The Spin
Who’s who and what’s what in dance this month
The days are getting a little bit longer, and dance is starting to bloom. We recently caught a performance of the U.K.’s Ballet Boyz, part … Continue reading
Year: 2017
Activist Alert
• We’ve been running our Activist Alert updates for years, but now more than ever we realize that as people get “woke” they need to … Continue reading
It’s About Time
Prepare yourself for spring activities
February is a very interesting month for the Willamette Valley. Although it’s midwinter in the northern hemisphere, we have spring activity gearing up, with expectations … Continue reading
Oregon Bach Festival Moves to UO
Beall Concert Hall offers better acoustics for historically informed performance
Ever since summer 1983, less than a year after Eugene’s Hult Center for the Performing Arts opened for business the previous fall, the Oregon Bach … Continue reading
Trump Endangers NEA Funds for Local Arts
What, we wondered, will happen around here exactly if the Trump regime manages — as he promised in January — to abolish the 62-year-old National … Continue reading
Slant
Jan. 29 rally at the federal courthouse downtown
• EW attended the Sunday, Jan. 29, rally at the federal courthouse downtown, a response to President Trump’s executive order temporarily suspending the U.S. refugee program … Continue reading
All That Learning Ever Writ
UO Theatre dives into the Restoration with The Emperor of the Moon
Slamming doors, pretending to be statues, hiding under tables: These theatrical devices are as old as theater itself, and they’re in great supply in J.K. … Continue reading
Life’s a Beach
Alt-pop band TV Girl brings summer vibes to The Boreal TV Girl is a musical collage of West Coast pop sounds. From upbeat melodies to … Continue reading
The Face You Wear
Becoming healers
What if you were born to live in this time, in these times? Choosing to incarnate, burdened by terrible conditions, strengthened by an indigenous strength, … Continue reading
Sarah J. Swofford
Author of From Ouch! To Ahhh … The New Mom’s Guide To Sex After Baby
The daughter of a pair of Methodist missionaries, Sarah Swofford grew up from age three to eight in Montevideo, Uruguay. “I was old enough to … Continue reading