Minh Tran This week’s special Portland Mercury Drinking Issue is a response to the recent changes in the city of Portland. You know which changes I’m talking about. And while these changes bring good things along with the bad, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate an element of Portland culture that has been […]
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Portland Earthquake Porn: The More the Merrier!
Thomas James Four years ago, former Mercury reporter Nathan Gilles wrote one of the more important and popular stories we’ve ever published, called The First Four Minutes. It was a meticulously researched piece of science/fiction about what might happen in downtown Portland if and when we get hit by that mega quake everyone’s been predicting—and […]
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HunnyMilk’s Brunch: Sweet, Savory, Cheap!
Aaron Lee CALL IT THE PORTLAND DILEMMA: Do I go with the sweet or the savory brunch choice? If I go with the Dutch baby, there’s a good chance I’ll be feeling a bit prediabetic before noon. Go with the salty hash, and I’m going to crave a nip of sugar by meal’s end. Note: […]
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Today in Portland: Watch Your Heads Out There
It’s an exciting day for Portlanders to rain down destruction from above. pic.twitter.com/JfXoNf2Out— Steve Lieber (@steve_lieber) February 25, 2016
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Audubon Rescues Bald Eagle, Releases it at Waterfront Park; the World is Okay
Check out this video that depicts the Portland Audubon Society rescuing a big female bald eagle from a fishing line, nursing her back to health, and then releasing her in front of a gaping crowd at Waterfront Park. And then think to yourself, “Maybe this world isn’t so bad after all.” Nice work, guys.
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Remembering Jimmy Boyer, Legend of Tomorrow
Greg Homolka I moved to Portland on New Year’s Eve 1988, so maybe that means I have a decent claim in knowing some of what is referred to as “old Portland.” Some of these things are near legendary, even to those who hear about them secondhand… such as Satyricon with its smack-copping-friendly bathrooms, or a […]
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How the Oregon Historical Society Found a Long-Lost Anti-Porn Film
PAGES OF DEATH “In the distant future, lad, computers will exist, and this will be far less humiliating.” Like antiques dealers or cratediggers, what keeps a lot of archivists going is the hope that one day they’ll stumble across something that either the world has never seen or was thought to be lost forever. That’s […]
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Letters to the Editor: “At What Point Does the Status Quo Sicken the Populace?”
THE JOYCE HOTEL The Joyce Hotel front desk. RE: “The Joyce Hotel Is Closing” [News, Jan 27], in which Shelby R. King reported on the eviction of the downtown building’s tenants. “The 90-bed loss will create a service gap,” King wrote, “for some of Multnomah County’s most underserved and vulnerable residents.” If Portland can do […]
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Tube Meats: An Appreciation
NATALIEBEHRING.COM Via the Mercury‘s Letters to the Editor… RE: “Eating Old Portland: SE Powell” [Last Supper, Jan 20], Heather Arndt Anderson’s tour of her favorite haunts on SE Powell. As an inner-Southeast Portlander for 51 of my 71 years, I enjoy memories (mostly stoned) of these very first places I ate when I moved here. […]
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Street Harassment; Or, Is That A Dick I See Out of the Corner of My Eye?
Ana Benaroya THAT LOOKS LIKE A DICK in my peripheral vision. But that can’t be right—because I’m just sitting here on a bench in broad daylight. I look up, and yes, that’s a dick. I’m waiting for the bus, and the guy next to me is masturbating. He flees the scene. That’s when I realize […]
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Portlandia vs. White Glove—WHO YA GOT??
WHITE GLOVE’S “FRED AND CARRIE” You won’t find this scene in tonight’s episode of Portlandia. The new season of Portlandia airs tonight on IFC with an episode partly filmed at last year’s Pickathon festival. (Parts of it also appear to be filmed at Edgefield.) It lampoons music festival culture in general, with an appearance by […]
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“I’d Buy the Mercury and Shut It Down.” Here Are This Week’s Letters to the Editor!
RE: “If You Win Saturday’s Powerball Jackpot, Here’s What You Could Buy with $800M” [Blogtown, Jan 8], which listed things lottery winners could buy with all that money—like 6,466,000 lap dances at Mary’s Club. I’d buy the Mercury and shut it down. posted by Totalitariland CONTINUE READING >>>