Whyless
With songs like “Failing Farm” and “War is Kind,” Kindness, a Rebel — the latest release from Asheville, North Carolina’s River Whyless — is in … Continue reading
Year: 2018
Trumping the Supremes
President’s second Supreme Court pick could impact LGBTQ issues
As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump worked an audience like an orchestral conductor. With a stroke of the hand he summoned chants of “ten feet … Continue reading
Watershed Moments
Jazz and contemporary percussion liven up Eugene
Tamolitch Pool on the McKenzie River near Blue River is one of our area’s most magnificent natural spaces. Its allure inspired Salem-based composer-pianist James Miley’s … Continue reading
Wake Up, Ash-Holes
In response to a writer from last week who seemed to have a huge problem with outdoor smoking locally (Letters, “Smoke and Mirrors,” Aug. 2): … Continue reading
Greenhouse Gaslighting?
Last week’s letter by Northwest Natural Gas (EW, 7/26) misses several points and leads readers astray. Everyone agrees: affordable heating is crucial, and cooling is becoming … Continue reading
Leveling the Letters
In the July 26 Slant section, Eugene Weekly, rightly so, castigated The Register-Guard for having days with no citizens’ letters to the editor published. Though … Continue reading
New History for Future Generations
Lesbian Oral History documents gay women in Eugene
In the basement of the Knight Library at the University of Oregon, the knowledge and history of Eugene’s lesbian community is being retold and archived … Continue reading
The Jean Jeanie
Nashville musician Olivia Jean believes in ghosts. In fact, she’d like to think she’s seen one. “It was probably just a spot on my contact … Continue reading
Stuck in Middle School
Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade shows teen angst is forever
For all the things that have changed about being a teen — apps and laptops, likes and subscribes, the endless awareness that everyone else really … Continue reading
Oso High
Grizzly bear at Wildlife Safari pioneers CBD treatment
Oso the grizzly bear sees his trainer Sarah Roy and wanders up to the fence of his enclosure at Wildlife Safari in Winston. His roommate, … Continue reading