by Suzette Smith 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! It's Friday. And looking at the weather, it's just gonna be nice forever now. High of 66-degrees today. 72 on Saturday! Mid-50s to 70s all...
During the online “Overtime” segment of Friday’s edition of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that he believes President Joe Biden and 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump will debate each other, but doing the debates won’t
DUNDEE should have been put on probation five minutes after their fourth postponement of the season. If there was even a hint of a sniff of half a chance of a fifth, they’d be fined big-time AND ha
Although it hardly looks like it, President Joe Biden may already be peaking in his race to keep the White House. His biggest internal threat remains: his inability to campaign effectively. And his biggest external threat looms: Though the country seems to expect a soft landing from inflation’s heights, this week’s economic data prove Biden’s […]
U.S. media, Congress, and the citizens who elected them own some of the media fail. Why aren’t we demanding more protection of our personal data in order to protect our democracy?
Spaghetti House has had us on toast for 70 years – but will its new venture be a high street favourite?A Braccetto, 242 Earls Court Road, London SW5 9AA (a-braccetto.com). Antipasti £7.95, mains £14.95-£26.50, desserts £7.35, wines from £35 a bottleThere are sights in London that are so familiar they now go largely unremarked, despite how deserving of comment they are: the sleek, well-fed mice which skitter between the tracks in tube stations; the over-lit shops stocked with bags of American...
X-Men ’97 embraces the comic book’s soap opera roots, and that melodrama strengthens both the characters and the series’ emotional impact.
Prices are up nearly 19% across the board since President Joe Biden entered office, meaning households are suffering sticker shock even if the inflation rate has moderated in recent months. Inflation, as tracked by the consumer price index, rose to 3.5% for the year ending in March, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. Overall, […]
President Joe Biden announced a new bid on Monday to provide federal student loan debt relief to millions of Americans, part of a patchwork of debt relief plans the administration has been stitching together since the Supreme Court struck down Biden’s biggest swing last summer. The new plan offered up on Monday won’t affect nearly as many people as the original plan — but it’s definitely the best workaround that the White House has come up with yet. This time around, rather than canceling the...
As is so often the case with Bidenomics, even good news is bad news because of the upward inflationary pressure.
The ‘Real Time’ host had some harsh words for the Great White North
Running through June 10, the GRAMMY museum’s first-ever K-pop pop-up exhibit is a love letter to fans and an introduction into the exciting world of K-pop star. Read on for an inside scoop on "KQ Ent.: ATEEZ & Xikers."