Vendor Profiles
Making an honest dollar
Frank Quiroga’s ultimate goal is to open a Native American restaurant that features the dishes his auntie taught him to make — Indian tacos, fry bread, deer meat, buffalo and seafood. “I want to … have a story of each tribe’s background and history with a picture of tribe members and their regalia,” he said.…
News
Ben Parzybok talks “Sherwood Nation,” his sci-fi novel set in a future blighted by climate change
Ben Parzybok’s first novel, “Couch” rose from the primordial sludge of the slush pile at Small Beer Press in 2008. Next month, Parzybok’s second novel, “Sherwood Nation” will be released. He will be reading at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 16 at Powell’s Books on Burnside. Parzybok’s creative trajectory seems to confirm Newton’s first law…
For the Record: Aug 29-Sept 11, 2014
-Number of public skateparks in Portland: 7 -Estimated number of skateboarders in Portland: 27,250 -Cost of fine for skateboarders under age of 16 not wearing a helmet: $25 -Number of participants in Portland Sunday Parkways events in 2013: 85,480 -Number of Sunday Parkways events held in 2013: 4 -Years of operation of Sunday Parkways: 7…
Peace is possible in the world of Gary Spanovich and the Wholistic Peace Institute
Gary Spanovich is a cheery 65-year-old man, who, from a tidy office in Northeast Portland has been working for the last 15 years toward a simple, yet seemingly impossible goal: prevent people from being violently killed. Spanovich is the executive director of the Wholistic Peace Institute (WPI), a nonprofit organization affiliated with Concordia University that’s…
Street Roots is hiring a reporter
Full-time reporter: $37,440 salary/based on experience plus employer-paid health and dental benefits. Generous paid time off. Street Roots is hiring a full-time reporter/assistant editor who wants to apply their talents to the world of nonprofit, advocacy journalism for a weekly newspaper. Street Roots is currently a bi- weekly publication. Street Roots anticipates going to a…
Words, not war, star in play set in WWII
“Words That Burn” is a dramatized exploration of the earth-shattering period of World War II, through the words and experiences of William Stafford, Lawson Inada and Guy Gabaldon. It premieres at the Milagro Theater during their annual La Luna Nueva festival, Sept. 25-28. “Words That Burn” was created by Cindy Williams Gutiérrez and Frank Delgado.…
Opinion
Finding solidarity with Ferguson
“Hands up. Don’t shoot. Hands up. Don’t shoot. Hands up. Don’t shoot.” I stood in a crowd of people in a city park echoing this line on Saturday afternoon. Among the crowd could be seen old and young and people of all different shades of color. Children with signs that said, “Black lives matter,” and…
Tiny houses offer vital role in larger housing strategy
Portland is poised to begin the work of building tiny houses. We couldn’t be more excited about the idea. Tiny houses are small, compact houses, typically around 200 square feet. Providing a safe home, regardless of its size, that offers privacy and security for individuals and families struggling through hard times is something we can…
A Grameen-style bank in Portland, microloans to lift incomes
The last few months have seen a spree of really good news for Portland’s tech industry. From Intel’s $13.8 billion second quarter (up 8 percent from a year earlier), to Bain Capital taking a $230 million stake in online banking startup Simple, to the host of new and exciting tech companies like Buddy Up; the…
Most wanted: Police accountability
The tragedy of the Michael Brown killing is rocking the nation. It should. For anyone living in an urban environment, especially people of color and the poor — the events of Michael Brown and the community response is not surprising. It’s hard to shift through all of the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, but one…
