The Portland singer-songwriter has received the Lowenstein Trust Award for his efforts to support musicians in need In early spring of 2020, the certainty of a profound global pandemic was beginning to sink in. Lives, livelihoods and presumptions of secur ...
10 Feb 2021 - Helen Hill
In a letter to his younger self, the Talking Heads frontman reflects on his music, politics and his activism As a shy teen, David Byrne wondered whether he’d find his crowd. He was born in Scotland, but moved with his parents, first to Canada and then to ...
3 Feb 2021 - Adrian Lobb
‘Thomas Mann’s War’ by Tobias Boes chronicles the European anti-fascist, whose books were burned by Nazis F lames of ignorance and hate lit the darkness on a May evening in 1933. The consuming pyre was fed by thousands of heaped books set on fire by Nazis ...
20 Jan 2021 - Joe Martin
K.C. Green’s cartoon canine has comforted the internet during a challenging year W hen wildfires devastated the West Coast this summer, burning ancient forests to embers and incinerating whole communities off the map, the internet found ironic solace in a ...
13 Jan 2021 - Jezy J. Gray
The Downstairs Gallery showcases works from BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and disabled artists When Daren Todd opened The Downstairs Gallery in August, he was surviving, accepting opportunities after the coronavirus pandemic took both his bartending gig and his promisi ...
6 Jan 2021 - Andrew Jankowski
The Bardo philosophy is ingrained in the Blitzen Trapper frontman’s music, and his new career in homeless services has influenced his writing and his artwork B litzen Trapper hasn’t played a show in 2020, which makes them pretty much like every other arti ...
30 Dec 2020 - Jason Cohen
The Radiohead guitarist reflects on his career with the band in a letter to his younger self Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien reflects on his younger self in this series for The Big Issue, Street Roots’ sister paper in the United Kingdom. Music was my ...
12 Dec 2020 - Jane Graham
Vendors will sell the publication during the holiday months as a means of earning additional income The art of survival is abstract. While survival is essential in all our lives, means to maintain it are unique to everyone. We live in a world of assumptio ...
27 Nov 2020 - Veronica Ruth
The Oregon journalist discusses her new book, ‘As the World Burns,’ about young people’s lawsuit against the federal government For the past five years, 21 young people from across the country have wended their way through the court system as plaintiffs i ...
23 Sep 2020 - Chris May
Bregman is certain humans are not as bad as we fear we are — and he’s written a book, ‘Humankind: A Hopeful History,’ to prove it Rutger Bregman, understands it’s hard to be optimistic about humanity at the moment: We’re in the throes of a global pandemic ...
24 Aug 2020 - Thuy On