City council members voted unanimously to approve $285,000 in emergency funds for sheltering juvenile victims of sex trafficking.
Red blight district
Five uneasy pieces
With Thanksgiving weekend just around the corner and finals week looming, students at Portland State may soon find themselves in need of a good holiday read.
My video game problem
Libraries are flush with volumes of postmodern anthropology in which the minutia of our daily interactions are analyzed and dissertated by academics.
Samurai Showdown
In order to fully appreciate the broad spectrum of Japanese samurai cinema, it is important that we first understand the samurai themselves.
It’s the end of an era-and the world
His name stands easily alongside Alan Moore, Warren Ellis and Frank Miller, and it stands there for three simple reasons: His prose is exceptional, his imagination and sense of story are unmatched and he’s always willing to take his readers where others will not.
Gimme shelter
In 2006, a City of Portland Commissioner named Sam Adams had the idea that Portland’s economic future would be very closely linked to the city’s ability to nurture its existing arts community while continuing to attract young, creative professionals.
Shouting into the void
In a decade in which media consumers are keen to eulogize American journalism, many have struggled with the tragedy.
Duty now, for the future
Sustainability is the talk of the town, but the Portland State graduate students running Ooligan Press believe that the time has come for more than just lip service.
An ineffective truth
It is Sunday, and like so many other Sundays in America, Bart Simpson has written something irreverent on the chalkboard in his empty classroom.
Books, beer, bikes and booze
Last Saturday evening, a bevy of local artisans gathered in southeast Portland to celebrate the launch of “Brew to Bikes.”
How much art can you take?
Once each year, the Portland Art Museum allows 12 artists from the PSU MFA Art & Social Practice Concentration programs to take over their space for an evening—a very late evening.