‘If I met the 16-year-old me now I’d think, what planet did you come from?’ On the heels of releasing “The Testaments,” her sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” author Margaret Atwood sequel reflects on her introduction to writing, teenage anxieties and the m ...
20 Sep 2019 - Jane Graham
The Portland comic book author talks to Street Roots about the Timbers, social media, white supremacy and the new ABC adaptation of his private-eye series If you’re not familiar with Greg Rucka’s comic “Stumptown,” you’ve probably seen commercials for the ...
20 Sep 2019 - Jason Cohen
‘Waking the Witch’ author Pam Grossman says her activism and her magic are intertwined Pam Grossman is a writer, curator, practicing witch, and teacher of magical practice and history. Her new book, “Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Powe ...
20 Sep 2019 - Casey Miller
The trans queer poet and educator runs awQward Talent, which teaches the freedom to just ‘be’ On the lower level of Seattle’s Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, J Mase III stands in front of a small group of people eager to learn about artist sustain ...
23 Aug 2019 - Lisa Edge
BOOK REVIEW | ‘Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World’ by Annie Lowrey When Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang introduced his “Freedom Dividend,” a plan to give every adult in ...
26 Jul 2019 - Ashley Archibald
The enigmatic artist and filmmaker has curated a series of events at an English gallery aptly called HOME David Lynch is such an enigma he’s become an adjective. The Urban Dictionary defines “Lynchian” as a “balance between the macabre and the mundane” an ...
26 Jul 2019 - Steven MacKenzie
In his book ‘She’s So Cold,’ Donald E. McInnis details the long, harsh interrogations of three boys who were wrongly accused. Now, he’s advocating for a simplified Miranda warning for children. Author and longtime defense attorney Donald E. McInnis has a ...
19 Jul 2019 - Libby Dowsett
A British Columbia artist creates environmentally friendly pieces that decompose in nature In a lush corner of a West Coast rainforest, a nursery stump is covered in moss, a small huckleberry bush and the face of a contemplative woman. This is the work of ...
5 Jul 2019 - Michelle Gamage
‘Night Dogs’ exposes racial and economic disparity in 1970s Portland The scene is Portland, Ore. A largely African-American community has been laid-off, bulldozed and forgotten, its neighborhoods awash in poverty and drugs. The police, even according to o ...
28 Jun 2019 - Jason Cohen
Her new book, 'Elderhood,' reveals a reality in which doctors receive little training in the complexities of treating the elderly With improvements to health care and quality of life in the 20th century, the American life expectancy lengthened. ...
14 Jun 2019 - Emily Green