Portland, Ore. — An arsonist cut through the fence of the gated back lot of a Portland Police Bureau training facility and began setting fire to cop cars. The destruction — occurring in the early morning of May 2 — was brazen: The assailant set fires that engulfed 17 vehicles, including one that grew into a fireball near a large propane tank, before fire crews arrived to douse the flames.
Even days later — as Ppb cops on motorcycles zipped through turns of training course created by orange cones in the lot — the stench of charred plastic hung in the air.
Even days later — as Ppb cops on motorcycles zipped through turns of training course created by orange cones in the lot — the stench of charred plastic hung in the air.
- 5/10/2024
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Iris DeMent doesn’t want to get adjusted to this world. She’s been telling us as much for 30 years. The 62-year-old singer-songwriter has spent her life in song, striving toward a sacred sense of purpose in a modern world intent on the exact opposite. From the opening notes of her first album, 1992’s Infamous Angel, when she proclaimed that she believed in love and lived her life accordingly, to her 1994 cover of Merle Haggard’s “Big City” (“entirely too much work and never enough play”) to 1996’s “Wasteland of the Free,...
- 2/23/2023
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
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