44 Counts of Homelessness
Rod Adams will use the necessity defense
Three times last February, Eugene police officers found Rod Adams, a 60-year-old homeless man, lying in a sleeping bag downtown in the middle of the … Continue reading
Year: 2017
Slant
From earthquake safety to divestment
• We left the May 19 meeting of the City Club of Eugene fairly confident that our dams, rivers and reservoirs are safe despite the … Continue reading
In Space, No One Can Hear You Yawn
Director Ridley Scott turns the face-hugger on you with the wretched, cynical Alien: Covenant
Ponderous, pornographic and unforgivably dull, Alien: Covenant proves once and for all that Ridley Scott is the single biggest hack in contemporary Hollywood — a … Continue reading
Sour Grapes
Gimpl Hill development has neighbors concerned about water
As you turn onto Gimpl Hill Road from Bailey Hill Road, you exit the more densely populated neighborhoods surrounding Churchill High School and Kennedy Middle … Continue reading
A Plea to Locally Owned Dispensaries
Tsunami Books seeks to stay in business
The first time I ever smoked pot was two weeks out of high school at a rock festival in the Atchafalaya Basin about an hour … Continue reading
Theater Guy
Brian Haimbach takes his show How to Be a Sissy across the pond
When I last checked in with Brian Haimbach, writer, actor, and head of the theater program at Lane Community College, it was February 2016, and … Continue reading
Masochism Is as Masochism Does
Sex and sexism collide in OCT’s excellent, if challenging, production of David Ives’ Venus in Fur
Even now, several days after seeing it, digesting it and churning it all over in my mind, I find I’m having a mixed response to … Continue reading
White Lotus Celebrates a Quarter Century in Eugene
An artistic marriage creates a leading art gallery
One day in 1984, a young Taiwanese woman spotted an older American man standing at a traffic intersection in Taipei. He looked confused. “He looked … Continue reading
Letters to the Editor 2017-05-25
FOR THE BIRDS While the theme for EW’s latest Outdoors Issue was welcome (May 18), I’m disappointed that, alone of the pursuits covered, birding was … Continue reading
Art Rodents
Veronica Cruz, vocalist and guitarist with Long Beach punk act Rats in the Louvre, says her band takes its name from an article she read … Continue reading