To suggest that the Portland Fire—or any WNBA expansion team—could make the league’s playoffs in the first season would have gotten you laughed out of many an arena before the 2025 season. This is because that up until head coach Natalie Na…
As I swayed gently in a dusty hammock at my campsite somewhere off the Logging Road trail of Pendarvis Farm at the recent Pickathon festival, the sky began its nightly shift from blue to purple to black. The spectral tones of three or four
Ready for the weekend? We sure are. There’s plenty to go out and do, including going to watch the PDX Adult Soapbox Derby or the Portland Criterium, chowing down at the Portland Mercury‘s Burger Week, and headbanging at the Summer Shred Mus…
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Guilty pleasures must be on the mind of writer-director Jane Schoenbrun. Their third and latest fictional feature, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, explores a long, dark embrace with a problematic fave: specifically, a metafiction ’80s…
Get ready to fill in your concert calendar for the rest of the year. Rootsy Americana artist Allison Russell comes through town supporting her third solo record, In The Hour of Chaos. Hyperpop sibling duo Frost Children are finishing up the…
Amid raucous calls from protesters not to spend millions renovating the Moda Center, Portland City Council approved a lease term sheet to send to the Portland Trail Blazers Wednesday, August 12. The city is in the process of negotiating a 2…
Who’s ready to have some fun? Well, the Mercury is here to help with FREE TICKETS to see some of Portland’s best concerts and events; our way of saying thanks to our great readers and spread the word about some fantastic upcoming performanc…
CALLING ALL SMARTY PANTS! It’s time to put that brainy-brain to the test with this edition of POP QUIZ PDX—our local, sassy-ass trivia quiz. And this week we’ll see how much YOU know about gigantic mutant crows, potentially collapsing build…
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The climate crisis is upon us. Here in Portland, as is the case around the world, its impacts are both depressing and deeply harmful. More and more of our summer days are spent avoiding wildfire smoke, extreme heat, or both. Even as climate…
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