Tickets for the 6th annual 2009 Portland Jazz Festival are on sale now. The festival runs Feb. 13-22 and celebrates a lifetime of Blue Note Records. Titled "Somethin' Else: Blue Note Records @70," the festival celebrates 70 years of all the artists that have been a part of the legendary record company ...

Poets, performers, teachers, writers – Walidah Imarisha and Turiya Autrey are all that. Now they're becoming promoters. Starting this week, they host a new series of conscious hip hop shows featuring the X-Vandals at shows, film screenings and lectures stretched between Portland and Eugene ...

The nation's unemployment rate bolted to a 14-year high of 6.5 percent in October as another 240,000 jobs were cut. The latest release of information by the Labor Department shows the crucial jobs market deteriorating at an alarmingly rapid pace ...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame said Tuesday his country's sovereignty was violated when an aide was arrested in connection with an attack that set off Rwanda's 1994 genocide. Rose Kabuye, Chief of protocol, was arrested Sunday ...

"No one cares about the children, living or dead," one furious father of children in the collapsed school outside of Port au Prince, Haiti ... 

For president-elect Barack Obama, there will be no time for resting on his laurels now that he has defeated John McCain. Immediately after he is sworn in Jan. 21, Obama will begin one of the toughest four-year tests a president has ever faced in the nation's history ...

Last Thursday at City Hall, 22 youth and grass-roots organizations celebrated their accomplishments and presented the highlights of their projects for the 2008 Rainier Beach and Central District Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative. "We've empowered them to provide the programs they see as necessary to the community ...

King County health officials are reporting the highest spike in tuberculosis cases in 30 years – even as budget cuts are set to slash their ability to treat the disease ...

The Bush School, in partnership with the NAACP and Washington Education Association, brings author, radio show host, and political commentator Dr. Michael Eric Dyson to Seattle as the keynote speaker for the Seattle King County NAACP's Ninety-Fifth Year Celebration: Power, Justice, Freedom! ...

Powerful Schools reading tutor Kathryn Bryson helps Isaac Jewell, 6, make a book at the John Muir Elementary School Literacy Night. Children in the Powerful Schools reading program at John Muir had an opportunity to make books, play games, listen to stories, eat ice cream and pick a free book.
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