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"We Needed to Put Portland on Notice": ACLU Says Protestor Arrests Might Be...
by Dirk VanderHart Gregory McKelvey speaks to demonstrators Tuesday afternoon. Kathryn Stevens is holding the umbrella.Doug BrownThe ACLU of Oregon says it's exploring legal options, after what it...
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Computer Scientists and Election Lawyers Are Privately Lobbying Hillary...
by Jen Graves Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.comOkay, look. He has 290 electoral votes, she has 232. Six "faithless" electors have declared themselves. If they follow through, he gets 284.Michigan, which...
View ArticleTom Ford Returns with Nocturnal Animals
And he brought some sad white rich people! by Marc Mohan NOCTURNAL ANIMALS, fashion-designer-turned-director Tom Ford’s second film (and his first since 2009’s A Single Man) looks great, and the story...
View ArticleWarren Beatty's Rules Don’t Apply Is Kind of a Mess...
... but you won’t mind. by Ned Lannamann TV MAY GET all the shine nowadays, but old-fashioned movie-star charisma goes a long way. Case in point: Warren Beatty, who’s returned to movies after a...
View ArticleMeet Me in Stars Hollow
My mom, Gilmore Girls, and me. by Ciara Dolan EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT, we’d repeat the same ritual: I’d scoop myself a big bowl of ice cream, settle into my dad’s ugly green couch, and wait for the phone...
View ArticleIn Praise of TV’s Smart Girls
Rory Gilmore and our hope for the future. by Megan Burbank SMART GIRLS ARE everywhere on TV now, but they weren’t in the early ’00s, when conventionally beautiful American “teens,” the audiovisual...
View ArticleIt’s Not Too Late to Watch Gilmore Girls!
Notes on Gilmore Girls, from a Gilmore woman. by Bri Brey AS AN ONLY CHILD, I missed out on some of the seminal television trends that would’ve been introduced by an older sibling. No Dawson’s Creek,...
View ArticleA Controversial Portland Cop Improperly Spied on Her Former Stepdaughter
That should have been grounds for firing. It wasn’t. by Doug Brown In May, Rachael Winterling made a quick weekend trip from Corvallis, where she was a student at Oregon State University, to her...
View ArticlePortland Cops Have Issues With Their New Crime Reporting Software
That should surprise no one. by Dirk VanderHart IN CLARK COUNTY, Washington, it became known as the “RegJIN effect.”Sheriff’s deputies just north of the Columbia River had been told for years to...
View ArticleHall Monitor—Eudaly Visits the Precinct
Portland’s newest commissioner is making some bold plays. Can she keep it up? by Dirk VanderHart WHEN A TRIO of well-known Portland organizers were arrested Monday evening—accused of encouraging a...
View ArticleI, Anonymous
Society: Not doomed after all? by Anonymous AS I RAKED LEAVES from the patio of the restaurant where I work, a man I can only describe as an “average white male” decided to shout something lewd about...
View ArticleJacqueline Rises to the Top
A seafood joint that hat tips Wes Anderson? Why not? by Andrea Damewood I'VE BEEN TRYING to avoid referring to things in Portland as Wes Andersonesque—at this point in this twee town, it’s a crutch to...
View ArticleBeer: To Burger or Not to Burger
That is the question by Brian Yaeger THERE ARE TWO new brewpub kitchen re-launches, both located on the northern side of Portland. One, Ex Novo Brewing, altered its original course by veering into...
View ArticleI’m Just Visiting
No sleep ‘til Brooklyn. by Hutch Harris My flight was scheduled to leave PDX at 6:10 am, which meant I had to get there at 4:30 am, which meant I wouldn’t be going to sleep that night. I can rarely...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor
“Until people realize they have more than two choices, this idiocy will continue.” WHITE HOUSE CLOWNRE: “No, New York Times, I Will Not Give President Trump ‘a Chance’” [Feature, Nov 16]. “Giving Trump...
View ArticleJill Thompson, Jewel of the Comics Industry
With The True Amazon, she gets Wonder Woman right (finally). by Suzette Smith ALL OF MY IRE can’t undo decisions that were made. The upcoming Wonder Woman movie will be set during World War...
View ArticleScrappy and Self-Aware
Anna Kendrick’s Scrappy Little Nobody keeps it real. by Jenni Moore YOU CAN ALMOST HEAR Anna Kendrick’s bubbly voice as she exudes humble self-awareness and details the socially awkward moments of her...
View ArticleDollops of Wisdom
Get through your Trump grief with these essential episodes of Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds’ history podcast. by Megan Burbank When the present sucks, it’s time to study history, and if you’re like...
View ArticleSneaker Wave
The latest in Portland hip-hop. by Jenni Moore LAST WEEK Portland singer/rapper the Last Artful, Dodgr dropped “Oofda,” the first single from her forthcoming LP Bone Music with producer Neill Von...
View ArticleThe Mercury Staff’s Wish List of Holiday Gifts!
Here are the perfect holiday gifts—to give the Mercury staff. by Mercury Staff Every holiday it’s the same thing: people saying “gimme, gimme, gimme!” So... why should we be left out? Here at the...
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