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The 38 Best Things to Do in Portland This Weekend: March 23-25 2018

Trevor Noah’s in Town! March for Our Lives with Portugal. The Man! And the Thorns are BACK!

Quick – down your last couple $5 cocktails before the Mercury‘s Highball shuts down on Sunday: You’re gonna need the extra energy to get through all the good stuff the city has to offer this weekend, not least of which being the star of The Daily Show holding court at the Theater of the Clouds, […]

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Can’t Get Into Hamilton? Here Are Some Hamilternatives!

mj0007 / Getty โ€ข Hamilton Beach (they make great mixers)โ€ข Hamilton University, the defunct unaccredited institution in Wyomingโ€ข Not to be confused with Hamilton College!โ€ข Linda Hamilton, cultivator of fine gunsโ€ข Hamilton Nolan, internet writerโ€ข Hamilton Leithauser, owner of a perfectly good butler nameโ€ข Hamilton Buress? Oh wait that’s Hannibal Buressโ€ข Hamilton Motor Company, makers […]

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The 24 Best Things to Do in Portland This Week: March 19-22 2018

Go Ham for Hamilton, Live the High Life with Highball, and Make Your Funk the P-Funk!

You want to be in the room where it happens. It’s understandable. But ahhhโ€”what room, and what “it” are we talking about here? Do you want to be in the Keller when Hamilton happens? Understandable, but you better hope that lottery comes through for you. Perhaps you’d like to be in the Doug Fir when […]

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Portland Mercury‘s Highball Drink Recipes Are Here: Farther South, Farther East

Itโ€™s almost time for… HIGHBALL! Brace yourself for over 40 specially crafted cocktailsโ€ฆ $5 each for ONE WEEK ONLY! All of the tantalizing drink recipes are available online! Check out what your favorite neighborhood bars and restaurants have in store for you March 19-25 HERE! Here’s a map of the cocktail spread so you can […]

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10 for $10: Your Best Bang for the Buck Shows, March 16-18 2018

She|Divine Motivated by the desire to celebrate โ€œthe divinity of everything feminine,โ€ the creators of Girl Fest have concocted a new, seasonal concert series called She|Divine. The inaugural lineup includes the aquamarine synth-pop of Siren and the Sea, the hypnotic rhymes of Lisa Vazquez, and the interstellar hip-hop of Brown Calculus. CIARA DOLAN Mar 16, […]

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