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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Portland This Weekend: Jan 23–25, 2026

Wonderlove Winter Wellness Weekend, Portland Record Show, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $20
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The sun’ll come out this weekend, so you should, too. Check out cheap and easy events from Wonderlove’s Winter Wellness Weekend to the Rose City Science Fiction and Fantasy WinterCon and from The Portland Record Show to the Portland Fine Print Fair. Browse our weekly top picks for more suggestions. FRIDAY LIVE MUSIC UTILITY: In-Store […]

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Ticket Alert: Audrey Hobert, Lord Huron, and More Portland Events Going On Sale This Week

Plus, Oh Wonder and More Event Updates for January 22
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If the dreary January weather’s got you down, find something fun to look forward to in our rundown of this week’s newly announced events. “Sue Me” singer Audrey Hobert climbs the staircase to stardom during her spring tour. Folk rockers Lord Huron head back to Bend this summer. Plus, British husband-and-wife duo Oh Wonder bring […]

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FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Win Tix to Todd Barry, Drink The Sea, Weakened Friends, 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 […]

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Spectators and Players, Portland Is a Ping-Pong Town

Major League Table Tennis matches make it clear: The hype for ping-pong shouldn’t end at Marty Supreme. 
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There’s a scene in the recent hit movie Marty Supreme in which Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), an American table tennis champion and inveterate liar getting by on the skin of his teeth in post-WWII America, is seeking capital from a wealthy man, hoping to grow the game he loves and his own prestige. At one […]

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Art Snack: Vegan Paczki Promises, Frog Brigade Franchises

This week in Portland art and culture news, two reopenings and a barbeque.
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Welcome to Art Snack. This round-up is a continuation of a newsletter I wrote during the pandemic, which started out focused on remote art before softly transitioning to short updates on local arts and culture scene happenings. The idea was: Would you like a short, digestible culture news snack?  Portland’s arts and culture scene has […]

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The Mercury’s Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for January 19-25

This week: Fancy seafood, fine prints, and indie rock mainstays the Antlers.
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The word “January” developed from the Latin word Ianuarius or “Janus,” referring to an ancient Roman diety associated with beginnings, transitions, and passageways. In other words, January is about deciding how you want to walk through the door. So, let’s get to it. If you have the day off work on January 19, why not use […]

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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Portland This MLK Day Weekend: Jan 16–19, 2026

Reclaim MLK March, Mochitsuki, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $20
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The long weekend is here, and we’re suggesting some excellent uses of your time. (You’re welcome.) Get involved at the 12th Annual Reclaim MLK March and the Stand Up Against One Year of Trump rally, and check out exciting events from Mochitsuki to special screenings of Rainier: A Beer Odyssey. For more ideas, check out […]

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Ticket Alert: Charlie Puth, Five Finger Death Punch, and More Portland Events Going On Sale This Week

Plus, Bush and More Event Updates for January 15
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It’s Ticket Thursday, which means we’re serving up another batch of newly announced events. Singer-songwriter and producer Charlie Puth tours this spring after dropping his fourth album, Whatever’s Clever! Heavy metal five-piece Five Finger Death Punch celebrates 20 years with a world tour. Plus, post-grunge English rockers Bush take Portland to the Land of Milk […]

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FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Win Tix to Typhoon, The Antlers, Portland’s Folk Festival 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 […]

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Swimming Through Trauma in The Chronology of Water

Kristen Stewart’s first feature film interprets Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir through fragmentation and aquatic metaphor.
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“I remember things in retinal flashes. Without order. Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order… It’s all a series of fragments and repetitions and pattern formations. Language and water have this in common,” the Oregon-based author Lidia Yuknavitch writes in her 2011 memoir, The Chronology of Water. It follows, then, that director Kristin Stewart’s […]

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