Mercury Staff

Drive-By Truckers, Lydia Loveless Drive-By Truckers—whose badass name matches their bad-ass Southern alt-country sound—are making a can’t-miss stop in Portland the same day the legends drop their 11th studio album, American Band. If you don’t know DBT yet, hop on Spotify and stream perhaps my favorite album, The Dirty South. They’ll be here for two […]

Bianca Del Rio If you’re not familiar with the sharp-tongued comedy of drag artist Bianca Del Rio (real name Roy Haylock), let’s get you up to speed! Bianca took home the crown in season six of Ru Paul’s Drag Race, and is widely regarded as one of the world’s most hilarious insult comics. BUT THAT […]

Banned Books Week: Diversity Celebrate books that upset the delicate sensibilities of puritanical PTAs and Republican congressmen everywhere with a spirited Banned Books Week panel discussion featuring the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s Charles Brownstein and rad authors like Cory Doctorow and Cathy Camper, who’ll address how book-banning disproportionately targets authors of color—and how we […]

Gabe Dinger’s Going Away Comedy Spectacular! Well, goddammit. We’re losing another Portland comedian to the wiles of Los Angeles. This time it’s the beloved Gabe Dinger, but he’s leaving on a high note. In Gabe Dinger’s Going Away Comedy Spectacular! he’ll be hitting the stage with Barbara Holm, JoAnne Schinderle, Jason Traeger, Nariko Ott, Bri […]

Kurt Braunohler Kurt Braunohler is a master of chaos. When the comedian isn’t hosting the popular Hot Tub variety show in Los Angeles (along with the hilarious Kristen Schaal), he’s out in the world pulling stunts to make people do double takes. Like that time he blindfolded a busload of comedy nerds and drove them […]