Eugene Weekly : It’s About Time : 5.5.11
By David Wagner Continue reading
Whats-Happening: Page 703
Eugene Weekly : It’s About Time : 4.14.11
By David Wagner Continue reading
Eugene Weekly : It’s About Time : 3.3.11
By David Wagner Continue reading
Among the Natives
Huffing Fumes at the Matt Court Monster Jam
Not to gloat but, on paper, my cultural resume is fairly sophisticated. I have eaten escargot. Every year I loyally re-up my New Yorker subscription. … Continue reading
Growing Pains
In 2007, Dee Rees wrote and directed a short film, Pariah, about a black teen in Brooklyn struggling to come to terms with her identity as a lesbian. Rees — who interned for Spike Lee’s 40 Acres program — went on to direct two more shorts before returning to the compelling drama of a teenaged protagonist who, in her search for sexual identity, shuffles through personas like masks at a costume ball. Continue reading
Eugene Goes to the Oscars
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front cuts from dramatic media footage, including the burning of a $12-million ski resort at Vail, Colo., and the arson at the University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture, to the streets of New York City, where activist and ecosaboteur Daniel McGowan was living in 2005. Continue reading
Photographs of Chris Sanjose at Midtown Throwdown III
Amateur fighter Chris Sanjose sat in the staging area. His body bears telltale signs of the fight he’d just engaged. Next to him sat his … Continue reading
EW staffers try cleansing
Vegetable broth, Heavy Metal Cleanse, Juice and Master Cleanse
To prepare for Valentine’s day EW staffers decided to cleanse getting it all out Vegetable broth colon cleansing What you need: 2 liters of water, 2 large potatoes (peeled), 1 onion, 3 carrots, 4 garlic cloves. Chop all vegetables, add them to the water. Cover pot and simmer for 30 minutes, then drain the vegetables. Duration: three days Continue reading
It’s not me, it’s you
Support Planned Parenthood with Bad Dates
You know that condescending look people in relationships give single people right before they dispense dating advice? I get that a lot. It’s usually followed by something like, “If you want to find someone, then you need to leave Eugene.” The advice-givers tend to presuppose that I have a burning desire to mate for life, though I suppose the advice works for recreational dating, too. Continue reading
All You Need is Love
Audiences still reeling from the Eugene Ballet Company’s Dark Side of the Moon ballet will be thrilled to know that the company is set to perform another riveting homage to some of music’s finest. All You Need is Love, the new originally choreographed ballet from artistic director Tony Pimble, is a collaboration of The Eugene Ballet Company and acclaimed Portland music group The Nowhere Band — it’s ballet meets The Beatles. Continue reading