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Step Up for Local Businesses! Shop with Some Help from the Mercury Gift Guide!
In case you haven’t heard, the time to get that holiday shopping done is RIGHT NOW. And helping you along the way is the Mercury‘s annual HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE, featuring a jolly bag of present ideas for that hard-to-shop-for friend or family member. And even better? You can buy all these wondrous gifts LOCALLY, while […]
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Support Your Local Shops This Weekend with Help from the Mercury‘s Holiday Gift Guide!
In case you haven’t heard, the time to get that holiday shopping done is RIGHT NOW. And helping you along the way is the Mercury‘s annual HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE, featuring a jolly bag of present ideas for that hard-to-shop-for friend or family member. And even better? You can buy all these wondrous gifts LOCALLY, while […]
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Shop Local and Often with the Mercury‘s Holiday Gift Guide!
In case you haven’t heard, the time to get that holiday shopping done is RIGHT NOW. And helping you along the way is the Mercury‘s annual HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE, featuring a jolly bag of present ideas for that hard-to-shop-for friend or family member. And even better? You can buy all these wondrous gifts LOCALLY, while […]
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Get Your Holiday Shopping Done Quick and Locally with the Mercury‘s Gift Guide!
In case you haven’t heard, the time to get that holiday shopping done is RIGHT NOW. And helping you along the way is the Mercury‘s annual HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE, featuring a jolly bag of present ideas for that hard-to-shop-for friend or family member. And even better? You can buy all these wondrous gifts LOCALLY, while […]
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Win FREE Tickets to Psycho-a-Go-Go: A Rock & Roll Halloween Dance Party!
[UPDATE: The winners for this contest have been chosen. Thanks for playing!—eds] Looking for some creepy, sweaty Halloween fun? Then snatch up tickets for the creep-tacular Psycho-a-Go-Go: A Rock & Roll Halloween Dance Party coming at ya at 8 pm on Saturday, October 30! Featuring dark, danceable tunes from the always reliable DJ GREGARIOUS and […]
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These Portland Arts and Culture Venues Support the Wheeler Recall Effort
When the COVID-19 pandemic first shut down Oregon back in March of last year, Lani Jo Leigh, the longtime owner of the Clinton Street Theater in Southeast Portland, had no idea if her theater would survive. “I’m 67,” Leigh said. “We were having to throw our own retirement savings at keeping the theater alive, and […]
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This Week’s Comics: Sickening Secrets of the Super Rich, Queers in Space, and a Dog Who Saves the Universe
One of my favorite moments in the Hitchcock movie Rope is when a rich, daffy old British lady arrives at the party, babbling semi-coherently about society nonsense as she pulls off her fancy-person gloves. When the kindly American housekeeper responds to the prattle with a bit of smalltalk, the rich lady reacts with a momentary […]