A Portland University Wants Federal Permission to Ban Transgender Students

And Recent History Suggests It'll Probably Get It

Hall Monitor

Accessible Restrooms, At Last?

In Other News

Wimps Are Part-Time Punks

Seattle Band Works for the Weekend

Debate Club

Alice Cooper: Feed His Frankenstein

Psychic TV Tunes into the Astral Plane

The Evolving Art and Life of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

Kiasmos: An Icelandic Side Dish

Electronic Duo Combines Chamber Music and Dance

All-Ages Action!

This Week in All-Ages Music

Up & Coming

This Week's Music Previews

In the Heart of the Sea Is a Whale of a Tale!!!

Or Is It a Wail of a Tale???

Get Mean Is a Very Unlikely Western

Audacious! Ridiculous! A Disastrous Failure on Every Level!

From Genius to Pitchman: Orson Welles at 100

A Look Back at Orson Welles' Startling Evolution

Film Shorts

In Which We Hit It and Quit It

OMG Multnomah Village Needs Tastebud

New Wood-Fired Restaurant Bolsters a Neighborhood's Weak Food Options

Bartender's Bar Crawl

Prepare for Weird Turns

David Thomson's Tips for How to Watch a Movie

Step One: Have Fun.

The Casual Blasphemy of Dario Fo

Denounced by the Vatican, The Controversial Playwright Comes to Shaking the Tree

A Farewell to the 3rd Floor

A Sketch Comedy Tradition's Final Chapter

Experts Critique Portland's Most Famous Public Art

Our Critics Take a Hard Look at Art You See Every Day—from "Portlandia" to "Joan of Arc"

Portland Timbers Win 2015 MLS Cup

And Everything is Right with the World

Do You Need to Be a Two-Year Resident?

Puff, Puff, Publish: Cannabis in the News

Merry Kvetchmas

Holiday Fashion Tips

Tim Tebow DUMPED, GOP Sends "Thoughts & Prayers," and Leo DiCaprio NOT Raped by Bear

This Week Inside the Mercury: Presented by Kevin, the Portland Mercury Street Team Ghost!

Letters to the Editor

Savage Love

Hard Work

Revenge of the Condiments