{{ image:1, width:500 }} Amazing Grace Even at a remove of almost 50 years, and even with Aretha Franklin’s album Amazing Grace firmly established as a familiar classic in the canon of recorded music, the movie is a staggering thing to behold, and is probably the greatest filmed document of American gospel music that has […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Sat April 11
{{ image:1, width:500 }} Turn Your Home Into a Tiny Desk Concert The very first installment of our sheltered-in-place Things To Do roundup made sure to shout out NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series as a must-subscribe on YouTube, and that’s still true. But in the meantime, the Tiny Desk Concert has become the most reliably […]
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Today’s Coronavirus News Roundup: New Camps to Protect Houseless, Bundy Endangers Fellow Idiots, and a Good COVID Plan (Doesn’t Involve Trump)
“Hey dummy, when we need your help we’ll ask for it.” Chip Somodevilla / Staff / Getty Here’s your daily roundup of all the local and national news about COVID-19. (Like our coverage? Please consider donating to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) • As of yesterday, Oregon had 1,321 positive COVID-19 cases (that we know […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Fri April 10
Go to Pickathon!Pickathon’s response to COVID trying to mess up everyone’s outdoor music festival fun? A 60-day long streaming series, spanning multiple online platforms, and featuring full sets by artists including Jeff Tweedy, Mac DeMarco, People Under the Stairs, Damien Jurado, Charles Bradley, Tank and the Bangas, and many, many more. Many of these performances […]
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Today’s Coronavirus News Update: COVID Traps Oregon Prisoners, 1 in 8 Workers Lose Jobs, and Bill Barr is a Lying Traitor
Attorney General Bill Barr joins Trump in spreading deadly disinformation. Bill Pugliano / Getty News Here’s your daily roundup of all the local and national news about COVID-19. (Like our coverage? Please consider donating to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) • As of Wednesday, there were 58 new Oregon COVID-19 cases (28 of those […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Thurs April 9
{{ image:1, align:center, width:500 }} Free HBO!In a move that is equal parts “Hey, you’re cooped up, enjoy some stuff we already licensed to Amazon, but for reals free this time!” and “Enjoy this taste so when we drop HBO Max next month you’ll say fuck it and stay signed up” HBO has made about […]
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Today’s Coronavirus News Roundup: New Grants for Local Business, Sex During Covid, and School’s Out for the Year
Gov. Brown announces that Oregon schools will be out for the rest of the school year. Wirachai / iStock / Getty Images Plus Here’s your daily roundup of all the local and national news about COVID-19. (Like our coverage? Please consider donating to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) • As of Tuesday, the number of […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Wed April 8
{{ image:1, align:center, width:500 }} Parasite The Best Picture-winning Parasite is director Bong Joon-ho at his very best. At turns hilarious and deeply unsettling, it’s a departure from the sci-fi bent of his recent movies (the post-apocalyptic Snowpiercer in 2013 and the factory-farming-themed Okja in 2017), though it’s no less concerned with the state of […]
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Today’s Coronavirus News Roundup: COVID-Related Gun Sales, Trump Staff Shakeup, and Wisconsin GOP is Anti-Life
Corrupt Wisconsin Republicans happily put voters lives at risk. Scott Olson / Getty News Here’s your daily roundup of all the local and national news about COVID-19. (Like our coverage? Please consider donating to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) IN LOCAL NEWS: • As of Monday, Oregon’s confirmed COVID-19 count stood at 1,132 cases […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Tues April 7
{{ image:1, align:center, width:500 }} LetterkennyBAD NEWS: Tonight was supposed to be the night you got to witness Letterkenny: Live at Revolution Hall—that is, if you were lucky enough to have scored tickets in the three and-a-half minutes they were available back in 2019. Of course, COVID had something to say about all that, and […]
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Today’s Coronavirus News Roundup: Oregon Cases Top 1,000, Boris Johnson Taken to ICU, and Wells Fargo Screws Us Again
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is sent to intensive care after developing serious COVID symptoms. Leon Neal / Getty News Here’s your daily roundup of all the local and national news about COVID-19. (Like our coverage? Please consider donating to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) • Oregon saw its number of coronavirus cases pass […]
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The Best Things to Do (While Staying Home and Staying Safe) in Portland: Mon April 6
Never Rarely Sometimes AlwaysWe’re living in an emotionally draining time, and Never Rarely Sometimes Always is as sobering as it is affecting, so be your own judge as to whether you can handle viewing it right now. But if you have the bandwidth for it, you should allow this film about abortion access, misogyny, friendship, […]