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The Mercury’s Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for March 9-15

Grasshopper pie, Irish boxing, and where to watch the Academy Awards.
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This week, Indigo De Souza swings by to make us cry, Pi Day means eight types of pie are up for grabs at Lauretta Jean’s (but you better get there early), and I bet you’ve never seen a chamber opera about a UFO cult! Plus, Portland has a few Academy Awards watch parties on the […]

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The Mercury’s Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for February 23-March 1

This week: zines at Fubonn, psychedelic theater, and the Sun Ra Arkestra.
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It got 10 degrees warmer, and I got 10 degrees more confident that I should be out IN THE WINDS, soaring free to a Sam Shepard staging about arts under capitalism or a MOTHERFUCKING GEM SHOW at OMSI. [It’s agate and minerals, calm down. -eds.] In this week’s Do This, Do That we’ve got the […]

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The Mercury’s Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for February 16-22

This week: magical zodiac animals, Japanese sake, and leather dom daddies.
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You’d be forgiven if you find feelings like bliss and enchantment difficult to access, but this week’s events will ease you in that direction: Georges Méliès’ hand-inked silent films gain a brilliant live score, Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore are the sirens of Polaris Hall, and Roman Norfleet & Be Present Art Group present a […]

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The Mercury’s Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for February 9-15

This week: floating saunas, African filmmaking, and showing moss some love.
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Hope you’re into… well… everything, because this week’s round-up of cultural events is like a magician’s endless ribbon trick, with opportunities to hear planetary chamber music, bake bread with an Indigenous Argentine artist, aaand catch a ’90s anime sci-fi that might’ve inspired Inception. Plus, an all-ages venue officially opens, Milwaukie Bay Park will host a […]

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