Fuck You Pounding At ?
by Anonymous Dear apartment neighbor who doesn't like me playing my acoustic at 7:00 am on a Sunday:King of double standards much? It isn't my fault you choose to stay up all night. It isn't my fault...
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Another Dismal Road Performance Downs Timbers in Dallas
by Abe Asher USA Today Sports ImagesNo matter the heights they soar to at Providence Park, no matter what they've done the week before, and no matter who is on the field, the 2016 Portland Timbers...
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There’s a Lot More Than Pokémon in the Oregon Symphony’s 2016/17 Concerts
by Ned Lannamann JENNIFER ILETTIt's easy to lament the prominence of “pops” in this year’s Oregon Symphony calendar—nights dedicated to music from Pokémon, Frozen, and Raiders of the Lost Ark sit...
View ArticleThe Star-Racist Banner
by Anonymous Francis Scott Key, the wealthy American lawyer who wrote, "The Star Spangled Banner" was a slaveholder who believed blacks to be "a distinct and inferior race of people, which all...
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The Light Between Oceans: Another Derek Cianfrance Movie About Pretty People...
by Marjorie Skinner In the wake of World War I, people were defined by what they had lost. A generation of young men had been scorched from the earth, leaving a corresponding generation of young women...
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At This Year’s Time-Based Art Festival, the Stakes Will Be Higher
by Megan Burbank Duty FreeDylan Mira“The stakes are a lot higher in a space that we want to be able to welcome people into,” says Erin Boberg Doughton, performing arts program director for the...
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Anderson .Paak's Boom-Baptism
by Santi Elijah Holley ANDERSON .PAAK No longer Breezy Lovejoy.Jabari JacobTHIS YEAR HAS SEEN the loss of two of our greatest and most visionary performers—David Bowie and Prince represented a...
View ArticlePerpetual Tourists
by Anonymous Imagine that a bunch of American d-bags started moving to Paris in droves. And the second they arrived they started wearing berets and saying "ooh-la-la!!" and carrying comically...
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Good Morning, News: All Bleakness, Befitting Summer's End
by Dirk VanderHart The long weekend makes for a short week, everybody. That's the only silver lining I can find this bleak morning. While you were out enjoying our great state this weekend, a trio of...
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Things To Do This Week!
Things to do for Sept 6-8 by Mercury Staff Let there be ART! This week's big focus is obviously the massive celebration of Portland's creativity and artistic ambition in the form of TBA:16, PICA's...
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Portland Thorns Recap: Thorns Blast Boston Breakers
by Erin O'Regan The Thorns locked in a Labor Day win on Sunday when they beat the Boston Breakers 5-1. POINTS POINTS POINTS! AND YOU GET A POINT AND YOU GET A POINT!If you’re not doing fan kicks and...
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: Bi & Bi
by Dan Savage I'm a 51-year-old male, married to an amazing lady for over twenty years. Our sex life is great and I love her more than words can express. She's been bi-curious for years and we are...
View ArticleYou're Not a Priestess, This Isn't a Temple
by Anonymous I could see the disdain in your eyes as soon as you waved my friend and I through the door. and then again as you tried to use words you thought I wouldn't understand like 'terpenes' and...
View ArticleToday in Vicarious Opinionating
by Dan Savage Charles M. Blow on Donald Trump:So, after weeks of preaching his sinister sermon of black pathology to mostly white audiences as part of his utterly fake “black outreach”— which is in...
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Donald Glover's Atlanta Starts Tonight
by Ned Lannamann Set your DVRs: The first episode of Atlanta premieres on FX tonight, immediately followed by the second. It's the new half-hour program from Donald Glover, and despite his background...
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Bumbershoot's Highs and Lows: From Tyler the Creator's Hectoring Raps to...
by Dave Segal Tame Impala fans at Memorial Stadium, going to heaven.Josh BisContent warning: There are as many Bumbershoot recaps as there are Bumbershoot attendees. Here's another one to file in your...
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Some of Phyllis Schlafly's Greatest Hits, for People Too Young to Know
by Christopher Frizzelle Phyllis Schlafly, on death's doorstep, supporting Trump.Gino Santa Maria / Shutterstock.com• She called public sex education classes ''in-home sales parties for abortion.''•...
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by Anonymous I was attending my company's monthly "team building outing" when I first felt it. A rumble in my tummy that was indicative of my worst fear: Bubble Guts. In a public place. In a public...
View ArticleToday in Stupid: Video Shows Assholes Destroying Instagram's Favorite Oregon...
by Jennifer Campbell Throwback to #thatpnwrock 📷: @_mintken_A photo posted by M a c k a y l a G e n e s e a (@themac10) on Nov 14, 2015 at 9:03am PSTThe Duckbill, an Instagram-famous sandstone...
View ArticleOne Day at a Time
This week: Gene Wilder, Chris Brown, and Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior. by Ann Romano MONDAY, AUGUST 29This week begins with some sad, sad news. The brilliant, charming, and sweet actor and...
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