I have decided to support the underdog. Right outside my apartment building, there’s a dirty patch in the sidewalk with a lone bedraggled tree in the middle, and nothing has ever grown there until a few weeks ago when I noticed a few optimistic tiny leaves poking through for the first time. I love an […]
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This Week’s Comics: Nuclear Dad, Disco Death, and an Adorable Cat Demon
I was around eight years old, rummaging through old comics that my cousin had left behind in a box, when I came across a ‘70s-era pulp retelling of The Monkey’s Paw illustrated in lurid neon with hysterical characters who constantly spoke in bolded italics!!! In the story, a brilliant surgeon finds the dismembered hand and […]
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This Week’s Comics: Ghost Hunting, Alien Invasion, and Your Own Personal Robot
There’s an episode of The Simpsons in Season 7 called “Summer of 4 Ft. 2” where the family goes on summer vacation in a beach town, and Lisa is shocked to discover that within her dwells the potential of being liked. I vividly remember when it first aired, in the middle of my teenage years […]
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This Week’s Comics: Jim Henson & Trickster Myths, Men Turned Into Monsters, and a Centaur Ghost from Mars
The best episodes of the 1990s Disney show Gargoyles stem from the Avalon storyline, in which a handful of the characters drift away on a boat into a mysterious fog, wandering from one world myth to another over the course of multiple episodes. The whole thing is a super-bizarre change in the show’s focus — […]
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This Week’s Comics: America’s Most Haunted Road, Therapy for the Dead, and Antifa Supersoldiers
When I was a film student back in the late 1990s, easily three-quarters of my class decided that they were all Quentin Tarantinos, and an ongoing “joke” developed that every student film would feature at least one trench-coated man pointing a gun sideways at the camera, and one dead girl lying in a bathtub. That’s […]
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The Video Games to Play This Month: Get Tiny with Maquette, It Takes Two, and More!
Maquette Courtesy Annapurna Interactive / Graceful Decay I don’t particularly want to feel small right now, or maybe it’s more accurate to say that I don’t want to feel powerless. The world has been buffeting us all an awful lot lately, and it’s hard not to feel like little insects or toys, blasted into a […]
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These Card Games Are the Only Things Getting My Boyfriend and Me Through the Pandemic
Grab a slice, turn on some tunes, and have yourself a game night. Nathalie Graham Each day is the same for me and my boyfriend, Harry. We live together, we work together, and we do pretty much everything else together in the pandemic. The situation is fine, but the lines between our worlds have blurred. […]
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Quick! Submit Your FREE Mercury Reader Valentine—and Prove You Love the One You Love!
CALLING ALL LOVE BIRDS! You know, COVID may ruin a lot of things—but we’ll be DAMNED if we let it ruin Valentine’s Day! It’s time once again for the most romance-y season of all, and the Mercury is continuing its annual tradition of publishing YOUR valentines to your shmoopy-woopy… FOR FREE. We may not be […]
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More Snow is Coming—Is Your Sled Ready?
Meeting one’s certain death has never been so much fun. Jupiter Images / Getty Images Plus [Originally published in 2016—but pretty fucking relevant right now, I’d say!—eds] As I write this, a snow storm is quickly approaching Portland—and what exactly are you doing about it? While worry warts are rushing the local grocery stores for […]
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Hey Lovebirds! Submit Your FREE Mercury Reader Valentines… NOW!
CALLING ALL LOVE BIRDS! You know, COVID may ruin a lot of things—but we’ll be DAMNED if we let it ruin Valentine’s Day! It’s time once again for the most romance-y season of all, and the Mercury is continuing its annual tradition of publishing YOUR valentines to your shmoopy-woopy… FOR FREE. We may not be […]
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Coming Verrrry Soon: Submit Your FREE Mercury Reader Valentines!
CALLING ALL LOVE BIRDS! You know, COVID may ruin a lot of things—but we’ll be DAMNED if we let it ruin Valentine’s Day! Starting VERY, VERY SOON (like, in the next few days), the Mercury will continue its annual tradition of publishing YOUR valentines to your shmoopy-woopy… FOR FREE. We may not be printing a […]
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We’re Hiring a Full-Time Email Marketing Specialist!
The Portland Mercury & The Stranger are hiring an Email Marketing Specialist! The Email Marketing Specialist will be responsible for developing and distributing Mailchimp campaigns for multiple departments within our organization. They will maintain and build the scheduled delivery of all emails, manage the distribution lists, and coordinate with all departments to ensure deadlines and […]