Suzette Smith

Armed Activists Seized Three Blocks of a North Portland Residential Neighborhood. Here’s What It Was Like Inside the Encampment.

For five nights, Portland’s attention was fixed on this intersection.

Amid Nightly Protests, Pipe Bombs Explode in Laurelhurst Park

“Two of these were thrown at us by a gentleman who disappeared back into the woods.”

Portland Cartoonist Sloane Leong’s New Graphic Novel Is About Friendship, Basketball and the Complexities of Family

It might seem unlikely that a brightly drawn book about youth basketball could also speak powerfully to the vestiges of colonialism that linger and hold court over so many marginalized lives. But Leong’s perspective as a person of Hawaiian, Chinese, Italian, Mexican, Indigenous and European ancestries makes her an ideal voice to tell those stories.

Have You Seen a Hearse With a Giant Hot Dog on Top Rolling Down Burnside? One Day, It’ll Sell You Bratwursts

Michael Manning has a dream. It’s to one day serve hot dogs out the back of an old hearse.

What to plant in that shady Victory Garden and more.

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