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Queer Is a Romance with a Dead Wife Problem

Director Luca Guadagino is out to make William Burroughs romantic. He mostly succeeds.
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Luca Guadagnino is a great editor of other people’s love stories. With this past spring’s Challengers, he took a fairly basic screenplay about tennis bros and queered it up to 11. In Bones and All (2022) he edited down an often-bratty young adult novel into a luminously gory homage to William Eggleston’s photographs of American landscapes. In Call […]

Posted inMusic

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See MAITA, The Cabin Project, Livingston Taylor & Loudon Wainwright III, 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 […]

Posted inPop Quiz PDX

POP QUIZ PDX: Queer Bar Shakeups, Award-Winning Cheese, and It’s Time to Pick a Portland Santa! 🎅

Ho-ho-ho, see how well YOU score on this week’s super fun trivia quiz!
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LET’S GO, SMART STUFF! It’s time once again to put your brainy-brain to the test with this week’s edition of POP QUIZ PDX—our weekly, local, sassy-ass trivia quiz. And in this edition, we’re testing your knowledge on a variety of topics including a local queer bar shakeup, which Oregon cheese reigns supreme, and YOUR pick […]

Posted inTheater & Performance

Theater Review: Waiting for Godot Is Samuel Beckett—Straight, No Chaser

Portland’s Irish theater-focused company Corrib has devoted this season to Godot and works that respond to it.
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In the setting of a desolate landscape, two old men await someone named Godot. The duo, Vladimir (Roo Welsh) and Estragon (Karl Hanover), are friends to the extent that they use pet names for one another—Didi and Gogo—but their tones intermittently turn harsh or tender, as they recount their respective miseries and await their man. […]

Posted inHear In Portland

Hear in Portland: Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme’s Holiday Humor Intensifies

Plus, the Barbaras play an unmissable irreverent post-Thanksgiving country show and Fountaine’s “throw away album” catches flame.
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The political climate and sullen vibe in these streets calls for some escapism and we’re fortunate that in an artsy, music-loving town like Portland, there’s never a dull moment. This week, we’re touting an irreverent post-holiday country show on Friday and a post-holiday evening of drag, music, and comedy at the end of December. If […]

Posted inMusic

FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See The Moth Mainstage, Comedian Phil Hanley, Samantha Fish, 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 […]

Posted inPop Quiz PDX

POP QUIZ PDX: Lost Arctic Foxes, Portland’s Top Taxpayer Robbers, and Dearly Beloved… It’s PRINCE! 💜

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GOOD DAY, BRAINY BUTT! It’s time once again to put your brainy-brain to the test with this week’s edition of POP QUIZ PDX—our weekly, local, sassy-ass trivia quiz. And in this edition, we’re testing your knowledge on a variety of topics including arctic foxes showing up to the party, cops and politicians who won’t stop […]

Posted inMovies & TV

Film Review: In Heretic and Don’t Move Meek Heroines Fawn and Freeze

This fall, femmes find new ways to survive.
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Much has been made of Brit cinema heartthrob Hugh Grant’s heel turn in A24’s suspenseful horror film Heretic. It’s as if someone actually started listening to the actor, who has loudly proclaimed for decades that his bashful grimaces and hair shakes—found in iconic hits like Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Love, Actually—are just mannerisms […]

Posted inHear In Portland

Hear in Portland: Mal London’s Fourth Album Shows off Pretty Sonics and Flows To Match

Plus, a new show case of local duo and trio collabs, and Justin Timberlake adds a 2025 Portland date to his world tour.
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As the nation reels from all the election-related roar and we figure out how to collectively move forward as a country in this new era, music offers an escape and an opportunity to connect with other like-minded folks in our community. This week, Hear in Portland, check out a new showcase from the folks behind […]

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