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Benjamin Gorman, a poet and high school English teacher living in Independence, Oregon, points to the immediacy of poetry as its source of strength. Detailing … Continue reading
By Rick Levin A dear friend of mine tells this story about his self-awakening: It was a Saturday night in Euclid, Ohio, sometime in the mid … Continue reading
As a lifelong lover of movies, I’ve been blessed to experience now and again what I can only describe as a divine convergence — that … Continue reading
A lot of people think opera is just plain weird. But Wolfgang Mozart’s The Magic Flute is weird even by opera standards. Take a conventional quest … Continue reading
Live performance is slowing down in Eugene once more as the COVID-19 infection rate continues to skyrocket in Lane County. So far Gov. Kate Brown … Continue reading
Funk and soul musician Karl Denson is back home in San Diego, speaking on the phone with Eugene Weekly after a four-night run in New … Continue reading
“I’ve been thinking a lot about what ‘essential’ means,” says Michael Fisher, executive director of Maude Kerns Art Center. It’s not the kind of statement … Continue reading
Did you read something you loved this year? Did you read something that made you cry or pissed you off? We did. Year after year, … Continue reading
In the depths of 2020’s live music shutdown, all of Eugene’s concert venues were quiet, save one: WOW Hall, where the long-running Eugene instrumental rock … Continue reading
Although we’re all still processing 2020, 2022 is just around the corner. If you’re masked, boosted and looking to celebrate the new year with live … Continue reading
I had no idea I’d been waiting my entire adult life for the absurd and exhilarating spectacle of Sean Penn and Tom Waits chewing up the … Continue reading
Vintage ’60s and ’70s soul — feel good music — comes to the Hult Center Dec. 28 with the Seattle-based Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio. Lamarr, … Continue reading
Ballet Fantastique has defined itself by creative originality and fearless collaboration over the last decade, with the company’s founding mother-daughter team, Donna and Hannah Bontrager, … Continue reading
Comedian Sam Miller is on his way to pick up another comic in Federal Way, Washington, taxiing the stand-up a few hundred miles back to … Continue reading