Regina Holliday wears many hats. She is is an activist, artist, speaker and author. She uses the tools of technology and social media to better understand the patient condition and the landscape of medicine. But nothing had prepared her for the experience ...
22 Apr 2014 - Suzanne Zalokar
Ariel Gore is as raw and honest in her writing as she is in her life, earning her the moniker of the hippest mama around. But the backstory is a long way from Ozzie and Harriet. Gore, spurred by a resilience born of childhood trauma, dropped out of high s ...
3 Mar 2014 - Suzanne Zalokar
Street Roots caught up with comedian Richard Lewis in advance of his performances at Helium Comedy Club this weekend. The veteran stand-up performer and now actor on “Curb Your Enthusiasm” leaves no neuroses unturned, from his life in recovery to his rela ...
20 Feb 2014 - Suzanne Zalokar
A lot has changed since Richard Lewis first hit the comedy scene in 1971, but Lewis’s onstage persona has stayed point-on: neurotic, obsessive and cathartically using fodder from his life on the analyst’s couch. Performance as therapy. Therapy as performa ...
15 Feb 2014 - Suzanne Zalokar
Bridgetown Comedy Festival co-founder and comedian Matt Braunger talks about the good times, bad times and the Portland he remembers Though now a successful comedian, actor and writer living in Los Angeles, Matt Braunger hangs onto his Northeast Portland ...
17 Dec 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar
The trash-master himself chats up the season before his one-man Christmas show in Portland Whatever you know about John Waters, what you might not expect is that he is one of the funniest people to have a conversation with. He is open, honest, compassiona ...
5 Dec 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar
The famed author and now independent bookstore owner wants to put paper books back into our hands With six novels and three books of nonfiction to her credit, award-winning author Ann Patchett has come a long way since she began her career as a staff writ ...
19 Nov 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar
You may know her as a comedian, but Margaret Cho takes on many roles in her life. The Korean-American speaks on her sexuality and LGBTQ activism in the media. Margaret Cho has been doing stand-up comedy since her early teens. In 1994 she starred in an ABC ...
5 Nov 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar
How one man is building a better life from the ground up It was Kyler Buzalsky’s nature of acceptance that attracted me to his story. I teach dialectical behavior therapy, among other subjects, and if ever there was a poster child for cool, calm detachmen ...
21 Oct 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar
Once Saddam Hussein’s portrait painter, Samir Khurshid’s artwork transcends the violence of his homeland and reflects hope for peace According to the United Nations, there are 45 million displaced people in the world, and more than 15 million of those peo ...
8 Oct 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar