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Staff writer for Eugene Weekly, Rick Levin been airing his grievances in newspapers for the better part of two decades.
Boots Riley’s debut movie is an outrageous and glorious mess. Its sympathies are intrinsically Marxist, but the aesthetics of Sorry to Bother You are a … Continue reading
Director Debra Granik’s 2010 coming-of-age drama Winter’s Bone set a new highwater mark for American independent cinema. A work of anxious discovery, ancient entanglements and … Continue reading
Mrs. Black stared at him. Her upper lip quivered. He reached to pick up the pen again, then decided against it. Instead he folded his … Continue reading
Her eyes widened in disbelief. Yes, he thought, the burnt romantic, thinking and therefore believing that there’s something to preserve in all this, something sacred … Continue reading
Just when you think you never want to hear “Bohemian Rhapsody” ever again, it comes on the radio and immediately you’re sucked in by the … Continue reading
In 1866, the legendary Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky released a vicious little novel called Crime and Punishment, about a poor college student, Raskolnikov, who brutally … Continue reading
The woman sitting across the desk from him was ravaged by grief. They were all ravaged by grief, in one way or another. But each … Continue reading
Rabbi Ruhi Sophia Motzkin Rubenstein of Eugene’s Temple Beth Israel is measured yet urgent when discussing the way her faith compels her to work for … Continue reading
There are a handful of movies I never tire of watching, and one of them is Rosemary’s Baby. That film, about the birth of Satan’s … Continue reading
I realize it’s a fairly risky proposition, in these strange days of division and disruption and “fake news,” for a journalist to beg your trust, … Continue reading