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, […]
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.
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.
Posted inSpring Arts 2026
The Makers of Untitled Goose Game Hit a Different, Still Mischievous Note With Big Walk
House House’s new friend hang video game is beautiful, even if it made me dizzy.
Big Walk made me motion sick, but I want to play it again. The new video game invites players into an open world setting where they can talk to their friends, solve puzzles, explore, or—dare we say—kiki? We got a chance to demo the game at the Panic office in downtown Portland, and soon so […]
Posted inSpring Arts 2026
This Portland Bookstore Has Really Good Breakfast
My low-key obsession with Literary Arts Cafe revealed.
There are few things in this life that motivate me as much as a good breakfast sandwich.
Posted inSpring Arts 2026
Do This, Do That: Spring Arts 2026
Take heed! Your spring arts and culture plans have arrived.
Seven Films by Kelly Reichardt THROUGH MARCH 22 (FILM) Clinton Street’s monthlong series for March centers the Pacific Northwest’s director supreme Kelly Reichardt, working near through her entire filmography. Novelist and Reichardt’s frequent artistic collaborator Jon Raymond will attend three screenings (Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff, Showing Up) and offer post-viewing Q&As. If you missed […]
Posted inVideo Games
Panic Invites Players for a Big Walk in Its Downtown Portland Offices
House House’s new friend hang video game made me motion sick, but I’d play it again.
Big Walk made me motion sick, but I want to play it again. The new video game invites players into an open world setting where they can talk to their friends, solve puzzles, explore, or—dare we say—kiki? We got a chance to demo the game at the Panic office in downtown Portland, and soon so […]
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Good Morning, News: Senate Rejects War Powers Bill, House Takes Its Shot, and Is There Some Way to Save the Lloyd Center Mall’s Community Hub?
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! We’re looking at rain. A little less today and on Saturday, but rain […]
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Good Morning, News: ICE Officer in Portland Threatened to Shoot Motorized Bike Pursuer, Central City Roundtable or Best Friends Club, and Big Pink Owner Buys Another Downtown Building
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! Cold this mornin! Looks like we can have cold and bright or rainy […]
Posted inArt Snack
Art Snack: Feed the Mass Opens Old Town Offices, Portland Frog Brigade in Washington DC
Also, there are AT LEAST two World Naked Bike Rides in Portland for 2026, and the TedxPortland line-up is here.
We’re a little over two weeks out from the Mercury‘s Spring Arts Issue—look for it starting March 11—and folks the art is arting. I want to put it on your radar that the Mercury moved back to monthly in 2026, and you’ll now be able to find new print issues every second Wednesday. Or you can […]
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Good Morning, News: Prince Andrew Arrested, Dog at the Olympics, and Feds Investigate PPS for Caring About Black Students
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! Good Morning, Portland! It’s been cold this week, dripping down to freezing temperatures most nights. Did you see some snow? Did you run […]
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Art Snack: In a Shocking Twist, Mother Foucault’s Nonprofit Will Buy That Building After All
The date for the 2026 World Naked Bike Ride is here! But Sheridan Fruit Company is gone.
Reports from the arts, culture, and food worlds have been ROUGH lately. January through March are lean times for everyone. So if you don’t want to make dinner, and you still have enough self esteem to refrain from eating canned tomatoes over the sink (🙋guilty), spend some takeout dollars on your favs. If you’re cold, […]
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Good Morning, News: US Border Czar Announces Minnesota Surge Wind Down, Washington DC Guard Troops to Stay Another Year, and Republican Lawmakers Want to Increase Voter Paperwork
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! Good Morning, Portland! February fakeout is fading, and today will be the last sunny, warm day for the foreseeable future.We’ve already been dipping back […]