Trump says he’s taking an unproven (and heart attack inducing) antimalarial drug. OH WELL! Tasos Katopodis / Getty News Here’s your daily roundup of all the local and national news about COVID-19. (Like our coverage? Please consider donating to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) • The Oregon Health Authority’s latest report: 62 new confirmed […]
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The Best Things to Do While Staying Home and Staying Safe: Mon May 18
Community Table ReadThe mantra for writer/creator Dan Harmon’s sitcom masterpiece Community was always “Six seasons and a movie” but that mantra now has to make room for “oh and a live-streamed cast-reunion table-read of a season four episode with the actual Mandalorian as a guest star to support World Central Kitchen and Frontline Foods.” It’s […]
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The Best Things to Do While Staying Home and Staying Safe: Sun May 17
The Last Dance FinaleThe absence of sports has turned ESPN’s 10-part Chicago Bulls documentary The Last Dance into the NBA Finals, the World Series, and Wrestlemania all in one. Apologies, did we say “Chicago Bulls” documentary? Because it’s not really that. It was kinda-sorta that at first, but now it’s essentially a highly entertaining, endlessly […]
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The Best Things to Do While Staying Home and Staying Safe: Sat May 16
Sea WallWhile Phoebe Waller-Bridge was deservedly and rightfully showered with awards for Fleabag season two, it can be argued (and she’s made this case herself) that if it wasn’t for Andrew Scott as Hot Priest, the season would have never happened at all. But before he was Hot Priest (and before he was Moriarty in […]
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Today’s Coronavirus News: A Cautious Re-Opening, Super-Duper-Missiles, and Please: Leave the Coast Alone
pool / Getty images Here’s your daily roundup of all the local and national news about COVID-19. (Like our coverage? Please consider donating to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) • The updated totals: Health officials reported 63 new confirmed COVID-19 cases Friday morning, bringing the state total to 3,470. There were no new coronavirus-related […]
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The Best Things to Do While Staying Home and Staying Safe: Fri May 15
The Class of 2020 Graduates w/ Oprah WinfreyCOVID-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 have to go to school, har har!” But not only have […]
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Today’s Coronavirus News: Phase One Has Begun, Wisconsin Goes HAM, Operation Warp Speed, and The Last Blockbuster on Earth?
Motoya Nakamura/Multnomah County Here’s your daily roundup of all the local and national news about COVID-19. (Like our coverage? Please consider donating to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) • As per Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury in this afternoon’s press conference (watch the whole thing here), don’t expect the county to reopen anytime soon, […]
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The Best Things to Do While Staying Home and Staying Safe: Thurs May 14
Beyond Now: A Virtual Fundraiser for PICAPICA is an absolute good for this community, and for anyone who values art in all its forms, and wants to make sure they’re supporting creative acts and local arts. With over 30 artists sharing new performance, video, and visual works, as well as conversations with creators, dance parties, […]
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Today’s Coronavirus News: America’s “Darkest Winter,” Portland Salon Sues Governor, and Here Come the Conspiracy Theorists!
Look out, people hoping for a vaccine! The CONSPIRACY THEORISTS are heading your way! Courtesy FX Here’s your daily roundup of all the local and national news about COVID-19. (Like our coverage? Please consider donating to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) • As of today, the Oregon Health Authority reported a total of 3,416 […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Wed May 13
The Stranger‘s Silent Reading PartyEvery Wednesday at 6 pm we’re going to throw these parties, at least until stay-at-home is over. Attendees at the first Zoom silent-reading party included famous actors, writers, composers, artists, families, teenagers doing their homework, people staring into space listening to the music because it was just so beautiful, cats, and […]
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Today’s Coronavirus News: “Optimistic” Plans for Timbers & Pendleton Roundup, and Fauci Issues Cryptic Corona Warning
Dr. Anthony Fauci warns Senate about reopening too soon Alex Wong / Getty News Here’s your daily roundup of all the local and national news about COVID-19. (Like our coverage? Please consider donating to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) • As of today, the Oregon Health Authority reported a total of 3,358 positive/presumptive coronavirus […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Tues May 12
The Salon of ShameThe “Salon of Shame” is a Seattle institution, and one not about to be cut short by coronavirus. Indeed, the cheerful exploitation of our younger selves’ awkward adventures in adolescence translate just fine online, and so: “Shame Across America,” (streaming at 6pm, $17) an online compilation of the finest cringe comedy a […]