Street Roots caught up with comedian Richard Lewis in advance of his performances at Helium Comedy Club this weekend. The veteran stand-up performer and now actor on “Curb Your Enthusiasm” leaves no neuroses unturned, from his life in recovery to his rela ...
20 Feb 2014 - Suzanne Zalokar
A lot has changed since Richard Lewis first hit the comedy scene in 1971, but Lewis’s onstage persona has stayed point-on: neurotic, obsessive and cathartically using fodder from his life on the analyst’s couch. Performance as therapy. Therapy as performa ...
15 Feb 2014 - Suzanne Zalokar
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Let your smile be the extra layer of fleece in your sensible shoes this month! Stay warm inside and out! Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Don’t get paranoid about all of the white vans you’ll begin seeing toward the end of the month. J ...
15 Feb 2014 - Soup Can Sam
In stark contrast to the ancient city that once flourished with ideas and commerce, today there is only the exchange of small arms fire and artillery shells within the city center, as the soldiers check their weapons. Reloading clips, stocking grenades, a ...
15 Feb 2014 - William Holmes IV
I met my wife of 22 years, Dianne Rodway, through an advertisement in The Willamette Week. We met on Friday night, went bike riding on Sunday, and have been together ever since. We decided to get married about three weeks later while at a wedding in South ...
15 Feb 2014 - John Becker
Every war has its after-war,” writes David Finkel, “depression, anxiety, nightmares, memory problems, personality changes, suicidal thoughts.” In the recent “ Thank You for Your Service ” and 2009’s “ The Good Soldiers,” Finkel shows us what he means by p ...
15 Feb 2014 - Jim Douglas
Last month on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, a coalition of advocacy organizations presented findings from Facing Race: the 2013 Oregon Legislative Report Card on Racial Equity. The report is designed to help legislators better understand how to addr ...
15 Feb 2014 - David Rogers
The topic of race and social work is a conversation that could take many paths. We could discuss the dynamics for professionals of color in Portland (and the sad trend of emigration from Portland); or the experience of people of color within our dominant ...
15 Feb 2014 - Shannon Singleton
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, a free trade agreement among Pacific Rim nations, is possibly the biggest story you’ve never heard of. That’s partly by design. The United States and the eleven other countries negotiating what is the largest trade d ...
15 Feb 2014 - Nathan Gilles
Number of chicken wings sold by Fire on the Mountain on Super Bowl Sunday: 25,653 Percent drop in Seattle-area 911 calls during the Super Bowl: 31 Percent rise in Seattle-area 911 calls after the Super Bowl: 75 Dollars per container the Port of Portland w ...
15 Feb 2014 - Street Roots Staff