Author: Admin

For a young man of 21 (let us pause a moment and let that tender age sink in) claiming musical credits with what seems to be almost every band in town, Peter Broderick is somewhat of a quiet giant in the Portland music scene.

On Saturday night, at home and in front of 8,560 fans, the Portland Lumberjax played their first game in three weeks, and at times it appeared that Father Time had not been kind to them.

Through the gloom of this darkened time in U.S. history is the one oft-forgotten source of light that is the guiding force out of the shadows: education.

Portland State news extras, oddball tidbits from the city and beyond the inane.

A total of 22 members of the track and field team will head south to Flagstaff, Ariz., this Friday and Saturday to participate in the final event of the indoor schedule.

Hunter Levengood thinks it’s a harsh punishment for a small infraction. And while it could be debated that it was, in fact, a small misdeed that wound up claiming his hockey season, the extent of the punishment doesn’t seem to be up for the same review.

In the age where singles are more sought after than albums, local airy pop makers The Crosswalks are thriving.

The office of the Pre-Health Society is small and cramped, and never for a second is it quiet. Crowded with computers, books, a skeleton, group officers and, of course, a couch, it’s a haven for harried pre-med and pre-nursing students.

As TriMet seeks to expand its downtown transit mall project, its effect is beginning to be felt on Portland State’s campus.

“There was a sound like a railroad. So I looked outside, because there weren’t any railroads at Vanport, and I saw a whole section of the dike just collapse,” remembered Rill Walker, the son of the first student to enroll at Vanport College.

To say that Au makes music that is larger than life would be doing them a disservice, as their music is a life into and of itself. Often theatrical, idiosyncratic and bi-polar, Au makes one believe in the moving power of music again.