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Love Pokémon Go? Need a Place to Live? Got a Lot of Money? Read This!
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey There should be a Venn diagram in which Pokémon Go, housing, and being independently wealthy intersect, right? Well, while we're waiting around for that, check out this...
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Bumbershoot Helpfully Announces Daily Schedule for 2016 Fest
by Dave Segal Pick a day, any day!The 46th annual Bumbershoot—which happens at Seattle Center September 2-4— has presented its day-by-day schedule, which you can view here. Friday's looking good on...
View ArticleYou Lied to Me About Your Age
by Anonymous Then you wonder why I was not into you? You are trying to find a lady to date and on the very first date start bitching about how cruel and awful women can be and how awful your mother...
View ArticleDipshit Cyclist on Foster
by Anonymous To the dickhead cyclist on SE Foster who called us assholes, flipped us off, and skipped his breaks to try and get us to hit him, let me explain a few things to you. We had no idea you...
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Good Morning, News: More Expensive Beer, More Apartments in SW Portland, and...
by Dirk VanderHart Coming soon to the South Waterfront: Up to 1,200 probably quite expensive apartments, courtesy of San Francisco's top apartment builder. A man who worked at Precision Castparts for...
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Pickathon Starlight Series, Episode 6: Thundercat
by Ned Lannamann Nehemiah SliwoskiPickathon 2016 starts this week! (Check back tomorrow for the Mercury's VERY THOROUGH guide to Portland's finest and funnest music festival.) And that means our video...
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Get Yer FREE Tix to the Adult Swim Drive-In Tour!
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Courtesy Adult SwimIf you love Adult Swim—home of such beloved adult cartoons as Robot Chicken, Rick and Morty, and The Venture Bros.—then prepare to poop your pants in glee......
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: Just Say No
by Dan Savage I have a kink f-buddy who I get together with to act out "kidnap" role play scenarios. A typical scenario is that we arrange for me to be walking down some deserted road or alley and he...
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The Bachelorette Recap: Final Episode—Sorry to Have Wasted Your Time
by Campy Draper It's a tradition in my family to eat the hand of the bride.courtesy of @BacheloretteABCThis is it you guys. My LASTBachelor/Bachelorette recap. I’m calling it quits after this one...
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A Favorite Emoji Combo (😬🔫) Will Soon Be Obsolete
by Christopher Frizzelle This is the new gun emoji.Courtesy of AppleThe revolver emoji is out. Now in its place? A squirt gun:Apple's latest software update for the iPhone and iPad features one of its...
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Mayor Charlie Hales Has Pulled the Plug on His Radical, "Rational" Safe Sleep...
by Dirk VanderHart Adam WickhamYOU WOULDN’T have known it from the increasing panic over homelessness, but there was actual excitement over Mayor Charlie Hales’“safe sleep policy.”In a nation where...
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Hillary Is Smashing Poor Little Rich Trump in Fundraising
by Matt Baume "But wait, there's more!"Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock.comIt's been a very good July for Hillary Clinton. Oh sure, she had to endure a lot of chatter about email servers. But she also beat...
View ArticleNever Piss Off Your Gay Stylist
by Anonymous To the bitch who came into my salon: you were one of the worst clients I have ever encountered. You were nodding off in my chair because of all the opiate pills you consumed before coming...
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Which Is Better: Jill Stein's '90s Folk Band or Her Chance of Being Elected...
by Rich Smith Jill Stein: Somebody's Sister, lead vox. RIYL a Trump presidency.Courtesy Jill Stein for PresidentAs the internet has recently discovered, Jill Stein is more than just a politician. She...
View ArticleOur Little Sister Is About Nothing
In a good way! Its low-key charm will win you over. by Megan Burbank “IT WAS NOTHING!” declared another critic at the press screening of Our Little Sister. The three-word indictment, given his tone,...
View ArticleAmbition and Friendship in Don’t Think Twice
Mike Birbiglia’s latest is a bittersweet look at growing up in comedy. by Courtney Ferguson IF YOU OVERLOOK their pallor, theater kids have a youthful glow, probably because a lot of their time is...
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Things To Do Film
This Week: The Princess Bride, Kevin Spacey as a cat, and a super-rare 35mm print of Eight Diagram Pole Fighter. by Mercury Staff Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie The film achieves the same...
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Noteworthy shows for the week of August 3-9. by Mercury Music Staff {{ image:2 }} WEDNESDAY 8/3BLOWOUT, WALTER ETC., ALI MUHAREB, RILED (Black Water Bar, 835 NE Broadway) Portland’s best pop-punk band...
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On Blowout’s debut album No Beer, No Dad, they shotgun beers as communal catharsis. by Cameron Crowell BLOWOUT’S DEBUT full-length, No Beer, No Dad, tells downcast stories of young punks coping with...
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Richmond, Virginia’s Lucy Dacus doesn’t want to be funny anymore. by Ryan J. Prado WHEN LUCY DACUS sings “I don’t wanna be funny anymore” on the opening track of her debut full-length, No Burden, she...
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