Dad-Rock 101 — The Mixtape
Fact: Nine out of 10 dads love Bruce Springsteen. words MARY-KATE MORONEY art JULIAN WATTS There’s something on the wind — the stale scent of tobacco and aftershave, the faint sounds of snoring and things you wish you’d never heard about your mother–and it can’t bust a move for shit. Why, it must be your [...]
Living Rock Studios: Oregon’s Hidden Gem
Late artist’s unique masterpiece is probably the only reason to visit Brownsville. words MARGARET APPEL photos CHRISTINE DONG There is an all-too-familiar stretch of Interstate-5 that links so many of us from Eugene to Portland and the small towns in between — it’s roughly a two-hour drive that can fly by if you’re lucky enough [...]
Tripping in My Father’s Footsteps
Dropping LSD to carry on a family tradition. words NOAH DEWITT art CHELSEY BOEHNKE I. My dad did acid when he was my age — in San Francisco parks, with friends from his theater company, on museum meanderings and excursions in nature. He did it, he tells me, like so many others in the late [...]
Hardware Store Crawl
The first and last annual OV Hardware Store Crawl was a success in that we rented a UO van. It was a failure in that it got really boring after a while photos ALLISON FONDER LOWE’S words LUCY OHLSEN Lowe’s was the first stop on our crawl. After gearing up on candy canes and bumpin’ [...]
Single Fatherhood
Entertaining the notion. words NOAH PORTER art JOSEPH DE SOSA Right off the bat, let me say this: I realize that being a single parent is extremely difficult, and one-parent households are a huge challenge both in America and across the world. That being said, (I am almost positive that) there are many single parents [...]
World’s Beast Dads
A guide to the chillest papis of the animal kingdom. words JACK WASHER art TAYLOR JOHNSTON Antechinus, the Self-Sacrificing Dad These tiny little marsupial mice are the most tenacious little fuckers in the animal kingdom — literally. Once the male finds a mate he will have sex non-stop for 12 hours until he dies from [...]
The Biggest of Poppas
OV’s lyrical analyst Brett Sisun weighs in on Biggie’s magnum opus. words BRETT SISUN art ALLISON FONDER He liked it when you called him Big Poppa. Indeed, Christopher Wallace (aka The Notorious B.I.G, Biggie Smallz and The Black Frank White) was a knockout heavy weight on both the scales and the microphone. And as you [...]
Charcoal Vs. Propane
Charcoal: Classic Flavor You Can Trust words WILL STEVENS art LISA INOUE Before we forsake charcoal and replace its grilling majesty with some trendy piece of tin from infomercial lore, we must be reminded of a few things. Charcoal is the end product of decayed plant material, which is then compressed into a dense nugget [...]
Dear Gingerbeard No. 2
Dear Gingerbeard, It’s my third year in college and I still don’t know how to make myself sit down and study for my difficult classes. I find that I spend the four hours I reserved for learning doing anything else. At least my apartment is clean and well-decorated. You seem like a gentleman and a [...]
DaddyHunt.com …
…is a thing. words JULIAN WATTS If you are a middle aged gay man looking for love, a young college boy in search of a mature companion, or are in anyway interested in incorporating “daddy” stuff into your homoerotic adventures, I have discovered the perfect online social network for you. Its called daddyhunt.com, and it [...]
Fatherly Flow Patterns
An ode to the Mighty Willamette. words JORDAN CHESNUT If the Williamette Valley is the fertile motherland of the Oregon empire, then the Williamette river is the Daddy, the vital green sperm that runs northward through its belly; depositing soil from the Calapooya Mountains to the Columbia River. It is our all-seasonal watering hole, quenching [...]
Sahaptin is What’s Happenin’
Get in touch with Oregon’s roots by learning its native tongues. words BEN MCPHERSON FICKLIN art IMOGEN BANKS Sahaptin is a language. For more than 10,000 years the Yakama, Wanapum, Umatilla, Walla Walla, Palus, Cayuse, and Nez Perce tribes have spoken Sahaptin in what is now the state of Oregon. Words like iwakt (dream) or [...]
WTF
Tim Allen words MARGARET APPEL art JULIAN EARNEST It’s important in this “Daddy Issue” edition of the Oregon Voice that we highlight at least one on-screen father whom we actually have an issue with. While I can’t speak for every member of our staff, I think I can safely speak for most of us when [...]
“Teen Club” Experience at the WOW Jan. 13
On Friday Jan. 13 the WOW Hall will host the second installment of Burn This City, self-described as “Eugene’s only ‘Teen Club’ experience,” but don’t let that seedy notion deter you. The show will feature shred sessions by Eugene’s finest dance crews, including the b-boy collective C-4 (I saw one of these dudes jerkin’ in Humble [...]
The Bookfinder
Local Chiller Brings Books to the People words NOAH DEWITT It’s a grey, dripping afternoon on the cusp of countryside in outer Eugene, Ore., and Arthur Ezra Tishman sits in “The Hole,” a cluttered book warehouse in the basement of his home. Forty-four stocked bookcases, each roughly 4’ by 5’, span most of the [...]
Dear Gingerbeard No. 1
Dear Gingerbeard… Why are men so dependent on internet porn? Or… on porn in general? Sincerely, Why He Yankin’? Though I am not sure if this was your original intent, WHY, your carefully placed ellipses lead me to break it down by category of pornography outlet — this will better aid you in your ‘pornderings.’ [...]
Would You Like PCP with That?
Eugene’s possible drug fronts exposed. words MARGARET APPEL photo COLETTE LEVESQUE I Love Rocks The most obvious implication that this establishment could be slangin’ something on the side is, of course, the name. As you cruise past the magic-markered sign in the front yard of the small shack that is “I Love Rocks,” you might [...]
Exclusive Interview with Yeasayer @ Mallard Madness
At the bizarre yet awesome shit show that was Mallard Madness, an hour or two before hordes flooded the Erb Memorial Union and littered it with 40 oz. bottles and empty plastic baggies, the OV’s Cara Merendino and I had the chance to sit down with Ira Tutun of Yeasayer. Hours later, the Brooklyn-based band, [...]
The Rolling Issue
If you haven’t copped our brand new Rolling Issue yet, do so! Pick up a free copy at any of these distribution locations or view it digitally below. Open publication – Free publishing – More bikes CORRECTIONS There is a potentially grave error printed in the sidebar to Tyler Pell’s feature story, “The War on [...]
Paul Devro’s Explosive Rave
While I enjoy news stories about ASUO drama and fluffy opinion pieces, “The Weekend Police Blotter” is my favorite part of the Oregon Daily Emerald. If you don’t usually make it past page one, the blotter is a list of the weekend’s most serious — or most comical — police reports. Yesterday’s blotter contained this [...]
Paul Devro is the Man — And He’s Coming
This Friday, Paul Devro, co-founder of Mad Decent records and world-traveling DJ, will bring a high-voltage sound system, a crate of records, and a brimming laptop hard drive here to Eugene, Oregon, an uncharacteristically small town on his usual circuit of major metropolitans. His intention is simple: to transform the barren ballroom of the Veterans’ [...]
PDX’s Bar-muda: Who’s Biting Whose Style?
When heading home to Portland for an all-too-brief academic hiatus, I was looking forward to reading something cooler than the Eugene Weekly, i.e., The Portland Mercury and the Willamette Week. But today, when I glimpsed the words “Navigating PDX’s Bar-Muda Triangle” on the cover of the hot-off-the-press WW, I was all like, “Oh heck no!” [...]
An Irie Evening with Barrington Levy
photo & video SREANG HOK 1980s reggae legend Barrington Levy brought a sweet, tropical slice of Jamaica to Eugene’s WOW Hall last Wednesday. Backed by twangy guitar, electronic organ, syncopated rhythms, groovy bass, and dancehall reggae’s obligatory air horn, Levy sang a solid set of strikingly happy island jams. The music was rad, but the [...]
