Activist Alert
Resisting ICE and a Eugene city auditor
• The Civil Liberties Defense Center is hosting a free Resisting ICE: Immigrant Rights for Allies training 6 to 8 pm Monday Sept. 18 at the … Continue reading
Year: 2017
Freedom Singers
Mountain Moves, the latest album from San Francisco art-rockers Deerhoof, features guest appearances and collaborations from artists like Argentine songwriter Juana Molina, Stereolab vocalist Laetitia … Continue reading
Seeking Truth
About Vietnam
By John Henry, Mike Kimball, Michael Peterson, Michael Carrigan, Guy Maynard and Carol Van Houten Beginning Sunday, Sept. 17, PBS will present a 10-episode, 18-hour … Continue reading
Subverting Tropes
Beach Rats’ tragic gay figures
Beach Rats is a lot of things in one film: beautiful, ominous, crushingly sad, tender, lonesome, scary, new and yet too familiar. Its contradictions are … Continue reading
Slow ‘n’ Steady
A pair of modern folk artists, one looking forward and the other back, plays Hi-Fi Lounge
Syrian-American Azniv Korkejian’s self-titled debut, released under the moniker Bedouine, is an effortlessly elegant collection of country-tinged folk-pop recalling midnight-blue classics from Leonard Cohen, Nick … Continue reading
Black Movement Matters
A conversation with hip-hop dance legend Rennie Harris
According to Lorenzo “Rennie” Harris, the three laws of hip-hop culture are “innovation, individuality and creativity.” “Hip hop comes from the word ‘hippie,’ which means … Continue reading
Lane County Area Spray Info
Sprays planned for Peaceful Valley and Lusk roads and near Doak Creek
• Waylon Mobley, 541-954-4541, plans to hire Oregon Forest Management Services, 541-520-5941, to spray 57.3 acres near Doak Creek with Accord XRT II, Oust Extra, … Continue reading
Send in the Clown
Andy Muschietti’s adaptation of Stephen King’s It is all (carnival) bark and no bite
I read Stephen King’s It when it came out in 1986, and even if that’s suddenly a hell of a long time ago, I do … Continue reading
Homeless Youth on the RAN
Local technology helps intervene with homeless youth
When Miya Longsworth ran away from a dangerous foster situation in California at only 16 years old, she ended up on the streets of Eugene. … Continue reading
Seeing Red
Eugene Weekly presents Surfs Drugs performing for #lincolnstreetsessions
Eugene Weekly presents Surfs Drugs performing ‘Seeing Red’ live at the EW offices for #lincolnstreetsessions. Back Beat: Lincoln Street Sessions are a series of live … Continue reading