Real Estate

Property Watch: A Former Commune Where Steve Jobs Picked Apples

A McMinnville orchard helped inspire the computer company name.

06/27/2025 By Melissa Dalton

As Told To

Meet Astrophysicist and Former Elite Cross-Country Ski Racer Alison Crocker

The Reed College professor reflects on racing, working hard, and waffles.

11/18/2024 By Rebecca Jacobson

Lingua Franca

Portland Artist Sidony O’Neal Mines Math and Art for Connective Tissue

What can mathematical proofs, linguistics, and swimming pool ladders teach us about each other?

08/13/2024 Photography by Jason Hill By Matthew Trueherz

Book Review

Katherine Dunn’s Posthumously Published ‘Toad’ Cuts Deep

The author of Geek Love has a new Portland-set novel out, six years after her death.

11/22/2022 By Matthew Trueherz

Old Portland

That One Time Portland Was in ‘Sassy’ in 1991

A look back at the teen magazine travel feature with nods to Quality Pie, the Church of Elvis, and, of course, Sassy’s

09/29/2021 By Margaret Seiler

Poetry

The First Recorded Reading of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl Took Place in Portland. Now You Can Own It on Vinyl.

Two-time Grammy winner Cheryl Pawelski has headed up the restoration and release of the historic 1956 recording.

04/01/2021 By Conner Reed

Education

Is Reed College’s New President Too Cool to Be a University Administrator?

Audrey Bilger is a gay trailblazer and pop culture pundit with an absolutely baller vinyl collection.

10/23/2019 By Jason Cohen

Science

These Reedies Just Made the World's Biggest Piece of Chalk

Absolute unit, this one.

02/13/2019 By Shayla Norris-York

Science

A Reed College Grad Discovers Plastic-Eating Microbes

Nom nom, garbage gobblers.

08/14/2018 By Sydney Dauphinais

Wise Up: Alterna-Master's Degree

Reed College’s Only Graduate Program Puts Intellectual Exploration above Practical Payoff

Or, how to become a Reedie past age 22.

11/14/2016 By Zach Dundas

Mudroom

The Perfect Party: September 2011

The Reed College alums we’d like to see at our table.

08/19/2011

Mudroom

Old School

Happy 100th birthday to Reed-America’s last great conservative college.

08/19/2011 By Ethan Epstein

MUDROOM

Street of Greens

A Portland economist discovers a link between density, greenery, and money.

04/22/2011 By Geoff Koch

5 MINUTES WITH…

Barbara Ehrenreich

Reed College grad Barbara Ehrenreich’s most noteworthy efforts have been exposés about her travails in the workforce, her latest book, _This Land Is Their Land_, is a collection of essays about America’s ever-widening poverty gap.

05/19/2009 By John Chandler