In an interview with Portland State faculty member Candace Avalos to talk about her campaign for Portland City Commissioner, one thing became clear immediately—she wasn’t just running to join local…
Lions and Dragons breath life into Downtown Chinatown
The Portland Chinatown Museum (PCM) hosted and presented their fifth annual Lunar New Year Dragon Dance Parade on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020, bringing in the Year of the Rat with…
Have You Heard?
After spending several hours reading hundreds of pages of archival material for my thesis I have exactly one question: what? I certainly found a lot of helpful material but as…
Opera Scholarship Competition
When one thinks of a competition, opera may not be the first thing that comes to mind, but Portland State has been holding an annual opera scholarship competitions since the…
Portland folk community comes together for annual festival
The difference between a folk festival and a farmer’s market may seem distinguishable on the surface, but the third annual Portland Folk Festival raised objections. The festival—put on by local…
Housing inaction is inexcusable
It’s 9:15 a.m., and I’m on the MAX headed to campus. It’s not too early, but it still feels it regardless. Across from me is a person who I’ve seen…
Keep Portland Government Weird?
While Portland prepares itself for the 2020 election year to vote in a new round of government officials, the city’s system of government itself may be subject to change this…
Our changing city: Losing Chinatown
Decades of neglect and mismanagement by the city’s government has left Portland’s historic Chinatown district a ghost of its former self. Historically a center for the marginalized Chinese-American community in…
PSU residence halls ‘vulnerable to collapse’ during earthquake
Five of Portland State’s residence halls are constructed of unreinforced masonry, building materials vulnerable to collapse during an earthquake. According to Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, “FEMA considers [URMs]…
Hill to Hall Nov. 25–27
Nov. 25: Supporters of higher Oregon cigarette tax raise $9 million in contributions A campaign to raise taxes on packs of cigarettes by $2 has garnered over $9 million in…
Oregon Symphony performs Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’
Not quite opera, not quite play, not quite a typical symphony; the Oregon Symphony’s production of The Tempest defied simple categorization and played with the idea of what to expect…