The Spin
Who’s who and what’s what in dance this month
It’s a new year, and you should be dancing: Ballet Fantastique Academy’s winter session has begun, and BFan offers a Free Dance Week, Jan. … Continue reading
Arts: Page 218
History as Horror Story
Jackie turns the story of Camelot’s first lady into a nightmare from which we haven’t awakened
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in a Dallas motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963 was a national tragedy, but it was also a nightmare, … Continue reading
Broadway Punk
Mack Gilcrest, primary songwriter with Missoula, Montana-based band Pale People, says his music celebrates the unpopular and disaffected among us. The trio is comprised of … Continue reading
Rapper’s Delight
Eugene is known for a lot of things — its local rap scene is not one of them. Those looking for live lyricism around town … Continue reading
We’ll Always Have Los Angeles
Starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, La La Land gloriously revamps the golden age of Hollywood musicals
Despite opening to a fairly lukewarm reception in 1943, Casablanca has become one of the most beloved, if not the most beloved, Hollywood films of … Continue reading
Arts Hound – 2017-01-05
Sniffing out what you shouldn’t miss in the arts this week
This Friday, Jan. 6, is the first ArtWalk of 2017. So let’s start 2017 right: Let’s make it a wildly creative, challenging, innovative year for … Continue reading
The Emo Revival
In 2016, the long-reviled genre found a new sheen in Eugene’s music scene
In 2016, emo was the dominant sound on the Eugene music scene — and across the nation. About 10 years ago, emo ruled the world. … Continue reading
Mr. Croon and Warble
It takes chutzpah for any guitarist to compare his band’s singer to Elvis Presley. But Shelby Turner, of Chicago-based post-punk and kitsch-pop act Richard Album, … Continue reading
Space Garbage
Passengers’ Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt can’t save an excellent premise from lousy execution
For the first 30 minutes or so, Passengers is a decent film. If you like Chris Pratt, you’ll probably raise that decent to a “good” … Continue reading
Triple Threat
Eugene Opera’s year-end production offers unintended political responses
An opera company that produces a New Year’s Eve show typically has two choices: It can present a full opera, often Richard Strauss’ Die Fledermaus … Continue reading