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Things to Do This Weekend!
Things to Do for November 25-27 by Mercury Staff Black Friday doesn't have to be the soul-demolishing corporate thresher you fling yourself into headfirst. It doesn't. This weekend is proof the day...
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Behold the Portland Mercury's Unparalleled Coverage of Gilmore Girls
by Erik Henriksen Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life finally hits Netflix TODAY, and our Gilmore-obsessed office could not be more stoked. You're damn right we wrote about it!"Meet Me in Stars Hollow:...
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I Took the World’s Greatest Flirt on Her First Weed Journey
by David Schmader David SchmaderIT WAS THE DAY after the day a racist sexual predator was elected president. White nationalists were rejoicing, attacks on minorities were spiking, and Leonard Cohen...
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The Eagle Huntress Review: The Prettiest Movie Since, IDK, Lord of the Rings?
by Suzette Smith The Eagle Huntress looks amazing. The documentary’s images—featuring a grinning 13-year-old Aisholpan Nurgaiv as she holds a splendid eagle half her size—are the stuff of myths. I...
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On Welcome to the Graveyard, Castle Lets in a Sliver of Light
by Ben Salmon COURTESY CASTLE/VÁN RECORDSCASTLE Not pictured: Nathan Fillion. FOR THREE ALBUMS, Castle chose to cloak itself in darkness. The California heavy metal trio’s 2011 debut, In Witch Order,...
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Photos & Video: Protesters Shut Down Pearl District Block and Pass Out Food...
by Doug Brown Portland cops tried unsuccessfully to get people to move from the intersection. Protesters handed out food and clothes to the houselessDoug BrownDozens of Portlanders shut down a block...
View ArticleTake a Quick Pee?
by Anonymous As a former canvasser and current food delivery person; let me tell you all of some of my "pee-scores".Yeah yeah, I state I gotta pee. More than 1/2 of you let me in. Once I'm in(and I...
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Star Trek: The Animated Series Is the Perfect Saturday Morning Cartoon
by Erik Henriksen via TrekCoreLast week, Star Trek: The Animated Series came out on Blu-ray—available, for the first time, in a standalone Blu-ray collection, as part of the franchise's 50th...
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Blazer's Recap: Blazers Feast on Pelicans, 119-104
by Arthur Bradford It was Coach Stott's birthday and everyone in Blazersland wanted to give him a win. The Blazers had returned from a punishing east coast road trip during which they lost four out of...
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Things to Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff The Dollop When the world is in turmoil, it can be soothing to look back at equally wackadoodle moments in history, if only to be reminded that this horror show isn’t new. But actual...
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Things to Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff Thee Oh Sees, Alex Cameron, The Lavender Flu The latest record from space-vortex explorers Thee Oh Sees, An Odd Entrances, is a six-song counterpart to their recent A Weird Exits that...
View ArticleGrateful Biker....One Small Example
by Anonymous To the two grown men, in a presumably heated SUV, who turned left in front of me going through an intersection, waved and smiled at me, biker in the rain - I didn't stop to give you the...
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Things to Do This Week!
Things to do for November 28 - December 1 by Mercury Staff It typically takes about 3 or 4 days for that post-Thanksgiving weekend lethargy to shake loose, and this week is a good example of that...
View ArticleGood Morning, News: Shooter on Ohio State Campus, and Voter Recount Driving...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! You keep telling me on the telephone, how you got it going on, and how you'll keep me satisfied. LET'S GO TO PRESS.There were a lot of shootings this...
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Blazer's Recap: The Beard Wins Again, Dammit
by Arthur Bradford It's easy not to like the Rockets and their star guard James "The Beard" Harden. One way or another this team has ended up breaking the hearts of Blazer's fans for years. Plus,...
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The Walking Dead Recap: Tara? Which One is Tara? Ohhh, THAT Tara.
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Welcome back to the Walking Dead recap in which we ask, "Wait... which one is Tara?" Hit the jump for our SPOILER-FILLED remembrances of last night's episode, and then let's...
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Nocturnal Animals Review: The Right Movie at the Wrong Time
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 is intriguing and disturbing. But the...
View ArticleTipless in Seattle
by Anonymous Reality check for those that think people that deliver food to your fat selfish faces don't deserve a tip:I have to drive my own car, which is incredibly hard on my family's ONLY car....
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Win Tickets to See The Exorcist—with Linda Blair in Attendance!
by Erik Henriksen This Saturday, the Hollywood Theatre and Movie Madness are showing William Friedkin's 1973 horror classic The Exorcist—with Linda Blair in attendance for a post-screening Q&A! If...
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Portland Jazz Club Jimmy Mak's Is Closing at the End of 2016
by Ned Lannamann FacebookPortland jazz club Jimmy Mak's has announced it will be closing at the end of 2016. A statement has been released which details the circumstances, which are truly...
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