Year: 2012

Coming Home

Arts

Photographer Rachel E. Rainwater has returned from her travels in Europe, and she’s got the photographs to prove it. Originally from N.Y., Rainwater studied photojournalism  at Rochester Institute of Technology, but her love affair with the lens began long before her college degree.  “I was very little when I started. Like anyone, you get a toy camera and kind of go crazy with it. I guess I never got over that,” she says.  Rainwater found her heart in the darkroom during her teen years. “I realized this is what I needed to do,” she says.  Continue reading →

REGISTER-GUARD TOP DOG PERO GONE

News

We heard unconfirmed rumors that The Register-Guard's highly paid chief operating officer David Pero got himself fired Friday after more than five years. Maybe leaving was his idea, but that's not what we heard. Nothing in the paper or online, unless we missed it. We checked his LinkedIn profile and sure enough, it lists the R-G as his employer from February 2007 to June 2012. Pero was overseeing editorial, advertising, circulation, marketing, production and technology, including the website.   Continue reading →

Unclassifiability from the Delta

Music

  David Jacobs-Strain slides into Cozmic The roots of slide guitar roll deep. Dating back to the blues of the '20s with Blind Willie Johnson and the like, it's a technique that's still being used today, by the psuedo-guitar-gods of this generation: Jack White, Dan Auerbach have used the technique to great effect, though it might be worth adding one young Eugenie by the name of David Jacobs-Strain to the list. Continue reading →

Black Hawk! Black Ops!! Or maybe it’s a summer camp

News

This press release just in from the Eugene Police Department. Don't freak out when that Black Hawk helicopter flies overhead and lands on 22nd Avenue. It's all for the kids. You know, nothing says "promoting positive youth development" like a large military aircraft.   News Release June 20, 2012 For further information, contact: Paula Hunt, AIC Public Information Coordinator, at 541.682.5124, or Continue reading →

Big House Blues at the Bijou

Film

The Goddess of Canadian Blues visits Eugene This week, Bijou Art Cinema will begin screening Music from the Big House, a film that follows Canadian blues chanteuse Rita Chiarelli through her experience with putting on a show inside Louisiana’s Angola prison. Continue reading →

Corvallis Eyes Plastic Bag Ban

News

The Corvallis City Council took a stand against ocean pollution this week, becoming the second city in Oregon to approve a comprehensive ban on plastic bags. A second reading and final vote are still required to secure the ordinance, but all city councilors are on record in support of the bill, which they voted 8-1 to enact at Monday’s meeting.   Continue reading →