Restaurants Open on Christmas
Not having anywhere good to eat out on a Monday can be frustrating, and there’s going to be even more days when restaurants are closed … Continue reading
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Dreams Before Extinction
Naeemeh Naeemaei’s paintings use fantasy in search of a greater truth
About a 100 years ago in Mazandaran Province in Iran, a young girl named Mina and a Persian leopard became friends. When Mina was older, … Continue reading
Convicts and Cookies
The Lifers Club at Christmas
By Chris Six convicted killers locked in an industrial bakery storage room deep in a maximum-security prison are busy bagging up cookies. But their conversation … Continue reading
Orchestral Abundance, Jazzy Intimacy
Music to get us through the dark nights
If December’s lack of lumens is leaving you sluggish, the Eugene Symphony’s Thursday concert at the Hult Center Thursday, Dec. 12, should supply just the … Continue reading
Winter Reading – Fiction
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. Penguin Press, $26. Poet and author Ocean Vuong’s mother died Nov. 2 at age 51, after a … Continue reading
Hungarian Rhapsody
An urbane She Loves Me hits all the right notes at The Shedd
Even Scrooge would have to love She Loves Me, playing through Dec. 22 at The Shedd’s Jaqua Concert Hall. After all, this endearing and enduring … Continue reading
For the Rest of Us
Eugene playwright Rachael Carnes pens an alternative holiday classic in At Winter’s Edge
With wry humor, canny wisdom and an expansiveness of heart that captures the true spirit of the season, Eugene playwright Rachael Carnes has penned a … Continue reading
Chamber Music Amici
Get out some cake and a lot of birthday candles, and come celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday with a performance of by Chamber Music Amici. The … Continue reading
Sunnyside Up
Long-running L.A. rock band Silversun Pickups return to Eugene
Silversun Pickups go all out for the holidays. “We’re traditionalists,” drummer Christopher Guanlao tells me over the phone from Richmond, Virginia. SSPU is wrapping up … Continue reading
Winter Reading 2019
Completing the Triangle Real Comedy Eugene In 1970 Children’s Book Round Up Eclectic Cookbooks Winter Reading Top Ten Lists Winter Reading – Fiction Winter Reading … Continue reading