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Feature

A Playlist for Pride

Songs from the Queer Artists Who Are Ruling Portland’s Music Scenes

CK DolanJune 13, 2018 4:00 amJuly 12, 2022 3:42 pm

Songs from the queer artists who’re ruling Portland’s music scenes.

Fashion

Weekend Gender Bender

A Guide to Portland’s Queer Fashion

Bryce BlackJune 13, 2018 4:00 amJuly 12, 2022 3:42 pm

With legal marriage and LGBTQ culture hitting the mainstream, so much has changed in such a short amount of time. These days, gender is a bigger topic of discussion than “sexuality.” Young people are growing up in a world where the lines of traditional gender roles have been blurred to the point of no return. […]

Events

Waterfront Pride Mainstage Events

All the Performances, All the Pride!

Wm. Steven HumphreyJune 13, 2018 4:00 amJuly 12, 2022 3:42 pm

There’s loads of fun to be had at the Waterfront Pride Festival—including a weekend’s worth of food, music, performance, and vendors. Here are the mainstage acts you won’t want to miss! (★ = super-duper recommended.) SATURDAY JUNE 16 NOON: Two Spirit Festival Opening Join our local Two Spirit community as they celebrate Pride and the […]

I, Anonymous

The Best of the WORST of I, Anonymous!

The Strangest, Most Bizarre Reader Submissions from the Mercury Column

Wm. Steven HumphreyJune 6, 2018 4:00 amAugust 22, 2022 7:53 pm

The strangest, most bizarre reader submissions from the Mercury column.

Feature

Many of Portland’s Historic Brick Buildings—And Their Residents—Won’t Survive an Earthquake. What Can Be Done?

Kelly KenoyerMay 31, 2018 9:00 amJuly 12, 2022 9:46 pm

Historic A.G. Long Fire Apparatus, 115 NW 5th Mercury Staff You’re standing on the corner of West Burnside and Broadway when it happens: The Cascadia Subduction fault line snaps. The fault has been straining underneath the Pacific Ocean for hundreds of years—and now centuries of geologic force are rumbling towards Portland. The ground starts rolling. […]

Housing

Brick By Brick

Many of Portland’s Historic Brick Buildings—And Their Residents—Won’t Survive an Earthquake. What Can Be Done?

Kelly KenoyerMay 30, 2018 4:00 amFebruary 27, 2025 8:18 pm

Many of Portland’s Historic Brick Buildings—And Their Residents—Won’t Survive an Earthquake… But When Retrofitting Is Too Expensive, What Can Be Done?