Q & A Zahra Hamid Sultan is an Iraqi refugee helping some of the 2 million people also forced to leave her homeland. Sultan, 37, and her two teenage daughters have been living in Amman, Jordan, since 2002, ... More
Zahra Hamid Sultan
One Iraqi refugee among 2 million—and counting.
Q & A Zahra Hamid Sultan is an Iraqi refugee helping some of the 2 million people also forced to leave her homeland. Sultan, 37, and her two teenage daughters have been living in Amman, Jordan, since 2002, ... More
Rights of Passage
As Juneteenth and Gay Pride converge, a comparison of the civil rights and gay rights movements.
News Opponents of Oregon's new laws protecting gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people from discrimination label the protections "special rights," echoing opponents of civil-rights laws for Afri ... More
Post Stress Syndrome
An impending postage rate hike means headaches for Portland's small-press hub of niche publications.
News As everyone grumbles about the cost of a first-class stamp rising 2 cents last week, small publications in Portland such as Plazm and Bitch are sweating their own rate hikes looming this summer. They ... More
Get Smart
Portlanders want to keep learning, and we want to do it on the cheap.
Featured Stories Reece Marshburn sits down at a piano in the back of Room 314 in Reed College's Eliot Hall and begins singing a Sun Ra song. "Talkin' about nuclear war. It's a motherfucker," he belts out, and seven wo ... More
The village people
Portland’s homeless camp may be spawning imitators.
News After six years as the country’s only government-sanctioned tent city, Portland’s Dignity Village encampment has admirers wanting to clone it.When a tent city recently arose 114 miles up I ... More
HOT ACTION: Greg Palast
News Portland lefties may have had a creeping sense of déjà vu last night at the First Unitarian Church as Greg Palast began his presentation with the same opening line he used nine months ago, when he launched his Armed Madhouse book tour here in Stumptown. “These are CNN's balls,”... More
Radio daze
Musical chairs at OPB.
News On Sunday nights, Scott Jackson liked to kick back, read the paper and tune in to Oregon Public Broadcasting for Steven Cantor's Beats and Pieces. The music show defined eclectic, playing everything ... More
As the buffalo roams
A $9,500 buffalo painting, the son of a jailed Native American activist and a big tax debt intersect in a Portland art gallery.
News Most Americans moaning about their taxes don't have as odd a tale to pay them off as the son of famed Indian activist Leonard Peltier, who's hoping his dad's painting of a buffalo will help solve his ... More
HABITAT: A Renter's Survival Guide
Tips to remember if you're not ready to buy.
Special Section Let's face it: Buying a house isn't for everyone. And maybe it's not for you right now. But you gotta live somewhere, so here are some tactics to help you survive and prosper in Renter's World: Put i ... More
Rocky Horror
This 16-ton chunk of space metal sets off a weird fight in the Leg.
News The last time the Willamette Meteorite was on display in Oregon, the Victrola was considered innovative technology. In 1905, Elizabeth Dodge bought the 16-ton iron-nickel meteorite—the largest ... More
Top Articles from Julie Sabatier
Monkey Business
After eight years, OHSU finally releases records from its primate center. Just Say Go
Portlander establishes a new Mexican connection for ibogaine, a controversial drug that some say can help addicts. House Divided
Legislature wrestles with evictions in rehab group homes. Egad, Ebay
A Portland man inadvertently prompts the auction website to show how fiercely it guards its slice of the Net. Laura Brown
Life in Dignity Village through the eyes of one longtime resident. As the buffalo roams
A $9,500 buffalo painting, the son of a jailed Native American activist and a big tax debt intersect in a Portland art gallery. Radio daze
Musical chairs at OPB. Fur Flies
With Schumacher's leaving downtown, what's next for animal rights activists? Rocky Horror
This 16-ton chunk of space metal sets off a weird fight in the Leg. Randy Bluffstone
A Thanskgiving check-in with a Portlander far from home.
After eight years, OHSU finally releases records from its primate center. Just Say Go
Portlander establishes a new Mexican connection for ibogaine, a controversial drug that some say can help addicts. House Divided
Legislature wrestles with evictions in rehab group homes. Egad, Ebay
A Portland man inadvertently prompts the auction website to show how fiercely it guards its slice of the Net. Laura Brown
Life in Dignity Village through the eyes of one longtime resident. As the buffalo roams
A $9,500 buffalo painting, the son of a jailed Native American activist and a big tax debt intersect in a Portland art gallery. Radio daze
Musical chairs at OPB. Fur Flies
With Schumacher's leaving downtown, what's next for animal rights activists? Rocky Horror
This 16-ton chunk of space metal sets off a weird fight in the Leg. Randy Bluffstone
A Thanskgiving check-in with a Portlander far from home.
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