Happy Holidays! It’s time to see your family! If you’re partnered, it’s time to see your partner’s family! Maybe you like your family, and maybe you don’t, but what we can all agree on is that small talk with extended family—or, as my family does it, detailed run-downs of every medical procedure every family member […]
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Holiday Pies That Aren’t Homemade, But Still Pretty Good
There’s no disputing that the best pies are always homemade pies. If we’re talking specifics, Melissa Zielinski’s caramel apple pie with buttery, homemade crust is the best pie. Even if the pie has weird lumps or is 99 percent sugar, something about the wholesome determination that goes into making a homemade pie makes it taste […]
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Holiday Foods Are the Weirdest Foods. Holiday Foods Are the Worst Foods.
A list of holiday foods to avoid.
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Mercury Sex Survey 2018: Just the Results, No Analysis
Want just the highlights of the results with funny analysis? Then you want this story here!
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A Beginner’s Guide to HUMP!
Don’t Miss the HUMP! Film Fest Kicking Off Thursday November 8 at Revolution Hall
In the beginning… there was porn. And some of it was pretty awesome! But a lot of it, you know, wasn’t. Mainstream porn can be problematic in all sorts of ways—most notably that 90 percent of dirty movies are made for white dudes by white dudes. And why is there primarily only one body type […]
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The Best of the 2018 Mercury Sex Survey: The Results Are In!
A few weeks ago, we asked Mercury readers to fill out our semi-annual Sex Survey to discover how Portlanders “do it,” when they “do it,” and who they’re “doing it” with! And as usual, we discovered one enduring, indisputable fact: YOU GUYS ARE DIRTY, DIRTY BIRDS! Don’t believe me? Well, numbers don’t lie, my friends—as […]
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America’s in Trouble. Here’s How to Get Involved in National Politics!
America’s in trouble. Here’s how to get involved in national politics!
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A Mercury Voter Guide for the November 2018 Election
Your handy Mercury voter guide for the November 2018 election.
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Ten Reasons to Get Pumped for the Blazers This Season
It’s true there are many more important things going on right now than the start of another NBA season—but hey, sometimes we all need a simple distraction, and isn’t that what professional sports are for? And the Portland Trail Blazers are a pleasure-filled distraction as the darkness of autumn descends. With the arrival of cold […]
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Blazer Boosters: Unaffiliated Trail Blazer Believers
For some, Trail Blazers fandom runs deeper than just flying the team colors, slapping a pinwheel on a car, and following them during the regular season. It’s a lifestyle choice. That true love for the Blazers can often burrow its way into other corners of an obsessive fan’s life. Got a passion for craft beer, […]
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Little Bits of Paper Everywhere: An Oral History of Snipehunt Magazine and Kathy Molloy
In the Portland of the late ’80s and ’90s, there was one publication that influenced and guided the music and arts community more than any other: a free, wildly designed, oversized newsprint magazine called Snipehunt. Started in 1988 by now-famed poster artist Mike King, the magazine came into its own when contributor Kathy Molloy took […]
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A Field Guide to Old Portland
Cameron’s Books and Magazines Kathleen Marie Some of you noobs may hear us old-timers wax nostalgic about how great this town was before you came and sanitized it with your energy-efficient scooters and pristine terrarium shops. It’s hard to clearly define Old Portland, but we do know that its death coincided with the new millennium, […]