National Guard needed in Portland,Oregon
by Anonymous Off to work, and boy do I hate to go. If I don't go to work, I can not pay my bills, and my $1025 dollar rent. I like so many others do not have family to help in those hard times.I know...
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Good Morning, News: Springwater Sweep Begins, a Creepy Portland Coach, and a...
by Dirk VanderHart City says day 1 of Springwater Corridor sweep went according to plan #LiveOnK2https://t.co/gzCnzYZ5WRpic.twitter.com/JFcJNCfYwh— KATU News (@KATUNews) September 2, 2016The...
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Things To Do This Weekend!
Things to do for Sept 2-5 by Mercury Staff Welcome to Labor Day weekend, everybody. We made it! So now what? Well, now we try to figure out new and interesting ways to relax a little. The city itself...
View ArticleHere's Amy Schumer Destroying a Sexist Heckler
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Comedian Amy Schumer was doing a show in Stockholm recently, when a brilliant neurosurgeon—actually a misogynist douchebag in sales—decided to shout out the most hilarious...
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Behold Multiple Maniacs, John Waters' Disgusting, Wonderful Piece of Juvenilia
by Courtney Ferguson Mink Stole has bloodlust after seeing Divine stab Mary Vivian Pearce to death. Stole plays a religious whore—a woman who puts churchgoers through the Stations of the Cross, you...
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Timbers v. FC Dallas Match Preview
by Abe Asher Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland TimbersLast weekend, the Portland Timbers got their title defense back on track with an absolutely necessary 4-2 thumping of the Seattle Sounders. On Saturday...
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What Are You Doing on August 21, 2017?
by Ned Lannamann Map via greatamericaneclipse.comIt's probably not too soon to start planning next summer—specifically, the complete solar eclipse that will be visible in parts of Oregon on Monday,...
View ArticleKeep Portland Weird
by Anonymous Apart from the certainty that as soon as the first sticker is attached to the first bumper, it's too late, I abhor you for the near-equal certainty that you (bumper stickerer) are part of...
View ArticleConvicted Stanford Rapist Brock Turner Freed from Jail After Serving Only...
by Ana Sofia Knauf Brock Turner has been released from jail. https://t.co/vOBZ4rsmvmpic.twitter.com/adCCYpRvul— Complex (@ComplexMag) September 2, 2016Brock Turner, a Stanford University student...
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Hey, Who Wants to Buy That Statue of Naked Donald Trump? (Anybody? Anybody?...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Rich SmithYou probably remember that glorious nude statue of orange Donald Trump that was proudly displayed in Seattle recently. Turns out it was one of five statues—each...
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A New City "Surcharge" On Exorbitant CEO Pay Could Raise Up To $3.5 Million
by Dirk VanderHart Companies operating in Portland that pay their CEOs exorbitant sums will get slapped on the wrist next year, if Commissioner Steve Novick has his way. For months, Novick's been...
View Article"Taco Truck On Every Corner" Warning Confirms Trumpist Hell Is Everyone...
by Rich Smith Speaking with MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid last night, Marco Gutierrez, founder of Latinos for Trump and member of a rapidly dwindling population of Latino Trump supporters, called out a...
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Multnomah County's Former County Emergency Manager Seeks To Clear His Name in...
by Dirk VanderHart Joe Rizzi speaks to county officials at a rare "name clearing" hearing.The Mercury was the only paper to write about the tumultuous departure of Multnomah County's top emergency...
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This Week on Blogtown
by Bri Brey Your week in review for Mon Aug 29 to Sat Sept 3!LEVI HASTINGSTOP STORY: The killer of a black teen in Gresham was a documented member of an Oregon white supremacist gang for the last 12...
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Complete Unknown Is a Complete Waste of Time! ZING
by Ned Lannamann I wonder if the makers of Complete Unknown were as allured and intrigued by the movie’s central character, Alice (Rachel Weisz), as they expect us to be. Alice is a lazy screenplay’s...
View ArticleBus Driver
by Anonymous It was the first time in my life I was attracted to a bus driver. I got on the #6 bus in the SW area of downtown a few weeks ago. She had purple hair, rainbow-reflective sunglasses,...
View ArticleYou know who you are
by Anonymous I am sick of you junkies. I'm sick of picking needles off the floor at work. I'm sick of kicking your asses out. I'm sick of kicking you off property for smoking meth right outside...
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Local Literary Journal Big Big Wednesday Looks to the Future
by Joshua James Amberson Sam LoperOver the last few years, the annual local literary journal Big Big Wednesday has become for many in the literary arts community one of those much-anticipated Portland...
View ArticleRenters Need Not Apply
by Anonymous If the PPS board puts their $750,000,000 bond on the November ballot along with the City of Portland bond and Metro levy the total will be more than 1 billion dollars in new property...
View ArticleCrazy Cat Ladies
by Anonymous I have not lived in Portland for very long, but so far I have noticed that the city's contingent of Crazy Cat Ladies is quite impressive. Not in quantity, mind you, but in quality.[...
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