Women at Sea
Maiden follows first all-female crew to sail the globe
I grew up on the water. My grandfather, like his father before him, owned and skippered a commercial fishing boat, the Defiance, a purse-seiner, which … Continue reading
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 Rabbit in the Room
An invisible friend wreaks havoc in VLT’s production of the Mary Chase classic comedy Harvey
In retrospect, it strikes me as odd that I’ve never seen the 1950 film version of Harvey, Mary Chase’s Pulitzer-winning play about a pleasantly eccentric … Continue reading
Shelter Skelter
Tarantino tells a fairy tale of Manson-era Los Angeles in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Clocking in at nearly three hours, and restrained to the point of relative monkishness, the new Quentin Tarantino film is leaving many moviegoers scratching their … Continue reading
Temporary Light
Eugene songwriter Halie Loren lands an Emmy for her music video “Noah”
To her growing list of awards and accomplishments, Eugene singer/songwriter Halie Loren can now add an Emmy. Loren recently garnered a “Best Music Video” Emmy … Continue reading
Where the Magic Is
Broadway Metro adapts to movies in the 21st century with downtown expansion
The first time I walked into the new Broadway Metro expansion a few months back, I couldn’t believe my eyes. It felt as though I’d … Continue reading
The Price of Paradise
Director Ari Aster turns the screw on communal living in the horror masterpiece Midsommar
Director Jordan Peele recently suggested that Ari Aster’s new film Midsommar raises the bar on horror in such an unprecedented and frankly terrifying way that … Continue reading
Go Ask Alice
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché celebrates one of the world’s first and most influential filmmakers
This is the stuff of legend, or should be: On March 22, 1895, a French camera manufacturer named Léon Gaumont attended a private screening of … Continue reading
Subterranean Brainsick Blues
The Minus 5 debuts the brilliant, baffling Stroke Manor in eugene
Minus 5’s new release is a concept album, of sorts. In song after song on the aptly named Stroke Manor, words slip their foundation, falling … Continue reading
Don’t Fear the Reaper
Springfield artist Jessica Kinser is a bone collector who turns dead animals into art
Jessica Kinser was a teenager, 16 or 17, when she processed her first skull. Her parents, both avid hunters and food preppers, had harvested a … Continue reading
Breaking the Rules
The first five minutes of Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut — the uncommonly smart, genuinely funny, generously humane teen comedy Booksmart — are so full of … Continue reading