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Alan Alexander III puts homelessness to music

‘Homeless (the musical),’ to debut at Portland’s Fertile Ground Festival, invites audience to ‘see homeless people as people’ We are thick in this city with a wonderful glut of talented, passionate artists. Alan Alexander III is one of them. Alexander is ...

19 Jan 2017 - Suzanne Zalokar
Georgina Escobar's teatro macabre

The Mexican playwright talks about her new production for Milagro Theatre’s Day of the Dead celebration Georgina Escobar, a multi-platform artist from Ciudad Juarez, México, has brought her distinguished theatrical talents to Portland as one of the artist ...

27 Oct 2016 - Suzanne Zalokar
After Iraq, Portland veteran finds a new way to serve

Damon Faust applies skills he developed in the military to first response in Haiti, and he helps other veterans do the same Damon Faust and business partner Ross Fielder have a vision: putting veterans’ skill sets to work in Haiti. It’s an experience Faus ...

16 Jun 2016 - Suzanne Zalokar
Oregon’s new poet laureate gets back to her roots as a writer

Elizabeth Woody talks about family, living with poverty, and her Native American culture that shapes her view of life To meet Elizabeth Woody is to feel the full breadth of nature embodied in a woman. She truly understands the human condition. And she is ...

12 May 2016 - Suzanne Zalokar
Ian Brennan: Sounds of another world

Ian Brennan brings music of far-off cultures to American ears I an Brennan has worked to bring music diversity to the ears of listeners around the globe since he began making field recordings in San Francisco in the early 1990s. His first journey to ano ...

25 Apr 2016 - Suzanne Zalokar
Lead poisoning has one culprit, advocate says: the lead industry

Portland’s Tamara Rubin, founder of Lead Safe America Foundation, hopes to educate more families with her new film, 'MisLEAD' Five years ago, Tamara Rubin founded Lead Safe America Foundation, a nonprofit organization that offers education, supp ...

9 Apr 2016 - Suzanne Zalokar
Bibi McGill’s path of self-discovery

The Portland guitarist, who was musical director in Beyonce’s all-female band, shares love and healing through music, tea and yoga Bibi McGill began playing guitar at the age of 12. Her parents noticed her playing air guitar on a pool cue and asked her if ...

24 Mar 2016 - Suzanne Zalokar
Portland's LaRhonda Steele lets it out

Singer, who says gospel music gives her freedom to express, talks about interfaith choir, Portland's pollution crisis and musicians’ gift to the world LaRhonda Steele has been a part of Portland’s musical landscape for a little over 20 years. Her par ...

10 Mar 2016 - Suzanne Zalokar
Jennifer Chambers writes about remarkable Oregon women — and is one

The author, experiencing traumatic brain injury and a rare genetic disorder, shares stories of visionaries Jennifer Chambers is drawn to remarkable Oregon women, and so she writes about them. It’s no coincidence; she is one herself. Her most recent book, ...

19 Feb 2016 - Suzanne Zalokar
Oregon Innocence Project’s Aliza Kaplan: Criminal injustice ‘every single day’

With wrongful-conviction cases getting greater attention, now the focus should be reform, organization’s co-founder says Aliza Kaplan tells her students at Lewis & Clark Law School, “You have to be really open because you never know when the moment or ...

29 Jan 2016 - Suzanne Zalokar