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Dan Saltzman Pulled the Plug on a Terminal 1 Shelter Due to Lack of an...
by Dirk VanderHart It became clear on Monday afternoon, not long after Homer Williams and his colleagues had finally sent along a proposal to create a homeless shelter at Terminal 1: After months of...
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Record Review: WL, Light Years
by Ciara Dolan MICHAEL YUNSELF-DESCRIBED“exploratory rock” band WL originally composed their latest release to soundtrack René Laloux’s bizarre 1988 animated film Gandahar, a surrealist sci-fi fable...
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Things To Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff La Luz, Candace, Haley Heynderickx Former Seattleites and current Angelinos La Luz play sinister doo-wop that sounds like it’s been dredged up from the murky floor of the Pacific,...
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by Anonymous I've finally reached peak bike rage...When you are illegally parked in a bike lane removing your baby from a car door that is now directly open into the car lane since you are already on...
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Headdress-Rocking Good Samaritan Was Just Trying to Get Some Weed When he...
by Dirk VanderHart Gunfire on MAX. This guy in an Indian headdress named Rambo overpowered the shooter https://t.co/Rp7tdZzUdepic.twitter.com/Jb6xJkK02r— KGW News (@KGWNews) October 26, 2016The city's...
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This is Why 2016 Has Been a Real Pain in the Ass
by Bobby Roberts iStock/popiasenIt's not the scary clowns epidemic.2016 is mostly men throwing an extensive series of fits at the mere idea they'll have to scoot over into the passenger seat—or climb...
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: Erotic Novels Need New Home
by Dan Savage I was wondering if you knew of a place online where we can donate erotic graphic novels. We're moving across country and we can't take them all. We'd love to find them a good home. Thank...
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Good Morning, News: More Bullseye Glass Pollution, Terminal 1, and a "Stolen"...
by Doug Brown Good morning, Portland. These links are good and you should click them. Dominic DevenutaBullseye Glass may have polluted groundwater, too: "Stormwater runoff from the Southeast Portland...
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I, Anonymous: The Best and Worst of Portland
by Anonymous Kalah AllenTO THE 20 OR 30 people who walked by a man sobbing uncontrollably and screaming for his life in the middle of the Burnside Bridge, you suck. You ignored the rope tied around...
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: Reach Out & DM Someone
by Dan Savage I feel like asking a non partial third party is my best option as you are likely to be brief and to the point and disapproval won't hurt my feelings as much coming from a stranger as...
View ArticlePussy Riot Shares Harrowing "Make America Great Again" Music Video Months...
by Ciara Dolan This morning Pussy Riot released a new music video for "Make America Great Again"—a deeply unsettling depiction of what a Trump presidency could look like. This follows two other videos...
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Ted Douglass, of the "Daria, Mitch & Ted Show" at the Buzz, Has Been Laid Off
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Mitch, Daria, and Ted (Ted's on the left)Courtesy MD&T Facebook fan pageThe radio business is a grisly one, with personalities coming and going at a rapid pace. However,...
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Tonight at Powell's Cedar Hills: Nick Offerman, and Also Wood
by Erik Henriksen A while ago I was watching This Old House (as I do, religiously, fun fact you almost certainly did not know about how I spend my free time) and Nick Offerman popped up on it, and I...
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Things To Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff The Secret History of Twin Peaks Following a murder in a remote Washington State town populated by lovable weirdoes and fishes in percolators, David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks...
View ArticleToday in Third-Party Candidates
by Dan Savage Jill Stein's ideology says one thing. Her investment portfolio says another: https://t.co/vrlei02brnpic.twitter.com/sfas1Rc9BN— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 27, 2016Jill...
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Don't Have a COW
by Robert Ham THE ORB Weirdest zodiac sign ever.MAX ZERRAHNA UNIQUE RESPONSE to the massive political, social, and environmental upheaval happening around the globe has been the resurgence of music’s...
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Haven't Voted for City Commissioner Yet? Watch This Debate on Housing
by Dirk VanderHart Last Friday, the Merc and a bunch of other local groups (Portland Tenants United, 1,000 Friends of Oregon, Know Your City, the Portland Right to the City Coalition, and KBOO) hosted...
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Saraveza's Humble Kitchen Opens
by Brian Yaeger Ever since Sarah Pederson opened Saraveza in October 2008, it has been a spot for three things: hop heads, cheese heads (Pederson is a Wisconsin native; it’s a Packers bar) and...
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Chelsea Cain Responds to Sexist Harassment on Twitter: "It Nurtures a Culture...
by Megan Burbank The image that launched a thousand trash monsters.MarvelHere's a story I'm sick of hearing: A person did a cool thing, and they were rewarded with online abuse from the richest...
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After Stalemate, Portland Police Chief Changes Mind, Sides With Oversight...
by Doug Brown SQUID VICIOUS / CC 2.0 BY SAAfter Portland Police Chief Mike Marshman disagreed Wednesday night with the civilian panel that unanimously concluded a Portland cop acted unprofessionally...
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