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Matt Davis was news editor of the Mercury from 2009 to May 2010.
“I could say, you know, the mushrooms are awesome, but it was the tattoos that bought me to Portland,” says rock ‘n’ roll chef Anthony Bourdain, through a cloud of smoke from the first of two back-to-back Gauloises. We are in a room at the Heathman Hotel and besides the cigarette smoke, his voice is […]
Before reading at Powell’s this Thursday evening, convicted felon turned cokehead turned journalist and author, Jason Leopold, will speak to new patients at the Volunteers of America men’s residential rehab center on NE MLK. It’ll be a step down from breaking the Enron story for Dow Jones, but Leopold is happy to do it. “I […]
In the Lents neighborhood, as elsewhere in Portland, the red-hot real estate market has encouraged realty signs to pop up on lawns everywhere. But one seven-foot sign in Lents—outside of an unassuming two-bedroom house on Bybee and SE 84th—stands out from the crowd: The red-and-white painted plywood alerts passersby to the fact that the house […]
Burly meatpacker David Rigby—who stands 6’11” tall and cuts quite a presence in his buzz cut—knocked on the door of the Carolina Motel at 112th and NE Sandy last Friday night, June 2, and politely asked the owners to stop charging hourly rates. The Carolina advertises cable TV and hot tubs, and looks like it […]
Twenty minutes after the East Portland community listening session on racial profiling was due to start last Thursday, May 25, the East Portland Community Center was notable for one thing: the absence of community. Pretzels and soda remained unopened while five cops (still distinguishable by their haircuts, despite wearing street clothes) talked with hungry-looking journalists […]
For unsigned Portland bands like Tekorji—an electro goth threesome—playing the city’s big venues (and maybe getting noticed) is a huge opportunity. So when reps from the Emergenza Festival emailed last September, offering a chance to play Dante’s and Berbati’s, frontman Andy Shaman and 54 others like him had no hesitation in paying the $75 registration […]
Last Wednesday afternoon, May 10, Pamela Pitra dialed 911 when a neighborhood crackhead—who had been acting unpredictably for some time, she says—came screaming to her door in SE Portland, demanding to be let in. Nervous of the man’s behavior and fearing for the safety of her two children, Pitra hoped a patrol car would be […]
If you’d prefer to forget how you voted on election night—or want to hobnob with the city’s political wonks while the returns roll in—you could start by crawling round the candidates’ parties (many of which offer free booze). While Emilie Boyles is using her campaign money to throw an awesome kegger in Hawaii (KIDDING), the […]
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