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Posted inFood and Drink
Revered Portland Restaurant República Has Announced It Will Close
Considered the flagship of its restaurant group, República represents a devotion to “Mexico-forward” cuisine and multi-course cultural storytelling.
By way of his newsletter Between Courses, Angel Medina has announced plans to close Portland’s revered fine-dining restaurant República in February. Considered the flagship of the local mini-empire República & Co., República also represented an idea—”Mexico-forward’”cuisine, tasting menus with culinary storytelling—that laid the groundwork for a conversation the food world should have had long ago […]
Posted inTheater & Performance
Profile Theatre’s Tiger Style Delivers Great Comedy and Sharp Bite
Mike Lew’s deftly drawn play shows the difficulty of claiming identity.
Profile Theatre’s Tiger Style is the best bargain in Portland theater.
Posted inMercury Music Picks
Mercury Music Picks: We’re Launching a New Section, New Music Portland!
Plus Steve Reich’s Counterpoints, Monk in Pieces, and Portland music news.
Nolan Parker
Posted inArt Snack
Art Snack: Portland’s Weapons Connection, Newbery Award Winner, and 2026 James Beard Semifinalists
Republica stans rise up. Todos Media asks for community help to tell the story of a Minneapolis chef.
It’s a peculiarity of mine; I don’t even try to rationalize it anymore.
Posted inBooks
What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome Documents Justin Townes Earle’s Time in Portland
Music journalist Jonathan Bernstein first knew the singer-songwriter as a fan.
When Justin Townes Earle rolled into Portland in 2016, he had already lived a long life for a 34-year-old. Born in Nashville, Earle had been making music since he was a kid and earning plenty of comparisons to his father, country rabble-rouser Steve Earle, along the way. Determined to bust out of his father’s shadow, […]
Posted inPickathon
The Pickathon 2026 Music Lineup is Here!
Marcos Valle, Cosmic Tones Research Trio, Folk Bitch Trio, and more pull up to Pendarvis Farm, July 30 to August 2.
Nolan Parker
Posted inDo This, Do That
The Mercury’s Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for January 26-February 1
Warm up with electropop, meta-theater, and flavor-packed wieners.
Guard your buns, because this Monday marks the beginning of the Mercury‘s Wiener Week! Plus, electropop and avant-garde musicians are coming to town, and did you know you can see a film at Laurelhurst Theater for only seven bones on Tuesdays? On a more serious note, if you’re in a blue mood due to… everything […]
Posted inThe Trash Report
THE TRASH REPORT: Feuds for Thought
It’s celebrities (and ICE) against each other and the world in this week’s gossip roundup!
Hey friends. I am writing this on Sunday. My daughter and I like to snuggle on the couch and watch dumb Instagram reels on my phone together on the weekends, and but yesterday ICE shot a man to death in Minneapolis, so I had turn my phone away from her to make sure a news […]
Posted inTheater & Performance
Caught in the Middle of Impact Play
At Performance Works NW, a new show from Genderbomb builds radical intimacy through kink. Are audiences prepared?
“What you witness at this show will be art made for the moment by people who aren’t so much putting on a play, but caught in the middle of play,” read the print program for Impact Play. Produced by trans stage art ensemble Genderbomb, the new anthology showcase of shorts, staged at Performance Works, seemed to […]
Posted inMusic
Singing All the Parts: The Vocal Dynamism of Portland’s Jimmie Herrod
The America’s Got Talent star goes pop with the Oregon Symphony.
Jenni Moore
Posted inVisual Art
What Wanders Through a Body?
At curious Portland gallery Lumber Room, corporeal works by Louise Bourgeois and Isabelle Albuquerque converse.
The myth of feminine hysteria didn’t start in a Victorian sanatorium. Long before Freud heard about it and thought it sounded super legit, ancient Greek doctors imagined the uterus as a restless “wandering womb,” traversing the body and wreaking emotional havoc. In The Wandering Womb at Lumber Room, Los Angeles-based artist Isabelle Albuquerque revives and digs […]