Welcome to Brewgene
Eugene’s Ninkasi and Oakshire take different approaches to ushering in the microbrew renaissance. words WILL STEVENS photo COLLETTE LEVESQUE alking into a house party on a crisp autumn evening, you find a place in the corner of the dimly lit room. The incense fails to mask stale Pabst and yesterday’s quinoa, and the end result [...]
A Guide to Eugene Hoods
Get the fuck off campus. art ALLISON FONDER 1. CAMPUS AREA words NOAH PORTER A radioactive nucleus for student living, the generally accepted boundaries for “campus area” stretch from Kincaid to Pearl Street, between 13th and 18th Avenue. An emerald city of factory-issue condominiums intermittently sprinkled with abandoned high-heels, the dream of Seth from Superbad [...]
Renovators! Mount Up.
Students to vote on funding for EMU/SRC renovation words BEN STONE A few weeks ago, I rolled through the musty hallways of the EMU to one of the first public info sessions on an upcoming campus referendum. On Nov. 14 through 17, UO students will be able to vote on whether present and future students [...]
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 [...]
Riding The High With Doug Benson @ WOW Hall 4/21
Funny-man Doug Benson is kickin’ it in Eugene this Thursday, 4/21, at WOW Hall for his “I’m Still High” Tour. Benson, who is most well known for his work with Last Comic Standing and the movie Super High Me, is one of the most prolific comedians of the past few years. He podcasts, hosts, and [...]
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 [...]
Just Breaking the Surface
Yesterday evening at around 9:00 I showed up at the McDonald Theater, slightly buzzed, and super stoked to see a show that I have been patiently waiting to see for a few weeks, or months, or something. Way back, when I had the red and black lumber jack, and I first heard that Beats Antique [...]
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’ [...]
Morning Glory
It’s 5:30 and I don’t want to drink any more bad coffee. I can’t stop thinking about how bad this badness is in front of me. Dux Bistro, I’m sorry, but you just can’t fulfill my needs. Your joe is like liquid dust reheated in a microwave several times over. I’m not one to pour [...]
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 [...]
Variety Show
Yogurt Xtreme (the new frozen yogurt shop on 13th St.) isn’t exactly anything special. The frozen yogurt tastes like frozen yogurt from every other yogurt institution. The peanut butter flavor did melt me a little bit inside (especially when combined with fresh bananas, hot fudge, and whipped cream), but the place itself awakened no raving [...]
Cold War Kids WOW
Long Beach Indie Soul Punks Cold War Kids are playing tonight at the WOW. They released their third album, Mine is Yours, this January. Opening band : A Lull Doors at 8 Bands at 9 Fun TBA PS – Sold Out
Kundalini Yoga at Yoga West
Yoga West is probably THE best place to go to for yoga in Eugene. There are so many different types of yoga and some work you in different ways. Kundalini has the special status of being the unadulterated version that came straight from India thousands of years ago, carried on by Yogis from generation to [...]
Never Waffle Over Waffles.
Breakfast has a special little nook in my soul. The familiar smell of frying fatty batter in fatty butter triggers endorphins to start coursing through my veins like I’ve just run a marathon. It’s almost a waste to put breakfast in the morning, when so often I’m not fully conscious and up to appreciating the [...]
Oregon Voice Magazine Presents a Free House Show with yOya and Greenhorse
This Thursday, OREGON VOICE will be holding a free house show with two interesting LA-based bands: yOya, a danceable folk duo, and Greenhorse, an infectious electro-pop ensemble. Come quench your Thursday night thirst. Where: 1054 W 8th Avenue When: Thursday February 17, 9:00 p.m. Definitely roll.
The Thermals at the WOW
The Thermals, a staple of the Portland indie rock scene, made their way to Eugene last night for some high energy pop-punk. The show opened with Eugene band The Blimp. Although I only caught a few of their songs, they seemed wacky and fun…like a pillow fight! Next, a former Eugenian and currently Portlandian band, [...]
Crispin Glover at the Bijou
This weekend Crispin Glover, (George McFly from Back to the Future,) will be in Eugene promoting his newest projects. Glover will showcase his two films, What is It? on Saturday night and It is Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE on Friday and Sunday nights. Glover describes It is Fine as “my psychological reaction to the corporate restraints [...]
Pizza, Music, Basketball — and Blankets
This Friday at Washington Jefferson Park the Homeless Action Committee (HAC) is having it’s re-coming out party, and everyone’s invited! The HAC, a homeless advisory board, was defunct for about ten years but is being brought back to life by some active community members. David Gerber, editor in chief of Eugene’s street newspaper The Oregon Vagabond, [...]
Dr. Dog to Rock WOW Hall this Halloween
Haven’t heard about the Dr. Dog show on Halloween? Shame, Shame on you!! Let’s get the basics down first. The WOW Hall is, in our opinion, the best sounding, badass venue in Eugene. On my first Halloween in Eugene, I caught Architecture in Helsinki at the WOW and still can’t stop talking about it. Pair [...]
Gogol Bordello This Sunday At McDonald Theatre
New York Gypsy Punks Gogol Bordello, fronted by real life gypsy Eugene Hütz, are playing at McDonald Theatre this Sunday with opening act Forro in the Dark. Gogol Bordello’s latest album, Trans-Continental Hustle was released this past April. Come out and seem them this Sunday, October 17th at McDonald Theatre, 1010 Willamette Street. Doors are [...]
There was a riot on the streets, tell me where were you?
I’m sitting at RHA Karaoke in Common Grounds hoping that I can still make it to the Oregon Voice Party later. I’ve managed to get two residents to not only attend, but also to sing Just a Friend by Biz Markie when phones start blowin’ up. Half the people at my table either get a call or [...]
Phantograms Never Die
Phantogram’s haunting, post-electronic dream pop oozes a certain amount of intoxication, and the epic performance by the New York duo at Eugene’s Willamette Valley Music Festival last Saturday was comparable to watching globules in a lava lamp. I pity any one who wasn’t in attendance. It really was a seductive—if not spellbinding—show. I recently had [...]
