Looking Behind the Curtain

Inside Mayor Sam Adams' Magically Not Terrible City Budget Plan

Creative Class

The Dismal State of Arts Funding in Portland's Schools

Unafraid!

Students Risk Deportation to Press for Change

Hall Monitor

Cops Ignoring a Big Question

Leave the Scene Behind

The Wave Pictures' Perfectly Imperfect Precision

The Joke's on Us

The Dead Milkmen Aren't Dead Yet

All Seriousness Aside

Meat, Murder, and Cattle Decapitation

Behind the Balloons

The Weeknd's Self-Immolation

Up & Coming

This Week's Music Previews

Team Barnabas

Dark Shadows: Another Team Burton Fiasco

The Hand-Jive Cult

Sound of My Voice Keeps You Guessing

Napoleon Complex

Blood, Shit, and Spader Hair in Headhunters

Kid Stuff

The First Movie Puts Iraqi Children Behind the Lens

Of Cthulhu and Henriksen

Whispers in the Darkness at the Lovecraft Fest

Chattin' with Bishop

We Ask Lance Henriksen Questions. He Graciously Answers.

Geek Out

Your New Addiction

Film Shorts

In Which We Hit It and Quit It

Destination Dim Sum

Bustle and Steam at HK Café

Fun Home Redux

Alison Bechdel Mines Her Life for Material in Are You My Mother?

Small Press, Big Changes

The IPRC Gets New Digs

Abundance in Drought

Oregon Children's Theatre and Black Prairie Shine in The Storm in the Barn

Ladies in Waiting

A Showcase of Designs from the Open Season Fashion Show

Tooth and Decency

LAST CHANCE! Sponsor Team Mercuroke!

SL Letter of the Day: Hope Not Nope

Onstage This Weekend!

Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father

Announcing HECKLEVISION: POINT BREAK

Things Get Pretty Exciting over at Bloomberg TV

Tin House Hosts Reading with Anthony Doerr

Swiss Miss No More?

New Witch Mountain Track and Album News

Open Season: The Slideshow

Attack of the Dutch Gay Spy Orgiers

Listen to a Track from the Upcoming Onuinu Album

Terrible Piece of Shit Endorses Mitt Romney

Video: My Body - "New Cat"

Good Morning, News!

It's Happening Tonight!

Audit: Police Bureau Heeds Calls for Change—Sometimes, and Usually Very Slowly

Thursday TV Recaps for Poor People!

Parks and Rec Season Finale... TONIGHT!

It's Happening Tonight!

Generation Debt

Batmobile and Bat-Cycle to Tour EVERY CITY EXCEPT PORTLAND

Professional Acting Advice for Mitt Romney

Here's that Trailer for The Mindy Project

Time Is Running Out: Get Your Pre-Sale Tickets for Open Season Today!

Racist Monkeys on a Trampoline

Portland's White Powder Problem

Another Amazing Column from Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Neil Steinburg

Welcome Back to Otter Friday!

Reed College Students: Good at Huffing Bongs... Not So Good at Spelling

Your Mercury-Approved Voting Cheat Sheet

ACLU Continues to Battle the Feds' "No Fly List"

Isn't "Sex Lube" Kind of Redundant?

Tonight in Music

Good Morning, News!

It's Happening Tonight!

Did President Obama Swear?

Awning Chasm

Selections from My Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang

Donors Like It When President Obama Speaks His Conscience

My Side of the Mountain Author Dies at 92

The Raid—with CATS

Good Morning, News!

Legal Question Clouds Fate of Portland's Would-be Malt Liquor Ban

It's Happening Tonight!

It's Happening Tonight!

Avengers? More Like Expensive-gers! I'm Sorry, This Headline Is Terrible

Election Night Live Blog: AG Race, Council, Et Al.

Romney Team Kind of Apologizes for Denying Press Access to Mitt Romney

Here's that Trailer for "You Got Bacon'd!" (Okay, Fine... The Following)

Teenagers Occupy Pioneer Courthouse Square

Win Tickets to See Beck in Bend!

Buffy Marathon Ahoy!

Plan to Shift Some Suicide Calls from 911 Starts Next Week

Today on MOD

Get Your Tickets to Hecklevision: Point Break!

Win Passes to QDoc!

New Tallest Man Song!

May Day Happened—Now What?

Maddow on Obama's Announcement

Tonight: The Cutting Room

Don't Forget! Election Party Live Blog Action TONIGHT!

Portland, You Are Pretty

Dear 40-Year-Old Me

Campaign Targets Defense of Marriage Act

Should Dollar Stores Be Illegal?

Comedy Tour: The Ian Karmel Diaries—Enough Already!

Final Settlement in Suit over Portland Camping Ban Draws Near

New Michel Gondry!

Awesome, Awesome Baby

Government Endorses Movie Piracy By Warning Against Movie Piracy

The Greatest Documentary Ever Filmed

The FDA May Approve a Daily Anti-Retroviral Drug for HIV-Negative Gay Men Who Don't Use Condoms

Grand Jury Clears Washington County Cops in New Columbia Shooting

Open Season and the Spring Fashion Issue

Video: Ozarks: "Pyramids of Love"

Rand Paul on President Obama's Marriage Equality Statement: "I Wasn't Sure That His Views on Marriage Could Get Any Gayer"

Yo Vintage! to Put Down Roots

Tonight in Music

Good Morning News!

Interview with a "Me": Funemployment Radio

Tonight in Music

Catching Up With Lunchtime Ballot-Droppers

Tonight in Music

This Week's Mercury Music Section

Alley 33 Lineup Announced

Rock 'n' Roll Times at the Rose Festival

Sponsor Team Mercuroke! (Or Me!)

Juggling Advice for Hippies

Roller Derby Recap: Portland vs. Denver

The Most Adorable Sabotage

Reintroducing... Scrappers!

Good Morning, News!

Postal Service Saves 21 Oregon Offices

Portland's Most Inspiring Makers

SL Letter of the Day: Make Your Own Family

Here's that Trailer that'll Make You Kill Yourself (Okay, Fine... The Goodwin Games)

Every Mad Man For Himself

The I, Anonymous Blog Quote o' the Day!

Are You Man Enough For "The Romney"?

Van Halen Is Playing the Rose Garden in August

Good Morning News!

SL Letter of the Day: Bi Boy Problems

Blogtown's Poster of the Week

Floating World's "Castles in the Sky" Studio Ghibli Art Show

Good Morning, News!

Roller Derby Weekend: Portland vs. Denver

Tonight in Music

Portland Geek Olympathon Strikes Back

Election Night Live Blog: The Mayor's Race

New OPB Poll: Big Gain for Hales, Modest Gain for Smith, Big Drop for Brady

Suicidal Man Threatens Cop with Rifle—but Winds Up Sent to Treatment

Curbside Composting, Six Months Later

Sometimes Courtney Posts Really Cool Concert Posters! (This Is Not One of Them.)

Comic Artists Go the Opera

The Golden Age of Portland Trolleys

Free Screening Tonight: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

Game of Thrones Recap: Adaptable Adaptation Edition

Mayor Adams Now Responsible for Reminding You to Put Your Garbage Out

The Week in Review

Letters to the Editor

To the Guy Who Didn’t Hit Me with His Car

Making All the Noise

Another Hipster Girl Rant

Late Night Construction

No More Drinking

That Doggy in the Window? Yeah, He Was Too Much

You Look Tough, So What?

To the Guy Who Didn’t Kill My Sister

Bicycles: Pshh, Whatever.

Portland... Get Happy

Alone with the Wind

To the Beautiful Black Young Man

Happy Mother’s Day, Bitch.

Loud Fucking

To the Lady Who Fell on her Bike

Thanks For Not Killing My Wife

Savage Love

Gender Mender

I Love Television™

Uncle Charlie, the Internet