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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Workers in Portland’s Independent Police Investigation Unit Authorize a Strike
The complaint investigation unit says the city’s new voter-approved police oversight system could leave them jobless.
In 2020, Portland voters approved a major overhaul of the city’s current police oversight and accountability system. A ballot measure called for a new, civilian-led police oversight board and a city-funded team of investigators with the authority to investigate complaints and issue discipline. Five years later, the new Community Board for Police Accountability (CBPA) is […]
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Toody Cole and Friends Celebrate the Life, Music, and Birthday of Fred Cole
Crystal Ballroom hosts an evening honoring the Dead Moon frontman.
Depending on which source you believe, we are either approaching or have just passed the official 30th anniversary of the release of Nervous Sooner Changes, the all-killer-no-filler seventh studio album from Portland punk legends Dead Moon. Crammed front to back with the band’s signature mix of wild-eyed garage-rock and desperatly doomed-folk ballads, the 10-track release […]
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Hear In Portland: The Thesis at Lollipop Shoppe, Portugal. The Surprise EP, and Ice Cube
Read all about what’s on the music forecast, Hear In Portland.
At the time of this column’s filing, I am 12 weeks postpartum, potty training a three year old, and exclusively breastfeeding a three month old. As someone who’s already overwhelmed with the happenings of my inner world—while also being aware of the atrocities, injustices, genocides, wars, fascism, and disenfranchisement happening globally—I don’t have much of […]
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Good Morning, News: ODOT Starts Rose Quarter Construction, Flag Burners Beware, and Lori Chavez-DeRemer Wants to Sell Portland Out
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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Despite State Transportation Funding Crisis, Construction Begins on I-5 Rose Quarter Project
As legislators prepare to duke it out over transportation funding in a special session this week, ODOT has quietly broken ground on the first phase of the $2.1 billion freeway project.
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) broke ground on the first phase of the I-5 Rose Quarter project this week—an event nearly a decade in the making. But the occasion commenced without fanfare. Even after years of buildup for the project, ODOT didn’t hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark its official start, nor did the […]
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Eight Writers We’re Excited to See at the 2025 Portland Book Festival
Literary Arts announced its whole list of poets, authors, and comics artists you’ll want to catch at this year’s fest.
More than 80 authors will appear at the 2025 festival.
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SAVAGE LOVE: Long Time!
He likes to be tied up—she wants him to murder that kink in its sleep.
Long time reader! I’m a mostly straight boy in my early 20s with a new girlfriend. I say “mostly straight” because I’m into bondage and finding men who wanted to tie me up was always easier than finding women who wanted to tie me up. But I met a girl at a party early this […]
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Mercury Music Picks: Ural Thomas Brings the Pain, Fred Cole Turns 77
Plus Hazel and Red Pine are back, and Portland Music News!
For some, Labor Day Weekend is a signifier of the end of summer. And it is for those heading back to school as students, teachers, and school administrative staff (big shouts to the lunch ladies and janitors of the world). But y’all know this is the PNW (in the year of our Climate Collapsing Lord, […]
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Album Review: The OO-Ray’s Marginals Is a Sonic Vigil
Portland experimenter Ted Laderas meditates on forgotten disasters through distorted cello and droning electronics.
In the wake of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan’s Tōhoku region, a resident of the small town of Ōtsuchi opened a public telephone booth in his garden. Inside, a disconnected phone invited visitors to speak their grief aloud, carrying on the wind painful stories that would be near-impossible to let rest anywhere […]
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Good Morning, News: Portland’s WNBA Team Hires a General Manager, Intel Now Partly Owned By US Government, and Israeli Strike Kills 20, Including Journalists
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 Chicago Reader Joins the Mercury and Stranger in the Noisy Creek Family!
Big (and very good) news for the future and general health of alternative weeklies.
Great news! (Especially if you’re a fan of the survival of newspapers and smart local media.) The Chicago Reader—one of the grand dames of alternative weeklies—is joining the Portland Mercury and Seattle’s The Stranger as the newest member of the Noisy Creek newspaper family! In case you’ve forgotten, Noisy Creek purchased the Mercury and The […]