Ok, I, Anonymous folks ~ what is the protocol?I have a small, 2 bedroom duplex that a couple shares with me . I live out in the garage ~ across the house. There is very little insulation against sound. They moved into my house a year ago.There are issues ~ they are both transgender & […]
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You do NOT get to judge me for being a cis-gendered Woman. You do not get to project your anger onto me because i have fought through years of terror to finally get to a place where i celebrate my Womanhood.i have opened my arms & my heart to you, without judgement, every step of […]
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I Guess Me Unenlightened
Listen, I’m all for helping the homeless… people down on their luck through no fault of their own. But what I see, and what I’ve seen over the past couple of years, are people that look like straight up meth-heads. These aren’t families who lost their jobs and wound up on the streets and were […]
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Good Morning, News: The FBI Releases A Shooting Video, Kate Brown Has Second Thoughts, and Donut Artistry’s Not Dead
Seeking to end conflicting reports about the death of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupier LaVoy Finicum, the FBI released aerial footage of the traffic stop that led an Oregon State Police officer to kill him on the side of a highway on Wednesday. The video shows a white truck driven by Finicum stopped by several […]
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Send Your Valentine a FREE VALENTINE!
Because we love you more than life itself, every year the Mercury happily publishes YOUR VALENTINES to your loved ones FOR FREE (!!) in our annual Valentine’s Day Issue. Let’s face it—the internet is good for a number of things… primarily free porn… but is TERRIBLE at expressing love. That’s why writing a FREE (!!) […]
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This Week’s Style Event: Fashion for Your Walls
Well there’s only one style event this week, and while it might not be fashion for your body, at least it’s some fashion for your walls. Don’t fret though—February is right around the corner and there are a SHIT-TON of things happening. In the meantime… Portland Art Museum is holding their third annual Portland Fine […]
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The City Will Permit A North Portland Homeless Camp That Started Sneakily
Fast-approaching conflict wasn’t hard to envision two weeks ago, when a group of homeless campers surprised officials by setting up shop on a vacant, city-owned lot in North Portland, announcing they’d just founded Portland’s latest organized encampment. The campers—recently pushed from a site on North Greeley—told the Mercury at the time they had every right […]
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Barbie’s Now More Realistic-Looking, And It Only Took Mattel Forever!
Barbie got a redesign this week and tbh I’m not super feeling it. This is what new Barbie looks like: Mattel Available in “curvy,” “tall,” “petite,” or “original.” It’s objectively an improvement on the sentient fashion illo, right? And yet, while she looks so much better, this whole “all hail Mattel” internet parade grates. Back […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
MARIO KART—Some would say games like Call of Duty and Halo indoctrinate children into a warlike mindset. Maybe that’s true (probably not). But nothing has consistently whipped as many people into murderous, rage-filled frenzies as that fucking blue shell, introduced in Mario Kart 64. Ground Kontrol, Hollywood Theatre, and the Ace are hosting a tournament […]
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This Is the Beefiest Week in History
It is the week of beefs to end all weeks of beefs—with not one, not two, but THREE insane beefs coming from the music world. I can’t decide which of these is the craziest. • BEEF THE FIRST: Rapper B.o.B. said on Twitter that the earth is flat. Scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson took time to […]
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Fertile Ground Review: Sex, Jazz, and Monsters in Frankenstein: A Cabaret
Jordan Johnson Laura Dunn in Frankenstein: A Cabaret. Maggie Mascal’s and Laura Christina Dunn’s contribution to Fertile Ground, Frankenstein: A Cabaret, sounds like everything I want from a play: It’s creepy, it’s weird, it explores themes of gender and sexuality by adapting a well-known piece of literature with an almost exclusively female cast. Plus musical […]
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Should Neighborhoods Share the Burden of Homeless Camps?
THE TIRELESS FAITHFUL who make up the North Tabor Neighborhood Association found themselves being tugged in different directions when they convened earlier this month. Before the group were two proposals for how North Tabor—and every other Portland neighborhood—should respond to what many think is an inevitability: the spread of organized encampments beyond the small enclaves […]