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Suzette Smith
Suzette Smith is the arts & culture editor of the Portland Mercury. Go ahead and tell her about all your food, art, and culture gripes: suzette@portlandmercury.com. Follow her on Twitter, Bluesky, and Letterboxd.
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Good Morning, News: Mercury Transportation Issue Drops and Broadway Bridge Reopens? In the Same Week? Curious.
If you appreciate the Mercury‘s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution to support our editorial team. Your donation is tax-deductible. You can also subscribe and have our papers delivered! [In an extremely nurse DanaEvans voice] Good Morning, Portland! Hope you’re doing good and taking formula well. We’re lookin’ at some beautiful weather today (high of […]
Posted inTransportation Issue 2026
Do This, Do That: April 2026
The city’s coolest art and cultural events this spring.
Satpreet Kahlon: an imagined place (here and now) THROUGH MAY 23 (VISUAL ART) I’ve been following Satpreet Kahlon’s career since 2023, when the Panjabi-born artist’s Bellevue Art Museum exhibition the inscrutable shape of longing explored displacement and colonization’s aftermath through a web-like installation of folk ritual and splintered, mirrored acrylic. An imagined place (here and […]
Posted inTheater & Performance
Apple Hunters! Had Me in My Apple Feelings
The final production of E.M. Lewis’ residency is rife with symbols and men who won’t go to therapy.
I wish I knew about apple cultivars like I wish I knew about flags, military patches, architectural details, and other symbols of esoteric history. Because knowing about those things isn’t limited to the object itself; it’s also about the story and people behind it. E.M. Lewis’ Apple Hunters!, which opened at Artists Repertory Theatre over […]
Posted inCulture
Portland and Seattle Magazines Bought up by Michigan Media Company
New owners cut deep into already struggling Seattle Met and Portland Monthly editorial teams.
City magazines Seattle Met and Portland Monthly have been sold off by their parent company, SagaCity, in a receivership deal to pay off the company’s debts. In addition to the Seattle and Portland magazines the agreement includes Houstonia in Texas, Park City Magazine in Utah, and Aspen Sojourner and Vail Beaver Creek Magazine in Colorado. […]
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Good Morning, News: Artemis II Takes Flight, Ultraconservative Republicans Block DHS Funding Compromise, and New Owners Take on Turn! Turn! Turn!
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Posted inMovies & TV
Portland Panorama Is Worth the Watch
In its second year the film festival has plenty to brag about.
Portland Panorama’s schedule of movies, showcases, and virtual reality immersions feels like falling down a wiki rabbit hole. You came to see who’s playing live at the screening of music videos from the Pacific Northwest at Mississippi Studios, and now you’re getting excited about a bunch of shorts by Black animators at Cinema 21. There’s […]
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Good Morning, News: Fire at Tom’s Restaurant & Bar, Higher Court Says Gas and Chemicals at Portland ICE Are Back On, and the Lindy West Book Discourse Dozens Are Talking About
If you appreciate the Mercury‘s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution to support our editorial team. Your donation is tax-deductible. You can also subscribe and have our papers delivered! [In an extremely nurse Dana Evans voice] Good Morning, Portland! Ooof! It was 37 degrees this morning! Colder than it’s been, I tell ya. The weather ahead […]
Posted inArt Snack
Art Snack: You Know and Like the Locals Behind This Women’s Sports Film Fest
Plus, Portland Panorama, local art news, and a snack-sized review of Project Hail Mary.
Ryan Gosling banter feels like a sustained act of grace
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Good Morning, News: Afroman Vindicated, Blow Pony’s Final Party, and Why Is Jon Ossoff Sternly Jabbing at That Paper?
If you appreciate the Mercury‘s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution to support our editorial team. Your donation is tax-deductible. You can also subscribe and have our papers delivered! [In an extremely nurse Dana Evans voice] Good Morning, Portland! Thank goodness this creepy summer weather is about to calm down. I mean, that doesn’t mean […]
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Good Morning, News: Global Oil Prices Soar, Former Trail Blazer Running for Governor… Again, and Is This “Scathing Rebuttal” Just Good Boundaries?
If you appreciate the Mercury‘s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution to support our editorial team. Your donation is tax-deductible. You can also subscribe and have our papers delivered! [In an extremely Charge Nurse Dana Evans voice] Good Morning, Portland! Get tha 2026 Spring Arts Guide, starting today. It was on stands as early as yesterday, […]
Posted inSpring Arts 2026
The Mercury’s 2026 Spring Arts Preview: We Need Art to Survive
The arts need us. And we need the arts.
You don’t have to have an art focus to benefit from art.