New Year, New Music
Celebrate New Year’s Eve with live music in Eugene
Like Ella Fitzgerald, Eugene Weekly is wondering, “What are you doing New Year’s Eve?” Well, if you’re still without plans, we say head out to … Continue reading
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Puncturing Pretensions
Eugene Opera’s HMS Pinafore sets social satire to spiffy music
As 2018 mercifully closes, there’s so much wrong in our country that a significant portion of the music and theater being created today seems to … Continue reading
The State Department
Ring in the New Year with The Polish Ambassador
Electronic musician David Sugalski, who performs under the name The Polish Ambassador, tells me he never intended to make a career out of music. Back … Continue reading
Wayside Ghost
live for Lincoln street sessions
Eugene Weekly presents Wayside Ghost performing live for #lincolnstreetsessions live at the EW offices. Eugene Weekly’s Back Beat: Lincoln Street Sessions are a series of … Continue reading
All the World’s a (Kids’) Stage
Local children’s theaters are creating ‘cultural ninjas’
I often feel like I live in my car. Hundreds of miles in a dusty sedan littered with granola-bar wrappers and the sweaty water bottles … Continue reading
Getting in Shape (Note Singing)
Centuries-old Sacred Harp offers music for the masses
Shape-note singing is what democracy actually sounds like. Well, maybe anarchism, says Karen Stingle, who has sung with the Eugene Sacred Harp Singers since it … Continue reading
Culture and Passion
Charles Munroe moves on with new show in Springfield
It was a rainy night in Springfield so not a lot of people walked outside during the Second Friday Art Walk. Down the street on … Continue reading
A Royal Pain
Director Yargos Lanthimos takes on the court of Queen Anne in The Favourite
In his 2015 film The Lobster, Greek director Yargos Lanthimos evoked a haunting vision of social engineering run amok, where unattached patrons of a “Hotel” … Continue reading
Dog Brigade
Canadian punks Brutal Poodle bring their garage rock to Eugene
John, the guitarist and singer with Vancouver, B.C., garage-punk three-piece Brutal Poodle, has been playing music since he was a teenager. He asks to be … Continue reading
Brides to Be
The song “Fruitless,” from Canadian indie-rockers Bridal Party, is a cherubic anthem for wallflowers and art-school dropouts. It’s never as cloying as Belle & Sebastian, … Continue reading