The Mercury provides news and fun every single day—but your help is essential. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us. Thanks for your support! GOOD AFTERNOON, PORTLAND! Get ready for a long, dry, and mostly sunny weekend starting tomorrow with highs topping 75 on Sunday. All together now. WHOOP! WHOOP! Now let's dip into some NEWS..
The Mercury provides news and fun every single day—but your help is essential. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us. Thanks for your support! Good morning, Portland! Let’s get right into it. In local news: • Election workers are hard at work counting your ballots (I’m looking at you Clackamas County), but here’s what we know.
CALLING ALL SMARTY TROUSERS! It's time once again to put that brainy-brain to the test with this week's edition of POP QUIZ PDX—our weekly, local, sassy-ass trivia quiz. Get ready for some super fun trivia Qs about creepy fast food night managers, romance novelists who moonlight as murder suspects, and Oregon's FREAKIEST giant roadside statues! Also, guess what? You can enter to win FREE PIZZA from our friends at the always delicious Atlas Pizza, just.
This week’s list of updates is pretty much all rap, rappity-rap. There’s a new EP from Portland rapper Milc and producer Opsv Sound, a promising girl power-packed showcase on Sunday, and—perhaps most excitingly—Kendrick Lamar tickets are about to go on sale for a summer stadium show at the Moda Center! MUST-SEE:One can’t miss upcoming show.Sunday Sessions: Karma Rivera, Veana BabyRontoms’ return to its regularly scheduled free music shows has included an absolutely delightful onslaught of.
COVID-19 cases have doubled in Oregon over the past month, prompting differing COVID safety recommendations from state and county health officials. While the true number of COVID cases in the region is obscured by the increased availability of at-home tests that aren’t reported to the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and the number of people with COVID who don’t get tested at all, a combination of data points indicate that the virus has a significant presence.