The Age Of Reason
As the standard thunk-ditty of old-time slouches toward relative obscurity in this year of our Lord 2017, solace is sought via groove over hymnal, salty … Continue reading
Andy Valentine
Author: Andy Valentine
That’s the Spirit
Lane County loves to distill
To our squealing delight, craft distilleries are on the rise. In the last six months, a number of brand-new spirit operations have popped up in … Continue reading
High Steppin’
From the opening moments of High Step Society’s eponymous debut LP, the listener is dropped down a dust-cloaked chute and spit into a netherworld of … Continue reading
North-westward Expansion
Rain Northwest brings finer dining to west Eugene
For years the building at 1190 City View Street housed a dowdy local Mexican favorite named Nacho’s Restaurant, and for years the building blended right … Continue reading
Scream Louder
Punk-rock legend Bad Religion is coming to Eugene Oct. 24 to rock your vote
In the midst of an election, despicable disenfranchisement reigns supreme. It is tempting to give up altogether, pack our bags and move to an island … Continue reading
Sha-La-La-Luz
Four-piece surf group La Luz
We live in a period of human existence in which vibe is more decisive than quality — in which a zillion filters can be dumped on a photograph, a full album can be drenched in reverb or a vote can be cast on guts alone. Continue reading
Here Comes The Neighborhood
Four volunteers open the new Whiteaker Community Market
If nature truly abhors a vacuum, why are we left with so much space? Look around you. There are gaps in places you never expected, emptiness where life should have flourished. But does emptiness not equal potential? Every masterpiece begins life as a canvas. Take, for example, the gravel lot at 5th and Blair. Currently, it is just that — an empty space — but four local ladies saw through the void to the treasure hidden beyond. Continue reading
Face Time
Artist Bret Pendlebury puts a fresh spin on portraiture
We’re all well acquainted with portraits. We’ve all seen da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” and Van Gogh’s self-portrait with bandaged ear. We’ve been subjects in our own portraits, from selfies snapped at wild house parties to those bizarre, neck-cricking high-school IDs. Portraits are displayed in magazine ads, on business cards, in mugshots, passports and newspaper headlines. Continue reading
Bass Drops and Lindy Hops
Does history groove to a cosmic cabasa
If time is just a sequence of moments — a metered arrangement of flashes and blips set upon a far-flung scale — are there really such things as minutes and hours? Does history groove to a cosmic cabasa? Are rules of rhythm inherent within us or forged across ages of concrete occurrence? And if time itself is a beast worth taming, to whom will it answer? Continue reading
For Goodness’ Sake
Local band Caitlin Jemma and The Goodness push past the string-band paradigm into the unknown
Idealized non-conformism is not a revelation. Forty years ago, the punk movement built its own little utopia on a foundation of middle fingers. But what causes a movement to become a factory setting? Isn’t there inherent irony in a generation of non-conformists conforming to non-conformism, especially when that generation seems hard put to define the word irony? Continue reading