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Staff writer for Eugene Weekly, Rick Levin been airing his grievances in newspapers for the better part of two decades.
I realize it’s a fairly risky proposition, in these strange days of division and disruption and “fake news,” for a journalist to beg your trust, … Continue reading
Contrary to common misperception, metal-heads tend to be the nicest dudes in any given music scene, and Eric Eiden, guitarist for local outfit Ninth Moon … Continue reading
I have to say that when it comes to art, I categorically reject the idea of “trigger warnings,” which is simply another term for censorship. … Continue reading
Director Chloé Zhao’s The Rider is unlike any American film I’ve seen. Its closest compatriot might be Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho (1991), … Continue reading
In 1976, a young director by the name of Martin Scorsese sent shockwaves across American culture with his fifth feature film, Taxi Driver, the nightmarish … Continue reading
The first third of director John Krasinki’s horror film A Quiet Place is smart and plenty creepy, but it had me wondering: Why all the … Continue reading
Between my two favorite American playwrights, Tennessee Williams and Sam Shepard, I find Shepard to be, inexplicably, the more familiar but less accessible of the … Continue reading
If there is a God, and if he is indeed all-knowing and all-powerful and all that, what must he think of the human race and … Continue reading
If there is a God, and if he is indeed all-knowing and all-powerful and all that, what must he think of the human race and … Continue reading
Sending shockwaves throughout the notoriously liberal stronghold of Eugene, it was announced Monday that the city’s longstanding weekly newspaper has been sold to a media … Continue reading