Whooo! You're a BUSY BEE. Look, it's completely understandable that since you've been SO busy, you may have missed some of the great reporting and stories the Mercury churned out this week! So while you're lounging about this weekend, catch up on the knowledge you need by reading some of these A+++ Mercury articles! (PRO TIP: If you despise being "the last to know," then be one of the first to know by signing up for Mercury newsletters! All the latest stories shipped directly to your email's in-box... and then... YOUR HEAD.)
• Hall Monitor: Portland Police—and Politicians—Have Given Protesters Little Reason to Feel Safe
“The city has done nothing to make us feel like we can practice democracy safely."
How Portland police—and politicians—have done little over the years to assure safety for protesters. https://t.co/bKAJGcuSEi
— Portland Mercury 🗞 (@portlandmercury) September 13, 2021
• It’s the Mercury’s 2021 Fall Arts Guide: Art Is Political!
Portland's art scene has never shied away from politics. But in a year at the intersection of a pandemic, a mass extinction event, and political incompetence, Portland arts are taking a turn toward the radical.
Presenting the Mercury's Fall Arts Guide.https://t.co/GRtzsu5sKA
— Portland Mercury 🗞 (@portlandmercury) September 13, 2021
• Police Identify Officers Involved in Sunday Shooting
Portland police have identified the two officers involved in a shooting Sunday morning in which a person was injured, shedding more light on a largely opaque incident.https://t.co/orzSC8SNrL
— Portland Mercury 🗞 (@portlandmercury) September 13, 2021
• POP QUIZ PDX: Exercise That Brain with This Week's Sassy-Ass Quiz for September 16!
Crank up that brain for the newest, super-fun edition of POP QUIZ PDX, featuring sassy Qs about Oregon astronauts, Nabisco boycott snacks, and... [*squints*]... "federally mandated Simpsons tattoos"? OKAY!https://t.co/g0zlStswzg
— Portland Mercury 🗞 (@portlandmercury) September 16, 2021
• These Portland Arts and Culture Venues Support the Wheeler Recall Effort
"It’s not unprecedented that businesses are involved in politics, they’re just usually involved on the side of people like Ted Wheeler.”https://t.co/mmh1mEpSPq
— Portland Mercury 🗞 (@portlandmercury) September 13, 2021
• An Oral History of How Pig, the Sublime Film Shot and Set in Portland, Found Its Heart
An Oral History of How Pig, the Sublime Film Shot and Set in Portland, Found Its Hearthttps://t.co/rHGJMunDLK
— Portland Mercury 🗞 (@portlandmercury) September 14, 2021
• City Funding for Community-Led Gun Violence Programs Off to a Slow Start
Five months after passing a substantive investment in community-led gun violence prevention work, Portland City Council's ambitious plan has seen little progress: https://t.co/m2sAILDtPY
— Portland Mercury 🗞 (@portlandmercury) September 16, 2021
"My massage therapist wants to be *more* than friends. Should I report him to the ethics board?" Dan Savage (with an assist from multiple massage therapists) issues a ruling in the latest SAVAGE LOVE!https://t.co/9pELUj5bK4
— Portland Mercury 🗞 (@portlandmercury) September 15, 2021
• Ten, Tiny, Talks Is Expanding Black & Indigenous LGBTQ+ Art In Portland
For @portlandmercury's Fall Arts Guide I got to check out Ten, Tiny, Talks, a new festival/incubator letting Black and Indigenous trans and queer artists tell whatever stories they want, however they want. Thank you @MxMarchandt for talking to me: https://t.co/FOWWkGULtw
— 🏳️🌈Andrew D. Jankowski🏳️🌈 (@AndrewJank) September 15, 2021
Portland City Council voted 4-1 to direct $200,000 toward local organizations that offer reproductive healthcare services as a rebuttal to Texas' recently-adopted anti-abortion legislation. https://t.co/cUgjrj1BrF
— Portland Mercury 🗞 (@portlandmercury) September 15, 2021
• TBA Is Back With Some In-Person Events—Here Are Our Picks
The Time-Based Art Festival is back this year with some in-person events, and it kicks off tomorrow! Here are picks:https://t.co/lUSa0Rc6Ex
— Portland Mercury 🗞 (@portlandmercury) September 15, 2021
• Grand Jury Declines to Charge Portland Officer for Fatally Shooting Michael Townsend
A Multnomah County grand jury ruled Wednesday that there wasn't enough evidence to charge Portland Police Officer Curtis Brown with a crime for fatally shooting Michael Ray Townsend outside a Lloyd District hotel in June.https://t.co/u1HnPjrttP
— Portland Mercury 🗞 (@portlandmercury) September 16, 2021
Q&A:A narrative coming-of-age poetry collection laced with searing imagery and gut-punch revelations, PHILOMATH is about Devon Walker-Figueroa’s childhood in rural Oregon."I’m not sure I could’ve written this first book about anything else, to be honest." https://t.co/NOW9Qvc5dz
— Portland Mercury 🗞 (@portlandmercury) September 15, 2021
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