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Silver-voiced crooner k.d. lang makes us weak in the knees (it’s possible that we still have that Come-to-Jesus Hott Vanity Fair from 1993, the one where Cindy Crawford ... never mind), and though we haven’t had a chance to hear her new album yet, we can’t imagine it won’t affect us like everything from “Full Moon Full of Love” to the cover of that omnipresent Leonard Cohen song on Hymns to the 49th Parallel. k.d. in the Hult Center: a way to stay nice and warm as the cold spring rains on. We hear the opening band’s real nice too. k.d.lang 8pm, Wednesday. Hult Center. $51-36.

Yeehaw! Pony up a little cash ($10 adv. $12 door) and hoof it on over to the Northwest Horse Fair & Expo at the Linn County fairgrounds in Albany this weekend to check out the Extreme Mustang Makeover and watch more than 30 of Oregon’s wild horses show off how much they’ve learned in only 90 days (and then you can adopt one and take it home). You can also see horse jumping, the Extreme Cowboy Race, drill teams and breeds of horses from all over the world. Thursday, March 19, through Sunday. See Corvallis Events.

Wandering to the top of Mt. Pisgah to check out the view is the classic Eugene close-to-town and bring-the-guests hike. If you’re interested in the plans to steward the natural resources and habitats at Pisgah (aka Howard Buford Recreation Area) then come to Harris Hall at 5:30pm on Thursday, March 19. There will be an open house with displays as well as staff and biologists giving short presentations and answering questions. 

Madeleine Peyroux’s story wanders from Georgia to California to Paris, and from the corner stage of a street busker to Lilith Fair. Her 1996 debut, Dreamland, drew high praise from Time magazine; her latest album, Bare Bones, will be barely two weeks old when Peyroux’s peregrinations bring her to The Shedd at 7:30 pm Wednesday, March 25. $30-$46.


THURSDAY, MARCH 19

Sunrise 7:17am; Sunset 7:24pm, Av High 56; Av Low 37

Arts/Visual Art From The Heart, benefit for HeadStart, silent auction 5:30-7pm, Café Today, Public Service Bldg. 125 E. 8th. $25 min. bid.

Food/Drink Wine & Chocolate tasting, 5-7pm, Oakway Wine & Deli, Oakway Center. FREE. 

Gatherings Lost Valley Educational Center Visitor day. 937-2567 ext. 125. Don. sliding scale.

Community Engagement Forum for Lane County Human Services and Housing Planning, 5:30pm, Downtown Library. 682-4614. FREE. 

Open house, workshop: Plan to steward natural resources and habitats at Howard Buford Recreation Area (also known as Buford Park or Mt. Pisgah, 5:30pm-8pm, Harris Hall, Lane County Public Service Blg. FREE.

No Shame Eugene Writers Group, 7:30pm, Tango Center. FREE.

Cesar Chavez, Presente! film, ballet, mariachi, 6:30pm, Agnes Stewart Middle School, 900 South 32nd, Spfd. 726-7377. FREE.

Bill Sullivan, slideshow ‘New Hikes on the Oregon Coast,’ 7pm, Viking Sal Senior Center, 7th & Greenwood, Junction City, Friends of the Junction City Public Library FREE. 

”Kids/Families Penny’s Puppets ‘Scout’s Grand Adventure,’ Thursday, 3:30, Springfield Public Library. FREE.

Lectures  ‘Health Care for the Poor and Uninsured,’ Sister Barbara Haase, Peace Health community access coordinator,12:15pm. League of Women Voters, Mallard Banquet Hall, 725 W.1st. Lunch $10, speaker FREE. 

Fireside conversation on Global Warming, 5pm, Bowerman Center for Enviro Law, UO. 346-1563. FREE.

Music SHOcase: Shasta Middle School, 11:15am, Lobby, Hult. FREE.

Green is For Go, Reptet, Muke, 7pm, Cozmic Pizza, $7.

SF Jazz Collective, 7:30pm, The Shedd. $32, $38, $48.

Eugene Symphony, Benedetto Lupo, Grieg Piano Concerto, 8pm, Hult. $15+.

Everyone Orchestra, Hot Buttered Rum, 8pm, McDonald. $15 adv., $18 door.

Jason Webley & Sxip Shirey w/Sophe Lux, 8:30pm, WOW Hall. $8 adv. $10 door. 

Disco Organica, Sudden Anthem, 9pm, Sam Bond’s. $5.

The Jungle Beat continues. See Wednesday.

On the Air Jefferson Exchange, NPR’s Ketzel Levine, 9am, 1280 am KRVM. FREE. 

Theater A Little Night Music 8pm today, tomorrow, March 21, 26-28 & April 2-3. 2pm 22, 29 & April 4. Very Little Theater. $13-$17. 

Rabbit Hole, 8pm today, tomorrow and March 21, Lord Leebrick Theatre. 684-6988. $12-$19.

 

 

FRIDAY, MARCH 20

Sunrise 7:15am; Sunset 7:25pm, Av High 57; Av Low 37, Vernal Equinox 

Film 2009 Oscar Nominated Live Action and Animated Shorts, today & tomorrow, DIVA, see divacenter.org for times. $6.

Food/Drink Food/Drink  Wine tasting: Christopher Bridge, Erin Glenn and Seufert Winery, 5pm-7pm, WineStyles. FREE.

Vegan potluck, bring a vegan dish with place setting, 7pm, McNail-Riley House. 341-1690. FREE. 

Gatherings Tax-Aide, first-come, first-served for people with low incomes or over age 60, 8:30am today & tomorrow, Downtown Library. 682-5450.

Movement workshops: Yoga, qigong, meditation, contact improv, dance.  Centro, 513 Main, Cottage Grove. 767-1113 call for times.  $5-$7/class.

Spring Equinox Rally: Interconnectedness with nature talk & esoteric give and take free for all w/D. Blackstone, 6:30pm, Cherry tree, Owen Rose Garden. 747-8771. FREE

Kids/family Kathryn Claire, Kinderqueen cd release, 6:30pm, Tsunami Books. $5-10.

Lectures ‘The Human Face of Islam,’ slides & narration by Donald Lyon,  7pm, Eugene Zendo, 2190 Garfield. FREE. 

Literary Equinox Nature Readings, read or listen, 5:30pm, Mt. Pisgah Arboretum Visitor Center. Sug. don. $5.

Music Ramziyah, Middle Eastern Dance Guild of Eugene, 8:30 pm, Cozmic Pizza, $4.

Blue Turtle Seduction and Poor Man’s Whiskey,Jam rock/bluegrass, 9pm, WOW Hall. $10adv., $12 door.

Ruins of Ooah, tribal dance groove, 9:30, Sam Bond’s. $5.

Pets Northwest Horse Fair & Expo continues, See Thursday, March 19. 

Social Dance Dance lesson in Cha-cha, followed by open dance, 8:30pm, Staver Dance Sport, 41 E. 6th. $10.

Pachanga, contemporary Latin dance, 10pm, Tango Center. All ages $5. 

Spiritual Vernal Equinox Celebration, meditation and chanting, 7pm, Center For Spiritual Living, 390 Vernal. 485-0035. FREE.

Dances of Universal Peace, Spring Equinox Celebration, 7pm, Friends Meeting, 2274 Onyx. 345-4951. Don.$5-$10. 

Theater The Producers, today, tomorrow & March  27 & 28, April 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 24 & 25, 8pm, April 5 & 12, 2pm, Actors Cabaret. $16, $19, $35.95.

Sufficiently Charismatic Improv Troupe, 11pm,  Lord Leebrick Theater. $5. 

Rabbit Hole continues. See Thursday, March 19. 

 

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 21

Sunrise 7:13am; Sunset 7:27pm, Av High 57; Av Low 37

Arts/visual Clay ‘Throw-a-thon,’ make bowls for FOOD For Lane County’s Empty Bowls Fundraiser, today 10am-6pm, tomorrow 10am-5pm, Clay Space, 222 Polk. 653-8089. FREE. 

‘Lasting Legacies,’ art, food, fun, 5:30-8pm, J-Schnitz. FREE. 

Farmers’ Markets Farmers’ market, 9am-4pm, 8th and Oak, FREE.

Gatherings Daffodil Festival, 10am-4pm, Long Tom Grange, Junction City. FREE. 

Whale watching, trained volunteers posted 10am-1pm along coast & 10am-4pm Depoe Bay Center today - March 28, Oregon Coast. www.whalespoken.org FREE.

Spring Belly Dance Celebration, all day, Florence Events Center.  $5, under 6 FREE.

Women in History Month, Shannon Applegate, 10am, Eugene Hilton. RSVP 344-4134. $18.  

International Astrology Day, 3-5pm, Cozmic Pizza, benefit for local astrologer, raffle, auction, books. FREE.

Comedy Workout for Comedy Spring Break, 8pm, Diablo's Downtown Lounge. $5.

Tax-Aide continues. See Friday.

Northwest Horse Fair & Expo continues, See Thursday, March 19. 

Kids/Families Saturday Sing-a-Long w/Rich Glauber, 1-1:30 pm, Springfield Public Library. FREE.

Kidical Mass, kids bike ride, 3 pm, Monroe Park. FREE.

Drop-in tree climbing ,10am-2pm, Petersen Barn, 870 Berntzen Rd. 682-5329. $10.

Literary Poetry reading: Jon Labrousse & Jorah LaFleur, 5pm, Tsunami Books. FREE.

Poetry reading: Sam Lohmann & Rich Jensen, 7:30pm, DIVA. Don.

Music Eugene chapter of the American Recorder Society plays recorder music, 2pm, Atrium Bldg. 10th & Olive. 683-1940. FREE. 

Folksinger Alice Di Micele, 8pm, Tsunami Books. $10.

The Pack with Hot Rod Entertainment, Hip-hop, 9pm, WOW Hall. $12 adv., $14 door. 

Criminal Damage, Salted City, The Angries play punk rock to benefit Sexual Assault Support Services, 9pm, Wandering Goat. All ages, don.

Fearless Love, Sunheart, spiritual, rock, 7pm., Cozmic Pizza. $5-$15.

Son Melao, Cuban dance, 9:30-pm, Sam Bond’s. $7.

Outdoors/Recreation GEARs ride: Herman via Coburg, 30 miles, 10am, Alton Baker Park, food stop. www.eugenegears.org 

Obsidians trips: Ridgeline Trail, Hike 5.5 miles. See YMCA for details/sign-up.

Lane County Audubon Society Willow Creek Wetlands birdwalk, 8am-12pm, meet South Eugene High. 19th & Patterson. 968-5533. $3 sug. don.

Spring bird walk w/ Davey Wendt, 8-10am, Mt. Pisgah Arboretum Visitor Center. RSVP 747-1504. $5, MPA members free.

Whale watching continues. See Friday.

Pets Northwest Horse Fair & Expo continues, See Thursday, March 19. 

Social Dance The Big Milonga, Argentine Tango, 8pm, Tango Center. All ages, $7. 

Theater Pacific Classical Ballet: Hansel & Gretel, 6:30pm, Willamette High School’s Powers Auditorium. 343-3914. $10, under 12 $7. 

Sufficiently Charismatic Improv Troupe continues. See Friday.

Rabbit Hole continues. See Thursday, March 19.

The Producers continues. See Friday.

Volunteer Preparing and plant spring garden, 11am-5pm, Laurel Valley Educational Farm at Northwest Youth Corps, 2621 Augusta. 349-5055. FREE.

Walama Restoration Project and the City of Eugene Stream Team and the Whiteaker Community Council.

Planting, mulching, weeding with Walama Restoration, 9:30am-12:30pm, Maurie Jacobs Park. 484-3939. FREE.

 

 

SUNDAY, MARCH 22

Sunrise 7:11am; Sunset 7:28pm, Av High 57; Av Low 37

Arts/Visual Clay ‘Throw-a-thon’ continues. See Saturday.

Benefit No Host Dinner w/Miss Oregon, benefit for TAP clean water for kids project, 6pm-8pm, Café Perugino. $1 + cost of meal. 

Emerald City Junior Gems end of season celebration, 9pm, Cozmic Pizza, $2 don. 

Film Oscar nominated shorts, live action, 1pm, animated, 3:30pm DIVA.  $6.

Green Sanctuary Film Series: Unnatural Selection & Hidden Dangers in Kids' Meals, 7pm, Unitarian Universalist Church, 40th & Donald. FREE.

Hecklers’ Movie Night Young Guns 2, 7pm, Wandering Goat. FREE.

Gatherings Eugene's Adaptive Recreation trip to Daffodil Festival, 1-5pm, 10th and Olive. 682-5311. $6.

Job Search & Resumes, 4pm, Downtown Library. Pre-register 682-5450 (press 2). FREE.

Picc-A-Dilly Flea Market, 10am-4pm, Lane County Fairgrounds. 683-5589. $1.50

Lectures ‘A Tale of Two Rivers,’ by geologist Janet Brown,  2pm, Downtown Library. FREE.

LGBT Eugene/Springfield PRIDE Committee mtg., Q Center, 1-3pm, 1309 Lincoln. 513-1711. FREE. 

Music Skinner City Old-time Jam, 2pm, Cozmic Pizza. FREE.

Floating Glass Balls, acoustic, 8:30pm, Sam Bond’s, $5.

Outdoors/recreation GEARs ride: Daffodil Ride: 40 miles 9am, North Eugene High School, or16 miles, 10am, Safeway, Junction City. www.eugenegears.org. 

Natural history and ecology walk in Hendricks Park, 1-3pm, F.M. Wilkins Picnic Shelter, Hendricks Park. 607-4066. $3 don.

Whale watching continues. See Friday.

Pets Northwest Horse Fair & Expo continues, See Thursday, March 19. 

Social dance Milonguita, Argentine Tango, 7:30. Tango Center. All ages, $5. 

Volunteer Spring cleaning, 10am-6pm, WOW Hall. FREE. 


MONDAY, MARCH 23

Sunrise 7:10am; Sunset 7:29pm, Av High 57; Av Low 37

Food/Drink  Wine tasting: Mellow Madness, profiling mellow reds, 5pm-7pm, WineStyles. $5.

Gatherings  Alvord Farm and Museum Pioneer Day Playshop, 11am -2 pm. Alvord Farm and Museum. RSVP 968-1986. FREE. 

Lectures  "Accepting Oneself: A vision from the Upanishads" by Sadhvi Chaitanya, 6-7:30pm, Heeran Center, Ste. 300,2222 Coburg. 684-0322. Don. or FREE.

Music Wise River Mercantile, Bluegrass/roots, 6pm, Cozmic Pizza.

On the Air Jefferson Public Radio feat. UO prof. Ian McNeely, Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet, 8am-10am, call-in 687-3370. KRVM-AM 1280.

City Club: ‘Protecting our Lungs,’ w/Merlyn Hough and Larry Dunlap, 6:30-7:30pm, KLCC 89.7. 

Outdoors/Recreation Whale watching continues. See Friday.

Social Dance Practilonga Argentine Tango, 7:30pm, Tango Center. All ages, $5.

Spiritual Learn How to Meditate, 7pm, Brahma Kumaris Meditation Center. 343-5252. FREE.


TUESDAY, MARCH 24

Sunrise 7:08am; Sunset 7:30pm, Av High 57; Av Low 37

Film Spring Break Cinema for Teens, The Dark Knight, 2pm, Downtown Library. 682-8316. FREE.

Food/Drink Wine tasting: Mellow Madness, profiling mellow reds, benefit Nurse Midwifery Birth Center, 5-7pm, WineStyles. $9.99.

Gatherings Diabetes risk screening w/ Cascade Health Solutions, 2-6pm, Downtown Library. FREE

Kids/Families Eugene Rec's Senior Program igrandparent/grandchild Intergenerational Scavenger Hunt, 1-3pm. 11 and older. RSVP 682-5318. FREE.

Top Secret! Secret Agent Curt Nelson, spy gadgets, magic, 2pm, Bethel Branch Library. 682-8316. FREE.

Lectures "Accepting Oneself: A vision from the Upanishads"  continues. See Monday.

‘Chemotherapy: Today’s Treatment, Tomorrow’s Hope,’  Dr. Jae Lee, 5:30pm, 520 Country Club Rd. FREE. 

Music The Muses’ ‘Songs of the Sea, ’ 7pm, Springfield Public Library. 726-2237. FREE.

Jah Sun & Stevie Culture, reggae, 8pm, Cozmic Pizza. $7.

Outdoors/Recreation Obsidians trip: Skinner Butte Eagles Nest, hike 1 mile. See YMCA for details/sign-up.

Whale watching continues. See Friday.

Social Dance Bailonga, Argentine Tango, live $ fusion music, 8pm - 8:30pm, Tango Center. All ages $4-$7.


WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25

Sunrise 7:06am; Sunset 7:32pm, Av High 57; Av Low 37

Gatherings Lost Mt. Pisgah Arboretum nature guide training, 7pm, Morse Ranch Family Farm. 747-1504. FREE.

Emerald Empire HempFest Volunteer Core Meeting, 7pm, 670 Hwy 99. FREE.

Healing Abundance Issues with Emotional Freedom Techniques, 7pm, EWEB. www.emowell-being.com. FREE. 

Coast Fork Watershed Council Meeting, w/ lec. by Bruce Newhouse & update on Forestland-Urban Interface Fire Protection Act, 8pm, LCC 19 Bld. Room 241. FREE.  

Kids/Families Top Secret! Secret Agent Curt Nelson, spy gadgets, magic, 2pm, Sheldon Community Center. 682-8316. FREE.

Free Family Night, feat. Uncle Bunkle, 6pm Cozmic Pizza. FREE.

Teen gaming, DDR, Guitar Hero III, Wii, 3:30-5pm, Springfield Public Library. FREE.

Lectures "Accepting Oneself: A vision from the Upanishads"  continues. See Monday.

Music Madeleine Peyroux, 7:30pm, The Shedd. $30, $38, $46.

Newsboys w/ Decemberadio, Vota & Bread of Stone, 7pm, McDonald Theatre, $25 adv. $27 door. 

k.d. lang, 8pm, Hult. $51-36

London Flush, Montana Slim, 9pm, Sam Bond’s. $5.

Rasputina w/Ruby Throat. Women’s Cello Society, 8pm, WOW Hall . $14 adv., $16 door.

Outdoors/Recreation Whale watching continues. See Friday.

Social Dance Swing, 7pm, Tango Center. All ages, $4.

Volunteer Trips for Kids, CAT Volunteer Orientation, 5:15-6pm CAT 455 West 1st.344-6892. FREE.


THURSDAY, MARCH 26

Sunrise 7:04am; Sunset 7:33pm, Av High 57; Av Low 37

Benefit Girls Aloud Dance Party, fundraiser FOOD for Lane County, 7pm. Cozmic Pizza, $7 or $5 w/2 cans.

Gatherings Eco-prisoner letter-writing potluck, 6pm, Grower's Market. FREE.

Community Engagement Forum for Lane County Human Services and Housing Planning, 5:30pm, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Cottage Grove. 682-4614. FREE. 

Kids/Families Kids/Families Top Secret! Secret Agent Curt Nelson, spy gadgets, magic, 11 am, 2pm, Downtown Library. 682-8316. FREE.

Tears of Joy Theatre: puppet show ‘The Jungle Book,’ 1pm & 3pm, Wildish Theater, Spdf. FREE.

Lectures "Accepting Oneself: A vision from the Upanishads"  continues. See Monday.

Music.Pojama People feat. Ike Willis, 9pm, Sam Bond’s. $10.

The Jungle Beat continues. See Wednesday.

Pets Rolling for Rover and Romeo fundraiser for LCAS, 4:30-8:30pm, Skateworld. 682-3646. $5, $15 fam. 

Outdoors/Recreation Whale watching continues. See Friday.


CORVALLIS EVENTS

Note - Continuation dates for out-of-town events are listed under the first day of the event.

Thursday, March 19 Northwest Horse Fair & Expo: Extreme Cowboy Race, Mustang Makeover, today 4pm, tomorrow & Saturday10am-8pm, Sunday 9am-6pm , Linn County Fair & Expo, Albany. $10 adv., $12 door, $6 youth. 

‘Basics to Getting an Art Booth at Any Art Fair,’ noon-1 pm each day, Corvallis Fall Festival Office, 568 SW 3rd. 752-9655. FREE.

Parkinson’s Disease Support Group, 2 pm, Corvallis Senior Center. 758-1922. FREE.

Friday, March 20 Cabaret, 8pm today & March 26, 27 & 29, & April 9-11, 2:30 pm March 21 & 28, April 5, & 26-29 April 2 & 5, Albany Civic Theater. $13/$10.

Chicago, The Musical, Benefit Gala, 6pm, Majestic Theater, go to majestic.org or clal 738-7469 for times and ticket prices for performances through April 5.

Monday, March 22 Bring in art for the Arts Center’s Ruth and Jim Howland Community Open Exhibit, 12pm-4pm, 700 S.W. Madison Ave. 754-1551. FREE.

Dougie MacLean, Scottish music, 7pm, Corvallis High School Theater, 1400 NW Buchanan, $22.50 adv, $24 door

Tuesday, March 23 Authentic Community/ Authentic Relationships course, 6:30-8:30pm, through April 21, Unity of Corvallis at Friends Meeting House, 3311 NW Polk. 766-8090. FREE.


ATTN OPPORTUNITIES

Very Little Theatre (VLT) auditions for Humble Boy, 12pm, March 21 and 7pm, March 23, 2350 Hilyard St. Parts for 3 men and 3 women, ages 30-60. See www.TheVLT.com for more information.

Cottage Theatre, Cottage Grove auditions for Rainmaker, March 21, 12:30pm, March 22 6pm. Parts for 6 men, 1 woman.