PDXS

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PDXS was a biweekly tabloid in Portland, Oregon, that ran from 1991 to 1998. It was started by Jim Redden and his brother Bill Redden after they left Willamette Week; Jim later worked as a reporter and Bill became a public defender. The paper covered arts and culture and also did investigative news, often featuring exposés and conspiracy-style writing. It was part of a wave of local culture papers in the early 1990s, alongside titles like Face Value, Art Rag, Paperback Jukebox, Snipehunt, Metropolis, Plazm, and Reflex in nearby Seattle.

In 1995, competitors folded; that year PDXS and fellow former Willamette Week writer D. K. Holm (as Sid Falco) published a column called Hack Attack criticizing Willamette Week for losing its alternative edge. In 1996, PDXS helped sponsor Anti NXNW, a music festival that challenged the larger North by Northwest/SXSW-Willamette Week scene.

By 1999 Jim Redden ran the paper by himself and then decided to close it to focus on writing. He later published Snitch Culture (2000), a book about privacy and surveillance. He also serialized The Larry Hurwitz Story, which connected to the death of Tim Moreau at Starry Night and contributed to Hurwitz’s legal troubles and his murder case.

Boxing writer Katherine Dunn contributed a regular boxing column, including articles after Tyson–Holyfield. PDXS was among the first outlets to publish Rene Denfeld, who would go on to become a noted author.