Author: Sarah Hutchins

During hard times peoples’ true natures are shown. Some are supportive of their community. Others resort to a selfish survival mode of existence.

If it wasn’t bad enough when your parents broke into your diary when you were growing up, Uncle Sam now plans to break into your private e-mails and phone calls. Instead of a lock and key, it’s time to boost your computer hardware’s security.

Usually I enjoy touting authors, especially local ones. However, Portland author Jon Raymond’s Livability: Stories is, sadly, not praiseworthy.

The other day a Washington Post article stated that recessions don’t usually negatively affect college graduates, but 2008 stood as the year with the highest number of unemployed college graduates since The Bureau of Labor and Statistics began keeping tabs on these trends in 1970.

If there’s one thing Portland does right it’s breakfast. Don’t believe me? Grab a copy of Breakfast in Bridgetown: The definitive guide to Portland’s favorite meal.

Ehud Havazelet’s Bearing the Body is a gritty, dirty, dysfunctional look at how families grow apart until an unexpected death causes them to recognize and mourn their emotional distance.

Want to take a break from family festivities? Don’t worry, the Vanguard has you covered. Here’s a list of all the hottest events to warm you up between now and when we resume publication at the end of winter break.

With the economic pressures from the recession weighing down Americans this holiday season, most people aren’t going to remember this holiday season as the year where they traveled abroad or received an expensive new gift (like a car, computer, etc.). Therefore, this year requires some extra effort to ensure that it stays in yours and your loved ones’ memories forever. Years later you can recall together, “Remember that one Christmas when … .”

Most people know Thomas Beatie as the transgender “pregnant man” from Bend, Ore., which was splashed over Web sites and news networks last spring. After giving birth to a beautiful baby girl, Beatie published an autobiography about his lifelong pursuit of a happy, nurturing family.

In December 2006 three experienced mountain climbers ascended the north face of Mt. Hood for what they thought would be an easy two-day climb. They had no way of knowing that the worst storm in a decade was about to be unleashed and that all three of them would perish.

Adults should be allowed to watch any movie that they want without being restricted by marketing or region encoding. In a supposed melting pot of people, cultures and ideas, it should be an American right to enjoy all movies regardless to content and origin.