Suzette Smith
Posted inTheater & Performance
Paradise Blue Is a Story of Displacement Told as Noir
An ensemble cast at Portland Playhouse does it justice.
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 inGood Morning, News!
Good Morning, News: Trump’s Itty-Bitty Comey Case, Next Portland to Relaunch as Nonprofit, and Which Local Theater Got the Onion Mockumentary Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile?
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: Ladies and Gorms and Gills and Loons we are hitting those mid-70s this weekend. This is it! This is peak […]
Posted inVisual Art
A Snapshot of Portland’s DIY House Show Scene
Buckman Publishing collects Choice Cuts from Corbin C’s immense archive.
Corbin C doesn’t think of himself as a photographer, even if Buckman Publishing just released a 170-page book of his snapshots, Choice Cuts: Disposable Camera Archives 2015-2023. “First and foremost, I’m a showgoer,” he says. “I love going to shows. I love dancing at shows. I love being at the front, right up by the […]
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Good Morning, News: Portland Speed Cameras Unplugged, Olivia Nuzzi Is Failing Up, and Wing Week Starts September 29
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! Pacific Northwest weather really shines as we approach hoa hoa time. This weekend starts off with an amuse bouche balmy Friday […]
Posted inBooks
Book Review: Shared Homes Bring Hope and Chaos in Wolf Bells
Leni Zumas’ new novel is a nice (and quietly subversive) story about
a multigenerational, intentional community.
Find a copy of the print issue! Subscribe to print issues! Support us! When Leni Zumas’ Red Clocks came out in 2018, the speculative novel was widely lauded, not just for Zumas’ quicksilver prose, but for the story’s dystopic setting: a United States of America where the practice of abortion has been criminalized. Now, in the […]
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Good Morning, News: Portland Can’t Regulate on Zenith, Portlanders Can’t Get Vaccines, and Jackie and Shadow Face an Old Foe—Developers
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! This weekend has EVerYthInG. Reasonable 74-degree Friday, warmish 82-degree Saturday, and rainy Sunday. If you were thinking that it might be […]
Posted inFall Arts 2025
The Mercury’s Fall Arts Issue 2025
The only guide Portland needs for the season’s theater and performance art, comedy art, food art, movie art, book art, architecture art, and more!
I’m at the bike ride. I’m at the theater. I’m at the combination bike ride theater.
Posted inFall Arts 2025
It’s Time to Appreciate Bike Play as Theater
Bike Summer / Pedalpalooza’s annual outdoor drama is campy, approachable, and drawing crowds.
I’m at the bike ride. I’m at the theater. I’m at the combination bike ride theater.
Posted inFall Arts 2025
Book Review: Shared Homes Bring Hope and Chaos in Wolf Bells
Leni Zumas’ new novel is a nice (and quietly subversive) story about
a multigenerational, intentional community.
Leni Zumas’ new novel is a nice (and quietly subversive) story about a multigenerational, intentional community.
Posted inFall Arts 2025
Do This, Do That: Fall Arts 2025
Portland’s grandest, thinkiest, most-engaging displays of art and culture!
Find a copy of the print issue! Subscribe to print issues! Support us! Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt Through December 6 (VISUAL ART) Marie Watt’s balance of technical precision and expansive vision melds in larger-than-life textile processes and multimedia explorations. Storywork centers stories from her Seneca Nation ancestry, pairing them with references to everything from […]
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Good Morning, News: US Border Patrol Takes PNW Firefighters Into Custody, Portland City Councilors to Fly to Vienna, and Avalos Writes with AI
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! We’re out here this morning like “Name an instance of bullshit that I went for!” Last Friday, Earl […]