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Suzette Smith

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Portland Mercury culture editor. she/her. Signal @suzettesmith.66 or email suzette@portlandmercury.com, suzettesmith@protonmail.com

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 8h
babe, wake up, they're reopening i-5
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hail, Caesar! (2016) didn't really work for me, but "would that it were so simple" is a real vibe
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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 02/10/2026
A recent City Council committee meeting was intended to be a place for updates and a discussion about the city’s investment policy, which some councilors are seeking to improve by barring the city from investing in corporations whose products facilitate global human rights atrocities.
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“Weaponized Charges of Antisemitism”: Human Rights Advocates Reject Councilors’ Characterizations of Investment Policy - Portland Mercury
“You get two Jews in a room, you’re going to get three different opinions,” Kelcie Smolin Grega, a Jewish resident in City Council District 4 says. It’s an old joke—one that was echoed by others who s...
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Does anyone have eyes on the pope tonight? Is he in public? Hope not. I want imagine Leo on a sofa, beer in hand, watching that Murakami moonshot in real time.
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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 02/10/2026
Fans of How To with John Wilson can breathe a sign of relief—The History of Concrete is both as good as the show and Wilson’s idiosyncratic storytelling style works even better as a movie!
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The History of Concrete Follows the Fracture - Portland Mercury
Fans of How To with John Wilson can breathe a sign of relief—The History of Concrete is both as good as the show and Wilson’s style works even better as a movie!
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thank you; sorry if I sounded panicked there. I would argue the audience here is people who forgot about corn mazes so it's more "if you thought you weren't goin to a corn maze, think again!"
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
thank you 🥲
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Jeremiah Hayden @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Update: The Pearl District Neighborhood Association and the NW Examiner have canceled their District 4 candidate forum after the city attorney's office clarified legal requirements for neighborhood associations and nonprofits. The @portlandmercury.com reported the issues yesterday -- context here:
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Pearl District, NW Examiner Cancel Forum After Brushing Up Against Elections Law Violations - Portland Mercury
If you didn’t know any better, you might think downtown’s City Council district is down to four candidates vying for three seats. “Final four square off,” reads a headline announcing a downtown candid...
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I mean, if the headline said we wrote about these corn mazes and you can go as many times as you want would you like that better? Am I really writing stupid headlines that nobody likes?
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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 30/09/2026
It's time to visit the Sauvie Island corn mazes. But which is right for you? That depends. Do you like easy trivia? Science facts? Are you looking for a labyrinth of nightmares filled with monsters who will chase you through corn? Joe Streckert carves out the Mercury’s 2026 corn maze reviews!
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The Mercury’s 2026 Sauvie Island Corn Maze Reviews - Portland Mercury
Pick up a pumpkin or be chased by a chainsaw-wielding maniac—which Portland corn maze is right for you?
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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 29/09/2026
A new documentary by Maya Annik Bedford, Black Zombie, lays out how the zombie went from a local nightmare at the edge of Haiti’s vodou religion to a globalized big-ticket brains eater genre.
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Black Zombie Will School You Like a Real-Life Monsters High - Portland Mercury
A new documentary lays out how the zombie went from a local nightmare at the edge of Haiti’s vodou religion to a globalized big-ticket brains eater genre.
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This email reminds me of one of my all time favorite quotes: "Am I to suffer anew? I am bound by my oath to accept it."
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Doom Sin-acola @sinacolad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“What would have happened if I wasn’t here?” I reviewed PRIMETIME for the @portlandmercury.com. It’s very good.
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Inhabited by Robert Pattinson, Chris Hansen is possessed. It’s nothing and everything like Hansen, as if Pattinson’s playing to a memory of watching Hansen on a small cathode ray tube TV. @sinacolad.bsky.social is on 🔥
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Biding His Primetime: Robert Pattinson Attains Peak Weird Guy Form - Portland Mercury
Inhabited by Robert Pattinson, Chris Hansen is possessed.
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
me, a film publicist assembling media assets: 🤔 what this really needs are some dark, grainy images that would look terrible on social media
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Speaking of the First Amendment, here’s a video @zane.bsky.social made after our photojournalist friend John Rudoff was hassled by some people in black bloc at a 2021 protest. An incredible reenactment of events.
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I simply would teach media literacy to the youth by getting them to provide one sentence introductions on the links they share because posts can be deleted and / or the recipient might not be up on discourse. I would do this for the youth and not because this personally annoys me.
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hated getting COVID again but I managed to start antiviral on the second day and it has really helped immensely. My doctor’s office is impossible to make an appointment at but I called scheduling and they set me up with a tele-health with someone else the next morning. YMMV
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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 16/09/2026
WHO'S NEXT? The spectacle of Clayton Lee’s Goldberg Variations employed fetish, professional wrestling, and the raw vulnerability of regret for a one-of-a-kind experience. bit.ly/3VeTT00
Four professional wrestlers perform in front of a crowd. On the right, one wrestler in pink gear lays on their back outside the ring. Inside the ring, a performer in green tights is knock flat while the other two wrestlers celebrate. A slight mist is illuminated by stage lights above the ring. Two pro wrestlers post on tight red ring ropes during a performance. Two other performances are visible in the periphery laying flat on their backs. A wrestler in white trunks holds another performer on their shoulders in the fashion of a fireman's carry. A fog surrounds the wrestling ring.
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Julia Shumway @jmshumway.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hey PNW journalists (or folks who want to move to the best part of the country): Our sister outlet, the @washingtonstatestandard.com, is hiring a new editor to oversee coverage from Olympia. It's a great job with a talented crew in a capital second only to Salem. statesnewsroom.com/staff-openin...
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Editor, Washington State Standard • States Newsroom
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If Alex Tatarsky released the soundtrack to Sad Boys in Harpyland I’d listen to that shit like Hamilton
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
what a maniac work of staggering genius that was
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Portland’s comedy community was devastated to learn Friday that Nariko Ott has died. He was 46.
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Portland Comedian Nariko Ott Has Died at Age 46 - Portland Mercury
"Nariko Sweetwater Ott. The riff king. The boy with big feelings and a razor sharp wit. The comics came inside when you took the stage," wrote Joann Schinderle.
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DWEEBY BRIDGERS @bigplastichead.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Happy Walking Face-First Into Spider Webs season to all those who celbrate.
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If any of you all were on the fence about seeing Clayton Lee’s The Goldberg Variations at TBA this year, I cannot recommend it enough. Truly one of those “wtf did I just watch, that has to be an actor, and that’s definitely a dildo” performance pieces that people will be talking about for months.
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Time-Based Art as a Wild Weekend - Portland Mercury
If you’ve been keeping up with Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) and their long-running fall festival of time-based works, it will not shock you to hear that they changed the format again. PICA staff are always quick to point out that the 10-day fest, which we had last year and which we might think […]
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Doom Sin-acola @sinacolad.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Thanks to @portlandmercury.com for continuing to allow me to make jokes about movies in the pages of an actual print magazine.
Print page from latest Mercury Fall Arts Issue, on which is my article “Twelve Movies To Put on Your Calendar This Fall”
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
From you that means everything!
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As the paper’s arts & culture editor, I’ve spent years arguing that art is necessary in our lives, so when I met an example of that during a particularly tragic and horrible time, I decided to pony up and write about it.
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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 02/09/2026
The 2026 Time-Based Art Festival (TBA) slams the work of 52 artists into September 9-13—five wild days of app-guided supermarket dances, experimental movement super groups, and presentations on sexy ex-boyfriend look-alikes (GOLDBERG!).
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Time-Based Art as a Wild Weekend - Portland Mercury
If you’ve been keeping up with Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) and their long-running fall festival of time-based works, it will not shock you to hear that they changed the format again....
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
she's an Army sniper mom who works two jobs, who loves her kids and never stops protecting her family from Nazis with an assortment of guns and chainsaws. She’s a survivor.
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This video for the original Umberto Tozzi "Gloria" has a lot more happening than you would expect.
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Umberto Tozzi - Gloria
YouTube video by Music world TV
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In hindsight Great, Now I Have "Gloria" Stuck In My Head would also have worked for a headline
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I miss the way Zane would stand in the door of our home office, when I was working late, and glare at me until I agreed to come to bed.
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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 02/09/2026
The Portland Mercury is suing a Portland city councilor. See our statement for details.
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The Mercury is Suing Councilor Dan Ryan. Here’s Why. - Portland Mercury
At its core, journalism is a public service. That can mean a lot of things: from “news you can use” like where to find a cooling center, or informative summaries of public meetings, to accountability ...
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"Garry isn’t accepting new doctoral students, because he can’t guarantee funding their work, and he’s spent the past two years nudging his researchers into jobs elsewhere."
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A Top Virus Scientist Stared Down Covid Lab-Leak Proponents. Now His Life’s Work Is at Stake
The battle over Covid’s origins has come for Bob Garry, who’s faced some of the world’s deadliest viral threats.
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
When the guy making private alt accounts to comment multiple times on Mercury stories resorts to handles like "heckabecka" it just makes me feel like didn't you used to enjoy this? Where has the spark gone?
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
this is so referential it deserves grant funding
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Alex Falcone @alexfalcone.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Sneakerhead Hemmingway: For sale. Baby shoes. Deadstock.
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
my mom: I think of you with love everyday me: I think about this one presentation in a backyard science share about how fungus might share a single consciousness and how it might be plotting humankind’s demise everyday
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
We told the social media person to just share this with "RT if you agree." Alas.
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
to be clear I am ediors in this scenario
An illustration that depicts the part in The Odyssey where the ship must sail between Scylla and Charybdis—two sea monsters, one of whom appears to be a giant wormhole because she swallows the sea and spits it back out and the other a many-headed monster that waits on the cliffs to snatch sailors off their decks.
The ship is labeled in meme fashion with “me, bringing up an idea in the newsroom” and the monsters are both individually labeled “editors,” and respectively ask “are you pitching?” and “r u pitching?”
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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 21/08/2026
The new Anthony Bourdain biopic Tony, at just over 100 minutes, finds so much time to rest in the mundane, and it’s all the lovelier for it, writes Mercury film critic Dom Sinacola. When the film is really cooking, all sense of the celebrity is more an aftertaste than main course.
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Tony Serves Up a Feast of Fresh, Simple Ingredients - Portland Mercury
Just watching Antonio Banderas make ketchup can be so intimate.
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Doom Sin-acola @sinacolad.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
For the @portlandmercury.com I reviewed the second Matt Johnson movie of 2026, a biopic that doesn’t seem to want to be a biopic (and shout out to a fellow Dom also with massive bags under his eyes; I’ve never felt more seen)
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Tony Serves Up a Feast of Fresh, Simple Ingredients - Portland Mercury
Just watching Antonio Banderas make ketchup can be so intimate.
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
yes, Tonka gets a treat and IS a treat.
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
When I am done with this draft I shall watch a very big dog be groomed on youtube as a reward
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My editor notes when I start to run out of steam: "it sounds like you’re like saying like"
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
They say that the first parasocial relationship was actually journalists thinking they have an idea of what the readership wants.
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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is why I’m planning to expense a big thesaurus* *actually something I say about everything
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Jason Notte @notteham.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"If our psyches are byzantine HVAC systems, mazes of half-mapped ducts and grates and dead-ends, then your favorite piece of pop culture can lead you to who you really are. For Kris, that guilty pleasure takes the form of a psychopath who also has an air vent—a literal conduit—for a head." -Sinacola
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