Q & A New York Times columnist Frank Rich knows theater. He was the paper's chief theater critic before going to the op-ed page in 1999.Rich, whose theatrical reviews earned him the title "The Butcher of Br ... More
Frank Rich
How a major New York Times columnist links Bush, politics and theater.
Q & A New York Times columnist Frank Rich knows theater. He was the paper's chief theater critic before going to the op-ed page in 1999.Rich, whose theatrical reviews earned him the title "The Butcher of Br ... More
Bill Mckibben
This global-warming luminary says enviros have less than a decade to make real change.
Q & A Bill McKibben is so "green," he makes Kermit the Frog look like a poser. His warnings about global warming are so strident, he makes biblical prophets look like Bar Mitzvah-circuit DJs.McKibben, who l ... More
Chris Coleman
Portland Center Stage's charismatic artistic director finally has the theater of his dreams. But can he make PCS worthy of the Armory?
Q & A The completion of the Gerding Theater at the Armory is giving Portland Center Stage a wave of positive press in our town's front pages.The renovated $36.1 million Pearl District building certainly mer ... More
Amy Schwartz Moretti
What does it say about Portland arts that the 30-year-old concertmaster of the Oregon Symphony is leaving for Georgia?
Q & A Amy Schwartz Moretti shocked many Oregon Symphony lovers last week by announcing she's leaving her concertmaster job in January to direct a new string-training program in Macon, Ga.The news was surpri ... More
John Stauber
Co-founder of the Center for Media and Democracy on the Iraq War, what Dick Cheney watches and turning off the TV.
Q & A Almost 2,700 Americans have been killed in Iraq, and financial estimates are measured in the trillions for a conflict already longer than our country's fighting in World War II.According to London's I ... More
Thom Hartmann
The progressive talk show host talks about the middle class, credit cards and Clear Channel.
Q & A Portland liberals know Thom Hartmann as their voice weekday mornings on Progressive Talk KPOJ, and as the host of a nationally syndicated show on 65 stations on Air America, progressives' response to ... More
Tom Leedham
Why a Portland union leader thinks he'll finally unseat Teamsters head Jimmy Hoffa Jr.
Q & A From his base in an outer Northeast Portland union hall, Tom Leedham is campaigning one more time to head the Teamsters, America's largest private-sector union.His opponent: incumbent Jimmy Hoffa Jr., ... More
Ben Westlund
The newly ex-gubernatorial candidate's own words on why his boomlet fizzled.
Q & A State Sen. Ben Westlund's independent campaign for governor couldn't even make it to Labor Day.The maverick ex-Republican who scared major-party strategists last spring ("Ben Westlund: All of the Abov ... More
Mary Starrett
Why the only woman running for governor despises abortion.
Q & A One of the six candidates in the Oregon governor's race at least starts with some name familiarity among couch potatoes.Mary Starrett was on KATU for nearly 20 years, including a stint from 1985 to 19 ... More
Pat Hearn
Why Oregon's departing top ethics cop thinks there aren't more corruption cases in this state.
Q & A You could hardly blame Pat Hearn for feeling outnumbered and unwanted.As director of Oregon's beleaguered Government Standards and Practices Commission for the past 15 years, Hearn has been the ethics ... More
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Planned Parenthood’s president on Congress, the HPV vaccine and why men use her group’s clinics. Dwight Holton
Oregon’s top federal prosecutor on the JTTF, Portland City Council and the iPad. Sarah Weddington
What the lawyer who argued Roe V. Wade in the 1970s now thinks about the women’s movement and Barack Obama. Hotseat: David Fidanque
The head of Oregon’s ACLU calls B.S. On JTTF. Hotseat: Jarrett Walker
A Portland transit expert says we shouldn’t fall in love with trains when buses will do. Marcus Griffith
The reporter who first called B.S. on the Bethany Storro acid attack. Hotseat: Tamim Ansary
Afghanistan-born author will tell Portlanders about another history—one that’s Islamic-centered. Rev. Mark Kiyimba
On the front lines of the fight for gay rights in Uganda. Tina Franklin
Why this woman likes having other people’s babies. Hotseat: Mikey Kampmann
Portland drops at the South Pole.
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