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Rachael Carnes has written for Eugene Weekly as well as The Stranger in Seattle, since the mid-nineties. Covering dance, theater, performance art as well as human interest stories, Rachael enjoys meeting new people and seeing their creative process in action. As the founder of a local non profit, Sparkplug Dance, she spent 15 years teaching movement to kids in our community who juggle any number of risk factors, and now dedicates most of her time to supporting Arts Integration in area Middle Schools, through her work with the Educational Policy Improvement Center.
It’s been a couple of years since Oregon Contemporary Theatre premiered Paul Calandrino’s Shrimp & Gritts: She’s Gone. This week, the Not Ready for Retirement … Continue reading
I wanted to love the Theatre League’s Evita, but it is not where it should be. Evita, which played Feb. 16-17 at the Hult Center, … Continue reading
As a little kid in the ’70s, I wore a groove in my parent’s vinyl record of Leonard Bernstein conducting and narrating the New York … Continue reading
If you missed Lane Community College’s rock opera Oresteia in 2015, take heart. It’s back — as Electra’s Oresteia — and bigger and better than … Continue reading
Mandy Watts is soothing her newborn grandson when I meet her. Patting the adorable two-month old, Watts greets me warmly, with the contented smile of … Continue reading
If you’ve seen the Broadway musical The Lion King, then you know that its puppets and masks are some of the most beautiful and complex … Continue reading
Lunch shouldn’t cost an arm and a leg. It’s not fancy, and you’re probably not trying to impress anyone. You’re just hungry. Maybe you’re hangry. … Continue reading
Sociopolitical comedian W. Kamau Bell is a two-time Emmy Award-winning host and executive producer of CNN’s popular “United Shades of America,” where he has, among … Continue reading
The Wheel Apizza Pub aims to fling a new kind of pie our way with their “New Haven” pizzas, and with crunchy, sourdough crust and … Continue reading
As a “theater mom” whose kids more often than not perform at the Wildish Theater on Main Street in Springfield, I’ve put in my time … Continue reading