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This Week on Blogtown
by Bri Brey Your week in review for Monday September 12 to Friday September 16!TOP STORY: BE SAFE OUT THERE:Watch the difficult, important testimony Fallon Smart's mother gave at City Council....
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Things To Do Tonight, Saturday 9/17
by Bri Brey Bruce Campbell: Last Fan Standing That chin! That smile! That smarm! Bruce Campbell hosts a game show on CONtv that puts a panel of four nerds through the paces with trivia questions about...
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Things To Do Tonight, Sunday 9/18
by Bri Brey Polish Festival Thousands of people this weekend will pack the streets between the 109-year-old St. Stanislaus Church and the 105-year-old Polish Library to celebrate all things Polish....
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Things to Eat & Drink This Weekend!
by Bri Brey Fall is for Ramen: Organic Ramen Pop-Up Series Umi Organic and Broth Bar team up for a first-come-first-served fall pop-up series, pairing bone broths by Salt Fire & Time's Tressa...
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Things to Laugh At This Weekend!
by Bri Brey Faizon Love One of the funniest "those guys" you never knew you knew, better known from his appearances in films like Elf and Made, and most famously as Big Worm in Friday. Sept 22-24,...
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This Week on Blogtown
by Bri Brey Your week in review for Monday September 19 to Friday September 23!TOP STORY: From Doug Brown's transcript of the interview. Joel Magid, the Portland musician who earlier this month...
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This Week On Blogtown
by Bri Brey Everything you missed from Monday September 26-Friday September 29. MICHELA BUTTIGNOLTOP STORY: HIS WORD AGAINST MINE: A tough read, but an important one. Here are sexual assault...
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Things to Eat and Drink This Weekend
by Bri Brey 2016 Handmade Bike and Beer Festival The annual party paying tribute to two of Portland's favorite pastimes: Riding bikes and drinking beers. This year's family-friendly offering features...
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This Week On Blogtown
by Bri Brey Everything you missed from Monday, October 3-Friday, October 7. TOP STORY: The Roseland TheaterANOTHER BELIEVER VIA WIKI COMMONSNOT OK: This week we received letters from both a concerned...
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This Week On Blogtown
by Bri Brey Everything you missed from Monday, October 10-Friday, October 14. TOP STORY: DOUG BROWNPROTEST: Portland City Council passed a controversial new police union contract amid furor and chaos...
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Where to Watch the Final Presidential Debate
by Bri Brey Wednesday is the final presidential debate, and we can't wait to put this election behind us. The debate will be moderated by Fox News' Chris Wallace (barf) and is being hosted by the...
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This Week on Blogtown
by Bri Brey Everything you missed on the Mercury blog from Monday, October 17-Friday, October 21. TOP STORY:Doug BrownBIG BOOM: A large gas explosion leveled a building in NW Portland Wednesday...
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The Bundy Brothers Were Just Ruled Not Guilty
by Bri Brey It's official: Ammon Bundy and six others have been acquitted of charges linked to the nearly six week-long armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon...
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How to HUMP!
A guide to the film festival where everyone is sexy and porn isn’t a dirty word. by Bri Brey Let's talk about HUMP!, bay-bee!HUMP! is the world-renowned, amateur dirty movie festival featuring a hot...
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,...
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Want That "Wild Feminist" Tee? Buy It Today and $5 Goes to Standing Rock
by Bri Brey If you're anything like me—or our food critic Andrea Damewood—you've been eyeing Wildfang's Wild Feminist branded clothing. Andrea even requested the crew sweatshirt in our staff's holiday...
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In Case You Forgot What Snow in Portland Looks Like...
by Bri Brey Portland is abuzz with rumors that it may snow tomorrow! ⛄❄️❄️❄️⛄For other cities this may be a run-of-the-mill winter occurrence, but not in Portland! Your Twitter feed and Instagram are...
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The Mercury's Most Read Stories of 2016
by Bri Brey As if you wanted to relive this year, here are the top 10 most read stories from our site. DOUG BROWN1. TRUMP PROTESTS: Cops Helped A Massive Anti-Trump Protest Shut Down I-5 on...
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The Mercury Staff Favorite Stories of 2016
by Bri Brey We wrote a lot of stories this year. Most of them were flipping awesome, but some of them were even better than that. Here are the staff-favorite stories from the Portland Mercury in 2016....
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Here's How To Support the DC Women's March Without Leaving Portland
by Bri Brey As the days wistfully slip away from us, and a nacho cheese Dorito-dusted shadow begins to loom over 2017, we at the Mercury want to remind you not to lose hope. There are tons of ways to...
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