We've got issues.
Staff writer for Eugene Weekly, Rick Levin been airing his grievances in newspapers for the better part of two decades.
Had Steven Spielberg simply cut the first and last 15 minutes from Saving Private Ryan — all that sentimentalized, emotion-yanking sacrificial nationalistic hoopla — he … Continue reading
There always has been and there ever will be a tremendous fascination in watching a human being self-destruct. Call it morbid curiosity, moral pathos or … Continue reading
How is it, exactly, that Shia LeBeouf has become the most interesting person in Hollywood? For me, the transformation happened seemingly overnight, and I can … Continue reading
With wry humor, canny wisdom and an expansiveness of heart that captures the true spirit of the season, Eugene playwright Rachael Carnes has penned a … Continue reading
Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems by Campbell McGrath. Ecco, $24.99. Campbell McGrath might be our best living poet. Combining the polymorphous acceptance of … Continue reading
It seems, of late, that a new species of mournfulness has crept into our best art. From the final albums by recently deceased songwriters Leonard … Continue reading
For one terrifying, exhilarating moment toward the end of writer/director Bong Joon Ho’s new movie, Parasite, I thought my brain broke, and for about 30 … Continue reading
As I sat watching Oregon Contemporary Theatre’s current production of Larissa FastHorse’s cutting and uproarious comedy The Thanksgiving Play, I found myself several times recalling … Continue reading
A sense of humor is either the last thing to go or the first, but either way the death of humor is an epidemic these days, … Continue reading
“Problematic” is one of the more overused and hence meaningless words in the critical/academic lexicon, denoting, with a shrug that is at once coy and … Continue reading