Eugene Weekly : What's Happening Corvallis : 01.20.05
What's Happening Corvallis
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Voices from the underbelly
CALYX Books soldiers on.
by Kate Storm
CALYX Books explores literary waters that have been feared and ignored. Since 1976, this independent Corvallis press has published the literature and artwork of emerging women artists. Like a flower's calyx, the whorl of leaves that supports a flower's bud, CALYX has supported more than 3,500 women writers, many of them now renowned authors in their own right, including Natalie Goldberg, Barbara Kingsolver and Ursula K. Le Guin.
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| MARGARITA DONNELLY, CO-FOUNDER OF CALYX BOOKS |
CALYX is one of a handful of feminist literary journals that has survived and thrives beyond the second wave of the feminist movement. In 1973, three feminist journals existed in the United States. "I had always been a big reader," founder Margarita Donnelly said. "Then as I became a feminist, I realized I had read mostly men. After that I spent a year reading only women writers."
Donnelly began discussing women's literature with others. Out of those meetings came the four founders of CALYX: Barbara Baldwin, Elizabeth McLagan, Meredith Jenkins and Donnelly. They solicited funds from the newly established Women's Resource Fund. "We applied along with a group that became a women's crisis center. We all drove to Portland together for an interview and sat in a circle," she said. "[The fund] had a lump sum of money to give out and wanted the applicants to decide how much money everybody got. I think we got $600 and the crisis center got $1,200. And from that came our first issue."
In the beginning the journal was called CALYX Northwest Literary Review. Soon the press was receiving submissions from all over the country, and then the world. I spoke with New Mexico-based author Natalie Goldberg, who has published 10 books and whose 1986 publication, Writing Down the Bones, has sold more than a million copies. CALYX published Goldberg in 1979. "Once I got my voice as a woman I really wanted to write," she said. "I had determination to put women's experience out there."
It was a few years ago that I discovered CALYX and 30 years since Donnelley realized she had not read enough women as part of her academic training. In some ways, I guess things haven't changed that much.
I sat fuming in my college library. I had nearly earned a BA in English, but women were almost absent from the required canon. When I was assigned to read Emily Dickinson and Kate Chopin, I jumped like a starved animal. I needed to hear women's words. The same impetus that propelled Donnelley and three others to sit around their kitchen tables and put women's writing between hard covers led me to their journal decades later.
It was a spring afternoon and rain soaked into the mountains as I drove to the coast. Ani DiFranco played on the stereo. That evening in Newport, four contributors to CALYX's 25th anniversary anthology, A Fierce Brightness, were to read from the book. I was excited and nervous to be travelling alone, hearing women I admired, and spending the night in my car beside the ocean.
In Newport, a windowless, bleak-looking building called The Dogwood turned out to be the place. Donnelly read several of her favorite poems from the book. I remember being struck by her mix of gentle voice and tenacious speech. I was starkly aware this woman had worked very hard for a very long time. She read a poem by Wislawa Szymborska titled "Drinking Wine:" "I am dancing, dancing/ in astonished skin, in/ an embrace that creates me." Szymborska won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996.
Portland author Janice Gould was very comfortable on stage, and she had a sweetness about her. She read several newer poems, and one from A Fierce Brightness about the death of her grandmother. Later, after the other women had read, Gould came back on stage and strummed flamenco from a borrowed guitar. It was great.
"I've always written my story," she said, "rather than writing with an overriding political agenda. Perhaps it's partly because I am Native American, and what's important to the Native community are our stories, the stories of who we are, the story of how we have survived this culture."
Gould was published in CALYX's 1984 anthology of Native American and Latina women's work, Bearing Witness/Sobreviviendo. "When I began looking to be published," she said, "it was small presses like CALYX that were seeking the unheard voices of Native and lesbian women. It was part of a political and social commitment. Today they still provide an alternative voice to the big, well-known established world of publishing."
Small presses continue to push radical literature into the mainstream by distributing work that lies outside the norm. For example, the feminist literary movement of the late 20th century created a market for women's writing that had not existed before. Today, most corporate publishers have substantial women's lists.
"I do CALYX and so do the rest of us because we believe women's voices continue to be overlooked in the world," Donnelly said. "We believe in giving voice to those who would not otherwise be published."
I imagine the multi-million dollar publishing world as shiny white offices full of windows and soft lighting. CALYX's office walls are gray. The company is hidden over a clothing shop, up a long flight of stairs and down a dark hallway. The entryway is stuffed to the ceiling with books.
"This is where we keep other small press journals that are sent to us," Donnelly said with a wave of her hand. The other two rooms were dim and full of papers, awkwardly placed tables and desks, and more books. "And here is my office," she announced. The room we stood in was about 15 feet long and 4 feet wide. As Donnelly spoke with me, a few sunbeams crept through one of the few windows and moved across her shoulders. Her desk was brimming with notes on grant writing and fund raising. These days, Donnelly is primarily concerned with financial survival.
"CALYX is keeping literature alive in America," Goldberg said. "For some time now the publishing world has been very generic, only shooting for best sellers. Small presses are the underbelly of that world, the ones supporting real literature and supporting voices [that are] distinguished and varied."
Gould agreed, noting that CALYX is committed to literary writing that is "interesting, intense, innovative and experimental." That kind of work has a smaller audience of readers who are choosy about what they're going to read, she said. "CALYX is a place where that hunger will be met."
The press has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Oregon Arts Commission. Several of their publications have been nationally recognized, including Forbidden Stitch, which won the American Book Award.
CALYX continues to move against the tide of the publishing industry. "The changes in the industry have been horrendous," Donnelly said. "Since the introduction of superstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders, we've lost 50 percent of our independent bookstores." Small booksellers sell the majority of CALYX's work.
Still, CALYX continues. The press recently released a book of poems by Carol Guess, Femme's Dictionary, the next issue of CALYX Journal of Art and Literature by Women will be out this winter and they are set to release a revised edition of Barbara Scot's book, The Violet Shyness in Her Eyes: Notes from Nepal, which won the PNBA book prize.
I asked Donnelly about the consistent quality of CALYX, something both Goldberg and Gould remarked upon. "We have always been committed to publishing a literary journal of good quality to show that women writers are serious and important writers and artists," she said. "We let the work stand for itself."
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| BILL SHUMWAY |
A Dreamworld of Art
BILL SHUMWAY FINDS THE LIFEBLOOD.
By Kim Smith
It all started with an Oldsmobile in a cornfield, back in the days when William Shumway had long hair, a long beard and all the magic in the world. "It was an Oldsmobile sitting in a cornfield," he explained to me when I asked what brought him to Corvallis. "I was working with a man I thought was my fairy godmother, an old Polish man with broken teeth who smelled of garlic."
Shumway agreed to frame the man's sister's paintings in return for the car in the cornfield. After loading the car with canned food, art supplies, musical instruments, and a mattress in the back, Shumway began a journey around the country. It ended when he discovered Oregon — he had found his home.
Shumway, owner of Pegasus Frame Shop and Gallery in Corvallis, said displaying artwork is his way of giving to the community. In his newly expanded gallery space, corners unfold into rooms with walls that explode with art. Victoria Fridley, director of ArtCentric, said Shumway not only supports emerging and established talents but also has mentored "many artists, providing a place and a compassionate heart to listen to their artistic and personal struggles." It is through this gallery that Shumway became a loved and respected figure in Corvallis, inspiring the community with his passion for the arts.
An animated man with story-telling eyes and peppered gray hair that falls lazily beside his glasses, Shumway gestures loudly. It's easy to imagine him holding a paint brush, gliding and pushing paint onto one of his vibrant compositions. He captures the essence of the natural world with the abstract beauty of his stroke: wild crows, mysterious wolves, aerial landscapes and tranquil waters. His body of work captures the spirituality of nature, the psychology of the landscape, and the simple beauty of the mundane.
Many paintings are based on dreams, which often instruct and inspire him. "I have painted from my dreams all my life. Still do," he said. "They are very important to me, and I don't see any difference between a dream and the act of painting."
His studio is adjacent to his home. Here Shumway escapes the financial pressures of the gallery business, enters into his intuitive world of dreams and communicates through color and shape. On the overcast January day I visited, the room was cold yet inviting, with patterned rugs and paint-speckled surfaces. He explained to me that he likes to keep his studio cold because his mind is not focused on physical comfort. "The second my mind realizes the discomfort of my body," he said, "I must put my brush down. It's over."
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| THE CHURN BY BILL SHUMWAY |
"Bill has a Zen beginner's mind," ArtCentric Director Fridley said. "He has kept a childlike sense of wonder and delight that enables him to appreciate a diverse spectrum of others' art but also to keep exploring his own work. His sense of aesthetics is an integral part of him. It informs the way he lives his life, the choices he makes."
His father, a housepainter, taught him aesthetics through music. He and his two brothers, would join in singing harmonies alongside an orchestra of chopsticks and knives, forks and filled water glasses. Though they struggled to make music, they had moments where everything clicked.
"Pop," he said, snapping his fingers. His eyes grew bigger and he leaned in as though about to tell a secret. "There would be this wonderful harmonic overtone that for me was also visual," Shumway said. "It looked like a golden doughnut floating over our heads that released itself from these four voices and became a living entity as long as we cared. As long as we cared."
"That's the essence of what I do when I paint. I am looking for that harmonic overtone escape, when it takes on its own life and has everything to do with whether I care or not. The most important ingredient, then, has become enthusiasm." He grew quieter though his eyes were still sparkling. "And that," he said, "is the lifeblood of painting."
IN YOUR FACE
THRIVING THEATRE! SHAKES UP AUDIENCES WITH IMPROV ABSURDITY.
BY ALANA YANKUS
Once a month Iovino's transforms into a theater and hosts entertainment a la ABC's "Whose Line is it Anyway?," as the members of Thriving Theatre! Improv present an hour of improvisational comedy. Like the television show, actors take turns performing whatever silliness comes into their heads based on audience suggestions. Unlike the TV show, this live performance is uncensored. The audience is treated to heavy doses of sexuality, crude language, and an entertaining evening.
Thriving Theatre! Improv Nights are the brain-child of thespians Elle Poindexter and Kimberly Gifford Wear. The women formed Thriving Theatre! in 2002, performing a season's worth of two-woman shows and bringing a taste of "big city culture" to Corvallis. In 2003 they added several actors to the company and garnered a wealth of positive reviews. Later that year Elle and Kimberly started the improv group, bringing in Brad Fortier from Portland's Brody Theatre, a venue dedicated entirely to improvisational theatre and comedy. Fortier conducted workshops to help the creativity flow and kick improv nights off to a running start.
This season, the company made its debut at Iovino's to a small but intrigued crowd. The comedy was a surprise even to those who expected it. Though not the typical fodder of Corvallis weeknight entertainment, it was well received. Seasoned company veterans filled the hour with international poets, bizarre children's stories, and the most unusual portrayal of Halloween festivities Corvallis is ever likely to see. The next month's show introduced three new members of Thriving Theatre! Improv and a new dynamic. Skits that started with "Take that, sucka!" ended with making out on stage, actors chanted pornographic poems (complete with interpretive dance) and invented words such as "spontaneityously".
The December show was even crazier than the first two. It's possible that at some point every member of the company was fondled by (and fondled) every other member in a wide variety of sketches, and the packed house was very appreciative. Santa, who was tired of cookies and milk, stole someone's mommy and took her to the North Pole, where they apparently had incredible sex. Very upset by the situation, Daddy accused Mommy of sticking her neck out "like a Christmas dinner for everyone to suck on at will."
In a skit based on emotions written down by audience members and drawn at random from a hat (sound familiar?) anything can happen. A mother/daughter skit included the mother screaming, "Everyone on the block is gonna know what a little cunt you are," then two minutes later saying, "I just popped you out, you're free to do whatever you want once they cut the cord."
The show has its ups and downs. Some skits are better than others. You wish some would go on forever, while some go on too long. But the overall result of a night of improv comedy at Iovino's is five dollars of good entertainment and a free ab workout. The uncensored nature of the show will satisfy anyone's need for more sex and shouted obscenities in the entertainment world.
A slap in the face to the FCC (which thankfully does not control live entertainment) and an hour of good laughs await those who make their way to Iovino's, a small Italian restaurant on Corvallis' First Street, for the next improv night Jan. 26. Thriving Theatre! Improv's dick and fart jokes wake up this sleepy town.
The Queen of Corvallis
If you need something done, call Marion Gathercoal.
By Melissa Bearns
The Corvallis arts scene includes improv theater, numerous galleries, local music groups, performances galore and an arts organization that has served as a model for other communities nationwide: ArtCentric and The Corvallis Arts Center. An impressive accomplishment for a town where students make up a little less than half the population, it all started with Marion Gathercoal.
Born in 1911, Gathercoal has spent 65 of her 94 years in Corvallis. While that might seem like a long time to make your mark, it takes a real mover and shaker to create a legacy like hers.
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| MARION GATHERCOAL |
"Now you just listen," she said, her blue eyes twinkling as she raised a carefully manicured finger and pointed at me. "The easiest job in the world is to be president."
Sitting at the other end of the table, one of her two daughters laughed. In a tone that held no malice, she teased her mom. "Oh she's such a pushy little broad," Bonny Gathercoal Potter said. "No, seriously, she is." Persuasive might be a better word. People who've known Gathercoal for decades say she possesses the rare ability to engage people, get them excited and involved in projects, then to stand back and watch the work get done.
"Marion is one of those unique people who has both the vision and the ability to get different people, sometimes vastly different people, to work together for a common goal," said Victoria Fridley, Executive Director of ArtCentric.
The year was 1960. Gathercoal had already been living in Corvallis 20 years, raising her children, heading up clubs, using her drama degree from Northwestern University to coordinate fund-raising pageants, and generally making a name for herself as one of the most civic-minded women in the town.
"When I was in college (at OSU), I knew she was OK because the Gazette-Times social page said she was," Potter said. When she had to list what her parents did on a form, Potter said she wrote 'land developer for dad and club woman for mom.' "She was the volunteer extraordinaire. That was her J-O-B."
In 1960, Gathercoal was president of the (now defunct) Corvallis Women's Club, the oldest organization for women in the country. And she was looking for a project. "All my friends used to say, 'Don't go near Marion, she's got another project,'" Gathercoal said. "And I remember thinking, yeah, I'll get you."
Robert Mix, 87, was one of the many people Gathercoal "got" to help out with the Corvallis Arts Center. "Marion could recognize the talents of people who could make the contributions she needed," Mix said. "She smiles and speaks very softly. We live in quite an aggressive society and hers is the old-fashioned way. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar. But her sweetness was not syrupy, it was genuine. She was adept enough to take the reservoir of support [in the community] for the project and focus it into getting the arts center."
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| A model wearing one of Gathercoal's formal dresses from her NWU days. |
The doors officially opened in 1963. That summer, organizers for the National Community of Arts Councils invited Gathercoal to speak at their national convention in San Francisco about how she'd done it. Then the letters started to come from other organizers across the nation. "Please help us," they wrote. And she did, with advice, suggestions and ideas, her forte.
"When she enters a room, people just stop and look at her," said her son, Forrest Gathercoal. "There are people in the world doing great things who aren't getting covered in the press. But if we ever needed a story in the newspaper, my mother could get it in."
In photographs of groud-breakings, ribbon-cuttings and projects she worked on from start to finish, Gathercoal is decked out in stylish dresses, natty hats and gorgeous coats. It's easy to pick her out in the pictures: look for the well-dressed woman whose poise and attitude draws your eye straight to her. "People ask me why I'm so dressed up," she said. "I'm not dressed up. I don't wear pants. I wear dresses, which for me is feminine, a part of being a woman. Now I have seen some beautifully tailored pants suits, and I think 'Maybe I should wear pants.' But no, I don't."
Fashion maven Gathercoal has tucked away a collection of dresses, gowns and accoutrements that date as far back as the 1860s. Many were owned by her mother and her grandmother, and she puts those dresses to work. Over the last few decades Gathercoal has hosted numerous fashion shows to raise money for her causes. In the most recent show, A Century of Fashion held Oct. 5 in Corvallis' Majestic Theatre, friends and family donned hoop skirts, ball gowns, and lace-up boots to raise money for what is still her pet project: The Arts Center.
"Oh honey, I'm busy all the time, and I love it," she said in our first interview. "You wouldn't want to know me if I was treated like a little old lady."
It's hard to imagine that ever happening. Gathercoal draws her energy from a whirl of activity. The more she's doing, the more alive she feels. She maintains an elegant household, jokes about her 97-year-old husband feeding the squirrels on their balcony, and delights in serving tea and cookies to her guests. All her life, she has turned ideas into realities, and she's not about to stop now.
"I think the other part about Marion that I have found so powerful, is that she's a person who believes in dreaming big," Fridley said. "And she's convinced she can make dreams happen."
What's Happening Corvallis
Calendar of Events
Listings in the Eugene Weekly calendar and What's Happening Corvallis are free. We don't list workshops or events that cost more than $25. Submit listings to cal@eugeneweekly.com by noon on Thursday the week prior to publication.
JAN. 20 OSU men's basketball vs. Arizona State, 5:30pm, Gill Coliseum. $17, $10 bench seats.
Brandenburg Bash, noon, MU Lounge, OSU. FREE.
Neil Grandstaff, Ray Brassfield, 7:30pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE.
Local folk open mic, 7pm, Corvallis Arts Center. FREE.
Basketry, Reviewed, through Jan. 27, noon-5pm Tu-Sa, Corvallis Arts Center. FREE.
Work by Linda Humphrey, Michelle Schultz, and Yuki Tanaka and Margaret Parkerson, through Jan. 28, noon-5pm Tu-Sa, Corvallis Arts Center. FREE.
Talley's Folly, 8pm today, tomorrow and Jan. 22, Albany Civic Theatre. $9, $6 sr.
JAN. 21 Cooper Mountain wine tasting and music by the Singing Nettles, 4pm, First Alternative Co-op Main Store. FREE.
Cookie Baking Celebration, stop in to taste or bake cookies, 8am-5pm, Women's Center, OSU. For information call 737-3186. FREE.
Lindy Osborne, Elizabeth Willis, 9:30pm, Bombs Away Café. $3.
Sweater Club and other bands, 7pm, MU Ballroom, OSU. $3.
The Brit, 9:30pm, AJ's. For information call 758-4582.
Only $400 Dollars and a Horse? 6:15pm, Flinn's Dinner Theater, Albany. For information call 928-5008.
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| Little Black Book screens as part of the LunaFest Film Festival. See Jan. 22. |
JAN. 22 Albany Farmer's Market, 8am, Water St. between Broadalbin & Ferry, Albany. FREE.
OSU men's basketball vs. Arizona, 5pm, Gill Coliseum. $17, $10 bench seats.
Super Bulls Roughstock Rodeo, 7pm, Benton County Fairgrounds. $10, free for children 6 and under.
Traditional Indonesian Saturday Market, 6pm, MU Ballroom, OSU. FREE.
Lunafest Film Festival, 7pm, Construction and Engineering Hall, OSU. $10, $8 stu.
William Stafford Celebration, workshop, writing time, and readings, Corvallis-Benton County Library, 10 am. FREE.
Clyde Drexler signs copies of Clyde the Glide, 2:30pm, OSU Bookstore. FREE.
Sweater Club, 9:30pm, AJ's. For information call 758-4582.
Plaehn-Hino Band, 9pm, Squirrels. $5.
Derby, 10pm, Fox and Firkin. $3.
Sue Miles and Slow Burn, 8:30pm, Murphy's. $3 singles, $5 couples.
JAN. 23 Oregon State Jazz Ensemble, 6:15pm, First Christian Church. FREE.
Peg Elliott Mayo community benefit and tribute, 2:30pm, Universalists-Unitarian Fellowship. For information call 758-2061.
JAN. 24 Work by Philip Pearlstein, through Feb. 4. 8am-5pm M-F, West Gallery, Fairbanks Hall, OSU. An artist's talk is 7pm today, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. FREE.
JAN. 25 Linn County Cultural Coalition Community meeting, 7pm, Sweet Home Genealogy Library, 1223 Kalmia, Sweet Home. FREE.
Tim Wise lectures on "The Trouble with Tolerance: Taking Positive Steps to Challenge Inequality," 7pm, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. FREE.
JAN. 26 Thriving Theatre! Improv, 9pm, Iovino's Ristorante. $5.
Blair Bobier, media director for the Green Party's 2004 presidential campaign, discusses what went wrong in Ohio in the 2004 elections, 7pm, Odd Fellows Hall. FREE.
Johnny Bluesky, 6pm; open mic, 9pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE.
DJ Joey, 9pm, Fox and Firkin. FREE.
Arcweld, Burt Reynolds Overdrive, 8pm, Platinum. For information call 738-6996.
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| The Corvallis Academy of Ballet model "Costumes in Motion" at the Corvallis Arts Center. See Jan. 27. |
JAN. 27 OSU women's basketball vs. USC, 7pm, Gill Coliseum. For information call 737-4455.
"Costumes in Motion," a presentation by Catherine Levy, Judith Sanders, Mariann Jones and students from the Corvallis Academy of Ballet, 7pm, Corvallis Arts Center. $4 sug. don.
La Mandragola (The Mandrake), 7:30pm tonight, tomorrow, Jan. 29 and Feb. 3, 4 and 5; 2pm Feb. 6, Withycombe Lab Theatre, OSU. For information call 737-2853. $7, $4 stu., sr.
Mike Curtis/Colin Lippy Sax Duo, noon, MU Lounge, OSU. FREE.
"Ethics, Economics, and Animal Husbandry: Can They Coexist?," a lecture by Candace Croney, 4pm, 149 Weniger, OSU. FREE.
John Bliss XTET, 7:30pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE.
OSU Jazz Ensemble, 8pm, 202 Benton, OSU. $5, $3 stu., sr.
JAN. 28 Lumos wine tasting and music by Pete Ballerstedt, 4pm, First Alternative Co-op Main Store. FREE.
Noche Xtravagante, a night of entertainment and culture, 5pm, MU Ballroom, OSU. For information call 231-4853. FREE.
OSU Jazz Ensemble, 8pm, 202 Benton, OSU. $5, $3 stu., sr.
Big Island Shindig, 9:30pm, Bombs Away Café. $3.
The Worst High School Play in the World, 7pm tonight and tomorrow, Majestic Theatre. $8, $6 stu., sr.
Mary's Peak, 9:30pm, AJ's. For information call 758-4582.
Eleven Eyes, 9pm, Platinum. For information call 738-6996.
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Work by Philip Pearlstein is on display through Feb. 4 at the LaSells Stewart Center. See Jan. 24. |
JAN. 29 Winter farmers' market, 10am, Benton County Fairgrounds. FREE.
OSU women's basketball vs. UCLA, 7pm, Gill Coliseum. For information call 737-4455.
Floater, Softcore, 9pm, Platinum. For information call 738-6996.
"A Walk Through Hmong Culture—The Next Generation," featuring food, dances, skits and more, 6pm, MU Ballroom, OSU. FREE.
Adequits, St. Helens, Dance Card, 9:30pm, AJ's. For information call 758-4582.
FEB. 1 Howland Community OPEN Exhibition, through Feb. 26. Noon-5pm Tu-Sa. Corvallis Arts Center. FREE.
Work by guild members Anthony Gordon and Lid Rhynard, through Feb. 26. Noon-5pm Tu-Sa. Corvallis Arts Center. FREE.
OSU women's basketball vs. Utah Valley State, 7pm, Gill Coliseum. For information call 737-4455.
"Taste the Difference: Landscaping With Edibles," a lecture by Rose Marie Nichols, 12:10pm, Corvallis-Benton County Library. FREE.
FEB. 2 Northern Lights, Corvallis-OSU Symphony Orchestra performance featuring Erik Peterson, 7:30pm, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. $20, $10 stu.
Head Rush, Severed, 8pm, Platinum. For information call 738-6996.
Power Breakfast with the Corvallis Chamber of Commerce. 7:30am, 1850 SW Whiteside Dr. For information call 757-1505.
Groundhog day with The Groundhogs, 9:30pm, AJ's. For information call 758-4582.
The Hounds, 9pm, Fox and Firkin. $3.
Ben Mutschler, 7:30pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE.
FEB. 3 Linn-Benton Opera Guild preview lecture with Angela Carlton: Puccini's Madame Butterfly, 7:30pm, 303 Benton, OSU. For information call 757-8949.
Tcha Tee Man Wi Storytelling Festival, though Feb. 6. For information call 766-6794. FREE.
OSU Steel Band, noon, MU Lounge, OSU. FREE.
Neil Grandstaff and Ray Brassfield, 7:30pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE.
Dine for the Arts: remember to eat out at New Morning Bakery. The restaurant is donating a percentage of the day's business to ArtCentric.
FEB. 4 "It's Willamette Dammit!—The Dirt on Growing the Oregon Wine Industry," a lecture by Jim Bernau, 10:30am, 118 Dearborn, OSU. FREE.
Dance West, 8pm tonight and tomorrow, Majestic Theatre. $12, $6 stu., 10 sr.
Dot Dot Dot, My Life in Black and White, 9:30pm, AJ's. For information call 758-4582.
The Hounds, 9:30pm, Bombs Away Café. $4.
Blue Vinyl, part of the Eco-Film Festival, 7pm, Odd Fellows Hall. For information call 753-9211. FREE.
Only $400 Dollars and a Horse?, 6:15pm today, tomorrow and Feb. 12, Flinn's Dinner Theater, Albany. For information call 928-5008.
Tcha Te Man Wi Storytelling Festival: Storytelling Concert: Carmen Deedy, Sky Shivers, Susan Strauss, 7pm, First Presbyterian Church, Corvallis. FREE.
Johnny D, 9:30pm, Fox and Firkin. FREE.
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| The Wobblies perform at AJ's. See Feb. 5. |
FEB. 5 OSU men's basketball vs. Oregon, 4:05pm, Gill Coliseum. $20.
"Bawdy Tales," adults-only fundraising event for the Tcha Tee Man Wi Storytelling Festival, 10pm, Big River Restaurant. $10.
The Wobblies, 9:30pm, AJ's. For information call 758-4582.
Jan Michael Looking Wolf, 7pm, Corvallis Arts Center. For information call 754-1551.
FEB. 7 "Religion and Civilization," a lecture by Vahid Motazedian, 10am, 208 MU, OSU. FREE.
Acoustic Music Showcase, 8pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE.
FEB. 8 Fat Tuesday party with The Dimes, 9:30pm, AJ's. For information call 758-4582.
Mardi Gras Party with Walker T. Ryan's Delta Mystics, 8pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE.
FEB. 9 Random Reviews present Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson, noon, Corvallis-Benton County Library. FREE.
Lunar New Year party and moon cake tasting, noon, LBCC Multicultural Center. FREE.
OSU Jazz Ensemble, 7:30pm; open mic 9pm. Bombs Away Café. FREE.
Harrell Fletcher lectures, 7pm, LaSells Stewart Center. FREE.
DJ Joey, 9pm, Fox and Firkin. FREE.
FEB. 10 OSU men's basketball vs. Washington State, 5:30pm, Gill Coliseum. $17, $10 bench seats.
OSU Jazz Ensemble, noon, MU Lounge, OSU. FREE.
P.B.M., Amadan, Christopher Dahlman and others, 7pm, 26th and Jefferson, OSU. $5 adv., $7 dos.
The Vagina Monologues, 7pm today and tomorrow; 4pm tomorrow, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. $8 adv., $10 dos, $6 stu.
John Bliss XTET, 7:30pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE.
Kate Campbell, 7:30pm, MU Lounge, OSU. FREE.
Howland Community OPEN Reception and Awards Ceremony, 5:30pm, Main Gallery, Corvallis Arts Center. FREE.
FEB. 11 Creating Reality: One Artist at a Time, work by female artists of OSU, through March 25. An opening is 6pm, Feb. 18 in the MU Student Lounge. MU Concourse Gallery and Lounge, OSU. FREE.
Bob Marley Birthday Celebration, 9pm, Platinum. For information call 738-6996.
Neal Gladstone's Valentine Concert, 7:30pm tonight and tomorrow, 3pm Feb. 13, Majestic Theatre.
Sumbitch, Port Authority, 9:30pm, AJ's. For information call 758-4582.
David Samuel Project, 9:30pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE.
Common Grounds: Oregon's Ocean and Ancient Forests: The Power of Place, part of the Eco-Film Festival, 7pm, Odd Fellows Hall. For information call 753-9211. FREE.
Sylvia, 8pm today, tomorrow and Feb. 17, 18, 19, 24, 25 and 26; 2:30pm Feb. 13 and 20, Albany Civic Theatre. $9, $6 sr.
Amadan, 9:30pm, Fox and Firkin. $5.
FEB. 12 Flea market, 8 am; Winter famers' market, 10 am, Benton County Fairgrounds. FREE.
Tony Wright and John Meade perform Irish fiddle and Appalachian music, 8pm dinner show, 9pm general admission, Intaba's Kitchen. $5.
Insights into Gardening seminar, 9am, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. For information call 766-6750.
"Inside Opera" with Megan Sand, mezzo soprano, 10:15am, Corvallis-Benton County Library. FREE.
Flailing Inhalers, Frenetic Microcosm, 9:30pm, AJ's. For information call 758-4582.
Classical Cabaret, a performance by the Corvallis Youth Symphony, 8pm, CH2M Hill Alumni Center Ballroom, OSU. For information call 737-2351.
FEB. 13 OSU men's basketball vs. Washington, 1pm, Gill Coliseum. $17, $10 bench seats.
FEB. 14 Just Us, 6pm, AJ's. For information call 758-4582.
Wally Clark, 6pm, Fox and Firkin. FREE.
FEB. 16 Paris Piano Trio, 7:30pm, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. For information call 737-2402.
Dan Bregar, 7:30pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE.
FEB. 17 OSU women's basketball vs. Arizona, 7pm, Gill Coliseum. For information call 737-4455.
"American Philosophy of Agriculture," a lecture by Paul Thompson, 4pm, 149 Weniger, OSU. FREE.
OSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble, noon, MU Lounge, OSU. FREE.
Arsenic and Old Lace, 7pm tonight, tomorrow and Feb. 19, Majestic Theatre. $8, $6 stu., sr.
Neil Grandstaff and Ray Brassfield, 7:30pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE
Local Folk open mic, 7pm, Corvallis Arts Center. FREE.
FEB. 18 Emerald City Jazz Kings, 7:30pm, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. For information call 737-2402.
Adequits, Dance Card, Cupcake Larry, 9:30pm, AJ's. For information call 758-4582.
Sweatshop Band, 9:30pm, Bombs Away Café. $3.
The End of Suburbia, part of the Eco-Film Festival, 7pm, Odd Fellows Hall. For information call 753-9211. FREE.
FEB. 19 OSU women's basketball vs. Arizona State, 7pm, Gill Coliseum. For information call 737-4455.
Sixteenth Annual Women's Leadership Conference, 9:30am, MU Ballroom, OSU. For information call 737-1562. $12.
Sweater Club, 9:30pm, AJ's. For information call 758-4582.
The Hounds, 9pm, Squirrels. $5.
FEB. 21 Dome Shots, Sleep Insane, 9pm, Fox and Firkin. FREE.
FEB. 22 Ensemble Amarcord, 7:30pm, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. $20, students are free.
"Marriage and the Constitution: What All Americans Should Know," a presentation by Richard G. Wilkins, 7pm, MU Ballroom, OSU. FREE.
FEB. 23 String Loaded Bluegrass, 7:30pm; open mic, 9pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE.
DJ Joey, 9pm, Fox and Firkin. FREE
Thriving Theatre! Improv, 9pm, Iovino's Ristorante.$5.
FEB. 24 John Bliss XTET, 7:30pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE.
OSU men's basketball vs. Stanford, 7:05pm, Gill Coliseum. $17, $10 bench seats.
OSU Concert Band, noon, MU Lounge, OSU. FREE.
"Feasting and Fasting in a Globalized Marketplace," a lecture by Gary Nabhan, 4pm, 149 Weniger, OSU. FREE.
University Theatre presents: A New Project by Foyer, 7:30pm tonight, tomorrow, Feb. 26 and March 3, 4 and 5, Withycombe Mainstage Theatre, OSU. $9, $6 sr., $5 stu.
FEB. 25 Friends of the Library book sale, 5pm-9pm today, 10am–5pm tomorrow, 11am-4pm Feb. 27, Benton County Fairgrounds. FREE.
OSU Jazz Ensemble, 8pm, 202 Benton, OSU. $5, $3 stu., sr.
On the Road, performance by the Willamette Apprentice Ballet, 7pm tonight and tomorrow, Majestic Theatre. $12, $5 stu.
My Life in Black and White, 9:30pm, AJ's. For information call 758-4582.
The Future of Food and Supersize Me, part of the Eco-Film Festival, 6:30pm, Odd Fellows Hall. For information call 753-9211. FREE.
Brody Lowe Band, 9:30pm, Bombs Away Café. $3.
FEB. 26 OSU men's basketball vs. California, 3:05pm, Gill Coliseum. $17, $10 bench seats.
Winter farmers' market, 10 am, Benton County Fairgrounds. FREE.
Fifth Annual Farm Direct Marketing Conference, 3pm, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. For information call 1-800-365-0201. $25.
Chocolate Fantasy & Art Auction, 7pm, CH2M Hill Alumni Center, OSU. For information call 754-1551.
FEB. 27 A German Requiem, a performance by the Corvallis-OSU Symphony Orchestra and the Combined Choirs of OSU, 3pm, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. $20, $10 stu.
Tapapalooza!, 2pm, Majestic Theatre. $8, $6 stu., sr.
The Two McCabes, a performance by the Corvallis-OSU Chamber Orchestra, 8pm, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. For information call 737-2402.
MARCH 1 Oregon State Choral Festival, 8:30am, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. FREE.
Oregon State Jazz Ensemble, 7:30pm, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. For information call 737-2402.
"Know Thy Enemy!" a lecture on weeds by James Cassidy, 12:10pm, Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. FREE.
Artwork created by students of ArtCentric's Arts Classes, through April 1, noon-5pm Tu-Sa, Corvallis Arts Center. FREE.
MARCH 2 Celtic Celebration, noon, LBCC Multicultural Center. FREE.
Ben Mutschler, 7:30pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE.
Concertante, 7:30pm, LaSells Stewart Center. 7:30 p.m. For information call 737-2402.
MARCH 3 A new project by Blue Ribbon Foyer, 7:30pm, today, tomorrow and March 5, Withycombe Mainstage Theatre, OSU. For information call 737-2853.
Imagine, work by Ann Lahr and Leetra Taylor, through April 2, noon-5pm Tu-Sa. A reception is 5:30pm tonight, Corvallis Arts Center. FREE.
Dine for the Arts! Le Bistro in Corvallis donates a percentage of the day's business to ArtCentric.
Meistersingers and Bella Voce, noon, MU Lounge, OSU. FREE.
Neil Grandstaff and Ray Brassfield, 7:30pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE.
"Beliefs About Food," a lecture by Melinda Manore, 149 Weniger, OSU. FREE.
Something Old, Something New: A Wedding Day Musicfest!, performance by the OSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble, 7:30pm, LaSells Stewart Center. $7, $5 stu., sr.
MARCH 4 Rustica, 9:30pm, AJ's. For information call 758-4582.
Big Island Shindig, 9:30pm, Bombs Away Café. $3.
MARCH 5 Early St. Patrick's day party with Amadan, The Wobblies, Sweater Club, 8pm, Platinum. For information call 738-6996.
Eleven Eyes, 10pm, Squirrels. $5
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| Susan Jacoby speaks at the LaSells Stewart Center. See March 7. |
MARCH 7 "Secularism in the U.S.," a lecture by Susan Jacoby, 7:30pm, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. FREE.
MARCH 9 Random Reviews present Eats, Shoots and Leaves: A Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss, noon, Corvallis-Benton County Library. FREE.
Dan Bregar, 7:30pm; open mic, 9:30pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE.
MARCH 10 OSU Chamber Choir, noon, MU Lounge, OSU. FREE.
"The Unexamined Meal is Not Worth Eating," a lecture by Lisa Heldke, 4pm, 149 Weniger, OSU. FREE.
John Bliss XTET, 7:30pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE.
MARCH 11 Picasso at the Lapin Agile, 8pm tonight, tomorrow and March 13, 17, 18, 19 and 20; 2:30pm March 13 and 20, Majestic Theatre. $10, $8 stu., sr.
Laura Kemp, 9:30pm, Bombs Away Café. $4.
AACT Oregon One Act Festival, today, tomorrow and March 13, Gallery Theater, McMinnville. For information go to www.gallerytheater.org
MARCH 12 Flea market, 8am; Winter farmers' market, 10am, Benton County Fairgrounds. FREE.
Rhapsody in the Vineyard, wine tasting, 4pm, AJ's. For information call 758-4582.
Heart of the Valley Children's Choir Spring Concert, 7pm, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. For information call 737-2402.
MARCH 13 Corvallis Community Band Winter Concert, 3pm, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. For information call 737-2402.
MARCH 15 State high school band contest, 8:30am, La Sells Stewart Center. For information call 737-4061.
MARCH 16 Johnny Bluesky, 6pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE.
MARCH 17 The Nettles, 9:30pm, AJ's. For information call 758-4582.
Neil Grandstaff and Ray Brassfield, 7:30pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE.
Local Folk Open Mic presented by Corvallis Folklore Society & ArtCentric. Sharon Thormelein, 7pm, Corvallis Arts Center.
MARCH 20 Passus!, a performance by the Corvallis Repertory Singers, 7:30pm, First Presbyterian Church. $15, $4 stu.
