Chris Slusarenko and John Moen are joined by former Tim Buckley collaborator Larry Beckett Chris Slusarenko and John Moen of the Portland indie rock band Eyelids are in their early 50s. Poet and songwriter Larry Beckett is in his early 70s. But their new ...
6 Mar 2020 - Jason Cohen
The legendary guitarist and songwriter of The Band reminisces in this ‘Letter to My Younger Self’ Robbie Robertson, perhaps best known as musician in The Band, reflects on his younger self in this series for The Big Issue, Street Roots’ sister paper in th ...
28 Feb 2020 - Jane Graham
The actor-musician-writer and longtime collaborator Chris Slusarenko, of Eyelids, talk ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch,’ ‘Shrill,’ Lou Reed and the ‘Origin of Love’ tour John Cameron Mitchell doesn’t live in Portland, but he’s sure spending a lot of time here. ...
21 Feb 2020 - Jason Cohen
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