AltWeeklies Wire
Chewing the Fatnew
Schlosser discusses adapting the muckraking classic Fast Food Nation for readers as young as 11.
Willamette Week |
Karla Starr |
05-10-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Chew on This, Eric Schlosser
An Author Crushnew
All you really need to succeed as a novelist is ... everything possible -- dammit!
Willamette Week |
Karla Starr |
05-03-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Benjamin Kunkel
Schools' 'Broad' Agendanew
The role of the Broad Foundation, an organization devoted to making schools more businesslike, in Portland schools alarms teachers and some parents.
Willamette Week |
Don McIntosh |
05-03-2006 |
Education
Tags: Education
Oregon's Next Governor?new
Ben Westlund, a former bull-semen peddler, has left the Republican party to run for governor as an independent.
Willamette Week |
Nigel Jaquiss |
04-26-2006 |
Politics
Tags: 2006elect
Piecing Paradise Back Togethernew
Jentz's quest to solve her own attempted murder leads to Central Oregon and literary gold.
Willamette Week |
Karla Starr |
04-26-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Mystery Made Fleshnew
The enigmatic musician known only as Jandek surfaces after 25 years in seclusion.
Willamette Week |
Douglas Wolk |
04-20-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jandek
Reluctant Antiheronew
Though he might not always think so, Harvey Pekar is one genuinely lucky guy.
Willamette Week |
Karla Starr |
04-20-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Harvey Pekar
The Man Behind Mannixnew
The reclusive Republican moneyman Loren Parks finally talks.
Willamette Week |
Carlton Smith |
04-20-2006 |
Politics
Tags: 2006elect
The Chief's Internal Affairsnew
A week after a desk clerk accused Portland Police Chief Derrick Foxworth of sexual harassment, one question remains: How did Foxworth's dirty little secret stay hidden for so long?
Willamette Week |
Angela Valdez |
04-12-2006 |
Politics
Empirical Dreamsnew
American Theocracy and The Secret Way To War call out more examples of the Bush White House's perfidy.
Willamette Week |
Matt Buckingham |
04-05-2006 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Nonfiction Reviews
Going Courtingnew
A Portland couple's fight for same-sex parental rights is the opening salvo in a statewide legal campaign in Oregon.
Willamette Week |
Ian Demsky |
04-05-2006 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Meth Watch in Portlandnew
Willamette Week's examination of The Oregonian's coverage of meth generates a lot of local and national commentary about the so-called "epidemic" and the media's treatment of it.
Willamette Week |
Staff |
03-30-2006 |
Media
Tags: crystalmeth
Blog Blasphemynew
A Portland couple's Web postings get them in death-defying trouble in Pakistan.
Willamette Week |
Erika-Leigh Goodwin |
03-29-2006 |
International
Tags: international
Death and Healingnew
Strayed's impressive debut illuminates the profound difficulty of a mother's death.
Willamette Week |
Lisa Hoashi |
03-29-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Cheryl Strayed, Torch
One Soldier's Storynew
As the conflict in Iraq enters its fourth year, wounded vet Sean Davis opens up his war journal.
Willamette Week |
Ian Demsky |
03-29-2006 |
War
Tags: war in iraq, Iraq veterans
