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A proposal to build a mid-size performing arts theater in the city is on hold.

On Monday, Aug. 12, the City Council voted not to extend the lease of the Commercial Street Theatre Project, after the group failed to raise enough money to improve the 3,847-square-foot space in the Parkade on…

"Why would you waste your talent on writing … that?" Most romance authors have gotten a similar question. (This one came many years ago from a dear friend who has since taken it back, and not because there were threats involved. I swear.) University professors Joanna Gregson and Jen…

Much of Oregon’s population would face extended fuel shortages, natural gas outages and blackouts after a catastrophic earthquake. That according to a seismic risk study re-released by the state.

But there’s pushback from the energy companies put under the spotlight.

It was the sound of her neighbors' propane tanks exploding that convinced Nancy Myers she had run out of time. Twenty minutes earlier, the 57-year-old potter had been standing with some friends on a rock-strewn hillside above the village of Yarnell, Arizona, on a hot Sunday afternoon,…

I sat down with Dr. Joanna Gregson and Dr. Jen Lois, two professors of sociology who are doing a years-long study of the sociology of the romance writing community. I attended their session at RWA and tweeted the pants off it (you can read the Storify collection of tweets if you'd like to…

In the weeks and months immediately following 9/11, one of the most touching responses in my neighborhood, not far Ground Zero, was the overwhelming support of police and fire departments from around the country. Across the street from my apartment, at the 6th Precinct headquarters from which…