Dinosaur Speak

I hope what happened to me this morning isn't indicative of the remainder of my day. And I hope it never happens to you. I tried to toa...

This ">little blurb in Willamette Week guarantees an overflow crowd for RBP's First Wednesday Reading at the Blackbird Wine Sh...

(Evan Longoria's walk-off homer puts Tampa Bay in the the playoffs) An unbelievable finish to the baseball regular season this evening....

While rehearsing for the Round Bend Press reading at the Blackbird Wine Shop on Oct. 5, I've lately noticed that my eyesight is atrocio...

The magnificent Levon Helm in Scorsese's "The Last Waltz." It was a Civil War, folks. TS

I'm not ordinarily a Neil Diamond fan, but Diamond collaborators Robbie Robertson and Rick Danko set up this stellar highlight in The La...

I'm looking forward to another big weekend of football. Listen, I am a fan, but I am also a realist. It is around this time every year ...

The best public poetry reading I've had the good fortune to witness occurred at the San Francisco Public Library in 1976. It was held in...

The poet at his best. This is sad but exhilarating. TS

back to the machine gun I awaken about noon and go out to get the mail in my old torn bathrobe. I'm hung over hair down in my eyes b...

"The tax structure imposed by Washington on the US over the last half-century has seen a massive double shift of the burden of taxatio...

I tuned into the Portland State football broadcast a few minutes ago on local radio, the first time I've ever bothered. I couldn't ...

Here is your weekly reminder: A reading by myself and Charles Deemer, along with several guest readers, is scheduled for 7 p.m., Oct. 5, at...

New York Times crime reporter Michael Wilson was plucked from the Oregonian staff in 2000. Wilson is a fascinating guy. I used to sit nea...

What happened to this week? The days of this life stream past much too fast. What happened to my youth when I waited and waited for somethi...