Q & A The last time David Carr was in Portland was in 1974, when he rode down with the Rainbow Tribe from a yippie camp-in near Spokane and got let off a marijuana-possession rap by a highway patrolman. At ... More
David Carr
His memories told him he was a crackhead. His investigative reporting told him he was worse than he thought.
Q & A The last time David Carr was in Portland was in 1974, when he rode down with the Rainbow Tribe from a yippie camp-in near Spokane and got let off a marijuana-possession rap by a highway patrolman. At ... More
Joel Hodgson
The captain of Cinematic Titanic tosses off some one-liners.
Q & A Joel Hodgson was the original interminably imprisoned lab rat forced to watch horrible movie screenings on Mystery Science Theater 3000, the cult TV show he created in 1988 that featured a crew of hum ... More
Michael Cogliantry
A commercial photographer blows off steam by shooting Furverts.
Q & A Photographer and recent Portland transplant Michael Cogliantry spends his days creating images for big-name commercial clients like GQ and McDonald’s. But he spends his nights shooting people pr ... More
Faye Gibson
What a champion bus driver thinks about screaming kids, safety and Speed.
Q & A Faye Gibson doesn’t stand out in the crowd of 150 bus drivers spending the morning drinking coffee and heckling each other in the North Clackamas School District bus barn at 6:30 am. But Gibson, ... More
Dave Goelz
Practicing Gonzo journalism with a master of Muppets.
Q & A Dave Goelz has been inside a Skeksi, been seen eye-to-crotch with Steve Martin and danced with chickens and cheese. Beginning in 1973, when he was just 26 years old, Goelz joined Jim Henson in craftin ... More
Käthe Kollwitz
The Guerrilla Girls fight art world discrimination with gorilla masks and jokes.
Q & A Conceptual artist and activist “Käthe Kollwitz” found out long ago that the best way to get people to listen to you is to wear a mask and crack a joke. That’s exactly what her l ... More
Steve Fraser
This Wall Street historian’s advice when it comes to our boulevard of broken schemes? Regulate—or just don’t look.
Q & A Many of us were shocked when Wall Street collapsed faster than futures in pager sales. Steve Fraser certainly wasn’t. The 63-year-old historian—who’s speaking Wednesday, April 15, i ... More
Sylvie Tarpinian
Dishing pageant secrets and teaching Miss Oregon how to play pinball.
Q & A Does anyone even watch the Miss USA pageant anymore? Ogling perfectly turned-out girls in identical swimsuits can seem a little démodé, especially when you can watch girls with bigger ha ... More
Storm Large
Portland’s “first lady” on her new solo show, Sam Adams and being too dirty for David Bowie.
Q & A In the seven years since 6-foot singer Storm Large started performing at Dante’s with her band, the Balls, she has appeared twice on the cover of this paper, been a contestant in the CBS reality ... More
Jeffrey Lewis
A folk-singing Watchmen expert comes to terms with the movie—and its tragic lack of squid.
Q & A Jeffrey Lewis has always aced his Rorschach tests. Sure, all eyes are now trained on Watchmen, the movie adaptation of writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons’ massive 1986-87 comic-book serie ... More
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