Grit
Bulletins from the underside of life.
The voices
we hear on the street? A lot like our own
Review of Voices from the Street, by Jessica P Morrell
The Oregonian, May 20, 2007.
Paper Tiger
Profile of Street Roots publisher Israel Bayer.
Oregon Business, January 2007.
A Night in
the Slammer
Welcome to the Monkeyhouse.
December 2006.
River Rats
Life and death on the Sandy River.
Willamette Week, July 2006.
Portland Jailblazers
Criminals run free while a jail sits empty.
Wall Street Journal, August 4, 2005.
Scars Fade, Memories
Don't
Can survivors of torture recover from their traumatic memories?
Willamette Week, June 1, 2005.
Hell on Wheels
Guardians of morality, beware! You are about to be blindsided by
a madcap quadriplegic.
Willamette Week, March 9, 2005.
Satan's Pilgrim
Portland's leading devil dude philosophizes about good and evil.
But mostly about evil.
Willamette Week, 11/10/04
The Deadly Cure
State health cops investigate surge of methadone overdoses.
Willamette Week, May 28, 2003.
Crushed by Indifference
Homeless man crushed by trash compactor.
Willamette Week, Nov 27, 2002.
Sense and Sinsemilla
Is medical marijuana real, or is it just a great way to get over
on the man?
Willamette Week, April 4, 2002.
The Truth
is out There
Don't call them contrails--they're chemtrails, and they're part
of an interplanetary plot...
Willamette Week, Sept 26, 2001.
Fantasy Island
Hundreds of aspiring actors bilked out of thousands of dollars
as Caribbean dream dissolves.
Willamette Week, July 4, 2001.
The Girl
from Electra
How Treva Throneberry convinced the world she was a teenage runaway--again
and again and again.
Willamette Week, June 27, 2001.
Shutting off the
Spigot
Portland’s Water Bureau cracks down on deadbeat ratepayers
Willamette Week, June 6, 2001.
Junkie Angel
Ex-dope fiends like Alan Levine may be Portland's strongest weapon
in the fight against the needle.
Willamette Week, December 5, 2000.
Assault on Tract
86
Census workers steel themselves for their least favorite exercise--
counting heads in felony flats.
Willamette Week, May 10, 2000.
Undercover
Profile of a high-class hooker.
Willamette Week, January 26, 2000.
Dwarf vs Dwarf
The Little People of America want respect--and they're fighting
each other to get it.
Willamette Week, June 6, 1999.
The Guinea
Pigs' Rebellion
Psychiatric patients flex their political muscle.
Willamette Week, Sept 1, 1999.
Hands Across
the Interstate
Bridges are supposed to bring people together... aren't they?
Willamette Week, March 31, 1999.
Flesh and
Blood
Health officials investigate outbreak of flesh-eating bacteria
among Portland drug addicts.
Willamette Week, Dec 22, 1998.
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