• Longtime fixture among Portland’s downtown vintage hoards, Magpie has closed up its longtime home on SW 9th and Alder… but not to worry: You can find them now at 1960 SE Hawthorne, so all is not lost… at all. • Another gain: Revive Upholstery & Design has a new showroom open at 2030 N Willis. You can […]
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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It Came from Underground: This Year’s Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival
ARRESTING POWER Mandatory viewing for all Portlanders. As the door between the outside world and the Pacific Northwest widens, the potential for accomplishment (or catastrophe, depending on whom you ask) is almost limitless. In the realm of film and television, progress is already apparent—just ask any Portlander who works on sets how their job opportunities […]
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“That Ruined My Morning”: This Week’s Mercury Letters to the Editor!
RUINED MORNINGS RE: “Too Close to Home” [Letters, Nov 4], in which a reader gloats about having gotten in on Portland homeownership while it was cheap to do so, and an advertisement submitted by a local bar. DEAR MERCURY—Shame on you for awarding NAWD the letter of the week last week. If this sort of […]
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It Came from Underground: This Year’s Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival
The Best Films the Pacific Northwest Has to Offer
Check out the best films the Pacific Northwest has to offer.
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The Sixth Content Fashion Installation Is This Weekend at Ace Hotel!
Hard to believe that this will be the sixth year of Content at the Ace Hotel. Back before she won Project Runway in 2010, moved to New York, moved back from New York, designed for Pendleton, and quit Pendleton, Gretchen Jones help cook up a scheme that became a model for the annual event. Originally […]
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Here’s That Groupon for a Clip-In Man Bun You Need
This Groupon deal for clip-in man buns is making the rounds for obvious reasons. I’d make fun of it but whoever wrote the copy here already had their way with it, describing the man-bun trend as having “been popularized by fixed-gear bicyclists and introspective Hollywood actors alike. But although the hairstyle oozes with fashion sense, […]
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More From Inside Wildwood & Company
In this week’s Sold Out column, I wrote about the emergence of Wildwood & Company, a custom suit-making outfit turned retail hub for high-quality handcrafted luxury items. It’s one of the more in-character manifestations of Portland’s economic boom, and the physical build out—which includes a wood-paneled lounge (replete with oriental rugs, a leather Chesterfield, paintings […]
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Miss You Already Is the Best Beaches Since Beaches
MISS YOU ALREADY Ha ha! Hahahaha! Ha! Hahaha! CANCER. The first film to ever make me cry (not counting wildlife documentaries) was Beaches. The latest from director Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen, Twilight) manages a close approximation of that weepy masterpiece with Miss You Already. Though it has its flaws, there’s no denying that Hardwicke’s done well […]
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HUMP! 2015 Is Here, and Here’s Your Guide to a Fresh Crop of Amateur Porn!
“PORN?! But that’s what the internet is for!” Indeed, that is what the internet is for. But the HUMP! Film Festival isn’t about honing in on the online videos that cater to your specific proclivities. It’s bigger than that. Every year HUMP! (helmed by Savage Love columnist Dan Savage) puts out the call to sex-havers […]
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Win Two Tickets to Next Weekend’s Content at the Ace Hotel!
Saturday, November 14 marks the sixth year of Content, a live fashion installation that takes over the entire second floor of the downtown hotel. Over 20 emerging Portland brands are each given a room to transform into an art installation that gives attendees a stimulating, multimedia glimpse of the creative process behind the products—the emphasis […]
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The Weekend Shopper: First Thursday Edition with Alder & Co., Tanner Goods, and Odessa!
Thursdays are definitely the new Fridays when it’s a First Thursday. Please update your worksheet from earlier this week: THURSDAY, NOV 5 • New markdowns are on over at Alder & Co., which is slashing prices on their fall clothing just in time for when you really need it. Alder & Co., 616 SW 12th, […]