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Staff writer for Eugene Weekly, Rick Levin been airing his grievances in newspapers for the better part of two decades.

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And the Oscar goes to …

Our timely roundup of this year’s Academy Award nominees for Best Picture

Film 7 years ago

In reviewing this year’s film reviews in Eugene Weekly, we were surprised and pleased to find that we’d hit just about every big, Oscar-nominated picture — … Continue reading →

Shaken and Stirred

Stand-up comic Gabby Jesus is Eugene’s favorite bartender

CultureDrink 7 years ago

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 →

The Habit of Grace

Playwright Timothy Andrew McIntosh debuts his new existential thriller Sister of the Dark Heart

Theater 7 years ago

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 →

Other People’s Tragedies

Director Michael Haneke skewers our modern malaise in Happy End

Film 7 years ago

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 →

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex

But didn’t ask a sex coach like Jane Steckbeck

Culture 7 years ago

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 →

Unquiet on the Set

A play hits the skids in Cottage Theatre’s Noises Off

Theater 7 years ago

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 →

Finding the Lost Thread

The Father offers a moving portrait of dementia

Theater 7 years ago

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 →

The Trouble With Woodcock

A fashion designer and his muse get all tangled up in 'Phantom Thread'

Film 7 years ago

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 →

Meat Isn’t Just Murder

Eugene Meat Collective teaches the ancient process of food preparation from butchery to sausage making

Chow 7 years ago

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 →

Raiders of the Pentagon Papers

Spielberg puts a typically heroic spin on Vietnam-era journalism in The Post

Film 7 years ago

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 →

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