Even if you don’t know longtime Portland resident Scott McCaughey, you know Scott McCaughey. He’s the guitar wizard who has played with and/or fronted and/or produced (deep breath) R.E.M, Wilco, Young Fresh Fellows, the Minus 5, the Baseball Project, and guested on countless other projects, most recently with Alejandro Escovedo. His trademark sunglasses-at-night and wild […]
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A Portland Entrepreneur Curates Online Profiles for the Romantically Frustrated… But Does It Work?
Jade Sturms Soon after meeting Ladan Radafshar for what was a very brief interaction, she began appearing everywhere in my life. It first happened when I mentioned her to my best friend, who remembered meeting her years ago at a party. Within days, her face popped up on the Instagram feed of one of my […]
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Reel M Inn Bartender/Manager Carey Bolton Is Also Its New Owner
And That’s Terrific News for Fans of Chicken, Jo-Jos, and Great Neighborhood Bars
Minh Tran Three years ago, Carey Bolton walked into the Reel M Inn to meet a friend for a drink. That drink turned into a bartending gig, then a promotion to manager. And on August 26, 2018, she’s going to own the place. As first reported by Willamette Week, Bolton is buying the bar from […]
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Wildfire Diaries: Three Days in Oregon During the Eagle Creek Fire
Marlowe Dobbe There is ash falling from the sky. Way back in the 1990s, years before I fell in love with him, my first boyfriend witnessed several other eighth grade boys throwing fireworks through the video return slot of our local hardware store in Corbett, Oregon. The hardware store was a mainstay of the community, […]
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Another Angle of Portland Police’s Questionable Use of Distraction Grenades At This Weekend’s Protests
From Doug Brown’s Video It was a volatile Sunday in Portland and Vancouver. From our reporter Doug Brown who covered this weekend’s protests: Local demonstrations caught national heat for a day that included both a Trump supporter nearly plowing through protesters with his American and Confederate flag-adorned pickup truck, and the president’s large adult son […]
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Under Armour Reveals New Portland Office—But Not Why They Won’t Denounce Trump
Careful not to spill any kombucha on that! Justin Sullivan / Getty The Portland Business Journal is providing a virtual sneak peek tour of the new Under Armour “PDX campus” located at the former YMCA building on Barbur Boulevard. But if you’ve got better things to do than look at architecture porn, there’s this quick […]
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Oregon’s $450 Million Plan to Widen I-5 Has Portlanders Preparing for War
K. Marie You’re fucking sick of traffic. Maybe you love your car. Maybe you merely tolerate it. But chances are you’re one of the 67 percent of Portlanders who commute to work in a personal vehicle. And chances are you’re over it. You already know why you’re over it. People are moving to Portland in […]
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Okay, But How Are You Supposed to Clean the Ash Off Your Car?
It feels like we are living inside Dante’s Peak. Getty / DutchScenery Is your car covered in ash in the wake of the fire in the Gorge? Same here. And while certainly the least of our worries right now, it’s still a problem—like taxes and bill upkeep—that we’re going to have to deal with eventually. […]
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Letters to the Editor: Please Stop Whining About Our Cutest Pet Contest
RE: “The Mercury’s Cutest Pet Photo Contest” [Feature, Aug 9], in which readers voted for Portland’s cutest pet, and the past two weeks of Letters to the Editor [Aug 16 and Aug 23], which have chronicled Portland’s remarkably awful pet owners as they cheated, tattled, whined, and ranted. Our contest included one dog getting disqualified […]
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The Cutest Pet in Portland Is… Johnny the Pig!
At last, we’ve reached the final outcome of the Mercury‘s Cutest Pet Photo contest, which was full of way more palace intrigue than is strictly appropriate for a CUTE ANIMALS TOURNAMENT, and which SOME PEOPLE are saying we should never repeat in future. So, who won? In the final round of voting, Johnny the pig […]
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Is Goat Yoga the Greatest of All Time Yoga? Kinda!
CD Skehan This week in The Most Portland Shit Ever, I tried goat yoga at a local family farm. “What the hell is goat yoga?” you might be asking. It’s a fad that started in 2016 in which goats participate in yoga by walking through the class, sitting and/or standing near or on its participants, […]
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Cutest Pet Photo Contest Final Vote: Sora vs. Johnny
We received a huge volume of cute entries in our Cutest Pet Photo contest, and every pet that entered is a winner in our eyes (except for the cheaters), but only one will take home the commemorative plaque! Who will it be? Today, you decide! The time has come to vote on the two remaining […]