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For a Glimpse Into Portland’s Thriving Future, Look to the River
After years of dedicated advocacy, Portland is getting on board with being a “swimmable city.”
“Everything exciting and imaginative that’s happening in Portland right now seems to be touching the river.” That assessment comes from Willie Levenson, who may be biased, considering he’s spent the better part of two decades working to change Portland’s relationship with the Willamette River through his organization, Human Access Project. But his analysis rings true. […]
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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Portland This Weekend: Aug 8–10, 2025
Foster Summer Soiree, Washington Park Summer Festival, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15
This weekend is absolutely stacked with fun shit to do, from Music Millennium’s 32nd Annual Customer Appreciation BBQ to the Foster Summer Soiree and from the Washington Park Summer Festival to the World Naked Bike Ride 2.0. If you’d like more ideas, check out our top event picks of the week. FRIDAY LIVE MUSIC WEEED […]
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Good Morning, News: Israel Prepares to Occupy Gaza City… More, President Trump Paved Over the Rose Garden, and the Summer’s Hottest Scams!
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! What’s that weather doing today? SUNNY today (high of 81), A LIL CLOUDY tomorrow (high of 85), and then it’s TOO HOT on Sunday and Monday (hovering […]
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Recent In-Custody Death Reignites Calls For a Police-Free Crisis Response System
Portland Police Bureau says it wants another agency to take over calls involving behavioral health. The region already has one that police rarely use.
Note: This story has been corrected to clarify the process for requesting Project Respond to accompany police on calls. As Portlanders await a medical examiner’s report and grand jury review of the death of Damon Lamarr Johnson, the fatal incident has reignited a conversation about the region’s mobile crisis response systems—including one that the police rarely […]
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Second Run Portland: Shinji Sōmai’s Moving Is the Luminous Coming-Of-Age Film You’ve Never Seen
Plus, Gakuryū Ishii’s punk-inflected vision and two cinema vérité documentaries head to the screen this month.
Portland’s late-summer screenings feel especially thoughtful, turbulent, and aliiiive! This month, we’ve got fresh restorations and poetic takes on youth, class, and artistic longing on the docket. A coming-of-age sparkler by Japanese director Shinji Sōmai gets its due, and two vérité documentaries paint radically human portraits of small-town America. Plus, Ethan Hawke has a well-deserved […]
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Ticket Alert: Air Supply, Freddie Gibbs, and More Portland Events Going On Sale This Week
Plus, Ira Glass and More Event Updates for August 7
Ready or not, here comes another batch of tickets. Aussie soft rock duo Air Supply celebrates their 50th anniversary this year. Rapper Freddie Gibbs will tour with producer the Alchemist for their collaborative album Alfredo. Plus, spend an evening with radio royalty Ira Glass at the Schnitz. Read on for details on those and other […]
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FREE TICKETS THURSDAY: Enter to Win Free Tix to See Hibou, Mipso, ZZ Top, and MORE!
Who’s ready to have some fun? Well, the Mercury is here to help you win FREE TICKETS to see some of Portland’s best concerts and events—our way of saying thanks to our bodacious readers and spread the word about some ripper upcoming performances! (Psst… if you want to say thanks back to the Mercury, consider […]
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POP QUIZ PDX: How Much Do YOU Know About the Portland Mercury?
(Psst! Read our 25th Anniversary Issue for all the answers, cheater!)
CALLING ALL BRAINIACS! It’s time once again to put your brainy-brain to the test with this week’s edition of POP QUIZ PDX—our weekly, local, sassy-ass trivia quiz. And this week, it’s A VERY SPECIAL EDITION of the Pop Quiz! Since it’s the Portland Mercury‘s 25th anniversary of rubbing readers the wrong way, we’ve devoted this week’s […]
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Good Morning, News: Mayor Wilson Blasted for Capitulating to Trump, Pickathon Memories, and FBI to Track Down Texas Democrats
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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Drinking the Pickathon Kool-Aid
And liking it!
It’s wild to me—as it is to so many friends and literally every single person I talked to over the weekend—that I had never been to Pickathon until this, the farm music festival’s 25th year. I never understood it, I never got why anyone would pay so much money to see a line-up that, yes, […]
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In It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley Youth Is Too Real
A new documentary by Amy Berg captures a songwriter’s vivid youth cut short.
Reminiscence bump is a real thing, and relates to the way one sees the landscape of their life as they get older. Oddly enough, you remember your youth more vividly than later periods.