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100 GRAND: At the biannual BRAVA breakfast at the Hult June 5, hosted by the Arts & Business Alliance of Eugene (ABAE), executive director of the city of Eugene Library, Recreation and Cultural Services Renee Grube announced that a private donor gave ABAE $100,000 for its loan program for “quick-turnaround, low-cost financing for arts organizations and artists, as well as small, specialty creative and arts-related businesses.” Grube, also vice president of ABAE’s board, told the crowd that the loan targets “a sector that often struggles to find capi Continue reading →

More photos of LCC ReFashionLab creations

Dress' made from EW back issues created by Ariana Schwartz

Fashion

Here are some of the photos we took for the cover and this weeks story on the LCC ReFashion lab. Read the story here: https://eugeneweekly.com/20150604/lead-story/pretty-paper Photos:Trask Bedortha Dress: Ariana Schwartz • Hair: Gwynne McLaughlin, Studio Mantra •  Make up art: Marisa Shute • Models: Katrina Jones, Ericka Weist, Savannah Weatherford Continue reading →

Rape and a College Town

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

Books
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

Jon Krakauer doesn’t start Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Doubleday, $28.95) with one of the worst scenes in the book; he eases into it with the police pulling up to tell a young woman named Allison Huguet that her rapist has confessed.  Only a couple pages later does Krakauer tell of the assault and of Beth Huguet’s horror when her daughter calls her at 4 am gasping with panicked sounds into the phone before screaming, “He’s chasing me! Help me! Save me! Mom!”  Continue reading →

This month’s dance kicks off with #instaballet

Dance
‘Francia’ in Bricolage Cirkus

This month’s dance kicks off with #instaballet at the First Friday ArtWalk. “Watch Eugene Ballet Company dancers make a ballet!”#instaballet co-founder Suzanne Haag writes. “Audience members get to suggest steps (feel free to get inventive and a little crazy) to create a ballet to be performed at 8 pm.” Catch it 5 to 8 pm Friday, June 5, at 771 Willamette (between 7th and 8th); come and go as you please. More info at instaballet.org; free.  Continue reading →

Too Close to the Sun

Film

A fine and fascinating new documentary, Sunshine Superman provides an intimate portrait of the founder of a movement in which participants — perhaps I should say followers — commit protracted suicide in circus-like gestures that are public and grandiose and defiantly illegal. And for these gestures they are widely heralded as free-spirited heroes whose failed attempts to burst the bonds of human limitation are considered tragic evidence of their own greatness. Continue reading →

Ecstasy and Offspring

A sampling of musical hybrids from Dirtwire to Choros Das 3

Music
The UO Chamber Choir won second place at the Marktoberdorf International Chamber Choir Competition in May

Purists may shudder, but musical miscegenation has always been the rule.  “Enjoy hybrid music, because that’s all there is,” Oregon-born composer Lou Harrison often said. Regarded as the godfather of what became the world music movement, Harrison typically expressed this sentiment before demonstrating how just about every form of music emerges from encounters with the sounds of other cultures and times.  Continue reading →

Slumerican

Yelawolf

Music
Yelawolf. Photo by Todd Cooper.

Had Yelawolf never elevated his game beyond the flush of his furious 2010 mixtape Trunk Muzik, which contained at least one bona-fide masterpiece in “Pop the Trunk,” he’d yet remain a significant footnote in the history of modern hip hop — an Alabama-born rapper of manic intensity and talent who gnawed his initials into the rusty proud husk of Southern culture on the skids of the 21st century. Continue reading →

The Slow Burner

Ron Sexsmith

Music
Ron Sexsmith

It’s a troubling contradiction that today’s music business — ostensibly an industry of songs — could make a quality songwriter like Ron Sexsmith feel antiquated and out of place.  “I feel like a guy who’s making antique tables and chairs,” the Canadian musician tells EW. “I’ve always felt out of place or unfashionable ever since my first record came out.” Continue reading →