Corbin Smith

This past weekend, the Rose City Comic Con—Portland’s biggest annual comics and pop culture show—brought an estimated 65,000 attendees to the Oregon Convention Center for a weekend of “stuff.”  What is “stuff?” It’s everything. It’s comic books—like the name of the event suggests—but it’s also anime, collectables, some Pokemon cards, a room full of old-ass […]

For a second, imagine you don’t live here. Deep in the southeastern part of Portland, there’s a dormant volcano. Around this volcano, there’s a massive forested public park (191 acres), with hiking trails, several reservoirs, a dog park, and a disc golf course. Every summer Portlanders huddle around the concrete walkway in the middle of […]

I am in the back room (of the back room) of Stormbreaker Brewing in St. Johns, wearing an industrial jumpsuit, a safety helmet with a big clear plexiglass visor, and one gardening glove. David Tate—who also goes by “Thor,” and told me that since leaving the military he has done everything in his power to […]

Linocut printmaker Jane Pagliarulo knows how to drive a steamroller now, but she didn’t the first time she rented one.

On May 11, 1950, Evelyn Trent saw a bronze and silver object floating in the sky over her Bellevue, Oregon, farm house.  The object was quiet, but it kicked up a furious wind. She picked up her Kodak camera and snapped a picture. She and her husband kept the photo to themselves for a while, […]