Fourteen years ago, Corin Tucker was sure her band Sleater-Kinney would never reunite. In 2006, the group announced an indefinite hiatus following a tour for their critically-acclaimed album, The Woods. After playing a final, sold-out show at the Crystal Ballroom that year, the trio parted ways. Tucker spent her time away from the band raising kids, starting another band, working a traditional job, and embarking on side projects. Her bandmates, drummer Janet Weiss and guitarist.
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Armed Activists Seized Three Blocks of a North Portland Residential Neighborhood. Here’s What It Was Like Inside the Encampment. For five nights, Portland’s attention was fixed on this intersection. Red House Eviction Defense barricades. (Mick Hangland-Skill)
8:56 pm Dec. 8, North Mississippi Avenue and Skidmore Street A group of guards watch the entrance to a barricaded section of road in North Portland. They re armed, masked, and dressed in black from their balaclavas to their boots to their bulletproof vests. It s intimidating, but they re also laughing with each other, which gives the barricade a feeling similar to entering a nightclub. Can you walk in or will the bouncer tell you to scram?