Recent Articles
Where's Portland Music Month This Year?
MusicPortland put the annual celebration on pause for 2025, citing complications from the election and a desire to expand its vision.
The Mercury's Favorite Culture Moments of 2024
Doing something stupid in Ladds, dressing up for the movies, and finding catharsis at live shows, et al.
The Mercury's Favorite Books of 2024
On this list, revolutionary writings share space with Portland zombies and memories of the Barefoot Contessa
Film Review: In Heretic and Don't Move Meek Heroines Fawn and Freeze
This fall, femmes find new ways to survive.
Last-Minute Gifts from PDX AirportâThat Are Actually Great
In Portland even our airport presents are thoughtful, lovely, and local.
Secret Aardvark Drops Hot Nut News
The Portland-area hot sauce company celebrated 20 years of flavorful, spicy sauciness with a new snack.
Screaming With Meaning: The Definitive Blood Brothers Lyrics Q & A
Ahead of the hardcore band's sold out show at Revolution Hall, Johnny Whitney and Jordan Blilie tell us what the group's intense, abstract song lyrics really mean.
Could the James Beard Public Market Rise From the Corpse of Corporate Failure?
Long envisioned as Portland's version of Seattle's Pike Place, the market would also provide an answer to downtown’s dearth of fresh produce.
Mikki Gillette's Hero's / Healer's Journey Begins With a Content Warning
No More Candy is charming and adorable, even as its characters work through very heavy traumas.
Mercury Music Picks: Once Chance To See That At the Drive-In Doc in Portland
Erykah Badu headlines the 2025 PDX Jazz Festival, and we have NEW Haley Heynderickx songs—INCOMING!
TBA Review: Goner Contains Some of the Best Booty-Shaking You'll Ever See
Is Malik Nashad Sharpe's choreography a means of torture, escape, or memory?
TBA Review: Te Moana Meridian Proposes Moving the Prime Meridian
Sam Hamilton makes a solid proposal; Mere Tokorahi Boynton sings it in te reo MÄori.
The Portland Mercury's Fall Arts Guide: Your Rx for Art
Art stories, fall performances, a calendar of cool shows, and a dog in a tiny backpack!
Keller Auditorium Conundrum
After a punt from City Hall, the fate of the Portland theater scene's crown jewel is still up in the air.
Portland SummerâReviewed
A deeply subjective account of music events we attended and what we thought of them.
How Lola Milholland Cooked Up Group Living and Other Recipes
It’s a memoir. It’s a cookbook. It’s a combination memoir cookbook.
City of Portland Gets Back With the RACC to Distribute Small Arts Grants
After last year's contentious fallout between the the Regional Arts & Culture Council and Commissioner Dan Ryan's office, many worried RACC would be shut out.
Pickathon 2024 Maintains the Live Music Magic
The farm music fest sent everyone home with a new favorite band—we were surprised to find plenty were from Portland!
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