Guys! The Mercury is on the hunt for a new ARTS EDITOR—are you that person? If you’re just reading this, you’re in luck, because we’re extending the deadline to receive applications until 5 PM, WEDNESDAY APRIL 18. Get yer butt in gear, and check out our help wanted ad below! HELP WANTED: ARTS EDITOR The […]
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Red Clocks: Speculative Lit at Its Finest
AUTHOR PHOTO BY SOPHIA SHALMIYEV Leni Zumas’ Red Clocks envisions a dystopian future that could happen tomorrow: A personhood law grants citizenship rights to fetuses, outlaws abortion, and bans in-vitro fertilization. Single adults will soon be banned from adoption and intrauterine insemination (IUI). Women seeking abortions in Canada are stopped at the border’s “Pink Wall.” […]
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Could You Be the Mercury‘s Next ARTS EDITOR? Apply and Find Out!
Guys! The Mercury is on the hunt for a new ARTS EDITOR—are you that person? If you’re just reading this, you’re in luck, because we’re extending the deadline to receive applications until 5 PM, WEDNESDAY APRIL 18. Get yer butt in gear, and check out our help wanted ad below! HELP WANTED: ARTS EDITOR The […]
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Checking in with Portland’s Full-Time Witch
ERIN AQUARIAN “Make Earth Human Again” is just one of Erin Aquarian’s many credos. As Portland’s full-time witch, she aims to heal the community and the world at large in ways not often associated with activism. Using tarot, a variety of mystic exercises, and good old intuition, Aquarian makes her living providing accessible, healing spiritual […]
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Help Wanted: Mercury Arts Editor (UPDATE: Now With a New Application Deadline!)
Guys! The Mercury is on the hunt for a new ARTS EDITOR—are you that person? If you’re just reading this, you’re in luck, because we’re extending the deadline to receive applications until 5 PM, WEDNESDAY APRIL 18. Get yer butt in gear, and check out our help wanted ad below! HELP WANTED: ARTS EDITOR The […]
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Great Job Alert: The Mercury is Looking for an Arts Editor!
Alkir/iStock/Getty Images Plus Calling all smart people looking for a fun, interesting job! The Mercury is looking for an extremely gifted Arts and Culture editor! Check out the job description below, and if you (or anyone you know) is interested, the deadline for applications is 5 PM, THURSDAY, APRIL 12. (LGBTQ, POC, and women are […]
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The Mercury is Hiring! Wanted: Arts and Culture Editor
It is with a very heavy heart that I must announce that our beloved Arts and Culture Editor Megan Burbank is leaving the Mercury for a very good opportunity as the newest features editor at the Seattle Times! (Yay for her, and booooo for us!) Megan has been an amazing editor, a good friend, and […]
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The Laurelhurst Theater Is Going First-Run
Starting April 13, One of Portland’s Favorite Theaters Will Show New Releases
Starting April 13, one of Portland’s favorite theaters will show new releases.
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This Week’s Letters to the Editor: Less Basketball! More Goats!
TROND_BERNTSEN / GETTY IMAGES RE: “A Sporty Kind of Love” [Feature, March 21], Arthur Bradford’s profile of Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy and artist Carson Ellis’ fandom for the Portland Trail Blazers. “Ellis and Meloy live on a farm outside of town with their kids, several llamas, and a few goats,” wrote Bradford. “They still like […]
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Portland Will Get Two New Streetcars—But Have You Forgotten They Are Capable of MURDER??
Yesterday, this happened: With a 5-0 vote today, Portland City Council approved the purchase of two new streetcars from @BrookvilleCorp https://t.co/p8T9cX4RhP Thanks for your support @dansaltzman , @tedwheeler , @AmandaFritzRN , @ChloeEudaly and @CommishFish We can’t wait to get these in service!— Portland Streetcar (@PDXStreetcar) March 21, 2018 Well, before everyone celebrates too boisterously, it […]
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Snowpocalypse 2016: The Day Portland Abandoned Their Cars
The National Weather Service is predicting 1-2 inches of snow this afternoon around rush hour for the Portland metro area. Snow tda & tngt for nw OR sw WA. Expect a few inches inland & locally <=1" at the coast. Heavier snow will likely spread from n to s during the aftn and evng hours, […]
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Portland’s Newest Web Series Smashes the Imperialist, White Supremacist, Capitalist Patriarchy
Luann Algoso is a professional do-gooder with a master’s degree in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution. Since moving to Portland nearly a decade ago, she’s busied herself with making the world a better place. After landing a job at one of Oregon’s largest nonprofits, she was thrilled—but soon saw that while the organization’s mission was […]