Sandy Boulevard's guest appearances

Sandy Boulevard

OPB's State of Wonder

Think Out Loud

Nick Kristof

Chuck Klosterman

Colson Whitehead

Michael Pollan

Ezra Klein

Tara Westover

Colin O'Brady

Frederick Douglass

Walt Whitman

Alicia Jo Rabins

Lidia Yuknavitch

George Saunders

Sam Adams

Jacqueline Woodson

Salman Rushdie

OwlTail

On The Road is Think Out Loud’s radio road trip series: conversations with wanderers, tourists and residents along Oregon’s backroads and highways.Pull up a map of Portland’s urban core, and you’ll see a tidy checkerboard of right-angled roads. The city’s blocks pack together like snugly fit teeth. Its streets run crisp lines — north to south, east to west. The system’s simple, elegant.And then there’s Sandy Boulevard.Sandy cuts a wide, reckless scar through Portland’s otherwise orderly grid. It scoffs at your roundabouts. It laughs at your stop sign.We wanted to get a better feel for this decidedly punk rock boulevard. And so we decided to walk it — all the way from its origin, near the corner of SE 7th and Alder, to The Grotto, out at NE 85th.

On The Road is Think Out Loud’s radio road trip series: conversations with wanderers, tourists and residents along Oregon’s backroads and highways. Pull up a map of Portland’s urban core, and you’ll see a tidy checkerboard of right-angled roads. The city’s blocks pack together like snugly fit teeth. Its streets run crisp lines — north to south, east to west. The system’s simple, elegant. And then there’s Sandy Boulevard. Sandy cuts a wide, reckless scar through Portland’s otherwise orderly grid. It scoffs at your roundabouts. It laughs at your stop sign. We wanted to get a better feel for this decidedly punk rock boulevard. And so we decided to walk it — all the way from its origin, near the corner of SE 7th and Alder, to The Grotto, out at NE 85th.

REBROADCAST - Sandy Boulevard