Winter Reading – Teens
Sleeping in My Jeans by Connie King Leonard. Ooligan Press, $16. Portland-based Ooligan Press is a sure thing when it comes to books that capture … Continue reading
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Winter Reading – Short Stories
Back Talk by Danielle Lazarin. Penguin Books, $16. Danielle Lazarin’s Back Talk is the author’s debut — a collection of slice-of-life short stories about girls … Continue reading
Winter Reading – Kids
The Nap Rap by Joan Gold Cypress and illustrated by Lola Buckwald. Queen Scarlett, $24.95. (Oregon author) I never thought I would be saying this, … Continue reading
Winter Reading – Nonfiction
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara. Harper Collins Publishers, $27.99. Around Halloween time, … Continue reading
Winter Reading – Essays
Nobody Cares by Anne T. Donahue. ECW Press, $15.99. Being a millennial American woman is hard. OK, maybe not hard hard, in the way that … Continue reading
Art at 510 Oak
UO’s art and design faculty move into downtown studios
The first thing I noticed about 510 Oak is how clean it was. Art buildings are usually splattered with paint and clay, marked with charcoal … Continue reading
Carry
Wayside Ghost performing live for Lincoln street sessions
Eugene Weekly presents Wayside Ghost performing ‘Carry’ for #lincolnstreetsessions live at the EW offices. Eugene Weekly’s Back Beat: Lincoln Street Sessions are a series of … Continue reading
Popular Downtown Music Venue Closes Temporarily
Closure will bring new ownership team and facility upgrades
Rumors quickly spread around the Eugene music scene a few months ago that popular downtown venue, Hi-Fi Music Hall, was in financial trouble and may … Continue reading
Staging the Holidays
A little something for everyone in this year’s offering of Christmas productions by local theaters
The sheer intimacy and immediacy of theater lends itself splendidly to the holidays. It’s as though, facing the stage, we are basking as one in … Continue reading
The Shakes
Shakey Graves updates his sound with Can’t Wake Up
Austin musician Alejandro Rose-Garcia, better known as Shakey Graves, has been playing around Eugene for so long that watching his ascendency feels a bit like … Continue reading