Hours after a Palestinian solidarity rally at Portland State University Monday afternoon, students & protesters forced entry into a school library, where an encampment has been since Friday. Police, DA & university president now say the encampment will be broken up soon. 🧵

Updates from late-night presser on Portland State University protests:

The Mercury's Queer Guide (drops in June) will be back in print for the first time since the pandemic shut down! Send me pitches for things you want to write (suzette [at] portlandmercury [dot] com) even if we haven't worked together before. Also, tell me about your parties plz.

I have a podcast ready to launch, but podcast companies have all turned me down because the industry's in bad shape. I’m considering launching a membership to fund the show and I need your input. If you could please fill out this short survey. Thanks! bit.ly/3Qh2NVv

It's Earth Day today, but Making Earth Cool's parade was over the weekend. Photojournalist Justin Yau captured some of the event's moments and lewks. portlandmercury.com/environment/20…

The Oregonian is hiring a cops reporter. Come work with me. Apply here:
recruiting.adp.com/srccar/public/…

IFAK FUN THRED how would YOU have used first aid on your colleague in Alex Garland’s Civil War?

I would have applied a chest seal and kept pressure. Reading now that a sucking wound should also have one side open to let air escape. WWYD?

I returned to my old job writing at the Portland Mercury 🗞 for the annual 'Why I Love Portland' issue.

I wrote about... why I still love Portland.

portlandmercury.com/say-nice-thing…

Literally 30 years ago I would get a hard copy of The Stranger 🗞 for the singles ads...but now I donate today because Ashley Nerbovig & Hannah Krieg are crushing it with journalism we need now
You should too
thestranger.com/contribute

It's back! Check out the Mercury's second 'SAY NICE THINGS ABOUT PORTLAND' issue online *and* in print, and available at more than 500 locations citywide! Discover the very best things about our city, and learn how to make it even better! 🌹😍
portlandmercury.com/say-nice-thing…

Portland is a city where a great many people saw 8-ft skeleton decorations and were like I will put this in my yard and treat it like a little porch goose.

It's not possible to perform Nassim the same way twice, but it's all too easy to spoil the show for those who haven't seen it. Here’s a SPOILER FREE review. Also, since the dress rehearsal (pictured) they have switched this clock to 12-hour.

portlandmercury.com/Theater/2024/0…

The idea that the downtown Portland Buffalo Wild Wings was ever thriving feels... unsubstantiated.

After blazing through the bleak “Jumpers,” Brownstein told the crowd: “I wrote the lyrics to that song during one of the two times that I moved away from Portland—that’s how sad I was.”
Melissa Locker reviews Sleater-Kinney's Portland show: portlandmercury.com/music/2024/04/…

Now, putting a word like 'peaen' in a piece, let alone in a headline, is not something I do lightly, but it's the right word to describe Dev Patel's directorial debut Monkey Man—D Cynicalcola reviewed it for the Merc:

portlandmercury.com/movies-and-tv/…

It's ube week.
And Filipino food and drink spots around Portland have specials like ube champurrado (Fork and Spoon PDX), ube mochas (Kalesa Coffee), and
ube and foie gras whoopie pies (Magna Kusina).
portlandmercury.com/food-and-drink…