Portland-based essayist and author William Deresiewicz explores what kind of values support the hipster persona in the opinion pages of The New York Times. "What's the affect of today's youth culture?" he asks. In other words, what's going on underneath those pork pie...
Ken Kesey, The Big Turnip From Pleasant Hill
Eugene Register-Guard columnist Bob Welch paid a visit to Ken Kesey's mom, Geneva Jolley, who turned 95 two weeks ago. In the interview, Mrs. Jolley reflects on her son's first two novels... "When the books came out, they were not red-letter days for me," Geneva says....
Coffee Is Culture. Yes, Please!
Portland is home to a number of top flight coffee shops--Barista, Albina Press, Spella, Stumptown, Ristretto, Heart and Extracto all contribute mightily to the thriving coffee scene in Portland. But their largess does not extend to the suburbs, and as a resident of...
Obama’s Team Shows Us The Power of Owned Media
I loathe the state of TV news today. The American public is fed such a distorted view of events, filtered as they are by bought-and-paid-for pundits, not reporters. Clearly, this sad state of affairs calls for a response, and The White House, for one, has one. Since...
Searchlight Casting For Faults In The Clouds Of Delusion
Two weeks ago in Boston, author and speaker David Meerman Scott came off the stage at DMA2011 to hand me a copy of the book he co-authored with Brian Halligan of HubSpot. Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead: What Every Business Can Learn from the Most Iconic Band...