Earth Mama Salad
words and photos LUCY OHLSEN It all begins with a venture to the Saturday Market in downtown Eugene. The four or five lonely little booths aren’t so inviting if you’re looking for a place to chill. But oh, the beets! The bleeding hearts of the vegetable kingdom! The ruby red jewels of the earth! My [...]
Bike Smut Does Oregon
words MARY-KATE MORONEY Bike Smut, didn’t see it cumming. The flyer hinted that the production content had something to do with bikes and sex, but what could that mean? Exactly what it sounds like, apparently: sex on bikes, sex with bikes, where to bike to find people to have sex with, and so on. The [...]
Preview: Dance 2012
photos TOMMY PITTENGER Friday Feb 17th and Saturday Feb 18th, 8PM in the Dougherty Dance Theater on campus. Tickets at UO Ticket Office in the EMU or at the door. $10 or $5 for students/seniors
Review: Medium Troy at the WOW Hall
Local “bohemian dubsters” kick much ass — for real though. words NOAH DEWITT Jesse Ferreira (aka J Say Say), a chiller with stubble who reps Holy Cow really hard, comes into the natural foods store I work at all the time. As I ring up his bottle of Double Dog Dare merlot, we share a giggle [...]
Tonight: Deer Tick at Bunk Bar in Portland
Doors at nine. Deer Tick at 10. (what up AP style.) Bunk Bar is at 1028 SE Water St. Portland Oregon. Get tickets …… here.
Chairlift and Kool A.D. cover Beyoncé’s “Party”
Ethereal electropop plus kooky, hyper-referential, college-educated rap plus Beyoncé’s boogie-tinged pump-up jam “Party” equals a slapper in every sense of the word. In this Youtube gem, which hit the internet Friday, fast-rising chillwave duo Chairlift offers a rendition of B’s masterpiece on Australian radio with jazzier guitar, slappier bass, and breathier vocals. Oh, and a [...]
Livin’ the Stream: “Party Down”
The young streamer’s guide to all things Netflix. words MARGARET APPEL Often in life I search for entertaining and somewhat realistic depictions of the truly pathetic yet endearing souls that exist in this world—and now I have found it. For weeks, perhaps even months I had friends telling me to stream Party Down, a two-season [...]
Whirled Pies Pizzeria
words NOAH DEWITT A new pizzeria called Whirled Pies (a stretch of a pun on world peace) opened up over winter break in the Jefferson Westside neighborhood, taking the place of community chill spot Monroe Street Café, which closed down last spring. Halle-fucking-lujah. The new joint has potential to both heal the heartbreak that Jeff [...]
Seedy Power Scones
words and photos LUCY OHLSEN Scones are generally what I long for when I peer into any worthwhile pastry cabinet. The oversized, sugar-glazed, crumbly American scone is guaranteed to sit heavily in my tummy. There are always those lardful days for heavy scones. For other days, these Seedy Power Scones get me out of bed [...]
Movie Review: Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie
words WILL STEVENS Over the past five years, the irreverent tandem Tim and Eric have cemented their status as the most polarizing force in viral comedy. If anyone tells you this duo’s humor is something that grows on you over time, they are full of shit. You either love these two and wholeheartedly embrace the [...]
“A Dangerous Method” – Viggo Mortenson, Michael Fassbender, Kiera Knightley
Director David Cronenberg reminds us that history is still boring. words JACK WASHER According to the trailer, “A Dangerous Method” looked like a juicy historical drama dealing with a love triangle between Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and some babe named Sabina, which would have been super kinky and awesome. Instead, all you really get is [...]
Rainy Day Tomato Soup
words and photos LUCY OHLSEN It’s been a week of perpetual wetness, and the general state of things is soggy. It is easy to slip into a dangerous state of chilled, gray sky irritability. It’s also easy to whip up a batch of tomato soup and slurp your sorrows away. This roasted tomato and red [...]
Movie Review: Shame — Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan
words WILL STEVENS In an era of downloadable gratification, webcams, and the ability to mold the visual world to fit our own fetishes, are we more alone than ever before? What are the expectations for love now that our points of reference are derived from the infinite and ever-changing cyberspace and pop culture? Are we [...]
Welcome to Livin’ The Stream: “Please Vote For Me” (2007)
words MARGARET APPEL First and foremost, welcome to the OV’s latest cinematic blog installment: “Livin’ The Stream.” Each week I’ll be reviewing one (or more?) movie/television series featured in Netflix’s “Instant Watch” section, so as to help you sift through all the “straight to instant watch because it sucks” material, and pan for the true [...]
“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 [...]
Adventures in dairyland
Nancy’s yogurt has recently become one of my top tummy teasers. My personal favorite is the fruit-on-top yogurt, with the cherry fruit. After eating one or twenty cups of yogurt, relishing in each slippery spoonful, I noticed on the container that Nancy’s creamery is only a few miles away from my spoon. An excursion appeared [...]
OV @ Sasquatch Day 2 of 4.
Day 2 has come and gone here at the Columbia River Gorge Amphitheater. The view has been beautiful, the campground dubstep has persisted til sunrise and the moods have been altered by MDMA. Oh, and the music has been pretty dope too. On the second day of festivities I caught a great set from the [...]
OV @ Sasquatch Day 1 of 4
Sasquatch kicked off a day early this year, tacking on an extra friday of music in celebration of the festivals 10th anniversary. They seemed to have lotted a good chunk of the harder rock bands into the monday schedule, Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro tore up a shirtless shred sesh in traditional anthem rock fashion. [...]
And you thought lo-fi audio was just for surf rockers..
With his long-delayed Warner Bros. debut NoYork slated for a summer release, Blu has defied convention once again, dropping an unannounced 11 track album entitled “j e s u s” earlier this week. No leaks, no videos, not even a mention of the project before its release. Aside from his super-acclaimed 2006 Exile-assisted debut Below [...]
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, [...]
Mallard Madness and the Willamette Valley Music Festival: A Utopia of Art
The question is at the tip of everybody’s tongue: what on earth is Mallard Madness? As the University’s annual Spring Street Faire kicks off today, many students are still baffled by the giant posters declaring “Explore, Create, Discover” tacked around the Erb Memorial Union. What’s the difference between Mallard Madness and the Willamette Valley Music [...]
Jay Electronica’s Trip to Nepal
If you have not heard of rapper/mystic Jay Electronica, which is actually pretty feasible, it is about time you had. Dont worry, Im gonna post some of his music at the bottom of the post and you can hear it there. The New Orleans super emcee recently traveled to Asia with the hip-hop video director/documentarian [...]
