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
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
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
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
Vendor profile: The dark clouds have cleared for ‘Rain’ By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer Lorraine “Rain” Duchalard, sits down for her interview not to talk so much about herself, but to talk about her customers. To say thank you to the people she’s known who ...
14 Jan 2011 - Street Roots
Vendor profile: Wanderlust leads to a new home in Portland by Leah Ingram, Contributing Writer Street Roots vendor Mark Brown stands out from the crowd as he sells newspapers at the Hollywood Library. His infectious laugh and his eagerness to meet new fac ...
22 Dec 2010 - Street Roots
Vendor profile: Eddie Zuber By Sam Forgione Contributing Writer I was surprised to learn that Eddie Zuber, the vendor outside the New Seasons market on N Interstate Ave., started selling Street Roots on August 6th. Eddie’s nonchalance and amicability with ...
13 Sep 2010 - Street Roots
Vendor Profile: Dignity can be as simple as ‘hello’ By Cassandra Koslen, Contributing Writer Maneuvering through the airport illustrates the wide breadth of the general population quite clearly. Among people, one sees all kinds. Some are familiar-looking ...
18 Aug 2010 - Street Roots