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The Top 42 Events in Portland This Week: April 21–27, 2025
TEDxPortland, Ziwe, and More
We’re here to save you from answering “IDK” when someone asks you what you’re up to this week. Add buzzy events to your itinerary from TEDxPortland 2025 – CONTINUUM to Mereba and from Ziwe’s America to Tom Papa: Grateful Bread Tour. MONDAY LIVE MUSIC L.A. WitchSince their formation in 2011, L.A. Witch has made beachy […]
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Good Morning, News: Another Big Step for Pro Baseball, Pete Hegseth Screws Up AGAIN, and Pope Francis Dies
If you’re reading this, you probably know the value of the Mercury’s news reporting, arts and culture coverage, event calendar, and the bevy of events we host throughout the year. The work we do helps our city shine, but we can’t do it without your support. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and […]
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Good Morning, News: Houseless Numbers Jump, OSU Student Sues Trump, and Cops Throw Everything at Homeless Man (Except Kitchen Sink)
If you’re reading this, you probably know the value of the Mercury’s news reporting, arts and culture coverage, event calendar, and the bevy of events we host throughout the year. The work we do helps our city shine, but we can’t do it without your support. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism […]
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Good Morning, News: White House Targets PSU International Students, More Details About Monday’s Police Standoff in NW Portland, and Trump Hates Big Bird and High-Quality News
If you’re reading this, you probably know the value of the Mercury’snews reporting, arts and culture coverage, event calendar, and the bevy of events we host throughout the year. The work we do helps our city shine, but we can’t do it without your support. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and […]
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SAVAGE LOVE: Sailed Ships
Her formerly drunk hubby cleaned up his act… or did he?
My always polite and very-high-functioning drunk husband was fucking around for the first fifteen years of our marriage. The other women were “unhappily married co-workers” who needed discretion. At the time, I thought our sex life was actually fairly normal. Things came to a head when I learned about a two-year affair he’d been having. […]
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Good Morning, News: A Portland Police Standoff; Ladd’s 500 in Photos, and the DOGE Takeover That Sparked a Russian Cyber Attack Attempt
If you’re reading this, you probably know the value of the Mercury’s news reporting, arts and culture coverage, event calendar, and the bevy of events we host throughout the year. The work we do helps our city shine, but we can’t do it without your support. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism […]
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THE TRASH REPORT: Jack Black, Coachella, and Being Cool With Me: A Cool Person
Let’s go, trash pandas! It’s time to dig deep into this week’s bucket of gossip.
Hi everybody! I’m Elinor Jones. Welcome back to the Trash Report. I almost feel bad giving you a reason to look at screen-based content when it is SO GODDAMN BEAUTIFUL OUTSIDE. I could never live in one of those year-round summer hellholes; we need the darkness to appreciate all this light. Do I mind that […]
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Good Morning, News: REI Apologizes for Licking Trump’s Boot, Protecting U of O International Students, and King Fool Threatens CBS
If you’re reading this, you probably know the value of the Mercury’s news reporting, arts and culture coverage, event calendar, and the bevy of events we host throughout the year. The work we do helps our city shine, but we can’t do it without your support. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and […]
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Good Morning, News: Portland Victim Calls DA Sentence “Performative Cruelty,” Police Union to Join Northwest Oregon Labor Council, and Planes Are Not Meant to High-Five
If you appreciate the Mercury‘s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution to support our editorial team. Your donation is tax-deductible. Good Morning, Portland! And good evening to The Pitt, prestige TV’s latest emergency room drama, which concluded its first season last night. The 15-episode arc introduced an ensemble cast of […]
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Good Morning, News: Local Hero of Police Reform Dies, Trump Targets U of O Students, Stocks Take Another Unnecessary Tumble
If you’re reading this, you probably know the value of the Mercury’s news reporting, arts and culture coverage, event calendar, and the bevy of events we host throughout the year. The work we do helps our city shine, but we can’t do it without your support. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism […]
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Good Morning, News: Urban Forestry’s Getting Sued, No More CAHOOTS in Eugene, and Trump’s Tariffs Are Upsetting the Manosphere
If you’re reading this, you probably know the value of the Mercury’snews reporting, arts and culture coverage, event calendar, and the bevy of events we host throughout the year. The work we do helps our city shine, but we can’t do it without your support. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and […]