Illustration: Erika Moen As the first signs of Back-to-School season rears it’s ugly, crayola head, we know in our bones that YES the nine-months of wet/gray/winter-ish is coming. So, have you thought about your cold-weather relationship yet? Dating is fun in the summer when activities and patios are plentiful. Come autumn, you can harvest your […]
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Last Minute V-Day Gifts (But Just for the Sexy People!)
Illustration: George Heaven LOOK, WE’RE ALL some sort of hipster. Whether your “hipster” is vinyl, French press coffee, or writing Yelp reviews for urban goat farms, I get it, YOU’RE COOL! So before you start rolling your eyes and hollering about how greeting card companies invented Valentine’s Day, hear me out: Just because the man […]
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Just Released! 20 More Tickets to Dan Savage’s Pre-Valentine’s Pity Party!
For those who are kicking themselves for not snapping up tickets to Dan Savage’s SOLD OUT “Unlucky in Love—a Pre-Valentine’s Day Pity Party” at the brand spanking new Revolution Hall… IT MAY NOT BE TOO LATE. We just released 20 extra tickets that you can get online only. So click here and snap ’em up […]
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Last Chance! Mercury Valentines Due TODAY!
Because we love you more than life itself, every year the Mercury happily publishes YOUR VALENTINES written to your loved ones FOR FREE (!!) in our annual Valentine’s Day Issue. Let’s face it—the internet is good for a number of things… primarily free porn… but is TERRIBLE at expressing love. That’s why writing a FREE […]
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Your FREE Mercury Valentine: Deadline is this Sunday!
Because we love you more than life itself, every year the Mercury happily publishes YOUR VALENTINES written to your loved ones FOR FREE (!!) in our annual Valentine’s Day Issue. Let’s face it—the internet is good for a number of things… primarily free porn… but is TERRIBLE at expressing love. That’s why writing a FREE […]
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Send Your Sweetie a FREE Mercury Valentine!
Because we love you more than life itself, every year the Mercury happily publishes YOUR VALENTINES written to your loved ones FOR FREE (!!) in our annual Valentine’s Day Issue. Let’s face it—the internet is good for a number of things… primarily free porn… but is TERRIBLE at expressing love. That’s why writing a FREE […]
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We Print Your Valentines… FOR FREE
HEY LOVEBIRD! Yes, you can buy your lover sweets, flowers, or lacy underpants—but nothing says “I Adore You” like the PRINTED WORD. As you know, every year the Mercury allows you to submit your personally written Valentine for FREE, which we then print in our annual Valentine’s Issue (coming up on Feb 11). And when […]
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Unlucky in Love: A Pre-Valentine’s Pity Party with Dan Savage
Before you know it, Valentine’s Day propaganda is going to be creeping into your periphery. If you’re happily, amorously attached to one (or more) persons, it’s NBD. You can collectively choose to do or not do anything to celebrate the heavily commercialized, arguably meaningless designated Day of Love. But for many people, this is among […]
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RIP James Garner: Actor/Political Activist/Object of SWOON!
Besides being a low-key, jovial and talented actor, James Garner (who died this weekend, if you haven’t heard) was also a life-long staunch Democrat who walked the walk, and talked the talk. Here he is at the 1963 March on Washington… via Inquisitr SWOON!!! A bit more on that from the Inquisitr: On August 28, […]
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Weird Al’s Brand-New Video Is the First of Eight
It is a good day—for it is the First of Eight Days of New Weird Al Yankovic Videos. Weird Al’s new album, Mandatory Fun, comes out tomorrow, and he’s promoting it by premiering a new video every day for eight days. Yes! First up is “Tacky”—a spoof of Pharrell’s “Happy,” obviously. The video stars Yankovic […]
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“Discrimination” In, Businesses Out of “Religious Freedom” Initiative
It’s sort of a tough day for backers of an initiative that would let businesses refuse to “participate” in same-sex weddings. The Oregon Supreme Court, after nearly two months, ruled ballot language written by the Oregon Department of Justice passes muster. The campaign Friends of Religious Freedom—an offshoot of the Oregon Family Council—had hoped the […]
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Weirdo Art Kids Need College Scholarships, Too
This is great: For the eighth year in a row, Seattle’s venerable Sub Pop Records is offering three scholarships—of three, five, and seven thousand dollars—to high school seniors in Oregon and Washington who are “involved and interested in music or the creative arts in some way.” Dubbed “The Loser Scholarship” (so grunge-era of you, Sub […]