Marjorie Skinner
Portland Mercury
Portland, OR, United States
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Eight Things You Can Learn from Cindy The Erotic Pleaser
Often, we Mercury writers are accused of acting like celebrities. And while we may be known to occasionally flash our vaginas while exiting cars in miniskirts, if there's one thing that will check our egos at the office, it's the total eclipse of our minor notorieties by that of Cindy "The Erotic Pleaser." For many readers, no further introduction is necessary. For the few uninitiated among you,… → Read More
Venturing Into the Portland International Film Festival
PIFF is an affordable way to stay worldly—even if you never leave PDX. → Read More
The Purrrfection of Cat Yoga
WHAT HAS BECOME of Portland? We scoured local studios for classes to highlight in what we thought would be an inspiring roundup of weirdo yoga classes... and came up with practically nothing. Even just two years ago Stumptown would've been teeming with cuckoo-bananas classes... like, yoga with real cuckoos and real bananas. But now all the darkwave, 420 rooftop, and paddleboard canine-companion… → Read More
The Best and Worst of 2015 Style
"Best moment of 2015: Rick Owens' 'Human Backpack' spring 2016 runway show! Worst moment of 2015: graphic phrase tees! Anything that says, 'FANCY,' 'FEYONCÉ,' 'SORRY NOT... → Read More
The Best and Worst of 2015 Style with Le Souk Le Souk's Anna Margaret
[EDITOR'S NOTE! Each year since forever, I've polled an annual selection of Portland's fashion-related industry insiders to get their takes on the best and worst... → Read More
We Are the Champions: Portland Named America's Best Food City by the Washington Post
Take this, San Francisco, New York, L.A., Chicago, Seattle... “Everything you see on ‘Portlandia’? It’s kind of true,” a friend said during my swing through... → Read More
The Best and Worst of 2015 Style with West Daily Designer Jason Calderon
[EDITOR'S NOTE! Each year since forever, I've polled an annual selection of Portland's fashion-related industry insiders to get their takes on the best and worst... → Read More
The Best and Worst of 2015 Style with West End Select Shop's Ragen Fykes!
[EDITOR'S NOTE! Each year since forever, I've polled an annual selection of Portland's fashion-related industry insiders to get their takes on the best and worst... → Read More
Sold Out
Holiday party style tips from Portland pros! → Read More
Prairie Underground Sample Sale, Designer Roach Clips, and the Retail Crush Continues: This Week's Shopping & Style Events!
TUESDAY, DEC 8 • One of MercyCorps' many causes is the development and support of small business, so it's only natural they should host their... → Read More
Win Tickets to Open Night of The Makery's Winter Pop-Up!
There are a lot of good ones, so it's a challenge to stand out among the December pop-up crowd, but the Makery's Fourth Annual Winter... → Read More
Help Wanted: We're Looking for a Music Editor!
Loyal readers! Some big, exciting (and a little bit sad) shifts over here at Mercury HQ! After a whopping 14.5 years (!!) of meritorious service,... → Read More
Here's the Latest "Portland is Ruined" Story
Remember when we couldn't go a couple of weeks without the national media writing a "Portland has amazing restaurant/food cart/music/design scene" story? Well, those days... → Read More
The Weekend Shopper: Dehen's Factory Sale! Frances May's Warehouse Sale! Altar's Black Sunday Metal Market!
Shoppers! Please update this week's earlier worksheet: • Dehen is having one of their killer (and rather rare) factory sales, with up to 90 percent... → Read More
Photos from Content 2015
Over the weekend, the sixth edition of Content at the Ace Hotel sold out once again, crowding an entire floor of the hotel with fans... → Read More
PFSA Winners, Kiriko's Foray into Ceramics, & Treefort: Your Portland Fashion & Retail News of the Day!
• Sunday night's Portland Fashion and Style Awards were a hoot (thanks largely to snarky co-host Poison Waters), despite the attrition (it was pretty obvious... → Read More
The Weekend Shopper: An Intensely Busy Weekend with Content, Lena Medoyeff, and More!
FRIDAY • Animal Traffic is celebrating Friday the 13th with a sale online and in both their N Mississippi and downtown stores (including the Annex... → Read More
The Sixth Content Fashion Installation Is This Weekend at Ace Hotel!
Hard to believe that this will be the sixth year of Content at the Ace Hotel. Back before she won Project Runway in 2010, moved... → Read More
Here's That Groupon for a Clip-In Man Bun You Need
This Groupon deal for clip-in man buns is making the rounds for obvious reasons. I'd make fun of it but whoever wrote the copy here... → Read More
More From Inside Wildwood & Company
In this week's Sold Out column, I wrote about the emergence of Wildwood & Company, a custom suit-making outfit turned retail hub for high-quality handcrafted... → Read More