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 […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Sun April 19
Oregon Symphony GalaThe Oregon Symphony perseveres in the face of the coronavirus crisis by ensuring their 2020 Gala still goes on—just in a more online, intimate manner than the normal Schnitz-based show might otherwise have been. Local diva Storm Large will sing while backed by a virtual performance from the Symphony, and while “attendance” is […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Sat April 18
One World: Together at HomeLady Gaga helped curate this mass-gathering of all-star entertainers, and will headline it herself, which means its likely to be the biggest, boldest, and most interesting of all the fundraisers created to both celebrate and support frontline health care workers. It’s already raised over $35 million for relief efforts around the […]
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Today’s Coronavirus News Roundup: Good Unemployment News, the Dire Need for More Testing, and Guess What? Trump is Inciting Open Rebellion!
The President of the United States is encouraging citizen to rebel against their state governments. WOW. That’s new! Twitter 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 […]
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The Best Things To Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Fri April 17
SPLIFF Film FestivalIf 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 […]
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Today’s Coronavirus News Roundup: Right-Wing “Social Distancing” Backlash, Stimulus Checks Glitch, and a Dip in Oregon Layoffs
Trump held another totally reasonable, lucid press conference yesterday, and… PSYCH! SARAH SILBIGER / 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 number of confirmed coronavirus cases (that we know […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Thurs April 16
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood Viewing Party Guaranteed to be the most wholesome thing you do this quarantine, WQED in Pittsburgh, the public broadcasting station that produced Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, is livestreaming three episodes of the beloved children’s program: “How People Make Crayons,” “How People Make Cellos (with Yo-Yo Ma)”, and “Musical Games/Talking About Feelings.” That last […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Wed April 15
Roar! You have to say it with the exclamation point. You should hear it in your head with that exclamation point. Because Roar is a movie that should not be. Noel Marshall, a film producer, agent, husband to Tippi Hedren, and notably not an animal trainer, blew $17 million trying to direct his first (and […]
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Today’s Coronavirus News Roundup: Gov. Brown’s “Reopen Oregon” Plan, Another Trump Hissy-Fit, and the WWE is “Essential”?
Gov. Brown lays out plan to “Reopen Oregon.” YouTube Screenshot 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’!) • Oregon’s number of confirmed coronavirus cases (that we know of) reached 1,584 people Monday, with 53 deaths. • […]