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Dec. 23
Print Edition for the week of
Dec. 23 - 29, 2015
Vol. 16, No. 32
Scott Erwert
News
The City Says It's Divesting from Fossil Fuels. That's Not True.
In Fact, We Don't Plan to Stop Supporting Oil Companies Any Time Soon.
by Dirk VanderHart
The Backers of a Vancouver Oil Terminal Are Being Accused of Fudging Their Numbers
And They're Refusing to Set the Record Straight
by Shelby R. King
Hall Monitor
Amanda Fritz Says I'm Wrong
by Dirk VanderHart
In Other News
Music
The Best of 2015
The Moments in Music We'll Remember Forever
by Mercury Music Staff
The Best Records of 2015
As Selected by
Portland
Mercury
Writers
by Mercury Music Staff
Up & Coming
This Week's Music Previews
Movies & TV
With
Joy
, David O. Russell Hits Peak Whimsy
A Stylized, Playful Portrait of a Striving Single Mom. And Mops!
by Megan Burbank
The Hateful Eight
Comes to Portland
The Hollywood Scores Tarantino's Latest—on 70mm
by Erik Henriksen
Happily Ever After with
Carol
Lesbians Can Be Happy, Too!
by Alison Hallett
Greed Isn't Good in
The Big Short
In Which the Financial Crisis Is Infuriatingly Funny!
by Ned Lannamann
Mustang
and the Threat of Marriage
Let's Not Banish Girls into Marriage-Slavery!
by Alison Hallett
The New
Point Break
Ruins Christmas
Thanks for Nothing, Shitty New
Point Break
by Ben Coleman
Film Shorts
In Which We Hit It and Quit It
Food and Drink
The Places Our Food Critic Returns to on Her Own Time and Dime
Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is
by Andrea Damewood
Your Wine Questions Answered!
Pairing Wine with the Best Stores, Restaurants, and Happy Hours
by MJ Skegg
Visual Art
Krampus
Sees You When You're Sleeping
And He's Coming to the Pony Club Gallery!
by Jenna Lechner
Books
Required Reading
Portland Book-People Share the Best Things They Read in 2015
by Megan Burbank
Feature
The Final Countdown
The
Mercury
's Guide to the Best New Year's Eve Parties in Town
The Winner of the
Mercury
's "Design a Christian Starbucks Cup" Contest!
Plus a Christ-Load of Cups from Our Runners-Up
Ask a Pot Lawyer
Marijuana Mailers
by Vince Sliwoski
Cannabuzz
Judge Not, Lest Ye Get Stoned
by Josh Jardine
Everything as Fuck
The End (of 2015)
by Ian Karmel
Sold Out
The Best and Worst of 2015 Style
Portland's Style Pros on What Worked and Didn't!
by Marjorie Skinner
One Day at a Time
It's the Runners-Up for Worst Person of the Year!
by Ann Romano
New Column!
Returning Column!
You're Wrong About That (the Holiday Edition)
by Francine Colman-Gutierrez
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
Cock Locked
by Dan Savage
I, Anonymous
Bury Christmas