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None Of Your Beeswax
Encaustic painting is an acquired skill that is by no means easy to master. It involves the careful melting and pigment alteration of heated beeswax, which is then applied as a paste. Think of it like painting with a medium far more difficult than acrylic, and then imagine trying to make your creations not look like crocodile crap on a canvas; this, Marianne Clancy has on lock. “I moved away after living here in the ‘70s,” says Clancy. “Now my daughter is at the University studying and I am ‘home’ again in Eugene.” Continue reading
The Hardest Working Troupe in Eugene
Phoinix Players rise again in Red Cane Theatre
It’s hot, humid and breezeless inside the Red Cane Theatre, a new Eugene venue sinking fresh roots at West 11th and Chambers. Right next door is Lava Lounge, the bamboo-and-thatch watering hole sprung like a tropical oasis within Ring of Fire Thai restaurant. It’s late afternoon, in an uncommonly flowery month of May, and from the adjacent lounge one of those tall, fruity drinks with a baby umbrella is calling. Continue reading
Summer Guide 2012
Clouds made the eclipse and Venus’ transit across the sun a little hard to see, but we still know summer is under way. While the rest of the seasons morph through the different shadows of sopping wetness, the knowledge that here comes the sun, it’s all right, chills Eugene right out in the sunshine. Whether your summer is festivaling, floating or vineyarding, the fast and free or lazy and peaceful pace — you pick — of the Eugene’s other season says you have a cornucopia in front of you, so please partake. Continue reading
Loved By All, Feared by Fish
Local painter John Babbs died in April, but his artwork survives him. A prolific member of Eugene’s art scene, Babbs made countless friends playing basketball at the YMCA, was one of Ken Kesey’s original Merry Pranksters and was an initial participant in Kesey’s Acid Test. But later in his life, Babbs’ interest turned to fly fishing and painting. “I’d describe his technique as rustic with a psychedelic edge,” says Ken Babbs, John’s brother. Continue reading
Legends of the Summer
Mythical faerie festival enchants Eugene
Faerieworlds, the yearly festival that encourages attendees to “live your legend,” returns. Celebrating fantasy, magic and, of course, faeries, this annual event of pixie dust and gossamer wings provides everything a faer-folk enthusiast could want. Continue reading
We Own The Summer
Music festivals in Oregon and beyond
Long, five-car-caravan convoys, open air, live music, face paint, dehydration, hordes of howling drunks with beers in hand and marijuana smoke rising in plumes above their heads: These are the tropes of summer for those who love music festivals, and there’s no shortage when it comes to these monstrous gatherings. Continue reading
Getting Back to the Garden
Bilingual summer camp sprouts from grassroots
There is perhaps no better teacher than Mother Nature. Her curriculum is seasonal and her pedagogy is patience. And though we may at times ignore her lessons, her classroom remains willing to receive us. It is this truth that inspired Lydia Scott and Leela Greensberg to create the Grateful Growers Summer Camp for kids age 5-10. “Kids need to be outside more, engaging the natural world and learning about where food comes from,” Greensberg says. Continue reading
Free-Roam Frolic Fans Flame
Eugene’s answer to The Amazing Race
The scavenger hunt is an activity so egregiously underrated by the adult world as naïve or childish that it really sucks the fun out of all that nostalgia. I ask you this: What would a child’s Easter be without an egg hunt? What would playing pirate be without an “X” marking the booty spot? Continue reading
Summer Guide 2012 – Event Guide
close-in Events in and around Eugene. june Thursday, 6/7 Walk with Us, weekly self-led neighborhood walking group, ages 50 & up, 9:30-10:30am every Thursday, meet at Petersen Barn Community Center, 870 Berntzen Rd. FREE. Drop-in Kayaking, bring equipment, no instruction provided, ages 12 & up, 8-10pm every Thursday, Echo Hollow Pool, 1655 Echo Hollow Rd. $5. Friday, 6/8 Continue reading