved. Bring your kids if […]
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Pacific Northwest Nature by Drone
I have to paint my bathroom this weekend, but if I wasn’t, I might very well be headed to a natural body of water or forest trail for one of our famously beautiful Pacific Northwest outdoor excursions. Alas, I’m in home-improvement jail for the foreseeable future so I just have to live vicariously through things […]