Wisdom from a 60-Year Civil Rights Veteran
Mandy & Matt’s Cafe
Remembering Portland poet Jay Davis
[…] cover of this magazine as the subject of a half-serious “Portland indie rockumentary” called “Metal Feathers: Prepare for Takeoff” [April 2011]. […]
[…] Williams, if she would share a couple of poems in this column to set the tone for the New Year [“Words against the worst,” Jan. 2025]. She not only agreed, but what she shared was so wonderful, I had to ask her again […]
[…] group, Metal Feathers. “MF is dirtier [than Cult Maze] and more to the point,” Pence wrote in his review of their self-titled 2008 debut (retitled Statistically Marred on YouTube). “There are nuances in […]
Life in Any Dangerous Times or, Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?
[…] Dream of home ownership, financial security and family seeps out in songs by local acts like Dead Gowns’ “Renter Not a Buyer” and Derek Lobley’s “Warm Here.” On “Apartment Song,” Bonnie […]