Category: Arts

Live Wire

On May 6, Eugene multimedia artist Cassie Taylor live-paints Wisconsin folk singer-songwriter Willy Porter at Tsunami Books. Taylor, a full-time artist, renders live music performances...

From Argentina, Let’s Tango!

It’s time for the professionals to put on their dancing shoes at the Hult Center for stealthy, almost cat-like movements and dramatic attitude. It’s time...

Growing Pains Shows Sonic Growth

It’s been three years since Growing Pains, a band local to both Portland and Eugene, released its first full length album Heaven Spots. Since then...

Life Lessons from Shakespeare

Springfield playwright Dorothy Velasco’s latest play, Ladies Shakespeare Club, premieres Friday, Feb. 17, for a two-weekend run at Very Little Theatre’s intimate Stage Left. The...

A Walk Through Old New England

It’s been a bastion of flowering culture throughout the nation’s history, with Western European threads tied to much of it, and a slice of that...

Lenses of Lane County

“I know people who go to a location specifically with a photo in mind,” says Walt O’Brien, a longstanding member of Eugene’s PhotoZone Gallery. “I...

Pegasus Playhouse Takes Flight

“I can’t help but want to create something,” says Scott Frazier-Maskiell, founder and artistic director of Pegasus Playhouse. “I’m addicted to it.” Pegasus Playhouse, a...

From Swing To The Cool

“I’ll Be Seeing You” — sung by Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday and many others — carries at its heart the tender spirit of friends and...

‘S Wonderful’ swinging

“True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today,” George Gershwin...