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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Portland This Weekend: Mar 14–16, 2025

Ariel Gore, Frankenstein’s Comicbook Swap, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15
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You’re in luck this weekend, because there’s plenty to do on a dime. We’re suggesting events from an author talk with Ariel Gore to Night Heron, Aan, and still fade and from T.C. O’Leary’s St. Patrick’s Celebration to Frankenstein’s Comicbook Swap! For more suggestions, check out our top picks of the week and our St. Patrick’s […]

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Darci Phenix Releases Her Dreamy New Album, Sable

Learn how the multi-disciplinary Portland artist uses her hands to get out of her head.
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Darci Phenix released her second album, Wishbone, in 2021 through long-running New York-based indie label, Team Love Records. “It was such an intense process. I was printing off Neil Young lyrics and reading them and trying to make ‘a great song,’ you know? I was really trying with that record,” Phenix reflects.  So when it […]

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Ticket Alert: Cyndi Lauper, Everclear, and More Portland Events Going On Sale This Week

Plus, More Event Updates for March 13
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We’re back with another batch of newly announced events! If you missed Cyndi Lauper’s farewell tour late last year, the pop icon is coming through the area a second time this summer. Portland-grown alt-rockers Everclear will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their major label debut Sparkle and Fade at the Crystal this fall. Plus, topless […]

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FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See the Geniuses of Comedy, Jessica Kirson, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, and MORE!

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Who’s ready to have some fun? Well, the Mercury is here to help with FREE TICKETS to see some of Portland’s best concerts and events—our way of saying thanks to our great readers and spread the word about some fantastic upcoming performances! (Psst… if you want to say thanks to the Mercury, please consider making a […]

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Northwest Hardcore Fest, the PNW’s Hardest-Hitting Festival, Is Back

The freshly announced line-up is a biggie!
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Ok ok ok, not everyone is aware of this, but Portland has a thriving hardcore punk scene—and it’s (finally) getting the national attention it deserves. Not for lack of punks, the city’s scene saw touring bands, large and small, skip us again and again because our hardcore scene here was extremely diffused. A bunch of […]

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Great Alliances Within the Mercury’s 2025 Spring Arts Guide

We’ve got your spring planned out—or at least one thing you’ll like!
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The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another. Conversations about food, music, performance, and “weird” installation art provide touchstones to deepen friendships, create new connections, and better understand our world. If you appreciate the Mercury’s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a […]

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THE TRASH REPORT: Special Spring Arts Trash!

Getting the Goonies back together, Emma Stone’s popcorn pockets, and the “Star-Spangled Banner” is a trash song if I’ve ever heard one!
Avatar photo Elinor Jones

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another. Conversations about food, music, performance, and “weird” installation art provide touchstones to deepen friendships, create new connections, and better understand our world. If you appreciate the Mercury’s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution […]

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What’s Happening With the Live Nation Development in Portland’s Central Eastside?

The next stage in the fight might be “throwing things at it to see what sticks.”
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The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another. Conversations about food, music, performance, and “weird” installation art provide touchstones to deepen friendships, create new connections, and better understand our world. If you appreciate the Mercury’s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution […]

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Nail Art Is Art!

The first year of ManiFest celebrates the fine art we wear on our fingers.
Avatar photo Jenni Moore

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another. Conversations about food, music, performance, and “weird” installation art provide touchstones to deepen friendships, create new connections, and better understand our world. If you appreciate the Mercury’s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution […]

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Why Restore Waterlilies Now?

Portland Art Museum unveils a refreshed Monet, shedding light on the artist’s fascination with atmosphere and Japanese influence.
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The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another. Conversations about food, music, performance, and “weird” installation art provide touchstones to deepen friendships, create new connections, and better understand our world. If you appreciate the Mercury’s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution […]

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Gallery Round-Up: Abstract Artists in Cahoots

Portland art spaces holding openings, having lunch, and otherwise welcoming in this spring.
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The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another. Conversations about food, music, performance, and “weird” installation art provide touchstones to deepen friendships, create new connections, and better understand our world. If you appreciate the Mercury’s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution […]

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Sounds Struggling to Stay Words

Artist Patricia Vázquez Gómez pairs video and audio in ja’ / buuts’ / t’aan (Water / Smoke / Word), an installation about diaspora and the loss of language.
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For the past six years, Patricia Váz-quez Gómez has worked closely with youth and families in Oregon’s Mayan Indigenous diaspora. A multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Portland and Mexico City, she collaborated on cultural events, art workshops, and Mayan language classes. Neither she nor the children were fluent in Yucatec Mayan, an Indigenous language […]

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