News
Ukrainian soldier educates, honors those who supported him abroad
In the backyard of a spacious, upscale home tucked away in Portland’s rolling West Hills, an outfitted soldier showed a small gathering of local Slavs snapshots of army life in war-ravaged regions of their homeland. “At the time, I was in Kiev working for a very big company,” Leonid Maslov told his audience as he…
Performers to take stand against TPP
A diverse faction of well-known performers will take the stage in Downtown Portland’s Director Park on Aug. 20, 2016, in an effort to build opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal with a free rock concert. Portland is the third stop in the “Rock Against the TPP” tour, which kicked off in July in Denver with…
Who’s down with TPP?
If the Obama administration can build enough support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the trade deal will come to a vote this fall. But many representatives claim they are still undecided. Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizens’ Global Trade Watch, said it is already likely the administration will find enough support in the U.S. Senate to…
Downtown Boys: Punk’s political powerhouse
Punk is politics, and in that game, the band Downtown Boys leaves nothing on the table. No one walks out of its shows without a chance at enlightenment – on workers’ rights, police accountability and punitive immigration policies, among other issues. And with singer Victoria Ruiz on the mic, Downtown Boys have no trouble getting…
Famed ballerina Paige Fraser: ‘Scoliosis has not stopped me once’
You may recognize her from her silhouette that danced across a dim stage in the Intel Superbowl commercial “Experience Amazing” that aired in February, but Paige Fraser’s appearance on nationwide television is only proof of her claim to fame, not the root of the fame itself. Fraser, a dancer of more than two decades, was…
Rockin’ against the TPP
A diverse faction of well-known performers will take the stage in Downtown Portland’s Director Park on Aug. 20, 2016, in an effort to build opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal with a free rock concert. Portland is the third stop in the “Rock Against the TPP” tour, which kicked off in July in Denver with…
The man who’s saving Dory
This summer, marine biologists at the University of Florida shared groundbreaking news: for the first time blue tang fish, AKA the star of Finding Dory, were successfully bred in captivity. This is hugely significant. Every blue tang in an aquarium right now was taken from the wild, most illegally. The breakthrough follows six years of…
Saving Dory: Hollywood pet craze could spell trouble for ecosystem
We’d all love to own a cute film animal, wouldn’t we? A rat that sits on your shoulder and helps you make the dinner, perhaps. Or a Mutant Ninja Turtle to eat pizza with. Or a ginger tabby, like Street Cat Bob, who makes his film debut in November, and raises a paw to do…
Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile: ‘Part of the movement’ in 1960s Portland
It was 1963 and Ron Britt was a teenager who had just moved from the Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco to his parents’ home on Corbett Street in Portland. “I was in the first hippie movement here,” Ron said. “The first hippie park was Lair Hill Park, down on Barbur Boulevard, right there by Corbett Street.”…
Opinion
Director’s Desk: The murky future of Terminal 1
In June, I wrote about a new proposal by developers Homer Williams and Dike Dame. The original idea was a $100 million plan to build space for 700 new shelter beds and create 700 beds in dormitory-style housing — $60 million of which they had agreed to raise. The other $40 million would need to…
