Now that Multnomah County has begun Phase One in earnest, restaurants and bars have started re-opening, with limited seating and social distancing practices still being observed (and that means, as our Editor-in-Chief is so fond of reminding you: Mask Up and Wash Ya Damn Hands). But some of that limited seating is out on patios, […]
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The Best Things to Do in Portland This Weekend: June 19-21 2020
Okay, take two: This weekend is the first in which Multnomah County is officially PHASE ONE reopened! And that means there are some things for you to go do OUTSIDE! That’s not the same as saying “masks off elbows deep sneeze on everything olly olly oxenfree,” or anything even close to it. Just because you […]
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The Best Things to Do in Portland – PRIDE 2020 Edition
The OUTwright Festival Fuse Theatre’s annual series of performances and workshops highlighting the power of art to help comment on and change our surroundings goes online for 2020, with a specific focus on trans and gender non-conforming communities. Visit Fuse’s Facebook page from Wed-Sun, June 24-28, every night at 7 pm to watch readings, discussions, […]
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The Best Things to Do in Portland This Weekend: June 12-14 2020
You may notice that the “While Staying Home and Staying Safe” part of this weekend roundup is missing from the title. That’s on purpose! This week is the first one in awhile where there are some things for you to go do OUTSIDE. That’s not the same as saying “masks off elbows deep sneeze on […]
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The Best Things to Do While Staying Home and Staying Safe This Week: June 1-4 2020
We made it to June, you guys. Nobody knows what the hell this month might possibly have in store, but it’s not any of the months that are behind us now, and that’s one good thing it’s got going for it from the jump. This first week of June’s also got a pretty solid menu […]
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The Best Things to Do While Staying Home and Staying Safe This Weekend: May 29-31 2020
This weekend represents our making it through to the end of May, a month that (like all the months in this pandemic) seemed to move at warp while simultaneously crawling like a sloth. There’s space in this weekend you can carve out to give yourself a break (or 10) when you need it, and there […]
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The Best Things to Do While Staying Home and Staying Safe This Week: May 26-28
The long Memorial Day weekend is now over, and this short week ahead is looking to make up for lost time with a very densely packed slate of entertainment options to safely stream from the comfort of your couch while social distancing, with a ton of new stand-up comedy gold to be mined, new music […]
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Your Guide to All the Events The Mercury Is Currently Streaming
All the Details on HUMP!, the Silent Reading Party, and More
While people have just recently been able to start going out and enjoying in-person events in small-ish groups, for many people, entertainment in 2020 is largely living-room based. And that means we’ve been streaming more online events than ever before, including Dan Savage’s HUMP! festival, and the stoner valhalla that is SPLIFF. To help readers […]
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The Best Things to Do While Staying Home and Staying Safe This Memorial Day Weekend: May 22-25 2020
Yes, it’s weird to think of this as an “extended” weekend considering, well… (gestures resignedly at everything.) But it is Memorial Day weekend, normally considered the first four days of the summer season, so far as the entertainment industry is concerned. And in keeping with that tradition, there’s a lot of stuff to look at, […]
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The Best Things to Do While Staying Home and Staying Safe This Week: May 18-21 2020
Congratulations: we made it to another Monday, and we did it together. Hopefully we stayed safe, we stayed indoors as much as we could, and we stayed a little saner than we might have otherwise, thanks to exercising our emotions and our minds via just the right combination of things to watch, things to listen […]
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The Best Things to Do While Staying Home and Staying Safe This Weekend: May 15-17 2020
Jump to: Friday | Saturday | Sunday Friday, May 15 The Class of 2020 Graduates w/ Oprah Winfrey COVID-19 has been particularly rough on schoolkids. It might not seem that way if you take the most superficial of looks at the situation, i.e. “Hey, they don’t have to go to school, I wish I didn’t […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: May 11-14 2020
We made it another week, everybody. Yes, a week in which the word “re-open” just keeps getting put out there, upping the anxiety and making it just that much harder to focus on holding on, being strong, knowing when to stay plugged in, and also when to disconnect for a second. There’s a lot of […]