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Employee of the Week
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Tommy AllenHorse Whisperer/CowboySauvie Island and Ellensburg, Washington
Tommy Allen is a Horse Whisperer and Cowboy.
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Employee of The Week
Cordelia Elsewhere
Cordelia Elsewhere
Technical Trainer
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Ameena Lacey
Sales and Marketing Spartacus Milwaukie, OR
Goth girl makes good at Spartacus
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Employee of the Week
Joshua Pangelinan Barista Bipartisan Café 7901 SE Stark Montavilla is one of Portland’s raddest and least-talked-about neighborhoods. Sandwiched between the car lots and Chinese lounges of 82nd Avenue and the pish-posh mansions of Mt. Tabor, it’s a like a paradoxical Oz that swarms with happy hookers, proper Patagonia types, entrepreneurial snowboarders, punk rock landlords, Oregon […]
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Lulu Sharpe Alchemist
Lulu’s Chocolates luluschocolate.com
I first encountered Lulu’s Chocolates at a gallery event: a drop-dead gorgeous woman, exuding calm, proffered me a chunk of chocolate paste on a toothpick. When it hit my tongue, I melted, the earth opened up, my mind wandered out of my body for a few exquisite seconds, and when it came back, I better […]
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Employee of the Week
José MedelesDrummerThe Breeders, etc.
The corner of NE 30th and Killingsworth is ground zero for breeding hipsters. During the time it takes to drink a soy mocha you’ll see a dozen babes with buns in the oven and at least as many pierced-and-tattooed pops pushing prams. Speaking of… the Breeders’ drummer José Medeles just put roots down in this […]
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Employee of the Week
Austin JohnsonSailorCrowley Maritime CorporationPortland, OR
Austin Johnson grew up around boats in Toledo, Oregon. He graduated from maritime school five years ago, and got a gig working for Military Sealift Command, transporting cargo to exotic ports like Kuwait, Crete, and Beaumont, Texas. He’s been with Crowley Maritime Corporation for two-and-a-half years now, balancing a life of hard, honest labor on […]
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Abby Sherrill
Assistant Brewer Lucky Labrador Brewing Company
I don’t know duck about beer. If it’s not whiskey, it’s shite, you know? But when it was brought to my attention that there were only three female brewers in Portland, the microbrew capital of the universe, my attention was piqued and I decided to get to the bottom of it. Abby Sherrill has been […]
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Eight Things You Can Learn from Cindy The Erotic Pleaser
Words of Wisdom from the Most Famous Face in the Mercury‘s Back Pages
Often, we Mercury writers are accused of acting like celebrities. And while we may be known to occasionally flash our vaginas while exiting cars in miniskirts, if there’s one thing that will check our egos at the office, it’s the total eclipse of our minor notorieties by that of Cindy “The Erotic Pleaser.” For many […]
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Andrea O’Donnell Marci Messerle Forbes Registered Nurses Center for Women’s Health OHSU My relationship with the medical establishment is tense at best: Clearly insurance is a hoax, right? And most of the pills and procedures they push make me feel like I’m starring in A Clockwork Orange. Still, I like to get fingered at least […]