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Great Alliances Within the Mercury’s 2025 Spring Arts Guide

We’ve got your spring planned out—or at least one thing you’ll like!

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another. Conversations about food, music, performance, and “weird” installation art provide touchstones to deepen friendships, create new connections, and better understand our world. If you appreciate the Mercury’s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a […]

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THE TRASH REPORT: Special Spring Arts Trash!

Getting the Goonies back together, Emma Stone’s popcorn pockets, and the “Star-Spangled Banner” is a trash song if I’ve ever heard one!

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another. Conversations about food, music, performance, and “weird” installation art provide touchstones to deepen friendships, create new connections, and better understand our world. If you appreciate the Mercury’s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution […]

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What’s Happening With the Live Nation Development in Portland’s Central Eastside?

The next stage in the fight might be “throwing things at it to see what sticks.”

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another. Conversations about food, music, performance, and “weird” installation art provide touchstones to deepen friendships, create new connections, and better understand our world. If you appreciate the Mercury’s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution […]

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Can Portland Be a Music Capital Again?

City Councilor Jamie Dunphy thinks it’s possible.

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another. Conversations about food, music, performance, and “weird” installation art provide touchstones to deepen friendships, create new connections, and better understand our world. If you appreciate the Mercury’s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution […]

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Nail Art Is Art!

The first year of ManiFest celebrates the fine art we wear on our fingers.

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another. Conversations about food, music, performance, and “weird” installation art provide touchstones to deepen friendships, create new connections, and better understand our world. If you appreciate the Mercury’s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution […]

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Why Restore Waterlilies Now?

Portland Art Museum unveils a refreshed Monet, shedding light on the artist’s fascination with atmosphere and Japanese influence.

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another. Conversations about food, music, performance, and “weird” installation art provide touchstones to deepen friendships, create new connections, and better understand our world. If you appreciate the Mercury’s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution […]

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Gallery Round-Up: Abstract Artists in Cahoots

Portland art spaces holding openings, having lunch, and otherwise welcoming in this spring.

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another. Conversations about food, music, performance, and “weird” installation art provide touchstones to deepen friendships, create new connections, and better understand our world. If you appreciate the Mercury’s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution […]

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Sounds Struggling to Stay Words

Artist Patricia Vázquez Gómez pairs video and audio in ja’ / buuts’ / t’aan (Water / Smoke / Word), an installation about diaspora and the loss of language.

For the past six years, Patricia Váz-quez Gómez has worked closely with youth and families in Oregon’s Mayan Indigenous diaspora. A multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Portland and Mexico City, she collaborated on cultural events, art workshops, and Mayan language classes. Neither she nor the children were fluent in Yucatec Mayan, an Indigenous language […]

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Tootsie Answers the Call

With a lineup featuring gender-bending roles and progressive themes, Stumptown Stages leans into timely conversations.

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another. Conversations about food, music, performance, and “weird” installation art provide touchstones to deepen friendships, create new connections, and better understand one another. If you appreciate the Mercury’s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making […]

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Portland’s Unexpected Book Corridor

Two of the city’s most beloved literary institutions—Literary Arts and Mother Foucalt’s—just opened bookstores across the street from one another on SE Grand.

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another. Conversations about food, music, performance, and “weird” installation art provide touchstones to deepen friendships, create new connections, and better understand our world. If you appreciate the Mercury’s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution […]

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Swiftly Tilting Portland

Climate journalist Emma Pattee wrote a funny fiction novel that unfolds like a non-fiction nightmare.

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another. Conversations about food, music, performance, and “weird” installation art provide touchstones to deepen friendships, create new connections, and better understand our world. If you appreciate the Mercury’s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a […]

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Torrey Peters’ Stag Dance Poses the Right Questions About Gender at the Right Time

A new collection from the author of Detransition, Baby blurs the lines between trans and cis.

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another. Conversations about food, music, performance, and “weird” installation art provide touchstones to deepen friendships, create new connections, and better understand one another. If you appreciate the Mercury’s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution […]

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