Q & A Adam and Amy Korst, a married couple from Dallas, Ore., produced about three pounds of trash in the past 12 months—less than the average American produces in a single day. How? By purging their ...   More

Q & A Former Portlander Kathryn Schulz is an expert on wrongness. Right or wrong, she wrote an entire book on the subject. Schulz, a journalist who’s written for The New York Times Magazine, The Natio ...   More

Q & A It’s not every day an ex-cop rides into town encouraging the legalization of pot. And that, of course, makes Howard Wooldridge just the kind of atypical advocate whom supporters of marijuana&rsq ...   More

Q & A Neil Heilpern is scared that one day he might end up in a retirement home surrounded by straight residents and staff who will treat him “like dirt.” Heilpern, a 67-year-old bisexual man wh ...   More

Q & A It’s hard to introduce Daniel Clowes without upsetting the delicate natural order of the comic-book world. To give him his full due, you have to use sweeping, clichéd phrases: Clowes is & ...   More

Q & A Here’s some news that may console Trail Blazers fans grumbling about the team’s second straight first-round playoff elimination. Ex-NBA ref Tim Donaghy says it’s nearly impossible fo ...   More

Q & A Dahr Jamail had no intention of becoming a journalist when he first drove into Iraq from Jordan with a fake press pass in November 2003. Disgusted with mainstream media coverage, the 41-year-old Hous ...   More

Q & A “The patterns are the same anywhere in the world,” Rod Englert calmly explains. “Murder is murder.” He should know. The Oregon-based crime scene reconstructionist has spent mor ...   More

Q & A “Why did I move to Southern California?” is the question Joe Sib, singer for now-defunct pop-punkers Wax, asked himself on the band’s 1995 minor hit “California.” It took ...   More

Q & A Sharon Stone crosses her legs. A murdered policeman is resurrected as a robot. A Vegas showgirl gives of her flesh. Arnold Schwarzenegger repopulates Mars. This is the cinema of director Paul Verhoeve ...   More