BarkCon
Dog people unite as Eugene gears up for the first Willamette Valley Canine Convention
If I could imagine a heavenly afterlife, it would include no billowy clouds or haloed ancestors in white robes. It would have dogs — and … Continue reading
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The Future is Now
The UO’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History explores ‘Survivalist Architecture’
“Survivalist Architecture and the Art of Resilience” is an engaging show that asks us to reconsider how we think about shelter. Artworks for Change, supported … Continue reading
Still Stopping Hate
A new Eugene mural sends a message of love
When the then-newly renamed Dr. Edwin J. Coleman Community Center was vandalized last year with swastikas and other hate speech, neighborhood residents expressed shock and … Continue reading
Pussy Riot
Seattle rockers fight for your right to say ‘pussy’
When Whitney Petty rolls into a new town while on tour, she likes to go where the locals are, the real divey-looking bars. “Sometimes you … Continue reading
EW and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
Harry and the Potters brings wizard rock to Eugene
Rock Against Purebloods Harry and the Potters brings wizard rock to Eugene Public Library By Henry Houston In the 1970s, when an epidemic of racism … Continue reading
Swinging Eugene
OFAM opens its annual jazz fest at The Shedd with Chuck Redd at the helm
Maryland jazzman Chuck Redd, who’s played with the likes of Charlie Byrd and Mel Tormé, has been a regular with the Oregon Festival of American … Continue reading
Where the Magic Is
Broadway Metro adapts to movies in the 21st century with downtown expansion
The first time I walked into the new Broadway Metro expansion a few months back, I couldn’t believe my eyes. It felt as though I’d … Continue reading
Batter Up
The Shedd swings for the fences with Broadway classic Damn Yankees
Modeled after the 1955 original, and directed and choreographed by Richard Jessup, The Shedd’s current production of the American classic Damn Yankees feels like a … Continue reading
Losing Our Groove
EW’s pop music writer laments the closing of CD World
Back in the ’90s I started working at CD World’s Corvallis location — and in case you weren’t aware, yes, there was a CD World … Continue reading
Not Slowing Down for 50
OCF’s 50th anniversary music lineup brings it on
That Oregon Country Fair knows how to throw a party is a well-established fact. It follows, then, that OCF would do it up right on … Continue reading