Truck Dreams
Authentic Mexican Food at Dos Banderas
The aroma of smoky mesquite lures your nostrils around the corner of West Broadway onto Olive Street, to Dos Banderas, the little food truck that … Continue reading
Whats-Happening: Page 421
Romeo & Juliet
Downtown Springfield is in the midst of a renaissance and, as Judith “Sparky” Roberts of Fools Haven Acting Company notes, “nothing fits better with the … Continue reading
Dial M for Mayhem
OCT’s The 39 Steps plays fast and loose with Alfred Hitchcock
What makes Hitchcock Hitchcock? Or, put more fancifully, what do we mean when we call something Hitchcockian? Certainly the British director of such classics of … Continue reading
The Lonely Road Songbird
Now and then, in order to make ends meet, a musician picks up an odd job. For some, that means waiting tables. And for others, … Continue reading
Ballet Fantastique celebrates a pair of premieres
Ringing in the new year, Ballet Fantastique (BFan) launches two exciting premieres, with stagings of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Aladdin. EW recently caught up … Continue reading
Boys Will Be Boys
Gentlemen scientists gather in VLT’s comic romp The explorer’s Club
Legend has it that when a team of British archaeologists outfitted themselves to excavate the tomb of King Tutankhamen, their journey began with an errand … Continue reading
Radioman Diaries
Popular NPR host Ira Glass hits the stage in Eugene
Before binge-watching, there was binge-listening, and NPR’s This American Life damn near invented the practice. To some, the hugely popular show might seem ponderous and … Continue reading
Being and Becoming
Two new films, Elle and Twentieth Century Women, offer vastly different takes on what makes us who we are
Oddly enough, it was a misguided defense of Elle that made me come around — to some degree — to Paul Verhoeven’s latest Rorschach test … Continue reading
American Qur’an
The holy book of Islam, interpreted by an American artist
The traditional holy book of Islam has been defaced, burned, defecated on and denounced in the decade and a half that’s followed the Sept. 11, … Continue reading
Travel back in time for a while
This Sunday afternoon, Jan. 15, at the Church of the Resurrection (3925 Hilyard St.), the Oregon Bach Collegium whisks us back to the 18th century … Continue reading