Mercury 25th Anniversary Issue

Mercury 25th Anniversary Issue

Celebrating 25 years of news, culture, and trouble.

Happy 25th Anniversary, Portland Mercury!

Celebrating a quarter century of fun, newspapering, and mayhem.

Twenty-Five Years of News (As Well As Entertainment and Trouble)

How the Portland Mercury found its niche by blending irreverent commentary with sobering investigative reporting.

Bad Idea, Right?

A retrospective of the Mercury articles that (maybe?) should’ve never seen the light of day.

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Inside the Original Mercury… Circa the Late 1800s

The lurid history of the “unspeakably offensive” Sunday Mercury.

The Failure Parade

A look back at the Mercury’s most unsuccessful “New Columns.”

The Best of the Worst of I, Anonymous

Twenty-five years of  your anonymous rants, confessions, and chaos.

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Twenty-Five Years of Questionable Music Taste

New album reviews by former Mercury music editors!

Twenty-Five Years of Portland Caring About Art

A timeline of Mercury arts coverage and behind-the-scenes tales.

Art for Art’s Sake

Our favorite Mercury covers from the past 25 years.

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THE TRASH REPORT: 25 Years of Straight-Up TRASH

Hop in the trash can time machine to revisit the past quarter-century of garbage-y gossip.

The Portland Mercury HALL OF FAME!

Celebrating the many people who brought the Mercury to life (and keep it going strong).

Music Jul 11 10:00 AM

The Portland Mercury Turns 25–Come Party With Us!Β 

Pure Bathing Culture, Nonbinary Girlfriend, and Karma Rivera are gonna be there too!