Features
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We Are Roseburg
Notes from the Scene of Oregon's Worst-Ever Mass Shooting
A Whole New Wordstock
Portland's Books Festival Braces for Bigger Things
On the Couch
Analyzing Arbus in An Emergency in Slow Motion
Applying the Brakes
Ankeny Street Café Plan May Have to Wait
Make Way for the Parking Lot!
Customers Fight Les Schwab's Plan to Boot Farm Shop
A Graveyard for Good Laws
In Salem, Bill-Killing Lobbyists Find Friends in High Places
Behind Closed Doors
In Cop Talks, Privacy Trumps Much-Touted "Transparency"
The Meter Is Running
Legal Bills in Campbell Shooting Hit $354,000
The Landlords Strike Back
Common Response to City Bias Audit: Not Me!
Kids in the Big House
Oregon Finally Changes Law That Puts Teens in Adult Jails
Death and Taxes
The Pale King: David Foster Wallace's Final Book
Saving Shaolin
Portland Film Geek Unearths Grindhouse Goldmine
Advocates, Mercenaries, or Minions of Satan?
Legislators Rate Salem's Best and Worst Lobbyists
America's Favorite Elf
A Conversation with David Sedaris
Mayor or Monster?
Were Sam Adams' First 100 Days Really So Bad?
Go for the Gold (and Guns)
How Local Pawnshops Are a Microcosm of the Portland Economy
Stumping for Comics
Getting Reacquainted with the Stumptown Comics Festival
Rip City Redux
The Portland Trail Blazers Return to the Playoffs... Or, Why Are the Spurs Trying to Murder Us with a Machete?
Going, Going, Gone!
Auctioning Homes from Portland's Courthouse Steps
Web + Novel
Portland's Underland Press Ventures into the Brave New World of Online Publishing
The Coraline Effect
Is This the Year the Portland International Film Fest Will Matter?
Hope on the Hardwood
How FreeDarko Saved the Sport of Basketball
The Tea and Sympathy Rule
A New Rule for Older/Younger Affairs
No One Is Innocent
What Sam Adams Did Wrong; What Portland Did Wrong
Collect Them All!
A Bandwagon-Hopper's Guide to the Portland Trail Blazers
Candyland Unwrapped
The Not Completely Sweet Story Behind Sellwood's Bizarre Candy-Coated Home
New Year's Eve Roundup
All You Need to Know for the Drunkiest Night of the Year!
NOT INVITED BACK
2008's Most Annoying, Ridiculous, and Terrible Things that Won't Be Invited Back to 2009!
Smoke 'Em While You've Got 'Em
Everything You Need to Know About the Forthcoming Smoking Ban
Dumpstering for Christ
The Holy Diver Digs for a Living—and Meaning—in Portland's Trash
Less-Lethal Weapons
Are Portland's Cops Changing Their Tune on Tasers?
Eastward, Ho!
On Election Day, Democrats Marched In and Took Over East County Legislative Districts. Here's How They Did It.
It's Your Move
2008 Mercury Endorsements Help You Win the Voting Game!
What's Red and Black and Hype All Over?
The 2008-09 Blazers Season Preview
Made it Work
Portland's Own Leanne Marshall on Winning Project Runway
Hot Houses
Density Is Portland's Future. Some Smart, Young Architects Get it Right.
Shut Up... No, YOU Shut Up!
Nonpartisan Advice for the Upcoming Presidential Debates: An I [Heart] Television™ Special Report!
Inside The Monster
Taking In and Taking On The 2008 Democratic National Convention
Funk the War
How St. Paul Protests the Republican National Convention
Fare Check
TriMet's Fares—and Ridership—Are on the Rise. So Where's the Better Service?
Welcome to Portlandistan
Mentors Help Portland's Evangelical Russian Teens Conquer English, YouTube, and Borat
The Commission for Soapbox Safety Presents: Crimson Asphalt
Portland Adult Soapbox Racing, Safety, and You
Selling Scientology
A Former Scientologist Marketing Guru Turns Against the Church
It Happened In 1988
Hate Crime Doesn't Pay: Skinheads and the Death Of Mulugeta Seraw
1988: The Year in Portland Music
A profile of Portland's music scene in 1988.
WELCOME TO THE BEST OF 1988 ISSUE
A Step Back into Portland's Past—20 Years, to be Exact
Calling Doctor Cheap-o!
An Unpaid Apptentice's Guinea Pig Guide to Inexpensive Portland Health Care
A Tale of Two Workers
The Controversial New Day Labor Center Opened. Here's What it Looks Like from the Workers' Perspective
Uneasy Riders
Road Tripping from Knoxville to Portland on Beater Bikes
Queer Quiz
Who is REALLY the Gayest of them all?
Tears, Cheers, and Beers
A Recap of Tuesday Night's Election Results by the Mercury's Election Squad
The Status Quo Can Suck It!
Our 2008 Primary Election Picks
2008 Primary Election Cheat Sheet
Thinking for yourself is overrated!
Fact Check
Scrutinizing the Candidates' Junk Mail
The Ballad of Timber Jim
An Interview with Portland's Most Beloved Mascot
Portland Wants Squatch!
Why We Should Trade Our Mascot for Seattle's
Beneath the Mask
Andrew Tonry Spends the Worst Night of His Life as the LumberJax Mascot
Old Town Shuffle
New Tenants Move In, Poor People Move...Where?
Bridge to Disaster
A Proposed New 12-Lane Bridge over the Columbia River Will Cost $4.2 Billion, Increase Traffic, and Do Little to Alleviate Climate Change. What the Hell Are We Thinking?
Sex Survey Results 2008!
Portland's Sexiest Average People Speak Out on the Topic of Sex!
Good-Bye, Felony Flats
Southeast Residents Develop a "No-Tolerance Attitude"
Asleep On The Street
Approximately 1,400 People Sleep on Portland's Streets—and for a Night, Reporter Matt Davis Was One of Them.
Mercury Reader' Valentines!
Check and see if you got one!
The Mercury's 2008 Sex Survey
What are you waiting for? Fill it out NOW!
A Fine Romance
Wining and Dining and Valentining
Crazy Love
With Valentine's Day Just Around the Corner, Writers and Readers Share the Craziest Pages from Their Love-Life Histories
Indoor/Outdoor
Some "Hard" Truths About Public Sex
To Be Free
The Bhaktishop Is More than Just Another Yoga Studio
So, You Want to be a Professional Sports Journalist
Or, Observations from the Worst Sports Reporter on Press Row
Your Lazy Ass (and how to get off It)
Idealist.org Wants to Transform Your Life!
Blind Spot of Justice?
Prosecutors Decline to Charge Driver Who Killed Cyclist Tracey
Calling Dr. Laura
My "Conversation" with the AM Radio Morality Maven
Get A Room!
When Hipster Immigrants Invade Portland, it Makes it Kinda Hard for Oregonians to
Find a Room. Okay?
Things NOT Invited Back to 2008!
The Most Annoying Annoyances of the Past Year!
Up On Santa's Lap
Who Has the Most Comfortable Lap in Portland?
Spread 'Em
Or... What I Learned at Citizen Police Academy
Sisters of Mercy
All the Proceeds of this Year's Charity Auction Go to... SISTERS OF THE ROAD! And Here's Why!
The Mercury Online Charity Auction
Bid for and Win Fantastic Treasures! All Proceeds Go to Feed the Homeless!
Sisters of Mercy
All the Proceeds of this Year's Charity Auction Go to... SISTERS OF THE ROAD! And Here's Why!
Sell the Dream
I Needed a Job. Hyphire Solutions Was Hiring. Here's Why That Didn't Work Out So Well.
The Mercury Online Charity Auction
Bid for and Win Fantastic Treasures! All Proceeds Go to Feed the Homeless!
The Chasse Files
Pre-Trial Hearings in the Cop-Related Death of James Chasse Jr. Get Heated
Somewhere to Go, Something
to Believe In
Great Expectations for the City's New Homeless Center
Failure to Yield
Portland's Most Dangerous Intersections for Bikes—And What Can Be Done About Them
Off the Bench
Wild Speculations, Homoerotic Musings, and General Falsities
Trees or Tract Homes?
It's Timber Companies vs. Enviros in a Battle for Oregon's Future
Project: Panic!!
Making Portland's Fake Dirty Bomb Attack Even Fakier!
Butter Hogs XXVI!
These People Hog So Much Butter, It's Like They're Hogs!
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