Leonid Maslov gives Portlanders a glimpse into war In the backyard of a spacious, upscale home tucked away in Portland’s rolling West Hills, an outfitted soldier showed a small gathering of local Slavs snapshots of army life in war-ravaged regions of thei ...
18 Aug 2016 - Emily Green
Portland is the third stop in the 'Rock Against the TPP' tour A diverse faction of well-known performers will take the stage in Downtown Portland’s Director Park on Aug. 20, 2016, in an effort to build opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership ...
16 Aug 2016 - Street Roots
How Oregon’s congressional delegates plan to vote If the Obama administration can build enough support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the trade deal will come to a vote this fall. But many representatives claim they are still undecided. Lori Wallach, ...
16 Aug 2016 - Emily Green
Band doesn't mince words when it comes to TPP Punk is politics, and in that game, the band Downtown Boys leaves nothing on the table. No one walks out of its shows without a chance at enlightenment – on workers’ rights, police accountability and puni ...
16 Aug 2016 - Jason Mekkam
Dancer with chronic spinal condition refused to give up her dream You may recognize her from her silhouette that danced across a dim stage in the Intel Superbowl commercial “Experience Amazing” that aired in February, but Paige Fraser’s appearance on nati ...
16 Aug 2016 - Alexandria Spillman
Anti-Flag and Downtown Boys to headline tour stop in Portland A diverse faction of well-known performers will take the stage in Downtown Portland’s Director Park on Aug. 20, 2016, in an effort to build opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade dea ...
15 Aug 2016 - Emily Green
Ron's advice to other vendors: look up, smile, be nice It was 1963 and Ron Britt was a teenager who had just moved from the Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco to his parents’ home on Corbett Street in Portland. “I was in the first hippie moveme ...
14 Aug 2016 - Leonora Ko
Researcher opens 'new chapter' with successful breeding of blue tang This summer, marine biologists at the University of Florida shared groundbreaking news: for the first time blue tang fish, AKA the star of Finding Dory, were successfully bred ...
11 Aug 2016 - Street News Service
If people demand their own Dory as much as they wanted Nemo, the impact on the blue tang population could be devastating We’d all love to own a cute film animal, wouldn’t we? A rat that sits on your shoulder and helps you make the dinner, perhaps. Or a Mu ...
11 Aug 2016 - Lucy Sweet
Proposal for massive Portland homeless shelter is half-baked at best In June, I wrote about a new proposal by developers Homer Williams and Dike Dame. The original idea was a $100 million plan to build space for 700 new shelter beds and create 700 beds in ...
11 Aug 2016 - Israel Bayer