The Bravery
Montreal’s BIG|BRAVE play minimalist metal for maximum effect
Like calling an artist a genius, claiming a band is in a genre all its own is difficult to prove. Usually it’s an overstatement. Montreal’s … Continue reading
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Dog Day Music
Summer means musical treats in a variety of settings
The end-of-summer dog days are barking at us, that time when all good canines and many music lovers are having their fun in the Oregon … Continue reading
The Puzzle Issue
Letters Word Search! We get them in our inbox each week. now you can find the words we see again and again By Chelsea Lovejoy … Continue reading
Melvin Returns!
Eugene filmmaker Henry Weintraub celebrates the 10th anniversary of his debut horror comedy
If you took mid-career George Romero, the late, great godfather of the zombie flick, and injected him with a wayward dose of DNA from Alex … Continue reading
Pigeon Cooper
New York photographer’s Eugene show isn’t ‘for the birds’
Pigeons get no respect. They’ve been called “rats with wings,” and sometimes worse. That’s if they’re even noticed. Most of the time they pass unremarked … Continue reading
Women at Sea
Maiden follows first all-female crew to sail the globe
I grew up on the water. My grandfather, like his father before him, owned and skippered a commercial fishing boat, the Defiance, a purse-seiner, which … Continue reading
Desert Rose
Moody Little Sister blossoms in the New Mexico sun
Naomi Sparrow is a sun-chaser. The singer-songwriter grew up in Alaska before migrating to Portland. “When I moved to Oregon, I had an upgrade in … Continue reading
The Rabbit in the Room
An invisible friend wreaks havoc in VLT’s production of the Mary Chase classic comedy Harvey
In retrospect, it strikes me as odd that I’ve never seen the 1950 film version of Harvey, Mary Chase’s Pulitzer-winning play about a pleasantly eccentric … Continue reading
No Sermons to Be Seen
God, Guns and Liberty, and the coals of democracy
Recently, I attended a prayer vigil in support of migrant children and families. The first speaker was a man from Belize. He and his family … Continue reading
No Words Necessary
A primer on instrumental music with Marisa Anderson
Aside from a few detours like surf and prog rock, the vast majority of post-rock ‘n’ roll popular music falls into traditional song structure, a … Continue reading