AltWeeklies Wire
Dear Diarynew
Portlanders get ready for the first staging of Mortified, a live show in which local citizens read the most hilarious, humiliating things they wrote as teenagers -- journal entries, poetry, love letters and song lyrics.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
11-14-2007 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Portland's Segregated Schoolsnew
What happens when a school district spends millions on integration but gives parents the right to choose their children's schools?
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
11-14-2007 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Portland Lawyers Fight for Guantanamo Prisoner No. 940new
Two years ago this week, authorities with the U.S. Department of Defense signed a memo approving Adel Hamad's release from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the 49-year-old Sudanese citizen has been held as an "enemy combatant" since 2002. Today, he remains imprisoned for reasons that aren't entirely clear.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
11-14-2007 |
Civil Liberties
Gambling With Kids' Futuresnew
Millions for an Oregon schools rainy-day fund are instead going to risky venture capital.
Willamette Week |
Nigel Jaquiss |
11-14-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
Dems Hold a Campaign Q&A Minus the Candidatesnew
With Oregon's presidential primary not until May 20 -- long after the contest will probably be decided -- candidates aren't making Oregon a regular stop. So Democrats held a forum with local supporters standing in for the busy candidates.
Willamette Week |
Amanda Waldroupe |
11-14-2007 |
Politics
A New Lifeline for Iraqi Interpretersnew
An army captain's new nonprofit foundation pressures the U.S. government to do more for Iraqi interpreters who have worked with Americans in the war-torn nation.
Willamette Week |
Beth Slovic |
11-07-2007 |
War
Silja Talvi on What Prison is Really Like for Womennew
Women Behind Bars details some of the reasons behind the increase in women prisoners nationwide, and the problems it poses.
Willamette Week |
Matthew Korfhage |
11-07-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Portland Foresees Big Bill for Prez Candidate Securitynew
The Portland Police Bureau expects to spend $600,000 guarding presidential candidates who campaign here in 2008. That sum could pay the annual salaries of 15 new officers.
Willamette Week |
Corey Pein |
11-07-2007 |
Politics
A Hefty Book Captures the Early 19th Centurynew
Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the portentous half-century before the Civil War, a time that seems at once alien to our modern sensibilities and yet strangely echoes our own technological, consumer-driven age.
Willamette Week |
Matt Buckingham |
11-07-2007 |
Nonfiction
Poe Ballantine Searches for Inspirationnew
"I don't recommend the writing life," declares Poe Ballantine. "At least, not the one where you move around a lot, live alone and work odd jobs."
Willamette Week |
Alastair Rockoff |
11-07-2007 |
Nonfiction
'King Corn': The Quiet, Scary Documentarynew
King Corn feels like a tonic not only for the ills of American food production, but for the shrillness of the nation's documentaries as well.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
11-07-2007 |
Reviews
Growing Out of I Can Lick Any Sonofabitchnew
Michael Dean Damron's new band, Thee Loyal Bastards, turns the volume down a touch and puts greater emphasis on songwriting.
Willamette Week |
Casey Jarmon |
11-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Southern Belle Breaks Your Toysnew
The lo-fi indie-pop trio joins forces with upwards of 20 friends for a "Little Boys Club" meeting, where they create franken-toys.
Willamette Week |
Nilina Mason-Campbell |
11-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Southern Belle
Wordstock Returnsnew
Four authors -- Peter Sagal, Janet Fitch, Shane Koyczan, Adrian Tomine -- on the eve of Portland's biggest literary weekend.
Willamette Week |
Staff |
11-07-2007 |
Books
Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culturenew
After someone attempted a firebombing at a new Starbucks in Southeast Portland, Taylor Clark, then a staff writer for Willamette Week, wrote a cover story about the Seattle-based coffee giant. The article generated grande buzz and lead to this book.
Willamette Week |
Taylor Clark |
11-07-2007 |
Excerpts
