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The Mercury’s Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for April 20-26

Earth Day puppets, $4 pizza slices, and can you pronounce Sunn O)))?
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We’re back! This week, Making Earth Cool celebrates Earth Day with a costume parade on April 25, and the Mercury’s Pizza Week offers $4 one-of-a-kind slices across 70 locations. Plus, DJ Assault will pull up for the ass-jigglers among us, and Independent Bookstore Day brings cute prizes and swag to local shops. U ready? MONDAY, […]

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The Mercury’s Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for April 13-19

Woodwind sounds, emotional support animals, and florals for spring.
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How’s your spring shaking out? This week, Do This, Do That unfurls with events like sooo many cherry blossoms, tulips, and daffodils. John Waters cruises into town to celebrate eight decades of debauchery, Making Earth Cool screens a verdant array of 16mm nature films, and did you know you can learn Latin dance for free […]

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Do This, Do That: April 2026

The city’s coolest art and cultural events this spring.
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Satpreet Kahlon: an imagined place (here and now) THROUGH MAY 23 (VISUAL ART) I’ve been following Satpreet Kahlon’s career since 2023, when the Panjabi-born artist’s Bellevue Art Museum exhibition the inscrutable shape of longing explored displacement and colonization’s aftermath through a web-like installation of folk ritual and splintered, mirrored acrylic. An imagined place (here and […]

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The Mercury’s Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for April 6-12

Twenty good reasons to leave the house this week.
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This past weekend at Cooper Mountain Nature Park, I watched a smattering of wild iris and pond lily sway against a backing scene of scraggly oaks, jays and juncos flitting in between. I sat on a log with my partner for two hours, staring at the pond, chatting about nothing and everything. Two ducks floated […]

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The Mercury’s Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for March 30-April 5

Spring-approved activities unfurl, from tulip time to rowdy documentaries.
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Did you get a dose of Vitamin D in the eyeballs this weekend? Portland spring is a fickle and fleeting thing, but when it feels good, it feels reeeeally good. Let’s keep that boat afloat this week. Here are some helpers: The Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival is a no-brainer, but if you can swing it […]

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The Mercury’s Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for March 23-29

Thrifting, zines, and comedy geniuses abound this week.
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You’ve heard of comedians, but did you know there are, like, comedy geniuses? A whole roster of ’em will post up at Revolution Hall to prove it this week at the Mercury’s Undisputable Geniuses of Comedy 2026. Plus, zinesters will show off their DIY wares at Reed College, Parker Posey defines chic in Party Girl, and […]

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

Espresso martinis, experimental ceramics, and Elliott Smith’s impact.
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The spring equinox falls on March 20! Let’s lean into the new light, shall we? This week, rock mother Toody Cole scorches Star Theater, Jacqueline Novak turns comedy a little more esoteric, and, in the words of Mercury writer Melissa Locker, Jessie Rose Vala’s ceramics show is “really fucking cool.” March is also Espresso Martini […]

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Do This, Do That: Spring Arts 2026

Take heed! Your spring arts and culture plans have arrived.
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Seven Films by Kelly Reichardt THROUGH MARCH 22 (FILM) Clinton Street’s monthlong series for March centers the Pacific Northwest’s director supreme Kelly Reichardt, working near through her entire filmography. Novelist and Reichardt’s frequent artistic collaborator Jon Raymond will attend three screenings (Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff, Showing Up) and offer post-viewing Q&As. If you missed […]

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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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