This amazing Half-Drag photo series was created by photographer Leland BobbÉ. If you need to melt your brain a wee bit, go see the whole collection here.
Scrappers
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This Week’s Cover
Did you see this week’s cover?It’s the most awesome thing you’ve seen all year! If you need to rinse your eyes with more awesome work by Sean Morris, make the jump.
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Ski Mask Contest Winner(s)!
Everyone who submitted photos for last week’s photo contest is a winner! But we’re only giving the $100 worth of Merc Perk$ to the bank robber. Hey, he wore it best. We owe a big thanks to Kelly Abeln for making the mask and all the goof-bags who cut it out and wore it for […]
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This Week’s Cover
It’s colder then a flagpole’s erect nob out there! That’s why we put a warm, fuzzy ski mask on the Mercury‘s cover for you. If for some reason these paper masks don’t keep you warm, or get stuck to your snotty little nose, you can enter to win $100 worth of Mercperk$ to Deek and […]
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This Week’s Cover
When I heard we needed a portrait photo of Mayor Sam Adams only one photographer came to mind. Portland’s best glamour & headshots photographer, Robbie Augspurger. I was a little afraid that Sam might not like the photo, but as we were hanging out at City Hall doing the shoot he said he wanted to […]
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Nikki McClure Art Show
This week’s cover artist, Nikki McClure, has come all the way down from Olympia, Washington, to feed your eyeballs with yummy, warm art. Certainly you’ve seen her calendars before, but have you ever seen her work in person? It’s all one sheet of paper that’s been skillfully cut by hand. So treat yourself and go […]
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New Look, New Day
Did you pick up this week’s paper? Did you feel refreshed and a wee bit giddy after flipping through it? We thought you might. That’s because of two things: the Mercury now comes out on Wednesday, and our editorial pages got a redesign. Other than that the paper is pretty much full of the same […]
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Wieden + Kennedy 12
There’s a local advertising school disguised as “an experiment” housed inside the Wieden + Kennedy building in the Pearl District and they are looking for students. I went to this school and it changed my life (for better or worse?). If you’re interested in attending I would have to say, “Save your money, save your […]
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Design Crush
We’re totally crushed out on publication design here at the Mercury. That’s why we’re participating in Design Crush: Publication Showcase at the Museum of Contemporary Craft Lab, Oct 9-13. Featuring work from local publications and presses, the exhibit is a love letter to print publishing and the people who shape it in Portland. If you’ve […]
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This Week’s Cover
For this week’s TBA guide we wanted to make a cover that was actually time-based art. In the visual arts there isn’t a more temporary art then graffiti art. Sometimes right after the paint sprays out of the can onto the wall it gets “removed.” So we commissioned local spray paint artist Steve Mathews to […]
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Cocktail Compass
Why did we litter the fine streets of Portland with this thing called a Cocktail Compass?So you could drink on the cheap with your personal happy hour guide! If for some reason you didn’t get your drinking hands on one of these in person we have some other options for you.Flip through the digi-version of […]
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This Week’s Cover
When I set out to find this week’s cover art I had no idea it was World Breastfeeding Week. So consider this week’s cover as a newspaper monument to all those breasts who have fed the world. The art work is by the brilliant Matt Panuska.