We've got issues.
Staff writer for Eugene Weekly, Rick Levin been airing his grievances in newspapers for the better part of two decades.
Gabrielle Jesus exudes all the warmth, humor and bonhomie a person could want in a bartender. Stationed behind the counter in the cozy confines of … Continue reading
Playwright Timothy Andrew McIntosh’s latest drama is a strange beast indeed. Part speculative fiction, part old-fashioned detective story, the play runs its course like a … Continue reading
Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke takes grotesque glee in poking itty-bitty holes through the thin, delusional veneer of OK-ness that barely protects us from the submerged … Continue reading
Popular culture is flooded with the mating call of sex, and yet very few people speak openly and directly and maturely about how sex is … Continue reading
Cottage Theatre’s production of Noises Off is a catastrophe, but don’t worry — that’s exactly the point. This comedy, written by British writer Michael Frayn … Continue reading
There is always a danger, as an artist, in launching forth with a single cause or affliction or ideology and melding it into a work … Continue reading
Certainly, the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock presides over the haunted atmosphere of Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, Phantom Thread, but Hitchcock isn’t the only cinematic … Continue reading
That hamburger you’re biting into: An animal died for that. It was killed and bled out and cut up and ground down into a ropy … Continue reading
No question Steven Spielberg is a great director. Several times during The Post, Spielberg’s new movie about The Washington Post’s decision in 1971 to publish … Continue reading
Annie Baker landed the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for The Flick, an odd and affecting play — part slacker melodrama, part dark comedy, part existential no-exit … Continue reading