Q & A Talk about a career change. In 1993, after 13 years as the lead drama critic for The New York Times, having earned the (possibly undeserved) nickname of “The Butcher of Broadway,” Frank Ri ... More
Frank Rich
The New York Times columnist on Stephen Sondheim, Tim Burton and George W.’s acting chops.
Q & A Talk about a career change. In 1993, after 13 years as the lead drama critic for The New York Times, having earned the (possibly undeserved) nickname of “The Butcher of Broadway,” Frank Ri ... More
Dan Kennedy
One writer lives (and flees from) the rock-’n’-roll dream.
Q & A Ever wonder what it would be like to work your dream job? When Dan Kennedy was hired at age 35 by Atlantic Records in 2002, he imagined he’d be living a rock-’n’-roll lifestyle. Inst ... More
Neil Kopp
It’s not the Oscars, but this Portland movie producer is getting some awards-season love.
Q & A As a general rule, movie producer Neil Kopp is happy to stay out of the spotlight. At age 28, he’s already overseen two of the best films to come out of Portland this decade: He produced directo ... More
Susie Bright
Best American Erotica editor talks vinyl, sex politics and hot flashes.
Q & A Susie Bright has been getting us off for years. Back in the ’80s she was the founding editor of On Our Backs , the lesbian answer to Playboy , and the first feminist porn critic for Penthouse Fo ... More
Michael Pollan
Post-Omnivore’s Dilemma, the doomsday prophet of the U.S. diet lets us know what we can eat.
Q & A Michael Pollan has been a household name in Portland ever since the city took The Omnivore’s Dilemma , his 2006 expose of America’s agricultural-industrial complex, to our collective heart ... More
James O’Dea
This man’s advice: Forgive, relax, live longer.
Q & A James O’Dea seems a man of many faiths—a saner sort of mystic who tends to pass off the elusiveness of his beliefs as evidence of his openmindedness. He’s landing in Portland this we ... More
Craig Marquardo
Can Portland trust this singer, war hero, journalist, baseball savior and magazine owner?
Q & A Craig Marquardo’s name is mud. The 35-year-old East Coast native is locally notorious thanks to a slew of hard-to-believe—and hard to verify—claims he’s made over the years: he ... More
Guillermo Arriaga
It’s not his fault Portland looks rainy and cold in the movies.
Q & A It was a circuitous, conflict-ridden journey that brought Guillermo Arriaga from Mexico City to Portland—which is appropriate, considering his writing. The screenwriter of Amores Perros , 21 Gra ... More
Laura Ireland Moore
A local animal-law activist on medical research, having a pet and whether the Inuit should be allowed to hunt.
Q & A Laura Ireland Moore has been fighting for animals ever since she founded an animal rights group while attending junior high in La Grange, Ill. A vegan by age 16, Moore got her degree in environmental ... More
Corinne Atlas
Ponies and bugs declare war on terror.
Q & A For over a year now, Corinne Atlas has been preparing for work by pulling on an oversized bug costume. It could be worse—she could have a tail. Since October 2006, Atlas, as “Ladybug,&rdqu ... More
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Can Portland trust this singer, war hero, journalist, baseball savior and magazine owner? Julius Achon
A Portland runner’s Olympian survival story. Hotseat: Jinkx Monsoon
Meet the Pacific Northwest’s first contestant on the American Idol of drag. Hotseat: Camas Davis
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A veteran comic turns to podcasting for shock therapy and biting laughs. Ron Jeremy
The Hedgehog finds a brick-and-mortar sex burrow in downtown Portland. Amy Korst
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The man longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
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