HIPPIE HURTS RE: All-Ages Action! [Music, Nov 4], a preview of the week’s all-ages live music shows, including a concert performed by the Trey Anastasio Band. HELLO—This email is to confirm Morgan Troper’s poor writing and even shittier musical tastes. Why would you have Morgan, a confessed hater of reggae, jam music, and anything Phish-oriented, […]
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PFSA Winners, Kiriko’s Foray into Ceramics, & Treefort: Your Portland Fashion & Retail News of the Day!
• Sunday night’s Portland Fashion and Style Awards were a hoot (thanks largely to snarky co-host Poison Waters), despite the attrition (it was pretty obvious people were leaving as soon as the winners in categories they cared about had been announced). Among the spectacle were appearances by a Baldwin and the lovely Nancy Hales (can we […]
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The Weekend Shopper: An Intensely Busy Weekend with Content, Lena Medoyeff, and More!
FRIDAY • Animal Traffic is celebrating Friday the 13th with a sale online and in both their N Mississippi and downtown stores (including the Annex shoe store)… that’d be 13 percent off, naturally. Animal Traffic, 4000 N Mississippi & 429 SW 10th, today only, use code “Friday13” at online checkout • Mercantile‘s designer trunk show […]
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Congratulations, You Got Your Wish: Portland is “Officially Over.”
Wiki Commons Salt Lake City: The “Next Portland”? Griping Portland complainers, rest easy! Your constant cries that Portland has been accepting too many newbies have not gone unheeded, because this article is perhaps one of the first to declare that Portland is officially “over!” (Unfortunately it was written by Thrillist staff member, which means it […]
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Magpie’s Move, A Perfect Pink Chair, and Tanner’s New Hi-Tops: Your Daily Dose of Portland Fashion and Retail News!
• Longtime fixture among Portland’s downtown vintage hoards, Magpie has closed up its longtime home on SW 9th and Alder… but not to worry: You can find them now at 1960 SE Hawthorne, so all is not lost… at all. • Another gain: Revive Upholstery & Design has a new showroom open at 2030 N Willis. You can […]
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Would You Pay to Stop the Demolition of a 105-Year-Old Home?
Photo: James Rexroad LIKE SO many Portland renters these days, Suzana Levy and her partner Erika Guynes received a no-cause eviction notice recently. “The first thing the landlords told us was, ‘You haven’t done anything wrong,’” Levy says. “They said, ‘You’re great tenants.’” The house is owned by Holladay Park Plaza, a nonprofit retirement community […]
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It Came from Underground: This Year’s Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival
ARRESTING POWER Mandatory viewing for all Portlanders. As the door between the outside world and the Pacific Northwest widens, the potential for accomplishment (or catastrophe, depending on whom you ask) is almost limitless. In the realm of film and television, progress is already apparent—just ask any Portlander who works on sets how their job opportunities […]
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“That Ruined My Morning”: This Week’s Mercury Letters to the Editor!
RUINED MORNINGS RE: “Too Close to Home” [Letters, Nov 4], in which a reader gloats about having gotten in on Portland homeownership while it was cheap to do so, and an advertisement submitted by a local bar. DEAR MERCURY—Shame on you for awarding NAWD the letter of the week last week. If this sort of […]
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How to Live Like a Baller in Portland (Even if You’re Not Rich!)
Aaron Lee I ALWAYS ASSUMED I’d make my first million by 30. I put that goal out into the Universe over and over again, but either The Secret is total bullshit, or the Universe has been on vacation and forgot to create an out-of-office email reply. So here I am, in my golden years (early […]
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More From Inside Wildwood & Company
In this week’s Sold Out column, I wrote about the emergence of Wildwood & Company, a custom suit-making outfit turned retail hub for high-quality handcrafted luxury items. It’s one of the more in-character manifestations of Portland’s economic boom, and the physical build out—which includes a wood-paneled lounge (replete with oriental rugs, a leather Chesterfield, paintings […]
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The Society Hotel Opens Today in Old Town, Offering Spartan Lodgings and a Rooftop Deck
Minh Tran Minh Tran Last week I received an email from the Society Hotel inviting me as a Portland “influencer” to spend a free night at their establishment prior to its opening, which is today (November 5). After I forwarded the email to all my friends and family as validation of my party-first lifestyle, I […]
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“Yes, This Does Make Me Better Than You”: This Week’s Letters to the Editor!
FEMINISM FOR ALL RE: One Day at a Time [Oct 28, in which columnist Ann Romano comments on the wage-equality issues being brought to attention in Hollywood]. DEAR MERCURY—Ann Romano has written in this week’s One Day at a Time about how Hollywood actresses are complaining about not being paid as much as their male […]