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Eugene Fashion Week and Ninkasi pair up
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Last night at the Summer in the City runway show, the team behind Eugene Fashion Week announced the new location of the next fashion week: Ninkasi's new administration palace, err, building in the Whit. Eugene Fashion Week will take place the second week of October this year, rather than its usual springtime dates, shortly after Portland Fashion Week (Sept. 29-Oct. 2). Eugene Fashion Week has also added a fourth show to the festivities this year. In addition to lingerie/swimwear, ready to wear, and couture, audiences will also see a retail show. Continue reading
Teen Robotics
ChickTech offers cool tech & computing workshop for high school girls
Gender disparity in the tech field: It's still there. That's why Portland-based Janice Levenhagen-Seeley, an alum of Oregon State University, created ChickTech, a group dedicated to fostering opportunities for women and girls to pursue robotics, coding or any other aspect of the computer science world that is traditionally dominated by men. Continue reading
Photos: Pickathon 2014 (Aug. 1-3, Happy Valley, OR)
Polaroids by Dmitri von Klein. Visit his Pickathon gallery to view more. Continue reading
An Iraq perspective from Peter Van Buren
This short blurb quoting Peter Van Buren was sent out today by the Institute for Public Accuracy, http://www.accuracy.org/ Continue reading
Behind Shelby Earl’s surprising “Swift Arrows” music video
Seattle singer-songwriter and rising star Shelby Earl will be hitting up Sam Bond’s Sunday night, Aug.17 (see “Burn Boats, Not Bridges” in the Aug. 14 issue of Eugene Weekly). While catching up with Earl over the phone last week, I had to ask her about the music video (posted below) for her hit song “Swift Arrows,” a video that is at once a hilarious, heartbreaking and disturbing David Lynchian vignette of a couple’s anniversary gone awry. Continue reading
Post-Petty Party: Tom Petty Concert Review
“We’ve got a nice long rock ‘n’ roll show for you tonight,” Tom Petty said from the stage of Eugene’s Matthew Knight Arena Aug. 7. “So call the babysitter and tell her you’re gonna be late.” Continue reading
Photos: Santana & Rod Stewart live at Matt Knight Arena [7.31.14]
Eugene Cannabis TV
Too stoned to read EW's recent marijuana coverage? (Or simply an "inexperienced consumer? Sorry, pot legalization is no laughing matter but there's something about weed that just gives us the giggles). Eugene Cannabis TV, which is sort of the Grateful Dead meets Between Two Ferns, is here to get you updated on the world of weed. Continue reading
What’s going on in downtown Eugene? Dodgeball, of course
If you see a bunch of people dressed up in '70s clothes and hitting each other with bouncy rubber balls, don't worry. They're doing it on purpose. Today, Aug. 6, from 6-8pm, head on over to Kesey Square for a few hours of people in bell bottoms and disco outfits diving, dipping and dodging. It's dodgeball disco-style. It's too late to sign up for the tournament, but it's free to watch, and everyone's invited to play foursquare or hang out in the beer garden. Continue reading