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Holiday Guide 2024 🎅

Featuring all the advice, gift-giving ideas, and frivolity you need to survive the holiday season. (Oh yeah… and SNACKS.)
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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.
Avatar photo Wm. Steven Humphrey

[Editor’s note: Read all our holly jolly HOLIDAY GUIDE articles here. Looking for a print copy? Good! You can find it in more than 500 spots across Portland with this handy map!] With election season in the rearview, it’s time to focus on the next upcoming traumatic event: THE HOLIDAYS. (Seriously, can we just have […]

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THE TRASH REPORT: 2024—the Year in TRASH

Follow us down memory lane for the best and worst trash of 2024!
Avatar photo Elinor Jones

[Editor’s note: Read all our holly jolly HOLIDAY GUIDE articles here. Looking for a print copy? Good! You can find it in more than 500 spots across Portland with this handy map!] Happy Holidays, Trash Pandas! ‘Tis I, Elinor Jones, AKA the Ghost of Trash Past, here to guide you through 2024—a year that I […]

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Your Guide to 2024 Holiday Events in Portland

A Charlie Brown Christmas Live, Portland Winter Ice Rink, and More
Avatar photo EverOut Staff

The weather outside might be frightful, and we wouldn’t describe this year as “delightful,” but the holidays should add some sparkle to the shortest days of the season. Our recommendation? Layer up and explore a mix of powder-fresh winter activities and timeless Portland traditions. We’ve collected a mix of sleigh bell-ringin’ events below, including Black […]

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Father Christmas, Bring Us Some Snow Plows

Christmas came early for these city bureaus and agencies. Let’s see what ‘Taxpayer Santa’ brought them!
Avatar photo Courtney Vaughn

[Editor’s note: Read all our holly jolly HOLIDAY GUIDE articles here. Looking for a print copy? Good! You can find it in more than 500 spots across Portland with this handy map!] What you do with your money is nobody’s business, but what the government does with your money is everyone’s business.  At a time […]

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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.
Anna Del Savio

[Editor’s note: Read all our holly jolly HOLIDAY GUIDE articles here. Looking for a print copy? Good! You can find it in more than 500 spots across Portland with this handy map!] In October, Portland’s first day center for unhoused queer and trans people opened in Southeast. The Marie Equi Center’s new Brooklyn neighborhood day […]

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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?
Avatar photo Abe Asher

[Editor’s note: Read all our holly jolly HOLIDAY GUIDE articles here. Looking for a print copy? Good! You can find it in more than 500 spots across Portland with this handy map!] The Portland Diamond Project has been working to bring a Major League Baseball team to the Rose City for the better part of […]

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STREET VIEW: Gravel in the Bike Lane

PBOT’s maintenance woes aren’t just a problem for people who travel by car.
Avatar photo Taylor Griggs

[Editor’s note: Read all our holly jolly HOLIDAY GUIDE articles here. Looking for a print copy? Good! You can find it in more than 500 spots across Portland with this handy map!] In the bike-friendly cities of Northern Europe, a phrase is sometimes used to lightly chastise those who are intimidated to cycle in the […]

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Portland’s Top Holiday Events: A Critical Review

The best traditional events—and how they can be improved.
You’re welcome.
Avatar photo Wm. Steven Humphrey

[Editor’s note: Read all our holly jolly HOLIDAY GUIDE articles here. Looking for a print copy? Good! You can find it in more than 500 spots across Portland with this handy map!] When it comes to holiday traditions, Portland is horny as all get-out. We love cramming as much festivity into our festivities as possible—regardless […]

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Let’s Start Things! Let’s End Things!

A witch, an artist, and two mental health
professionals on how to face the New Year.
Avatar photo HR Smith

[Editor’s note: Read all our holly jolly HOLIDAY GUIDE articles here. Looking for a print copy? Good! You can find it in more than 500 spots across Portland with this handy map!] The days are short, the rain is acting like someone put out a casting call for a vertical river, and odds are high […]

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Last-Minute Gifts from PDX Airport—That Are Actually Great

In Portland even our airport presents are thoughtful, lovely, and local.
Avatar photo Suzette Smith

[Editor’s note: Read all our holly jolly HOLIDAY GUIDE articles here. Looking for a print copy? Good! You can find it in more than 500 spots across Portland with this handy map!] At 10 pm on Christmas Eve you could generally find my father at an office supply store; the chains used to stay open […]

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Season’s Reelings:
Your 2024 Holiday Movie Guide

Spend time NOT talking to family with our preview
of the holidays’ most-hyped new releases.
Avatar photo Dom Sinacola

  [Editor’s note: Read all our holly jolly HOLIDAY GUIDE articles here. Looking for a print copy? Good! You can find it in more than 500 spots across Portland with this handy map!]   Holidays are usually meant for time with family, which is obviously why so many people elect to go to the movies […]

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