Holiday Guide 2024 🎅
Featuring all the advice, gift-giving ideas, and frivolity you need to survive the holiday season. (Oh yeah... and SNACKS.)
It’s the Mercury’s Guide to the HO-HO-HOLIDAYS!
Featuring advice you need to navigate the highs and lows of the holiday season.
THE TRASH REPORT: 2024—the Year in TRASH
Follow us down memory lane for the best and worst trash of 2024!
Follow us down memory lane for the best and worst trash of 2024!
Your Guide to 2024 Holiday Events in Portland
A Charlie Brown Christmas Live, Portland Winter Ice Rink, and More
Father Christmas, Bring Us Some Snow Plows
Christmas came early for these city bureaus and agencies. Let’s see what ‘Taxpayer Santa’ brought them!
New Marie Equi Day Center Offers
Unhoused LGBTQ+ Portlanders
Resources and Hope
With new digs and funding, a local nonprofit is helping queer and trans residents find safety, and a path off the streets.
A Major (League) Undertaking
The Portland Diamond Project wants to bring pro baseball to Portland—but will it get the love and money needed to survive?
STREET VIEW: Gravel in the Bike Lane
PBOT’s maintenance woes aren’t just a problem for people who travel by car.
Portland’s Top Holiday Events: A Critical Review
The best traditional events—and how they can be improved.
You’re welcome.
Let’s Start Things! Let’s End Things!
A witch, an artist, and two mental health
professionals on how to face the New Year.
Holidays For Humans
Or, what to say when Aunt Barbara insults your Thanksgiving gravy.
Or, what to say when Aunt Barbara insults your Thanksgiving gravy.
Last-Minute Gifts from PDX Airport—That Are Actually Great
In Portland even our airport presents are thoughtful, lovely, and local.
Season’s Reelings:
Your 2024 Holiday Movie Guide
Spend time NOT talking to family with our preview
of the holidays’ most-hyped new releases.
Spend time NOT talking to family with our preview
of the holidays’ most-hyped new releases.
Zen and the Art of Holiday Pet Sitting
I’m permanently estranged from my family.
Here’s what cats and dogs have taught me.
I’m permanently estranged from my family.
Here’s what cats and dogs have taught me.
Knives Out: An Extremely
Sharp Holiday Gift Guide
Everybody wants a good knife.
Here’s where to find the best in the land.
Fairytale of Old Portland
A love letter to a less shiny city, and the teenagers, insomniacs,
and eccentrics who populated it.
Eight Vinyl Gift Ideas for the Holidays
Nothing says “you’re cool” like the gift of vinyl.
Fantastic Holiday Treats
(and Where to Find Them)
A roundup of the best holiday sweets and snacks for your festivities.
What’s the “Holiday” in Holiday Beers?
Local brewers describe the secret ingredients that put their beers in the holiday spirit.
Christmas Music for Every Mood
Four examples of music that take a decidedly
different spin on the holidays.
The 12 Days of Portland Christmas
You know the tune... sing along!
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