Mondays with Me: Read-along with Michelle Obama Maybe this isn’t so much for you as it is any little kids you have tear-assing around the house as we head deep into month two of quarantine. But who cares? It’s Michelle Obama volunteering to help those young’uns practice their reading, and also giving you a little […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Sun April 26
Sign O’ The Times Last Tuesday, CBS aired a special on the fourth anniversary of Prince’s death, “The GRAMMY Salute to Prince,” a concert taped in January, hosted by Maya Rudolph, and featuring a whole mess of accomplished artists putting their spin on the Purple Majesty’s most memorable songs. I’m sure it was good, and […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Sat April 25
Portland Indigenous Marketplace Indigenous Come Up is taking the latest in their series of marketplace events online after COVID-19 made going out and doing the in-person shopping thing a health-threatening activity. But they’re dedicated to giving a lot of local makers as big a spotlight as possible, and so they’re inviting you to engage with […]
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Today’s Coronavirus News Roundup: Oregon Contact Tracing Plan, a Postal Service Threat, and Dr. President Trump’s Lysol Sideshow!
“Friends and neighbors, let me be the first to sell you this MIRACLE COVID CURE: Trump’s Famous Lysol Disinfectant Elixir!” ALEX WONG / 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’!) • As of today […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Fri April 24
The I, Anonymous Show The long-running Portland Mercury column “I, Anonymous” is famous for asking readers to send in their most whacked-out rants and scandalous confessions—anonymously! In this special LIVE-STREAMED edition of The I, Anonymous Show, your host Kate Murphy will read some of the wildest and uncensored I, Anonymous submissions we’ve ever received. And […]
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Today’s Coronavirus News Roundup: Non-Urgent Med Procedures Return, Majority Supports Stay-at-Home, and Moscow Mitch Says “Let Them Eat Cake”
Senate Majority Turtle Mitch McConnell tells troubled states to file for bankruptcy. 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 total number of positive COVID-19 cases in […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Thurs April 23
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I AmThere are a lot of things available on the virtually un-scalable mountain range of content comprising Hulu/Netflix/Prime/YouTube/etc., but you should definitely make sure you carve time out of your day to witness the rise of the prolific Nobel-winning author Toni Morrison, who holds forth on her life busting up the […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: EARTH DAY Edition
Earth Day LiveSo of course, in this bizarre dystopian timeline we got shunted into somewhere around 2016, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day would be happening in the middle of a global pandemic, but: This might be the most important Earth Day of the last five decades, and that’s why the 2020 version isn’t just […]
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Today’s Coronavirus News Roundup: County GOP Chooses $$$ Over Lives, New State Testing Advisories, and Trump Uses COVID to Be More Racist
Oregon Health Authority prioritizes testing for frontline workers and impacted communities. Win McNamee/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’!) • WHEREAS the Multnomah County GOP reveals a crippling addiction to using the word “whereas” […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Tues April 21
Middleditch & SchwartzGet ready for an evening of wild-yet-intimate improv comedy with Jean Ralphio from Parks and Recreation and Richard Hendricks from Silicon Valley—except they won’t be playing those characters because that was TV and this is real life. IRL, Ben Schwartz and Thomas Middleditch are maybe even funnier than their fictional counterparts! These two […]
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Today’s Coronavirus News Roundup: Protesters Flirt with Death, Trump’s Testing Failure, and Women Leaders Will Save the World
Trump supporters endanger themselves and the country by protesting social distancing orders. Jamie Squire / 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’!) • As of today, Oregon’s total number of COVID-19 cases is 1,986 […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Mon April 20
SPLIFF Film FestIf you’ve never experienced the mind-altering fun of SPLIFF (from the crazy, creative minds behind HUMP! and SLAY) you are in for such a treat. This year you can expect 22 brand new wildly entertaining weed-inspired shorts (all 4:20 or less… of course) featuring funny psychedelic trip-outs, stoned flying cats, side-splitting animation, aggressive […]