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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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Melvin Returns!

Eugene filmmaker Henry Weintraub celebrates the 10th anniversary of his debut horror comedy

Film 6 years ago

If you took mid-career George Romero, the late, great godfather of the zombie flick, and injected him with a wayward dose of DNA from Alex … Continue reading →

Women at Sea

Maiden follows first all-female crew to sail the globe

Film 6 years ago

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 →

The Rabbit in the Room

An invisible friend wreaks havoc in VLT’s production of the Mary Chase classic comedy Harvey

Theater 6 years ago

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

Film 6 years ago

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”

Music 6 years ago

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

Film 6 years ago

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

Film 6 years ago

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

Film 6 years ago

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

Music 6 years ago

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

Culture 6 years ago

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 →

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