Kama Einhorn talks about creating the character, who provides an opportunity to teach young children about family homelessness Meet Lily. After losing their apartment and spending time in a shelter, she and her family are staying on Sesame Street with the ...
24 May 2019 - Aimee Knight
Writer and TV host Samin Nosrat talks to Street Roots about how she makes cooking accessible to everyone Interviewing Samin Nosrat, even on the phone, is a lot like watching her Netflix show. You can feel her passion and enthusiasm – for life, for food, f ...
8 Mar 2019 - Jason Cohen
Ben Popp, who organizes Portland International Film Festival screenings, talks about this year’s films and theme: “Empathy has no ethnicity” This year’s Portland International Film Festival, fondly known by many Portlanders and audience members as “PIFF,” ...
8 Mar 2019 - Amanda Waldroupe
COMMENTARY | Alfonso Cuarón’s Oscar-winning movie highlights the struggle of the profession Mexico City, 1970. Cleo’s alarm sounds very early in the morning. She gets up and climbs down the stairs from her rooftop room in the upper-middle-class house wher ...
1 Mar 2019 - Karina Patricio... and Arely Cruz-Santiago
More than 13 million children are refugees, but we rarely hear from them. Nadine Labaki is changing that with 'Capharnaüm.' Nadine Labaki loves watching kids on screen. “They make the most sense sometimes,” said the award-winning Lebanese direct ...
22 Feb 2019 - Aimee Knight
The country music legend muses about opening her heart, writing new music and standing up for the underdog “As a writer, I have to leave my heart open,” Dolly Parton begins. “That’s why I have always said I never could harden my heart, even against hurt o ...
15 Feb 2019 - Holly Gleason
Portland filmmaker Lindsey Grayzel talks about making her documentary, 'The Reluctant Radical' On Feb. 4, four people used bolt cutters and a cell phone to shut down two tar sands pipelines in Itasca County, Minnesota. In a signed statement rel ...
15 Feb 2019 - Stephen Quirke
Jodie Whittaker knows ‘Doctor Who’ fans have high expectations, but she never hesitated to become the first woman to play the legendary lead There aren’t many roles on British television that garner the kind of media attention that Jodie Whittaker receive ...
21 Sep 2018 - Christian Lisseman
Underrepresented elsewhere, First Nations people in Canada are working to create an Indigenous Walk of Fame to commemorate their work in the entertainment industry There is only one Indigenous person on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame: Jay Silverheels, the Mohaw ...
14 Sep 2018 - Cam Welch
As his career reaches new heights – his 4th ‘Mission: Impossible’ film out and a new ‘Star Trek’ in the offing – the actor, writer and producer aims to stay true to himself “When you know Tom’s been running around on a broken ankle for 10 hours, you’d fee ...
24 Aug 2018 - Simon Bland