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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.
Palestinian playwright Samah Sabawi sets her scene in a location both undefined and surreal.
I, for one, welcome early versions of the bodies our AI masters will wear.
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. Good Morning, Portland! What’s that weather doing today? SUNNY today (high of 81), A LIL CLOUDY tomorrow (high of 85), and then it’s TOO HOT on Sunday and Monday (hovering […]
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. Good Morning, Portland! We’ve been screaming about Pickathon for days, but you do have to admit, the people going this weekend are going to get some primo weather treatment: high […]
[Find the Mercury‘s 25th Anniversary Issue (in print) near you by using this handy-dandy map, and read all of our anniversary stories here.—eds.] When the Mercury joined Portland’s cultural cache, it entered an artistically fertile time. Powell’s City of Books had expanded to a full city block the year before. Sleater-Kinney had just released All Hands on […]
DOZENS of Tom Lehrer fans mourn the musician and mathematician.
• OK Chicken and Khao Soi hesitantly enters the haunted confines of Portland’s old Pok Pok manor.
Its shelves are filled, the stage is built, and now Mother Foucault’s wants to buy. The vintage bookshop announced Tuesday that it’s seizing a chance to purchase the building it currently occupies, at 715 SE Grand. That opportunity expires on September 21, if it can’t raise $300,000 for a downpayment. Built in 1892, the Nathaniel […]
“I Have One Daughter” is such an apt anthem for US politics.
Happy Birthday, you glorious wet baby.
Clinton Street Theater’s popular Hanabi Film Fest returns with cult movies, classics, and an abundance of Portland premieres
The best part of Aw, Hell is the walking tour at the beginning—it’s not a long trek, though it is heavy on rules: No sinning. No laughing. No touching, but the monsters can touch you. Ancient Roman poet Virgil meets the audience at the entrance to Hell—currently located in the Reed College Performing Arts Building. […]
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