The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Portland This Weekend: May 2–4, 2025

Portland Mercury 5/2 7:30A EverOut Staff

Portland Cinco de Mayo Fiesta, Crafty Wonderland, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15 by EverOut Staff There are dozens of reasons to leave this house this weekend on the cheap, and we're sharing them all below, from the Portland Cinco de Mayo...

Good Morning, News: Thousands Rally for May Day in Downtown Portland, Mike Waltz "Promoted," Trump...

Portland Mercury 5/2 5:58A Suzette Smith

by 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...

A Look at Intersection Daylighting in SE Portland

The Southeast Examiner of Portland Oregon 5/1 10:55P SE Examiner

By Tessa Rivard, Franklin High School’s The Franklin Post Portland is a lively city, full of bustling streets and energetic neighborhoods. Busy streets around Portland can be hazardous to drivers [ ]

As Boys & Girls Aid Marks 140 Years, Funding Cuts Strain Services

The Southeast Examiner of Portland Oregon 5/1 10:52P SE Examiner

By Marshall Hammond Oregon’s oldest child welfare agency, Boys Girls Aid, celebrates its 140th anniversary this year. But widespread government funding cuts—at the city, county, state and federal levels—are [ ]

Frustrations Over SE Powell Blvd. Safety Resurface After Fatality

The Southeast Examiner of Portland Oregon 5/1 10:50P SE Examiner

By Daniel Perez-Crouse A beloved neighbor of South Tabor died in a fatal accident on SE Powell Blvd. prompting local outcry to address one of the city’s most dangerous streets [ ]

Filtration Plant Plans Stalled

The Southeast Examiner of Portland Oregon 5/1 10:42P SE Examiner

By Nancy Tannler On April 16, 2025 the County held the Portland Water Bureau’s Remand Hearing. LUBA (Land Use Board of Appeals) rendered a remand hearing that requires the Portland [ ]

Representatively Speaking – May 2025

The Southeast Examiner of Portland Oregon 5/1 10:38P SE Examiner

By State Representative Rob Nosse If you only take away one thing from this month’s column, let it be this: The Oregon Transportation Reinvestment Package as presented a few weeks [ ]

Good Morning, News: Ways to Celebrate May Day, Gretchen Whitmer and Trump Share a Controversial...

Portland Mercury 4/30 6:00A Taylor Griggs

by Taylor Griggs 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...

The stench

Portland Mercury 4/30 2:04A Anonymous

by Anonymous You over microwaved your breast milk and now the break room reeks! It smells like BO and cheap Parmesan . The microwave itself needs to be chucked by seriously, how does one do that? It’s not a burrito you dummy?!

PSA Signs Still Suck

Portland Mercury 4/29 9:58A Anonymous

by Anonymous Reading the caption to one of the many PSA ads plastered around town that reads: "Look at the age difference between me and the man I'm travelling with. He's not my Dad, He's my trafficker." This literally targets any single parent...

Messages from the Missed

Portland Mercury 4/29 8:42A Anonymous

by Anonymous I wait. Not because I am afraid, not because I doubt, but because I understand what it means to honor both you and myself. I won’t move first. I won’t stretch myself thin trying to be seen. I know the shape of my own heart, and I know...

Mercury Music Picks: Michael Hurley Memorial and Björk in Portland??

Portland Mercury 4/29 8:30A Nolan Parker

Plus big rave energy, hardcore, and Portland music news. by Nolan Parker Mercury Music Picks is all-city, baby! There’re shows represented in this week’s MMP in all five quadrants. There’s not much better in this life than catching an early show,...

SAVAGE LOVE: Code Red

Portland Mercury 4/29 7:50A Dan Savage

"Gingerism" is a THING. And it's made this red-head's sexual life unnecessarily complicated. by Dan Savage I’m a 33-year-old bisexual redheaded cis woman from Europe. Last week, I stumbled across the word “gingerism,” and an important part of my...

Good Morning, News: Canada's Surprise Left Turn, Oregon's Clampdown on Cashless Businesses, and the...

Portland Mercury 4/29 6:22A Courtney Vaughn

by Courtney Vaughn 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...

Carry On

Portland Mercury 4/29 2:09A Anonymous

by Anonymous The rain tapped soft rhythms against the window, the breeze slipping in to kiss our skin. We weren’t still. Our limbs tangled and shifting, slow like tides, our dog circling, sighing, settling again. Laughter bubbled up between us,...