Posted: Thursday, August 22, 2208
Tomorrow is Friday, Aug. 22, and that means that your favorite vendor has a new edition of Street Roots in his hands. Buy one from your regular guy or gal, and pick up an extra from a new vendor for the office. Here’s what’s you’ll find inside:
Fulfilling the mission
The Luis Palau CityFest event this weekend heralds in a new profile for the evangelical movement, one more focused on poverty than politics. Reporter Amanda Waldroupe talks with Palau, the city and others about this shift in a movement that brought us George W. Bush, and now wants to give back to the community. Street Roots’ editorial team chimes in as well.
Boys will be girls
Gwen Haworth talks with reporter Adam O. Thomas about her movie, “She’s a boy I knew.” The film documents her own transition into a transgendered woman, with the camera focused squarely on her own journey and that of her family.
Book Review: Misery Loves Comedy
Ivan Brunetti’s new book explores the disgusting and the depraved in what the reviewer called “pictorial laughing gas.”
China: The world is watching – sheepishly
With the backdrop of the Beijing Olympics, Portland commentator Alejandro Queral writes of the tenets of protecting dissent and prompting systemic change.
Pricing ourselves out of war, morally and financially
Commentator Bert Sachs writes about the rising cost of war on all fronts, and questions whether waging hostilities is in any country’s best interest.
Addict’s Almanac
The third installment in this gritty series chronicling one man’s journey through addiction on the streets of Portland.
And of course, much, much more! Thank you readers!
Posted by: Joanne Zuhl