Second Chances
Jay Rock is lucky to be alive.
Jay Rock is lucky to be alive. In 2016, at what might have been the pinnacle of any other artist’s career, Rock was thrown from … Continue reading
Year: 2018
Shake Your Tailgate
Mike Hogan, wearing his barbecue apron and a glass of wine in hand, tells me that Stanford football fans don’t actually like good wine. That’s … Continue reading
A Blitz of Reality
Life in the press box is glitzy but fosters a businesslike approach to football
I don’t know why I like watching football. Unlike professional wrestling, I didn’t grow up watching the sport. I never played it in high school … Continue reading
Drain the Swamp
Shrek The Musical, like a parfait, has layers of greatness at Cottage Theatre
Somehow it’s 2018 and we’re still talking about Shrek. But it’s for good reason this time. Cottage Theatre’s production of Shrek The Musical, directed by … Continue reading
Every Song Has a Story
Chico Schwall and friends perform early British folk tunes at The Shedd
A century ago, Englishman Cecil Sharp came to the U.S. looking for British folk songs he first collected in the U.K. “And he found tons … Continue reading
Vote For Kate
I met Kate Brown when she and I served in the Legislature together. As governor, she’s been a leader on transportation, housing, health care and … Continue reading
Brown, Not Buehler
Knute Buehler has a record that shows that he has voted against women, public schools and affordable health care in Oregon. In his ads it … Continue reading
Depth Challenged
Wash Westmoreland’s pretty Colette misses the subtle charm of its complicated subject
It is always sunny in Colette. Wash Westmoreland’s new biopic of the early years of the French author exists in the kind of period-piece world … Continue reading
Bond. Road Bond.
The ballot measure 20-296, also known as “Fix Springfield’s Roads,” proposes a five-year bond to finance badly needed road improvements for heavily travelled streets. Anyone … Continue reading
Freedom Of Speech
I don’t know about you, but I really enjoy exercising my First Amendment rights — particularly when it comes to putting people in their place. … Continue reading