Mercury Staff

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 […]

Northwest Hesh Fest: Day 1 Believe it or not, our trip around the sun has already brought us to another Northwest Hesh Fest. The first night features local kingpins Red Fang three weeks before the release of their new record, Only Ghosts. If you’re a fan and impatience is a quality you possess, it’s highly […]

Sigur Rós Sigur Rós are scaling back the frills on their current tour, but beefing up the content. The Icelandic band will perform without any backing musicians as they run through two long sets of brand-new material and completely reworked older stuff. It’ll be a rare chance to see them work out their majestic, otherworldly […]