Lane County Area Spray Schedule
Weyerhaeuser Company, 746-2511, plans to aerially apply urea fertilizer to 684.1 acres south of Vida and the McKenzie River near West Fork Deer Creek and … Continue reading
Year: 2016
The Irish Problem
Very Little Theatre comes up historically short with ambitious production of Juno and the Paycock
Although I’m aware that conflicts of one kind or another have rocked Ireland for centuries, my knowledge of early 20th-century Irish history is admittedly, and … Continue reading
Believe Survivors
An open letter to students of University of Oregon
Dear University of Oregon students, You don’t know me. But there are thousands of people like me on your campus. In January 2013, I was … Continue reading
Letters to the Editor 2016-10-13
DEAD MURAL A big wag of my finger to the stodgy business owners of South Eugene who killed Rachel Mandala’s gorgeous mural outside of Amazon … Continue reading
Call to Action
Nahko and Medicine for the People
Mainstream music has fallen prey to a habit of being short, sweet and shallow. Nahko and Medicine for the People, the multi-cultural music collective that … Continue reading
Owls on Campus
UO lab studies birds of prey and how they hear
The University of Oregon hosts a number of traditional campus critters — crows, squirrels and freshmen, to name a few. But hidden away in neuroscientist … Continue reading
Feminist Writer Cherríe Moraga to Speak at UO
She's a a Chicana playwright, feminist activist, poet and essayist
Cherríe Moraga, a Chicana playwright, feminist activist, poet and essayist, will deliver a lecture at the University of Oregon Oct. 13 about the working class, … Continue reading
Pollution Update
$11,400 fine for Dorena Hydro
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) fined Dorena Hydro $11,400 Sept. 26 for various Clean Water Act violations associated with reduced dissolved oxygen levels … Continue reading
Forty Years and Countless Costumes
Fashion and theater collide for Alexandra Bonds’ historic runway show at the UO’s Hope Theatre
Alexandra Bonds’ retrospective costume fashion show this weekend, Portfolio, promises a lively look back at nearly four decades of stitching, with 40 garments leaping from … Continue reading
The Music and the Mirror
Cottage Theatre delivers a triple threat with strong production of A Chorus Line
If you could peer into this critic’s embryonic soul, I suspect you’d find A Chorus Line lyrics. I wore grooves into my album of the … Continue reading