Suzette Smith
Portland Mercury culture editor. she/her. Signal @suzettesmith.66 or email suzette@portlandmercury.com, suzettesmith@protonmail.com
- Okay I guess there's one good holiday song snowdreamdigital.bandcamp.com/track/wapin-...
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- theres a car alarm zammin’ it out directly by my office window and I MAY. LEAVE. A. NOTE.
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- Portland is in the annual February Fakeout y/n?
- friend, casually: I got us tickets to Fury Road me, not so casually: SHINY AND CHROME WE DIE HISTORIC
- happy hobonichi techo April start release to all who celebrate
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- Tonight at the theater an actor groaned “Catherine O’Hara” during their death scene and the audience groaned
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- Reposted by Suzette SmithHere at the Mercury we love an action film director who’s secretly so much better than anyone asked him to be. On Friday, Ric Roman Waugh’s Shelter hits theaters with a nearly wordless guy (Jason Statham) forced to return to a secret, violent vocation.
- Someone recently signed me up for a “PDXtoday” newsletter which seems to be written by AI (or someone with terrible taste) in South Carolina.
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- Portland’s revered fine-dining restaurant República has announced that it plans to close. If you're feeling this one, I might suggest eating about it.
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- Art Snack, a smol attempt at streamlining the beautiful chaos of Portland's arts and culture scene.
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- Four Tet Nelly Furtado edit huh
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- Portland’s Hottest Ennui Meals
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- There’s something so sweet about Claire Hall writing “a utopian novel imagining a future where her political idol since childhood, former Oregon Gov. Tom McCall, became president after the resignation of Richard Nixon.”
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- Reposted by Suzette SmithTwo Portland Police officers whose conduct during recent anti-ICE protests came under scrutiny have been identified through records requests.
- Reposted by Suzette SmithWhen @opb.org ended Hush, even Harvard's Nieman Storyboard could see how short-sighted that was. After making four successful podcasts together, @ryanjhaas.bsky.social and I are committed to continuing our investigative work in the Northwest, and we're launching our own publication. More soon.
- If you are sharing news from some url like verybestnewsfrownyface.fencepost get your shit together
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- Reposted by Suzette Smith🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
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- I’m sorry they’re doing Pączki but not red jelly
- Feels kind of glorious to be in this escapism-but-brooding cuddle puddle with a new season of The Pitt and Frieren and JJK.
- me when my friends want to hang out
- there was a restaurant next to Bartini?
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- Reposted by Suzette SmithImmigrations and Customs Enforcement officers have shot two people in Portland, according to the Portland Police Bureau. The shooting took place at 2:18 pm on Southeast Main street, but the victims, one male and one female, were found at 146th and East Burnside minutes later.
- •ICE Officer shoots and kills legal observer in Minneapolis •Portland city council president vote deadlocked •New US food pyramid has steak at the top It's Good Morning, News!
- In the fall, a group called Literary Portland for Palestine asked Portland Book Festival to divest from Wells Fargo sponsorship funding. They've since grown into a collective working to raise awareness. And because they're a literary organization, they're doing it with poems.
- my inbox: MACBETH featuring music inspired by RADIOHEAD me:
- New year new chance to work on a series reviewing every book that has one flower on the cover.
- I love how much Portlanders love big skeleton
- I'm currently planning the Mercury's Spring Arts Preview, which will be in luscious print, hitting streets on Wed March 11. HOW CAN WE KNOW WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT IN MARCH? Time is a flat circle; send me an email if you want to pitch—even better if you have an idea suzette@portlandmercury.com
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- Reposted by Suzette SmithI reviewed Bi Gan's RESURRECTION for the Mercury... Portland, you have very few chances to see this in theaters this weekend. My recommendation? You should.
- I was happy to catch this inflatable unicorn waggle at ICE protests this fall—and pretty chuffed that readers also seemed to love it.
- On the off chance you're New Year's Day-ing at the movies, consider this great recommendation / review from @sinacolad.bsky.social of Bi Gan’s 'Resurrection.' Portlanders be warned; it's a pretty limited engagement for this sci-fi existential banger.
- Marty Supreme reminds me of comics that aren’t very good but the artist overworked every page
- Has anyone called Marty Supreme Taco Supreme because if not dibs Has anyone eaten a taco supreme while watching marty supreme I don't know whose wrappers those are sir
- Watching the AI Biden Young Sheldon meme by @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social is my holiday tradition.
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- The This American Life episode about the misconception that “Portland is a Warzone” has to explain what a bioswale and that might be the new most Portland thing ever
- Here is a boozy advent calendar ranked and reviewed. Of course, I didn't do it all in one sitting—I did about half of it in one sitting.
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- I am comfortable with one critic panning Marty Supreme and another putting it on his Top 10 Movies of 2025 list. The purpose of art is to discuss art. Even more good news: @sinacolad.bsky.social's two favorite movies this year haven't even come out yet.
- Don't have time to write a think piece on how much of human cognition is memorizing and reciting phrases one has heard before. I'm just going to be mean and say if you're not trying to understand and communicate you're basically a chatbot.
- The holidays are such a brutal war between people who have time to celebrate them and people who do not.
