Through a Mirror, Darkly
VLT’s Time Stands Still takes aim at journalism, truth and guilt
I hear a lot of people saying they wish they saw more positive news stories — that they’re tired of the gruesome, sad pieces they … Continue reading
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Oh Well
Snow White performing live at the EW offices for #lincolnstreetsessions
Eugene Weekly presents Snow White performing live at the EW offices for #lincolnstreetsessions Eugene Weekly’s Back Beat: Lincoln Street Sessions are a series of live studio performances … Continue reading
The Spin
Who’s who and what’s what in dance this Month
This weekend only, Harmonic Laboratory presents PLATFORM, a collaborative arts festival featuring more than 70 local artists, musicians and dancers 8–11 pm Saturday, May 6, at … Continue reading
Life is a Cabaret
ACE refuses to look away in anger with its fantastic production of Kander and Ebb’s dark musical masterpiece
Even if Actors Cabaret of Eugene’s current production of Cabaret were a drop-dead disaster, I’d still recommend it wholeheartedly. This 1966 hit Broadway show, based … Continue reading
Hannah and Unison
Two fine world premieres at Oregon Shakespeare Festival
You have two great new reasons to visit the Oregon Shakespeare Festival right now — Hannah and the Dread Gazebo, a charming, balanced inquiry into … Continue reading
Updating Traditions
A new Oregon opera at the Music Today Festival
Portland Opera may have canceled this month’s production, but you can see a brand-new, made-in-Oregon opera for free next weekend at the University of Oregon’s … Continue reading
Blue Transmissions
Ethereal pop band halie and the moon celebrates its CD release
Bluntly put, halie and the moon is a band comprising five crackerjack musicians whose creativity, chops and sophistication would be breathtaking to encounter in any … Continue reading
#NOPE
Tech thriller The Circle founders on false dichotomies and a lack of direction
Within the first few minutes of The Circle, a tiresome cinematic exercise in false dichotomies, Mae (Emma Watson) tells a friend that she’ll send him … Continue reading
A Boy and His Thumbs
The quality of a story’s substance isn’t necessarily the meat or the grit — sometimes it’s how a person chooses to tell it. Danny Yarborough … Continue reading
A Cabin in the Woods
“I sang before I talked,” laughs Kate Sawicki, lead singer of the richly eclectic band The Cabin Project. Sawicki and her solemn band mates string … Continue reading