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Dec 11, 2009
Feature
Christopher Hitchens’s 2007 book _God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything_ has made him arguably the nation’s most notorious atheist. Already renowned as a political columnist for _Vanity...
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Nov 9, 2009
Q&A: JOE SACCO
Joe Sacco has gone to warzones such as Goražde, Palestine, and Sarajevo and reported what he found in a series of critically acclaimed books, inadvertently helping to create comics journalism. He...
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Oct 9, 2009
30 Seconds With…
_Portland Monthly_ chats with Jesse Katz, Pulitzer-prize winning reporter, son of Vera Katz, and author of the upcoming _The Opposite Field_, a memoir about coaching his son in Little League.
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May 19, 2009
Q & A
Rosie Sizer became Portland's police chief in 2006. Lately, gang violence and a budget crisis have demanded her attention. We sat down with her in late March for a check-in.
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May 19, 2009
Steven Kimes believes the poor really will inherit the earth. That's why he quit his job, took his family to the streets, and became Portland's most radical servant of the homeless.
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May 19, 2009
There's one thing Willamette Week reporter Nigel Jaquiss won't do when he's on a story: stop.
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May 19, 2009
Former three-term mayor Vera Katz talks up President-elect Obama, her new job, and why Sam Adams should always take her calls.
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May 19, 2009
The new mayor defeated debt, doubt, and Dozono to reach City Hall. Portland expects a lot of him, but not more than hizzoner expects of himself.
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May 19, 2009
TV sci-fi heroine Katee Sackhoff talks about playing tough characters—with and without long hair.
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May 19, 2009
5 MINUTES WITH…
AT 17, MIAYA SHAMBRY is a teen out of time, belting out classic rock standards by the likes of scratchy-voiced ’60s songstress Janis Joplin as a student enrolled in the Portland chapter of Paul...
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