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Staff writer for Eugene Weekly, Rick Levin been airing his grievances in newspapers for the better part of two decades.
Harmony Korine emerged in 1995 as foremost gutter-punk bad boy of Gen X filmmakers, a beautiful loser who mirrored on screen the raw nihilistic yowl … Continue reading
Imagine living in an era of this American continent when being “half a millionaire” was more than enough juice to make you the leading citizen … Continue reading
Yesterday I wrote a review of Jordan Peele’s new movie, Us, which unexpectedly blew up the box office this past weekend. Unlike most reviews, which … Continue reading
Promising to take the audience on “an interactive, physical and metaphysical ride through the human body,” Eugene’s flex Studios will host its sixth-annual benefit dance … Continue reading
Keeping things simple, let’s assign the most recent advent of American independent cinema to a single movie, Steven Soderbergh’s 1989 debut Sex, Lies, and Videotape. … Continue reading
Anna Gilbert is one of the better musicians to come out of Eugene, ever. A 2010 winner of this paper’s “Next Big Thing” contest, Gilbert’s … Continue reading
The short story is a wonderful art form. There are storywriters — Alice Munro, Anton Chekov, Denis Johnson, James Joyce, to name a few heavies … Continue reading
Almost 30 years ago, Dan Savage started writing a sex advice column for Seattle upstart The Stranger, an independent newspaper that has become a benchmark … Continue reading
For some reason, while I was watching the new Netflix movie Velvet Buzzsaw, the opening words of William Carlos Williams’ great poem “To Elsie” suddenly … Continue reading
Along with being the most accessible and arguably the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays, Romeo and Juliet is also something of an outlier among his … Continue reading