Print Edition for the week of
May. 21 - 27, 2014

Vol. 15, No. 1
Robbie Augspurger

News

Still Waters Prevail

Voters Douse Water District, Enthusiastically Embrace Incumbents

A Long Time Coming

Oregon's Same-Sex Marriage Ban Was Slain in Forceful Style

Hall Monitor

The Road to Budget Peace?

Music

The Second Summer of Love

Pink Mountaintops' LA Vibes

Into the Mystic

Jex Thoth's Transcendent Tunes

This Blue World

Elbow Experiments with a Winning Formula

Sasquatch! Preview

A Thumbnail Guide to This Weekend's Music Festival

After the Horror Show

Making Something from Nothing

Captive Audience

No Dirty Laundry for Parquet Courts

All-Ages Action!

This Week's Best All-Ages Shows

Up & Coming

This Week's Music Previews

Movies & TV

The Darkest Timeline

Going Back to the Future with the X-Men

Warning: Foodies

Chef's Foodie Road Trip

Enfant Terrible

The Ferocious Films of Leos Carax

Eisenberg vs. Eisenberg

The Double's Sly Dostoyevsky Riff

Staying Alive

The Cackling Visions of Ralph Steadman

I'm Not Mad, Just Disappointed

I Wish We Deserved Better Than Blended

Film Shorts

In Which We Hit It and Quit It

Comedy

Hurricane Bridget

Bridget Everett Gets in Your Face (With Her Boobs)

Friends of P(rince)

The Multi-Talented Maya Rudolph

Books

Open Wide

On Existential Despair and Tooth Decay

Theater & Performance

Love and Marriage

Slumming Angel Unpacks Coupling in the Abstract

Feature

Eat Your Vegetables!

Chefs Are Putting Down Pork Belly and Picking up Parsnips

Salud, Salad!

Love Salad? Try Some of Portland's Finest!

Do It Yourself

Veggie Recipes from Our Favorite Chefs

The Food Critic's Picks

My Current Fave Vegetable-Starring Dishes

The Mislabeled Vegetable Epidemic

Hey, Idiot... That's Not a Vegetable!!

Vegetable-ism

Vegetarian Cooking Has Come a Long Way

Growing Pains

Making Friends with Your Childhood Vegetable Enemies

A Row to Hoe

Everything (and Nothing) You Wanted to Know About Making Your Own Veggies

Vegetables Are Gross

Let's Eat Candy Instead

Seven Days a Leek

Visit a Farmers' Market Every Day This Summer

Pickle Your Fancy

Comparing Local Pickles

Our Favorite Vegetable Dishes

Mercury Staffers Drool over Their Go-To Roughage

Sports

Get Growing!

Slow-Starting Timbers Have Yet to Germinate

I Love Television

I Love Television™

Don't Leave Me This Way

I, Anonymous

I, Anonynous

The Sad Ballad of Summer Sun

Everything as Fuck

Outrage!!

One Day at a Time

The Week in Review

New Column!

Savage Love & Sex

Savage Love

A Hole New World