Portland Sledding Photos With Sound Effects
Sweet jumps, fluorescent ski jackets, and adorable children being dragged around on sleds after the city's 2025 snowstorm.
Gender Ordeal Is a Trans Power Trio Comedy Tour
The Gender Reveal podcast tour is a variety show featuring the star power of show-host Tuck Woodstock, cartoonist Mattie Lubchansky, and author Calvin Kasulke.
PETE Presents Faena—a Good-Time Comedy About Bullfighting
A new gender-swapping, bilingual play by Dylan Hankins feels like history's most deeply-researched sketch comedy premise.
A Streetcar Named Desire at Imago Warms up as It Goes
Tennessee Williams' tragedy foretells the doom of living in a dream.
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 Airport—That 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?
is a proud member of the
network
network
All contents © Noisy Creek, Inc.
PO Box 86208, Portland, OR 97286
PO Box 86208, Portland, OR 97286