In stark contrast to the ancient city that once flourished with ideas and commerce, today there is only the exchange of small arms fire and artillery shells within the city center, as the soldiers check their weapons. Reloading clips, stocking grenades, a ...
15 Feb 2014 - William Holmes IV
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Let your smile be the extra layer of fleece in your sensible shoes this month! Stay warm inside and out! Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Don’t get paranoid about all of the white vans you’ll begin seeing toward the end of the month. J ...
15 Feb 2014 - Soup Can Sam
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8 Dec 2015 - Street Roots
No more Chasses! Nor Kendras! Nor Billy Wayne Simms! No Tasing, no shooting of black people on whims! 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the jail Not an inmate was stirring, 'cept those who made bail Phone calls were made to the ...
23 Dec 2015 - Chris O'Connor
This week, Street Roots’ Creative Writing prompt was a response to the shooting at Pulse in Orlando, Fla. Vendors were encouraged to write their own responses. Here is what they wrote. In Response to the Orlando Shooting By Aileen McPherson Is it t ...
23 Jun 2016 - Street Roots
BOOK REVIEW | The writer of 'The Once and Future Liberal' provides an elegantly concise how-we-got-here history I had thought the malaise of relentlessly focusing on identity was just me. That only I was feeling like an ant under a magnifying gl ...
1 Jun 2018 - Megan Wildhood
Finished clay bowls will be auctioned off in the fall to help people experiencing homelessness Several afternoons this spring, Street Roots has been transformed into a bustling pop-up pottery studio thanks to artist Dana Lynn Louis and the Gather:Make:She ...
8 Jun 2018 - Helen Hill
Her new book, 'Flyover Country,' is a collection of writings on systemic problems endemic in the Midwest "Flyover country” was never meant to be a flattering term. Middle America, lacking the wealth and sparkle of coastal cities, is viewed ...
8 Jun 2018 - Joanne Zuhl
BOOK REVIEW | 'Nomadland' looks at RV- and van-dwelling travelers in search for a place to park their lives The headlines may talk about growth, but we are living in a dark economic era. For most families, income and wealth have stagnated in rec ...
15 Jun 2018 - Joe Martin
Being "One Step Way" from homelessness the focus of next month's Object Stories series Big city art museums have traditionally been vault-like repositories of masterpieces hanging quietly on a wall, seen only by the well-heeled. Uniformed g ...
15 Jun 2018 - Helen Hill