Pub Crawl
The third annual Oregon Voice Pub Crawl was a success in that we all got extremely faded. It was a failure in that we made it to only five of the 10 bars that we set out to review. photos COLETTE LEVESQUE RENNIE’S LANDING words NOAH DEWITT By a twist of fate, the first bar [...]
Senate Receives “Vagina-gram” From Unnamed Sender
Annually, the Woman’s Center runs a V-Day fundraiser that provides, with a sliding scale donation of five to ten bucks, the ability to send a “Vagina-gram” to your unsuspecting lover, friend, professor, or in tonight’s case, or student government official. “What is a Vagina-gram?” you may ask. A Vaginagram is a song and dance medley [...]
OV Summer Progress Report
Hi all, Now that the Summer sun has burned many of our ears, necks and backs, we write to you with an update – a progress report of sorts. As noted in our last post, we have a plethora of projects that we’re trying to accomplish before Fall rolls around and here’s where we stand [...]
Blitzen Trapper announce Black River Killer EP
News fresh from Sub Pop. The new EP will be in stores August 25th. We’ll do our best to get some advanced listenings of it this summer. According to Stereogum, it’ll pull together many divergent sounds, making a hard rock departure from their usual home-spun melodies. I’m offering a special prize to the person who can [...]
I'm moving to Sweden
I told Stephen I’d follow up on last night’s Jens Lekman show at WOW Hall, but falling in love makes me semi-illiterate. Forgive me if I fan-rant. After two years of touring worldwide on the same album, I don’t know how Jens manages to take such good care of his audience. We did take his [...]
Hicksters Unite
The Avett Brothers, dukes of the 21st century bluegrass revival, play McDonald Theatre this Wednesday. Come watch them burn down our most historic barn. Also, if it turns out that the Avett Brothers were the only band-dudes you wanted to see at Sasquatch, see them for $19 (advance) instead of $80. What a steal! Accordionist [...]
Art/Fiction/Poetry Issue Online Now
Thanks to everyone that submitted. We can hardly keep the print copies around. Congratulations everyone. Issue 3 is on the way.
Rent-a-Pooch III
Wednesday, May 20th Reservations begin at 10:30 a.m. Pick-up starts at 11:00 a.m. Heck yes!
(Love notes are harder to write than blog rants)
Nobody here blogged about the Dark Dark Dark show last week. I could pull something out of my grab-bag of missed deadline excuses (you know how hard it is to find the internet these days…?) but there was no good reason to neglect proper reverence for Nona Marie Invie and her sweet band of gypsies. [...]
In other news: bad poetry
Changing the subject. I found a scrawled note sitting on top of a stack of OVs in the j-school: “You said love is a temple, love the higher law. you asked me to enter then you made me crawl + I just can’t keep holding on to what you got when all you got is [...]
Cake is the only language I speak
This is an apology: From me (Grace), not from any organization. To Hannah Hoffman and Lauren Fox, not to any organization. The cakes are yours as soon as I can get them to you, whether you forgive me or not. On a more positive note, I’m glad to hear that the OV blog is finally [...]
Want some clips? Feeling scabby?
Journalists love to tell stories. I can’t remember the last time the Daily Emerald told one that was truly engaging, though this morning’s bold, red headline sucked me in: EMERALD NEWS STAFF STRIKES. ASUO sandbox politics were getting boring, I guess, so the reporters made their own scandal. They put off the strike until this [...]
Cute as fuck robot
In honor of this youtube gem, I am rewriting Asimov’s three laws of robotics. First law: hit dat toaster Second law: make em dance Third law: shake it
VD is for everybody, apparently
While perusing the Prelinger Archives I discovered this little gem. I tried to find words to describe it but I really couldn’t. You’ll just have to watch it for yourself and see what I mean (I mean, like, really?) When you’re done check out the rest of the site, it has a lot to offer. But really, [...]
Just so you know
Twilight is now showing at the $1.50 theater. The venue should be dark and deserted, kids. Perfect if you are looking to get it on with your vampire boyfriend.
New News on the Horizon
How’s it going, Voice enthusiasts? After some website issues, some printing issues, and some personal issues (because we’re all sooooo emo….wait, should I be admitting this?), the Oregon Voice brings you our second-to-last issue of this school year. Copy editor and all-around rad chick Katy Wolf brings us an interview with Greg Saunier of Deerhoof, [...]
A long awaited update.
How’s it going, Voice readers? Our website has now been taken over by Chris Olson, who’s decided to save us all from my minimal web-building skills and be our webmaster so that this nary-updated website could get a much-appreciated makeover. Thanks Chris. As for the rest of us, we’ve printed our second-and-third mega-combo issue, which [...]
Artwork on Display
Some of Oregon Voice Art Director Evan Meister’s artwork is on display this month up in Portland, starting October 5th at Floating World Comics so if you are in the area, check it out Floating World Comics 1722 NW Raleigh #104 Portland, OR 97209 Evan did all of the cover’s last year, in addition to [...]
