
Suzette Smith
Culture Editor at Portland Mercury
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5 days ago |
portlandmercury.com | Suzette Smith
If you appreciate the Mercury's interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution to support our editorial team. Your donation is tax-deductible. Good Morning, Portland: We're looking at some nice weather for Friday and Saturday, and some nice rain on Sunday. The Catholic Church has a new pappy, and he's a g-d-m Chicagoan, which means, there's a non-zero chance the new pope has tried Jeppson's Malört.
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1 week ago |
portlandmercury.com | Suzette Smith
Thousands of Portlanders flooded into Pioneer Courthouse Square on May 1 to celebrate May Day, AKA International Worker's Day, and more generally, protest cruel and unlawful actions by the Trump administration. Sandwiched between two nearby gatherings, the Pioneer Square event was brief, running from 4:30-6 pm.
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1 week ago |
portlandmercury.com | Suzette Smith
If you appreciate the Mercury's interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution to support our editorial team. Your donation is tax-deductible. Good Morning, Portland: Well, bless your sweet cocktail; it's almost Highball Week. Did you know that I came up with that name, based on some story about Lunch Poems poet Frank O'Hara?
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2 weeks ago |
portlandmercury.com | Taylor Griggs |Suzette Smith
This Thursday is May Day—also known as International Workers’ Day—and Portland is showing up. From a rally hosted by the Portland Association of Teachers on May 1 to weekend events for the working stiffs who can't call out, Portlanders have options for how they want to celebrate workers' rights. If the day's title reminds you more of a ribbon-strewn maypole than workers’ rights, you’re not alone.
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2 weeks ago |
portlandmercury.com | Suzette Smith
We have a new cadre of Oregon Book Award winners, the prized title bestowed upon the state's storytellers by letters-loving nonprofit Literary Arts. In addition to seven awards for works in specific genre categories, the organization also recognized the founders of two reading-focused efforts—Street Books and A Kids Co.—at a special ceremony Monday night. Street Books founder Laura Moulton accepted the Stewart H.
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