Fine Young Cannibal
Watching Jessica Boudreaux of Summer Cannibals on stage, you’re never sure if the spotlight shines on her or if she shines a spotlight on the … Continue reading
Whats-Happening: Page 422
Weed Worker Permits Easy to Obtain
If your New Year’s resolution involves quitting your current job, you can now consider an array of jobs within Oregon’s budding recreational marijuana industry. But … Continue reading
The Spin
Who’s who and what’s what in dance this month
It’s a new year, and you should be dancing: Ballet Fantastique Academy’s winter session has begun, and BFan offers a Free Dance Week, Jan. … Continue reading
History as Horror Story
Jackie turns the story of Camelot’s first lady into a nightmare from which we haven’t awakened
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in a Dallas motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963 was a national tragedy, but it was also a nightmare, … Continue reading
It’s About Time
Many birds now rely on the kindness of bird feeders
The natural world has its regular rhythms disrupted by natural disasters like ice storms, much the way human environments change. Incense cedar trees have proven … Continue reading
Wine Label Whimsy
Fun labels can wrap around a good wine
Must be global weirding: A carny barker-snakeoil hustler gets elected president of the U.S.; ice forms on December rosebuds; and in the wine world, someone … Continue reading
Broadway Punk
Mack Gilcrest, primary songwriter with Missoula, Montana-based band Pale People, says his music celebrates the unpopular and disaffected among us. The trio is comprised of … Continue reading
Rapper’s Delight
Eugene is known for a lot of things — its local rap scene is not one of them. Those looking for live lyricism around town … Continue reading
Knights Arrant
Eugene’s Order of Steel is not what you think
You hear the rhythmic metal tick-tock of armor plates clapping against chainmail from a long way off. The sun sinks in the west as three … Continue reading
We’ll Always Have Los Angeles
Starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, La La Land gloriously revamps the golden age of Hollywood musicals
Despite opening to a fairly lukewarm reception in 1943, Casablanca has become one of the most beloved, if not the most beloved, Hollywood films of … Continue reading