How Street Roots, vendors give perspective [caption id="attachment_5587" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="SR vendor coordinators, left, right Art Garcia, Becky Mullins, Kaisa McCrow, center"] [/caption] by Kai ...
2 Aug 2011 - Street Roots
Dancing on Belmont with the hottest news in town By Kaisa McCrow, Contributing Writer The Walgreen’s on Southeast Belmont sits on the east side of 39th. The busy road becomes a heavily car-trafficked cut-off from the bars, shops, and foot traffic west of ...
21 Jul 2011 - Street Roots
SR vendor profile: Affirming patience, one day at a time Kaisa McCrow, Contributing Writer Between the rush of car traffic and building construction on 26th and Hawthorne, Robert Millhouse sells Street Roots. The corner is near a bank parking lot, not a c ...
5 Jul 2011 - Street Roots
Vendor profile: The new face on the block By Kaisa McCrow, Contributing Writer The corner of NW Lovejoy and 11th Avenue where Starbucks is located doesn’t quite pick up foot traffic until noon, when the sun finally hits that side of the pavement. The tal ...
7 Jun 2011 - Street Roots
Vendor profile: Making each day better than the ones before By Kaisa McCrow, Contributing Writer It’s a sunny day on NE 15th Avenue and Broadway when Street Roots vendor Raymond Thornton and I sit down to chat outside of Peet’s Coffee. People are walking ...
22 Apr 2011 - Street Roots
Hard work, high energy means a ticket home By Kaisa McCrow, Contributing Writer Dymar Blanton sells Street Roots outside of Voodoo Donuts, a spacious corner on Second Avenue and Burnside, a mini downtown center. Groups of people, mainly tourists and Satur ...
25 Mar 2011 - Street Roots
Vendor Profile: Loving Portland through Jenni’s eyes [caption id="attachment_4747" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Street Roots vendor Jenni sells outside of Zupan's at Belmont and 33rd Avenue."] [/cap ...
23 Feb 2011 - Street Roots
Vendor profile: A student of the streets If you have been short on good conversation for a while, head to NW 23rd Avenue and Thurman Street to buy a Street Roots. Terris, the vendor that sells on this corner in front of Food Front, seems to have a talking ...
16 Feb 2011 - Street Roots
Sit-lie law moves along By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer Seven months into the enforcement of Portland’s Sidewalk Management Ordinance, there are no lawsuits festering in the wings, no major protests at City Hall, and little in terms of social discourse under ...
8 Feb 2011 - Street Roots
Vendor profile: A star is born at 10th and Burnside By Kaisa McCrow, Contributing Writer To meet George, a Street Roots seller outside of Powell’s Bookstore on Burnside, is an opportunity to experience a theatrical sales pitch for living a good life. Enco ...
31 Jan 2011 - Street Roots