For the third year running, Burger Week brings you limited edition, $5 burgers from your favorite Portland bars and restaurants, for one week only! This year the promotion will run Aug 10-16, giving you just one week to try as many burgers as you can from over 30 participating establishments! To get you prepared, we’ll […]
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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New In: Fashion/Retail/Design News with Carson Footwear, The PFSAs, Prospect 215, & More
—Runners! If you’ve been wondering if there’s a way to support your hobby (and your ankles) without a pair of shoes that was assembled in a foreign factory, know that Carson Footwear is operational. Made just down the road in Milwaukie, Carson running shoes are built with an emphasis on foot-strengthening minimalism in their construction, […]
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New In: Fashion/Retail/Design News with Fade to Light, Blendily, and Frances May
—Fade to Light‘s August 26 late-summer edition will be here before you know it, and the final lineup has been announced, with Louisville designer and former Project Runway contestant/All-Star Gunnar Deatherage joining the otherwise Portland-repping lineup. Even if you missed him on the boob tube, the addition should shake up the roster, which is otherwise […]
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This Week’s Style Events: Windowwall x Church + State, Alley 33, One Eye Girl, and More!
• The city’s foremost supplier of your favorite doin’ stuff-stuff, Hand-Eye Supply celebrates five years this week, with a First Thursday celebration featuring a set from garage rockers the Reverberations and live printmaking. Hand-Eye Supply, 427 NW Broadway, Thurs Aug 6, 6-9 pm • Popina Swimwear’s Pearl District shop has a fresh new look (including […]
Posted inMovies & TV
What Evil Lurks in The Stanford Prison Experiment?
THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT “So, uh… when’s lunch?” During the closing credits of Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s The Stanford Prison Experiment, we see a glimpse of the broader perspective that the film itself declines to show. Essentially a straightforward reenactment of the famous experiment conducted by Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo in 1971—in which students paid […]
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Behold! Enter the Mercury‘s “Most Glamorous Pet” Photo Contest!
Because we are dorks, the Portland Mercury is holding a photo contest for our annual Pet Issue (publishing mid-August!) to celebrate the beauty and taste of Portland’s fur-bearing, scaly, shell-having, and/or feathered pals! “Behold! The Mercury‘s Most Glamorous Pet Photo Contest” is your chance to show the rest of the city how bewitching your companion […]
Posted inCats
$5,000 Reward for Information on the Portland Cat Stabber
Guys, the person who stabbed Grand Theft Auto and Alibi—two cats in the Woodlawn neighborhood who managed to survive the June 25 attacks after being found near the intersection of NE 6th and Holman by their owner—is still at large. It seems the trail is going a little cold, so the national non-proft Animal Legal […]
Posted inFood and Drink
Burger Week Preview: Star Bar’s Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap)
For the third year running, Burger Week brings you limited edition, $5 burgers from your favorite Portland bars and restaurants, for one week only! This year the promotion will run Aug 10-16, giving you just one week to try as many burgers as you can from over 30 participating establishments! To get you prepared, we’ll […]
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What Evil Lurks
…in The Stanford Prison Experiment?
…in The Stanford Prison Experiment?
Posted inMovies & TV
Family Bondage
Reboots Are All We Deserve :(
If reboots are all we deserve, at least Vacation‘s got spirit.
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Vacation Movie Review: Reboots Are All We Deserve :(
VACATION “And you, sir, are no Chevy Chase.” National Lampoon’s Vacation and its ensuing franchise is a more-or-less-fondly remembered institution of 1980s America. The film served as an important stepping-stone for a certain John Hughes, for chrissakes, and its injection of crass, dark humor into the story of a typical family’s attempt at a wholesome […]