Some Dudes, an Amp and the Blues
San Francisco’s dark country and blues-rockers Dead Country Gentlemen has played the Eugene area only once before. Guitarist and vocalist Cameron Ray says last time … Continue reading
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A School in Every Garden
The School Garden Project is making vegetables more fun
It looks like the school garden concept is getting some serious respect from the 4J school district. Just look at the spanking new Howard Elementary … Continue reading
In Space, No One Can Hear You Yawn
Director Ridley Scott turns the face-hugger on you with the wretched, cynical Alien: Covenant
Ponderous, pornographic and unforgivably dull, Alien: Covenant proves once and for all that Ridley Scott is the single biggest hack in contemporary Hollywood — a … Continue reading
Theater Guy
Brian Haimbach takes his show How to Be a Sissy across the pond
When I last checked in with Brian Haimbach, writer, actor, and head of the theater program at Lane Community College, it was February 2016, and … Continue reading
Masochism Is as Masochism Does
Sex and sexism collide in OCT’s excellent, if challenging, production of David Ives’ Venus in Fur
Even now, several days after seeing it, digesting it and churning it all over in my mind, I find I’m having a mixed response to … Continue reading
White Lotus Celebrates a Quarter Century in Eugene
An artistic marriage creates a leading art gallery
One day in 1984, a young Taiwanese woman spotted an older American man standing at a traffic intersection in Taipei. He looked confused. “He looked … Continue reading
Art Rodents
Veronica Cruz, vocalist and guitarist with Long Beach punk act Rats in the Louvre, says her band takes its name from an article she read … Continue reading
Indie Rock Problem Child
Modest Mouse returns to Eugene
Imagine the burgeoning ’90s-era Pacific Northwest indie rock scene as a classroom. Then imagine former Cottage Grove resident Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse as the … Continue reading
The Joy of the Bloodless Hunt
The fun of getting outside and pursuing … birds, rocks, ’shrooms and little pieces
I once told my ex-fiancé that I was a vegetarian because I ate only what I could personally kill. He promptly bought me a shotgun … Continue reading
Death of a Salesman
In the political satire Norman, Richard Gere plays a small-time con with the juice to topple governments
Whether aging is kind to an actor seems to be largely a matter of choice, and by extension, integrity. Often, great actors getting on in … Continue reading