Mercury Staff

Remember how you would get impatient as a kid and beg your parents to let you open a present a little bit early, just to tide you over? Even though everyone involved knew there was no such thing as “tiding you over,” you wanted to open everything, right now, and if they let you, you […]

8 things to do for December 21

6 things to do for December 20

It’s here—the last week before Christmas! The last gasp of relative sanity before holiday madness crescendoes. What better way to spend it than by sharing a Happy Hole-aday with Dan Savage? Or Cheering the Fuck Up with the OK Chorale? Well, there’s also the Mercury‘s latest (free!) Sound + Vision showcase, the Blazers taking on […]

10 things to do for December 15

Jenny Don’t & The Spurs, Joey Briggs, Ryan Sollee, Ike Fonseca Portland’s own Jenny Don’t and the Spurs are headlining this foot-stompin’ feel-good holiday show filled with punky Western-style get downs, and it’s for a good cause to boot! This fifth annual toy drive (titled Rock for Reason) will benefit Portland’s Ronald McDonald House, and will also feature the […]

10 things to do for December 17

10 things to do for December 16

The good news about a new Star Wars in theaters is that you’re guaranteed some fun times with glowsticks and pew pews. The bad news is that usually opening weekend is kind of a madhouse (but the entertaining kind!) But the other good news is: if you missed out on the screening you wanted to […]