THRU Magazine ArchiveI studied writing and English at Purchase College in NY State and graduated from PSU with an English degree. I contribute content, edit, and brainstorm at THRU.
No Longer a Lost History: The City of Vanport is Revived in the Inaugural Vanport Mosaic Festival. Sixty-eight years ago yesterday on May 30th, 1948, the Columbia River spilled over a dike and flooded the City of Vanport, which rested where Delta Park and the Portland International Raceway is today. The town was built between Vancouver, […]
Prison Obscura exhibit at Newspace sees the need for humanity to revise Justice. Around 8 p.m. on the Sunday before last, I pulled my bike to the side of Interstate Avenue and stood in the gust of a maroon sedan speeding past, followed by a dozen police cars, sirens wailing. The chase pushed through the […]
Linda Austin is “a head of time” in new, ongoing work. Don’t think too much. About the past, or what the bundles of colorful extension cords on the floor mean, or how flexible you’ll be at age 62. Don’t ask if you’ll even make it to 62. At “A head of time” you’ll be transported into another’s […]
A Design Week PDX Panel takes on a big question: How does the city keep the Central Eastside industrially fertile? Hanging at the front of the room where Bora Architects hosted the Design Week Portland panel discussion, “Central Eastside: Beyond Taking Sides” on Tuesday night, were proposed development plans for the industrial district. Digital images […]
The sound landscape of AJ Cornell and Tim Darcy is a forest of poetry and experimental noise. “Spit of the 1980s,” a track on Andrea-Jane Cornell and Tim Darcy’s new album Too Significant to Ignore, has Darcy reciting the lines: Driving through the wide gaping O of the United States of America. Head out the window, screaming […]