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Former Health Industry Boss Blows Whistle for Reform

Release the Names

Council Majority: Publish Secret List

Hall Monitor

Divide and Conquer

Running on Empty

Women's Shelter Shortage Forces Victims to Coffee Shops

Unsafe Streets

Hit and Run Claims City's Third Bike Death in 2009

Changing Gears

Cycle Advocacy Group Quits Big Bridge Project

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The Secret Life of Cass McCombs

The Medium Is the Medium

De La Soul Redefines the Vinyl Age

Oi Vey!

We Are the Casualties

Happy Doomsday

Elvis Perkins Finds Light in the Darkness

A Year in Strings

In Which "Symphony" and "Sexiest" Are Used in the Same Sentence

Up & Coming

Soul Patrol

Cold Souls: Paul Giamatti! Paul Giamatti!

Ben Affleck's Beard

Extract: More So-So Fun from Mike Judge

Sandra Bullock Is Depressing

All About Steve: The Nail in Her Career's Coffin!

Of Cute Dresses and Peach Pits

My One and Only: It's Cliché-tastic!

Film Shorts

Geek Out

The Warm Nostalgia of Choking Bad Guys

This Week on Television

Lasagna Love

Taste Unique's Take-Home Italian Is Irresistible

Cool Brutality

The Hunter Flawlessly Brings a Crime Novel to Comics

A Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore's Weird and Beautiful New Novel

It's So Kafka-esque!

Parsing defunkt's Enjoyable-but-Weird A Country Doctor

Confessions of a Teenage Prostitute

Portland Has Been Named the Number Two City for Teenage Prostitution. This Is the Story of How One Victim Escaped.

Destination TBA

Endangered Art

Web Crawling

The New Portland Garment Factory

The Week in Review

Get Smart with the Mercury's TBA Blog!

Letters to the Editor

Savage Love

Wanting to Be Wanted

I Love Television™

Good vs. Eeeeeevil