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Dec. 30
Print Edition for the week of
Dec. 30 - Jan. 5, 2016
Vol. 16, No. 33
Ryan Alexander-Tanner
News
2015 Was Important—and Messy
The
Mercury
's Definitive Rundown of the Year That Was
by Dirk VanderHart and Shelby R. King
Music
An ABBA Calendar for 2016
"Happy New Year," and Other Songs to Get You Through the Next 12 Months
by Ned Lannamann
Up & Coming
This Week's Music Previews
Movies & TV
2016 Film Preview
Get the Fuck Out, 2015! It's Time for 2016!
by Erik Henriksen
Film Shorts
In Which We Hit It and Quit It
Cannabis
Cannabuzz
The Best Canna-Events of 2015
by Josh Jardine
Ask a Pot Lawyer
The Supreme Court and Legalization
by Vince Sliwoski
Visual Art
Cowpokes of Instagram in
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Portland Painter Annie McLaughlin Takes on West Coast Pastoral
by Megan Burbank
Books
The Sound of Gravel
Is an Uneasy Return Home
Ruth Wariner Recounts a Fundamentalist Upbringing
by Adam Segal
From Catholics to Kerouac, the Life of Robert Lax
Michael N. McGregor's
Pure Act
Is a Contradictory Portrait of the Minimalist Poet
by Suzette Smith
Feature
Things Not Invited Back in 2016
Alex Falcone's Ultimate List of Portland's Most Annoying Annoyances
by Alex Falcone
I, Anonymous
Don't Rain on My Arcade
Everything as Fuck
Spoiler Wars!
by Ian Karmel
Sold Out
Fashion in 2016
by Marjorie Skinner
One Day at a Time
Congrats (?) to Gwyneth Paltrow: Our WORST Person of 2015!
by Ann Romano
New Column!
The
Mercury
's Absolutely 100 Percent Guaranteed Accurate Predictions for 2016!
by Mercury Staff
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
Other Dicks, Other Doms
by Dan Savage
Letters
Letters to the Editor