This traditional Italian digestif is made from an in-house infusion of black & English walnuts foraged throughout the Portland area in late June. Green walnuts are infused in house-distilled neutral spirits & sweetened with organic cane sugar. Clove, cinnamon, & nutmeg are added to round out the infusion. A delicious after-dinner sipper that can be […]
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New Deal Spiced Pear Liqueur
Like our award-winning Pear Brandy, Spiced Pear Liqueur is made from Oregon-grown Bartlett pears from Pereday Orchard in the Gorge. We took that fresh, deliciously aromatic Pear Brandy profile & built a richly spiced liqueur. The result is an absolutely divine liqueur, made for adding a dose of depth to all your Fall & holiday […]
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REBUILDING CENTER DIY CLASS GIFT CARD DEAL
Give the gift of DIY know-how – and SAVE! Gift cards to ReBuilding Center DIY classes are 10% off using code MERCURY10 until the end of the year!. ReBuilding Center empowers Portlanders to Do It Yourself – through fun skills-based classes in woodworking, electrical, plumbing, and more using reclaimed materials! Craft a cutting board, learn […]
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2025 CAT Calendar
Calling all cat lovers! This 12-month wall calendar showcases a different fur-tastic feline photo each month. All featured cats and kittens were adopted from Cat Adoption Team (CAT), a local nonprofit cat shelter. $20 each; your purchase supports CAT’s programs and services for cats, kittens, and people in our community. Love cats. Do good. Support […]
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Give the Gift of a Cruise!
Delight your loved ones with the gift of lasting memories on the water — Portland Spirit offers brunch, lunch, and dinner cruises year-round, as well as summertime happy hour cruises and jetboat excursions to the Columbia River Gorge. Gift cards are available in any denomination and can be delivered instantly to the recipient via email. […]
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HURRY, HURRY! The Mercury’s WING WEEK Ends This Sunday! 😋
Get your $8 plates of delicious, one-of-a-kind wings from 70 restaurants… but don’t dilly or dally!
What, dear reader, was the greatest week of your life? Think back on that moment. Treasure its beautiful memory. Then THROW IT IN THE TRASH, because the Portland Mercury’s Wing Week is about to make every other week you’ve ever experienced look like GARBAGE. That’s right: From NOW to Sunday, October 6, the Portland Mercury’s Wing […]
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How Rene Gonzalez Found Common Ground With a Right-Wing Provocateur
Over the span of 24 hours, the Portland commissioner and mayoral candidate managed to anger his most conservative supporters, while inflaming progressives over a recent nod to Andy Ngo.
For some voters, Rene Gonzalez’s recent nod to a right-wing media personality and provocateur seemed on brand, as his disdain for anti-fascist protesters and police critics sometimes echoes the rhetoric heard on Fox News. To others, the Portland city commissioner and mayoral candidate’s “appreciation” for a divisive figure who’s previously aligned himself with far-right militia […]
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Pro-Palestine Protesters Occupy PSU Library; Police Say Arrests are Imminent
As colleges around Oregon and the US stage occupation-style demonstrations, a library takeover at Portland State University prompts calls for protesters to leave peacefully, amid threats of prosecution.
Update: December 3- This story was updated to remove a student’s full name. This story has been updated to note Tuesday’s campus closure. College campuses across the US are seeing sit-in style protests against the war in Gaza, and Portland is no exception. A few hours after a rally Monday afternoon, pro-Palestinian demonstrators broke into […]
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Death by Infrastructure
New Rankings Show the City’s Maintenance Challenges Run Far Deeper Than Paving
New rankings reveal Portland’s maintenance challenges run far deeper than paving.
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The Hitching Post
Dispatches from the Wedding Industrial Complex
True tales from the trenches of wedding planning.
Posted inMusic
Not Anonymous
PWRHAUS Sings of Long-Lost Love
A renowned anonymous breakup album turns into PWRHAUS.
Posted inMusic
Apocalypse Suite
Of My Chemical Romance, Funnybooks, and Mad Max
Of My Chemical Romance, funnybooks, and Mad Max.