Q & A Andrew Mills is a 26-year-old Toronto native and freelance journalist currently working for The Toronto Star in Beirut, Lebanon.He's also my former classmate at Columbia University Graduate School of ... More
Andrew Mills
A freelance journalist in Beirut gives WW a glimpse into what's turned into his war assignment.
Q & A Andrew Mills is a 26-year-old Toronto native and freelance journalist currently working for The Toronto Star in Beirut, Lebanon.He's also my former classmate at Columbia University Graduate School of ... More
Winona Laduke
The Green activist takes on wild rice and the White House.
Q & A With a decades-long history nationally of activism and altruism, former Green Party vice presidential candidate Winona LaDuke may seem very distant from the rest of us.But the back story for the 47-ye ... More
Bill Scott
WW asks Flexcar's exec if the end of a city subsidy puts Portland carsharing in reverse.
Q & A Bill Scott, Flexcar's director of operations in Portland, is ticked off.He's mad because the City Council unanimously voted last month to impose a new charge on Scott's carsharing company. For the fir ... More
Chris Agnello
The new Timbers GM and coach kicks it on whether soccer will ever be more than a mainstream afterthought.
Q & A Portland Timbers management brought Chris Agnello to town to make their minor-league soccer team work.Agnello, hired in December 2005 as the Timbers' coach and general manager, has achieved that goal ... More
Rosie Sizer
Acting police chief unholsters her thoughts on the past two months.
Q & A Acting Police Chief Rosie Sizer arrived in WW's office last week without an entourage, a move basically unheard-of among the public figures who submit to our gauntlet of questioning.Mayor Tom Potter a ... More
Carnival People
Wading into the Rose Fest's waterfront spectacular.
Q & A WW ventured to the Rose Festival's Waterfront Village this weekend in search of the elusive "carny." We hoped to learn more about carnies' mysterious lives, their customs—about life on the road ... More
Eddie Parente
A Portland musician's adventures within the "Axis of Evil."
Q & A Local violinist Eddie Parente recently had a rare experience for an American: a 10-day trip to North Korea. Parente, a 50-year-old jazz and folk fiddler who has performed in Portland for more than two ... More
Eric Schlosser
Fast Food Nation author returns to Portland May 15 with the kid-sized Chew on This.
Q & A Bestselling author Eric Schlosser is no stranger to success.His father was once the chairman of NBC. And the 46-year-old native New Yorker was educated at Princeton and Oxford. But he hit failure when ... More
David Rogoway
A longtime jeweler bails out of downtown, blaming pols, panhandlers and pavement-ripping.
Q & A Local jeweler and regular City Hall-basher David Rogoway says he can predict the future of downtown Portland, and it isn't pretty.Rogoway, the fourth generation in a family business that goes back to ... More
Gore Vidal
The social critic and legend's cranky thoughts on public life, the media and fame.
Q & A Interviewing iconic author and political activist Gore Vidal, as likely a candidate as this country has for royalty, is like pulling teeth from a toothless man.At age 80, after writing The City and th ... More
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Planned Parenthood’s president on Congress, the HPV vaccine and why men use her group’s clinics. Dwight Holton
Oregon’s top federal prosecutor on the JTTF, Portland City Council and the iPad. Sarah Weddington
What the lawyer who argued Roe V. Wade in the 1970s now thinks about the women’s movement and Barack Obama. Hotseat: David Fidanque
The head of Oregon’s ACLU calls B.S. On JTTF. Marcus Griffith
The reporter who first called B.S. on the Bethany Storro acid attack. Hotseat: Jarrett Walker
A Portland transit expert says we shouldn’t fall in love with trains when buses will do. Hotseat: Tamim Ansary
Afghanistan-born author will tell Portlanders about another history—one that’s Islamic-centered. Rev. Mark Kiyimba
On the front lines of the fight for gay rights in Uganda. Tina Franklin
Why this woman likes having other people’s babies. Richard Lariviere
The UO president talks about a big bond issue, Phil Knight and how sports is like Lady Gaga.
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