Craig's List - Update Your Listings!
by Anonymous You've for something for sale - great! Somebody buys it - great! Delete your listing- how hard is that? You forgot to delete your listing, and somebody wants to buy it? Send them an email...
View ArticleBlack Is the Old Black
by Anonymous I couldn't help but notice, during our 3-day heat wave last weekend, so many hipsters wearing all black outfits....i mean like black jeans and t-shirts...one was even wearing a beanie...
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Good Morning, News: Traffic Carnage, Racism, More Clinton Emails, and A Pair...
by Dirk VanderHart Not the most hopeful news morning we've ever seen, but let's press on anyway. The 20-year-old who was allegedly driving recklessly when he ran down a 15-year-old girl on SE...
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Free the Weed, and Drop the Charges
by Josh Jardine If at some point in the past you were charged with, and convicted of, a crime relating to cannabis in Oregon, two things: 1) That sucks and 2) There may be help to get those charges...
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: Natural Vs. Unnatural Threesomes
by Dan Savage Originally posted on December 10, 2014.I love your column, Dan, but I wanted to clear something up. Recently someone wrote to you that they—or their spouse—wanted to have a threesome,...
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The Stranger Things Soundtrackers Are Coming to Holocene
by Ned Lannamann Alex KachaAs a newspaper with its own style guide (an admittedly slender one that is chiefly devoted to swear words), we run roughshod over most bands' annoying typography. (Sorry,...
View ArticleHope You Like Movies in Your TV Shows!
by Ned Lannamann This is the trailer for the upcoming Lethal Weapon TV series. Yes, they made a TV show out of Lethal Weapon in the year 2016, a good two decades after this particular franchise hit...
View ArticleWatching Hillary Clinton Open that Pickle Jar on Jimmy Kimmel Just Proves...
by Christopher Frizzelle This is not the funniest thing I have ever seen Hillary Clinton do on Jimmy Kimmel's show, but it's the part of the show last night everyone's talking about:People talking...
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A Ghost Helped Write Johanna Warren's New Track “circlenot astraight”
by Ciara Dolan Gretchen Heinel This morning Consequence of Sound premiered a new track from Johanna Warren, the ominously beautiful piano dirge "circlenot astraight." It's the second single off the...
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Laura Ingalls Wilder No Longer Running for Congress; Michigan GOP Being a...
by Megan Burbank Melissa Gilbert in 1975. Yeah, I'd totally vote for her.NBC Television Network via Wikimedia CommonsWhy can't the good TV stars feel endlessly compelled to run for office?For those...
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60-Day "Recess" For Volunteer Board Overseeing Portland Police Changes
by Doug Brown coab-cocl.orgThe community volunteer board overseeing changes to the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) will go on a 60-day "recess," according to an a agreement recently ratified by the city...
View ArticleY La Bamba’s Luz Elena Mendoza Overcomes Darkness Through Art
Ojos del Sol Responds to Pain with Boundless Love by Emilly Prado IN LIFE there are no coincidences, and Luz Elena Mendoza’s first name is proof. The heart of Portland band Y La Bamba, Mendoza is a...
View ArticleLatino Metal Night Unifies Through Volume
It’s a headbanging catharsis. by Aris Hunter Wales “IT’S A BROTHERHOOD. You could be dropped off in any random city, see some guy rocking the same shit you like, and as soon as you meet them, they’re...
View ArticleProject Pabst vs. Festicide
Why choose? Here's the best of Project Pabst and Festicide. by Ciara Dolan TO EVERYTHING there is a season, and right now festival season is chugging its final beer. But before it all ends, we’ve got...
View ArticleRaz Simone’s Soulful Sincerity
The rapper touches down in Portland for We Take Holocene IV. by Jenni Moore SEATTLE RAPPER RAZ SIMONE is “That N*gga” (oh my!). On the self-actualizing track from his most recent mixtape Trap...
View ArticleFor the Love of Cheap Trick
It’s time to appreciate the little band from Rockford. by Mark Lore “WITH A HYBRID AUDIENCE of young and old rockers, Cheap Trick’s longevity seems assured.” That declaration—made in the January 1980...
View ArticlePortland’s Pretty
Pickathon: The hottest looks from the coolest music fest. by Marissa Sullivan I’D BEEN HEARING for years from reliable sources (the Mercury’s last two music editors, Ezra Ace Caraeff and Ned...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor
“Those officers get nothing done besides maybe spreading some manure on the asphalt.”QUOTH THE RAVENRE: “The Panic Room Is Now... The Raven” [Blogtown, Aug 19], Music Editor Ciara Dolan’s post about...
View ArticleStranded in the Land of Enchantment
Leigh Stein’s new memoir names abuse for what it is. by Meryl Williams WHAT IS IT like to grieve the loss of a loved one in the age of Facebook and online memorials? How do you mourn a person who...
View ArticlePoking the Hornets’ Nest with Eric Andre
Fresh off his RNC antics, the provocative comedian comes to Portland. by Robert Ham “FEARLESS” HAS BECOME one of the most useless adjectives around when it comes to talking about a comedian. Yet...
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