The renowned scholar and author is coming to Portland to talk about her own experience with schizophrenia One day, when she was 16, Elyn Saks abruptly got up from her desk, walked out of her classroom and left school. She headed home, but she could not ex ...
9 Jun 2017 - Amanda Waldroupe
The author of ‘Pacific Northwest Medicinal Plants’ touts nature’s healing potential Scott Kloos has a profound affinity for plants. He’s the founder and director at The School of Forest Medicine, a founding member of Portland’s Elderberry School of Botani ...
19 May 2017 - Emily Green
BOOK REVIEW | 'How to Make White People Laugh' uses comedy to tackle social justice issues It may be possible to change the world one joke at a time. At least, that’s the thrust of Iranian-American comic Negin Farsad's May 24 release, a boo ...
19 May 2017 - Mike Wold
‘Drawdown’ lays out the top 80 solutions already underway Around the globe, people are cultivating food, harnessing energy and building communities using methods that have the combined potential to reverse global warming. Scaling up these methods would no ...
10 May 2017 - Emily Green
BOOK REVIEW | “Ugly: My Memoir,” by Robert Hoge He was born ugly. How ugly was he? Maybe that sounds like the setup to a joke, but the punch line isn’t funny. He was so ugly his mother wanted to abandon him in the hospital. She said to his father, “Perhap ...
27 Apr 2017 - Susan Storer Clark
Chazzi Davis, an Oklahoma street paper vendor, says his art is therapeutic Chazzi Davis lives with bipolar disorder. Twenty years ago, he lost everything due to his mental health issues. He can never have his old life back but has found that taking abstra ...
20 Apr 2017 - Ranya Forgotson
John Edgar Wideman’s new book explores the injustice delivered to Emmett Till’s father The tragic story of Emmett Till still shocks the conscience of our nation. It was the summer of 1955. Fourteen years of age, Emmett was a good natured black adolescent ...
20 Apr 2017 - Joe Martin
A new mural in Northwest Portland is the work of Gats. In a rare interview, he tells Street Roots why he covertly creates public art. It isn’t every day that a phantom comes to Portland. Gats, or Graffiti Against the System, is a mysterious street artist ...
20 Apr 2017 - Stephen Quirke
He was famous for defining literary journalism with his profiles of Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio, but then he met a homeless woman near his house in East Manhattan The first encounter was on a cold Autumn afternoon in 1989. A woman carrying two bulky ba ...
4 Apr 2017 - Adam Sennott
Stephen King gave me great advice, says the comic book king – I ignored it Neil Gaiman is an English writer and film producer. This is what he would say to his 16-year-old self if he could go back in time: At 16 it was 1977 and I was a punk. I talked thre ...
23 Feb 2017 - Jane Graham