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News

Get to Know an Anarchist

We Spoke with One of the Dozens of People Arrested on May Day

by Doug Brown

Portlanders Approved a Mammoth Schools Bond on Tuesday

And That’s Not All

by Dirk VanderHart

Hall Monitor: Waiting Games

Would A Raise Have Solved Portland’s 911 Woes? Depends Who You Ask.

by Dirk VanderHart

Resistance & Solidarity

From Slacktivism to Activism

Resistance Events for the Week of May 17-23

by Emilly Prado

Music

Festival Guide

Prepare Yourself for 3 Days in Portland

by Ciara Dolan and Jenni Moore

Michael Kiwanuka Sings His Heart Out

2016’s Love & Hate Is Lush, Challenging, and Often Foreboding

by Santi Elijah Holley

Things to Do Music: May 17-23

Noteworthy Shows This Week

The Wild Reeds Are Not a Country Band

Their New Album, The World We Built, Is Substantive Pop

by Ben Salmon

Movies & TV

Things to Do Film: May 19-25

The Last Dragon, Kindergarten Cop, and Kenji Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu.

by Mercury Staff

The Beast Is Back in Alien: Covenant

Meet the New Alien, Same as the Old Alien

by Bobby Roberts

Misfortune and Misadventure

Chuck Goes a Step Past Rocky

by Aris Hunter Wales

The Lovers Is in Love with Its Own Solipsism

Ready to Slog Through the Worst Parts of Adulthood?

by Megan Burbank

Music—and More—at 2017’s QDoc

Jazz Hands!

by Elinor Jones

The Twin Peaks Revival Is a Reminder of How the Original Impacted My Life

In the Spring of 1990, Twin Peaks Premiered, and My Mom Started Losing Her Mind.

by Ariella Smith

Books

Full of Secrets

Revisiting The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

by Megan Burbank and Courtney Ferguson

Feature

How to Die in Portland

Planning on Dying? Here's Everything You Need to Know.

by Ciara Dolan

Last Supper

Heart-able Pizza

Micah Camden's Casual Empire Colonizes the Pizza Game

by Thomas Ross

I, Anonymous

This Week’s Featured I, Anonymous!

Your Cat Is Full of Shit

by Anonymous

Ask a Pot Lawyer

How Can I Keep My Pot Local?

It’s Tough. But the Craft Cannabis Alliance Wants to Help.

by Will Patterson

Cannabuzz

How to Make Your Own Moon Rocks

These Things Get You Crazy High, So Here’s the Rundown

by Josh Jardine

One Day at a Time

It’s the End of the World! So... We Can Pull Off Furiosa’s Look, Right?

by Ann Romano

New Column!

New Column

I Hope You Enjoy My New Movie, Alien: Covenant!

by the Alien

Letters

Letters to the Editor

“MOVE IT BACK! MOVE IT BACK! MOVE IT BACK!!”

I, Anonymous Blog

Your Loss, Hiring Managers

by Anonymous

Bigots Frightened No More

by Anonymous

A Couple of Kooks, Part I

by Anonymous

Your kid or your smartphone. PIck one!

by Anonymous

Get to Know an Anarchist?

by Anonymous

Why Don't You People Have Goals!?

by Anonymous

TRIGGERED SNOWFLAKES!

by Anonymous

Giant Fucking Jesus Billboards

by Anonymous

To All the Single Women in Portland

by Anonymous

NoOne Man

by Anonymous

A Couple of Kooks, Part II

by Anonymous

Parking like a jerk

by Anonymous

I Can See Clearly Now Tablecloth Apple

by Anonymous

My Pendleton Flannel at Fleet Foxes

by Anonymous

You Never Know Who You're Talking To

by Anonymous

First Responders in Milwaukie, Oregon-Police Dept

by Anonymous

Goals

by Anonymous

A Couple of Kooks (Addendum)

by Anonymous

Cannabis Industry Libertarians Need to Die

by Anonymous

There Once Was a....

by Anonymous

Bun and Bang Due

by Anonymous

Ingrates

by Anonymous

Paul Ryan is a Slime-ball

by Anonymous

The Cars

by Anonymous

Savage Love

Anti-Climax

by Dan Savage

What’s She Mad About Now?

The Handmaid’s Tale: Choose Your Adventure!

by Courtenay Hameister

Portland’s Pretty

Walkin’ on First Thursday

by Marissa Sullivan