Culture
60 years into his career, David Attenborough still marvels over nature
It’s the voice that’s spawned a thousand imitators: wise but warm, avuncular and slightly husky, breathless with enthusiasm. The voice of a born storyteller, a plummy baritone infused with dry humor and a limitless capacity for wonder. For every vole scurrying through the undergrowth, there’s a David Attenborough impersonator doing a dramatic YouTube voiceover. At…
Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood: ‘Ready for the nightmare to be over’ in D.C.
The songs for “American Band,” by Southern rockers Drive-By Truckers, were mostly written in 2014 and 2015 and recorded in the first half of 2016. By the time it was released that fall, but especially by Nov. 9, lead singers Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley’s story-songs and meditations about race, gun violence and the border made “American Band”…
Environment
60 years into his career, David Attenborough still marvels over nature
It’s the voice that’s spawned a thousand imitators: wise but warm, avuncular and slightly husky, breathless with enthusiasm. The voice of a born storyteller, a plummy baritone infused with dry humor and a limitless capacity for wonder. For every vole scurrying through the undergrowth, there’s a David Attenborough impersonator doing a dramatic YouTube voiceover. At…
Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile: A rebel with a beat
Music has always been a part of life for Jason “Black Stone” Lyles, from his childhood to his current choice of selling Street Roots newspapers. Jason grew up in Long Beach, Calif. His mother was a business owner and his father was an artist with deep roots in black culture and music. While other kids…
Opinion
Editorial cartoon: Jan. 26, 2018
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Director’s Desk: What are your memories of Street Roots’ early years?
Opening a box packed and sealed for 20 years, I lifted out issues of Burnside Cadillac foxed with age, my byline on the front pages. The mastheads included a sketch of a shopping cart containing a bedroll, homage to what was colloquially referred to as a “Burnside Cadillac.” I dug out cassette tapes of interviews,…
News
Demystifying Islam, a Portland imam opens his mosque
As he walked softly across the plush, carpet-covered floor of his Southeast Portland mosque, Imam Abdulah Polovina explained that in Islam, there are “99 Beautiful Names” for God. “Allah,” he said, “is most common.” Polovina, 44, is a soft-spoken Bosnian man with a thick accent and a magnetic smile. On this chilly Wednesday afternoon in…
Housing
No-cause evictions imminent at North Portland apartments; tenants push back
Life is somewhere between hard and heartbreak for the majority-Latino tenants remaining in The Melrose apartments, where residents of 40 of its 72 units are facing an eviction deadline of Feb. 1. This is the latest, and probably the final, wave of no-cause evictions at the apartment complex, where tenant rights have gone head-to-head against…
