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Perhaps there’s something in the air. Maybe it’s all that pandemic isolation. Or just possibly Eugene really is a great city of the arts and … Continue reading
Asante Riverwind has been an activist for decades on social and ecological issues, and he has often expressed himself on these issues through music, art … Continue reading
It’s a sunny afternoon in Ithaca, New York, and Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek is seated at an outdoor picnic table when he excuses himself … Continue reading
More than a decade ago, when she was just another unhappy teenager at South Eugene High School, Laryssa Birdseye took solace in music and drama, … Continue reading
One of my favorite films of this past year was Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, an endearing vision of young, star-crossed love that is so … Continue reading
Michael Moloi received a Black Lives Matter Grant from the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation last year. The art he created, which was shown at the … Continue reading
The pandemic disrupted the fundamental rhythms of the music business in 2020 when Portland band Soft Kill released its often-sublime album Dead Kids, R.I.P City. … Continue reading
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is back. After two years of pandemic shutdown, made worse by summer wildfire closures and the layoffs of 90 percent of … Continue reading
It’s time to scrape off the pandemic rust and work out the kinks to those joints in preparation for National Dance Week, and the Cultural … Continue reading
Legendary punk singer-songwriter Bob Mould, former frontman with the wildly influential Midwestern hardcore band Hüsker Dü, has toured a few times recently as pandemic restrictions … Continue reading
It took two years of moving Heaven and Earth through the tangled mess of rescheduling brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, but Eugene Ballet will … Continue reading
Broadway is the stuff of legend in American theater. We have songs about the difficulty of making it there, like “On Broadway,” first made popular … Continue reading