Everything You Need To Know Heading Into the Portland Trail Blazers 2026-2027 Season
A SWOT analysis for the business-minded Blazer fan.
The Creative Music Guild’s Improvisation Summit Celebrates This Year’s Strangest, Most Inspired Sounds
From home-grown sonic innovators to out-of-town improvisers, the event showcases the far reaches of experimental music for the rest of October.
The Mercury’s Do This, Do That: Your Top Events for Oct 19-25
This week: the Blazers home opener, a gut microbiome reset, and crows are the key to an interactive murder mystery.
The Mercury’s 2026 November Endorsement Cheat Sheet!
Cast your vote lickety-split with our quick ‘n’ easy ballot roadmap.
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Portland Book Festival Is Now a Major Food Event, Too
Alexis Nikole Nelson AKA Black Forager presents her new book, and chefs from across the country are doing collabs.
You Can See Everything Gets Too Close
Co-directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim may have made the most intimate film of the year.
Food News: Better Half and Grits N’ Gravy Return, Bar Sprezzatura Opens, and Chonghi Pizza Calls It for Now
Plus, Belmont gets a cute wine bar with Patufet, and Gabby’s Next Door prepares to roll out dinner.
Patufet Brings Spanish Cafe Culture to Southeast
Grab an espresso and slice of cake, or vermouth with a savory snack in the hand-painted, historic house.
Shaking the Tree Unnerves Audiences With a Survey of Violence
The Portland theater adds its own unique vision to a staging of four short plays, Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp.
Thirty Years of Fright at Davis Graveyard
For thirty years, a graveyard has cropped up every fall in Milwaukie, and its cryptkeepers can teach you how to summon your own.
Spreading the Good Word of Chisme
Chef Francisco Leyva’s pop-up inside Duality Brewing
showcases his take on Comida Chicana.
Former East Portland Landfill Site to House Solar Farm, Nature Sanctuary
What was once a blight on 82nd Ave is undergoing a significant transformation.
Food Truck A Comer Brings Mexico City Eats to Northwest Portland
Plus, come for vegan options and aguas frescas galore.
Portland Councilor Dan Ryan Must Preserve All Phone Records, Court Says
District 2 councilor retracts statement about trading his phone in as judge orders him to preserve evidence in public records lawsuit.
The Scariest Halloween Eats and Drinks in Portland
From cookies to cocktails, here’s where to get into freakish fall festivities.
The Mercury’s 2026 Sauvie Island Corn Maze Reviews
Pick up a pumpkin or be chased by a chainsaw-wielding maniac—which Portland corn maze is right for you?
Pride and Prejudice: Now With More Wit and Innuendo
Portland Center Stage can barely contain the hilarity of this Jane Austen adaptation.
Councilor Ryan’s Phone is Traded In On the Same Day a Judge Bars Him from Deleting Messages
The councilor is the subject of a Mercury lawsuit seeking possible records hidden from the public.
“DitchMitch” Billboard Campaign Violates Local and State Elections Laws, Complaint Says
A complaint alleges a Portland Metro Chamber-affiliated PAC ran afoul of campaign finance rules by trying to hide the true funding source of political billboards and filing false campaign-finance statements.