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.
Last night at the La Muerte Baila performance at the Milagro Theatre in southeast Portland, I wrote down the name of a friend who passed away two years ago. The performance marked Dia de los Muertos, the Mexican holiday honoring and celebrating the dead, and everyone in attendance was invited to do this after the […]
This Changes Everything illustrates what Naomi Klein grapples with in her internationally bestselling book. At the beginning of This Changes Everything, Avi Lewis’ new documentary inspired by his wife’s climate change manifesto, a polar bear lumbers forward on pieces of ice in the bright artic sun, loosened from glaciers in the warming climate. Over this we hear […]
A compilation of image and text by Portland-based poet, Brandi Katherine Herrera. It is a lyrical response to the death of her sister on 10/13/1984, now thirty-one years ago. I experienced Brandi Katherine Herrera’s poetry for the first time at Poetry Press week in December, 2014. Portions of DYING ONE IN TIME, Herrera’s manuscript and […]
Evan Kristof shares his love of design and the Tilikum’s role in expanding Portland. Portland’s newest bridge, The Tilikum Crossing, looks especially elegant from the rooftop deck of the old Washington High school in southeast. The river is obscured looking towards downtown over the spread of leafy green and dusty roofs, but the crossing’s clean white peaks […]
Not since the Fremont Bridge was completed forty-two years ago has a bridge spanning the Willamette river been opened in Portland, until just this weekend when The Tilikum Crossing opened. It is the city’s first bridge of the 21st century, linking the southwest waterfront to one of the city’s industrial hubs on the east side. There […]