Arts & Culture

5 MINUTES WITH…

Sarah Vowell

In The Wordy Shipmates (Penguin Books), Vowell revisits the 17th-century Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Company, finding them to be a singular and idiosyncratic bunch.

05/19/2009 By John Chandler

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Long Way Home

Oft-displaced artistic powerhouse Disjecta settles into more permanent digs on the edge of working-class Kenton.

05/19/2009 By Martha Calhoon

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Book Binders

A clerk at Powell’s finds multiple loves (and other difficulties) in between the pages.

05/19/2009 By Aaron Gilbreath

We Liked It

Perhapst

Music Revue

05/19/2009 By John Chandler

Deck the Walls

You Need Art

You're a grown-up. You live in a grown-up home, wear grown-up clothes and sit in a grown-up chair.

05/19/2009 By Camela Raymond

LONG READ

The Creek

This sober yet surreal coming-of-age tale got the final nod at Portland’s 2007 Wordstock festival.

05/19/2009 By Joshua Michael Riedel

Basketball

Calling the Shots

Before Kevin Pritchard took over as GM, the Trail Blazers were the most laughable, losingest team in the NBA.

05/19/2009 By Jason Cohen

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Wild Things

More than 600 people flocked to the Oregon Zoo for the ninth annual Zoolala bash.

05/19/2009

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Hole in One

Nike’s Tiger Woods Center hosted Ronald McDonald House Charities of Oregon and Southwest Washington’s Swinging Social 2008.

05/19/2009

Arts & Culture

The Shape of Memory

As Maya Lin creates seven landscape installations retelling the Lewis and Clark story from the perspective of Columbia River tribes, the legacy she charts is partly the region’s, and partly her own.

05/19/2009 By Camela Raymond