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GOOD MORNING, SUNDAY! It’s the perfect time to catch up on some of the great reporting and stories the Mercury churned out this week! (PRO TIP: If you despise being “the last to know,” then be one of the first to know by signing up for Mercury newsletters! All the latest stories shipped directly to your email’s in-box… and then… YOUR HEAD.)

• Commissioners Push for Last-Minute Charter Reform Changes in Chaotic Work Session

City Council chambers overflowed with charter reform supporters during a chaotic, last-minute work session in which commissioners tried to defend changing the measure voters passed last fall. (It did not go well for them.)

Taylor Griggs

• Rogue Commissioners’ Plan to Subvert Voters With New Charter Reform Measure Falls Flat—For Now

The proposal from two Portland City Council members to throw a wrench in the city’s gov. transition has lost air after Comm. Ryan lost faith in most of the plan’s policies, leaving it without enough votes to pass. Advocates are relieved, but staying alert.

Taylor Griggs

• POP QUIZ PDX

Trivia time! 🕚 How much do YOU know about Oregon’s naughty cougars, city council shenanigans, and Taylor Swift’s love affairs in Portland? Find out and see how well you score on this week’s POP QUIZ PDX!🧠

Rich Fury / Getty

• City Council Is Trying to Sabotage Charter Reform—Which Is Exactly Why We Need Charter Reform

Opinion: Why is Portland City Council continually trying to sabotage charter reform? Mercury editor Wm. Steven Humphrey on the council’s blatant attempts to hijack reform and who they’re *really* working for.

JASHLOCK / ILLUSTRIOUS / GETTY IMAGES / MERCURY STAFF

• HEAR IN PORTLAND

There’s a new question for music critics to argue about: What’s hotter—the cover of Wynne’s new EP or her jaw-dropping tracks? This week we ponder such unknowables while looking into a bevy of new content from artists Hear in Portland.

PHOTO BY YVANNA RAMOS

• Portland’s First Temporary Mass Shelter Site Will Open This Month

Portland’s first temporary alternative shelter site will open this month. What was initially pitched as a plan to serve up to 250 people in tents, has evolved significantly. The site looks more akin to one of the Safe Rest Villages already in operation.

Courtney Vaughn

• Barbenheimer: A Purely Scientific Review of Two Very Dissimilar Films

“Barbie” versus “Oppenheimer.” We compared these two summer blockbuster films on their reframing of iffy history, portrayal of the legal system, ken-ergy, and HORSES. The results may surprise you.

ANTHONY KEO

• Hurry Up and Eat: The Mercury‘s Delicious NACHO WEEK Ends Sunday!

You look hungry. So why not indulge your tummy with a creative, delicious plate of $8 nachos from the fine restaurants participating in the Mercury‘s NACHO WEEK? 😋 But hurry, hurry… the fun ends Sunday!

GrindWitTryz’

• Portland Composer Saloli’s Enchanting Synth Portrait of a Bear

On her new record “Canyon,” Portland composer Mary Sutton drew in the classic and the personal—from Erik Satie to a painting by her father, Cherokee artist Jerry Sutton—to bring listeners gorgeous impressions of the natural world.

Kranky Records

WOW, THAT IS A LOT OF GOOD READIN’. I hope you didn’t have any other plans this weekend! Dig in, and remember: Producing all this hard work costs moolah—so please consider contributing to the Mercury to keep it all coming! Thanks!