The author discusses her latest novel, a queer, Latinx dystopian fantasy with Trump-era issues On Feb. 24, Oregon author Tehlor Kay Mejia’s sophomore novel, “We Unleash the Merciless Storm,” a young adult (YA) queer Latinx fantasy set in a dystopian reali ...
21 Feb 2020 - Sarah Hansell
A new exhibit by the founder of Gather:Make:Shelter reflects a life of sharing her craft among those without Whirling strands of lace or DNA are painted onto large squares of muslin. The fragile filaments touch at tender points and eddy around a core. Del ...
14 Feb 2020 - Helen Hill
For the people who were persecuted and murdered, the poetry they wrote was a way to reclaim their identity The first Holocaust poems were written 90 years ago, when the full extent of the horror was yet to be known. Starting in the 1930s, those first work ...
7 Feb 2020 - Marian de Vooght
On average, the world consumes enough resources for 1.5 planets, and yet few people are aware of how drastic a situation that is People are waking up every morning unaware that the world economy consumes, on average, enough resources for 1.5 planets. That ...
31 Jan 2020 - Maja Ravanska
The ‘Monty Python’ legend also reveals which of his films his teenage self would rate and his history as a cheerleader Terry Gilliam, the filmmaker and “Monty Python” star, writes a letter to his younger self as part of a series for The Big Issue, Street ...
24 Jan 2020 - Jane Graham
‘The Wire’ was a game-changer for the actor, and his hard work has paid off, he says in a letter to his younger self Wendell Pierce, an actor best known for his roles in the TV series “The Wire” and “Treme,” writes a letter to his younger self as part of ...
10 Jan 2020 - Adrian Lobb
COMMENTARY | Shorty’s Corner, a spot near I-205 adorned with ever-changing sculptures, was a Portland treasure Every time I turned onto Interstate 205, I saw a new art installation on a small, triangular patch of earth near Foster Boulevard. I would catch ...
10 Jan 2020 - Sara Kirschenbaum
The German World War I veteran's life story is now a comic Gregor Gog’s life was one that spanned a time of social transformations, revolutions and human catastrophes in Europe. Born in Schwerin an der Wartke (now Skwierzyna, Western Poland) in 1891 ...
27 Dec 2019 - Bastian Pütter
The Everclear frontman and former Portlander talks about his first solo album, his MS diagnosis and Trump Art Alexakis has survived a lot. An impoverished and fatherless childhood in California. Sexual abuse. Drug addiction. And then later, in Portland, t ...
13 Dec 2019 - Jason Cohen
In dedicating time to their memoir, “High School,” the musical twins are surprised to find they’re ‘so different and also so similar’ Imagine spending more than half your life working professionally with your twin sister – being so intertwined in every as ...
29 Nov 2019 - Giselle Au-Nhie...