VCR
performing live for #lincolnstreetsessions
Eugene Weekly presents VCR’s full Lincoln Street Sessions recording live at the EW offices. Back Beat: Lincoln Street Sessions are a series of live studio … Continue reading
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Good News!
Shedd Theatricals revives a seldom-seen Broadway show
The year is 1927. The Great War, which we now remember as World War I, is a distant memory. The stock market is booming. Life … Continue reading
Songbook Standards
Oregon Festival of American Music celebrates the show tunes of the mid-20th century
These days, we take pop songs and turn them into musicals: Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys, Beautiful, etc. It used to be the other way around, back … Continue reading
Anti-Capitalist Art Punks
Kilynn Lunsford, vocalist with noisy art-rock band Taiwan Housing Project, is feeling scattered as she talks to me on the phone from her home in … Continue reading
Metal in Good Mettle
After seven years, Eugene Metal Celebration — a multi-night event held at Black Forest in downtown Eugene — is gaining attention from metal acts around … Continue reading
War is Hell
Director Christopher Nolan once again achieves greatness in the beautiful and haunting Dunkirk
A masterpiece can be a hard thing to overcome, especially when it occurs early in an artist’s career. For my money, director Christopher Nolan’s second … Continue reading
‘Line, Value and Color’
Bets Cole’s latest paintings demonstrate quiet excellence
Paintings by Bets Cole on display through July at Karin Clarke Gallery show the long-time local artist at her relaxed, assured best. Cole has been … Continue reading
Up Against The Walls
Eugene is creating the biggest visual art festival held here since 1974
Google “Oregon street artist” and you get just two results, both seemingly generated by bots. That puts us a bit behind Alabama (7 results) and … Continue reading
Bad Habits
Naked nuns and Aubrey Plaza can’t save the depressingly unfunny satire of The Little Hours
Where to begin with The Little Hours, a new comedy written and directed by Jeff Baena and based on Boccaccio’s 1353 masterpiece The Decameron? The … Continue reading
A Walk In The Woods
A wanderer of the woods always needs a compass and a map. Singer-songwriter Ayla Nereo sings with imagery thick as an old-growth forest and provides … Continue reading