Media Matters
When truth is contested, media literacy is key
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
Rick Levin
Staff writer for Eugene Weekly, Rick Levin been airing his grievances in newspapers for the better part of two decades.
Author: Rick Levin
Contested Truths
An interview with Oregonian columnist Samantha Swindler
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
History as Horror Story
Jackie turns the story of Camelot’s first lady into a nightmare from which we haven’t awakened
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in a Dallas motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963 was a national tragedy, but it was also a nightmare, … Continue reading