Good Bad Taste
The Kinsey Sicks return to Oregon Contemporary Theatre
If you love Donald Trump, you can suck it. Well, certainly you can quit reading this review (though I’m not sure why you even picked … Continue reading
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Truthful Masks
Slow Magic brings their sound to the WOW Hall
In 1891, Oscar Wilde wrote: “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you … Continue reading
A Eugene musician takes her son to Tori Amos
A second-grader's take on a classic performer
I brought my second-grader, P, to the Tori Amos show at the Hult Center Nov. 25 (his first, my fifth) thinking that, as a budding … Continue reading
Ohio Man
Eugene Weekly presents ShiSho performing for #lincolnstreetsessions
Eugene Weekly presents ShiSho performing ‘Ohio Man’ live at the EW offices for #lincolnstreetsessions . While this folk punk duo’s residency in Eugene may have … Continue reading
First Flight
Writer-director Greta Gerwig captures a confident but flawed young woman in Lady Bird
In Lady Bird, her directorial debut, Greta Gerwig looks at familiar moments of teen dramedy — parental spats, ill-chosen crushes, disagreements with friends, a chafing … Continue reading
Let There Be Light, and Song, and Dance
Actors Cabaret enters the holiday fray with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Verily, the Old Testament is many things to many people, believers and skeptics and repudiators alike; but one thing it decisively is not is fun, … Continue reading
Less Ladylike
Tori Amos influences a generation of Eugene artists
Eugene artists Halie Loren, Bettreena “Betty” Jaeger and Amelia Reising will never forget the first time they heard the music of Tori Amos. Jaeger is … Continue reading
Plastic Soul
'I can be the archetype of whatever you feel.'
There are things both vintage and new in the plastic soul of Denver-based husband and wife duo Tennis. On the band’s latest release, Yours Conditionally, … Continue reading
Vote Hari!
Stand-up comedian Hari Kondabolu appears in Eugene
Don’t call Hari Kondabolu a political comedian. “I don’t talk about Democrats and Republicans,” the New Yorker says. “I don’t care so much about the … Continue reading
Burnt Offerings
A father is faced with the ultimate sacrifice in The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Take just about any film — Casablanca perhaps, or Fast Times at Ridgemont High — utterly drain it of emotion and affect, and you’d end … Continue reading