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Rick Levin

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

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The Cat’s Meow

New documentary Kedi takes a look at Istanbul’s beloved — and threatened — population of street cats

Film 8 years ago

I live with two cats, and I haven’t looked at either of them in quite the same way since seeing Kedi, a lovely new documentary … Continue reading →

Media Matters

When truth is contested, media literacy is key

News 8 years ago

It goes without saying: Mainstream media are hardly without blame when it comes to the passionate partisan distrust now swamping the so-called news, and the … Continue reading →

Contested Truths

An interview with Oregonian columnist Samantha Swindler

News 8 years ago

EW talked to Samantha Swindler, a columnist for The Oregonian and president of the Oregon Territory chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, to get … Continue reading →

Apocalypse Kong

Big monkey exposes the naked ape in Kong: Skull Island

Film 8 years ago

I am so utterly sick to death of human beings and their selfish, greedy, murderous ways that — when the latest incarnation of everyone’s favorite … Continue reading →

The Comfort of Being Sad

The relentless pursuit of happiness is a bittersweet joke

Theater 8 years ago

Sarah Ruhl is an interesting playwright. Her work achieves emotional valences that, for me, are completely contradicted by her style — a style I find … Continue reading →

We Have Seen The Enemy

In the new documentary I Am Not Your Negro, late author James Baldwin calls out the racism always eating away at American society

Film 8 years ago

James Baldwin is one of my all-time heroes. His writing, not to mention the mere fact of his life and times, inspires in me a … Continue reading →

Identity Politics

LCC’s excellent student production Constant Revolution takes on sticky issues of authenticity

Theater 8 years ago

Identity is a bitch. By the time we’re grown up enough to ask ourselves who we are and what the hell we’re doing with this … Continue reading →

Attention Must Be Paid

Film 8 years ago

The great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky invented the modern suspense thriller with Crime and Punishment, the story of a poor college student who murders his … Continue reading →

There is Sex After 50

You can't really mean to give it up

Culture 8 years ago

Certified sex coach Jane Steckbeck has one question for young people who are grossed out by the idea of old folks like their parents having … Continue reading →

Dial M for Mayhem

OCT’s The 39 Steps plays fast and loose with Alfred Hitchcock

Theater 8 years ago

What makes Hitchcock Hitchcock? Or, put more fancifully, what do we mean when we call something Hitchcockian? Certainly the British director of such classics of … Continue reading →

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Rick Levin

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