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Review of Morning Glory, now open (11/10/10)

Morning Glory Director: Roger Michell With: Rachel McAdams, Diane Keaton, Harrison Ford, Jeff Goldblum, Patrick Wilson, John Pankow In the first episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary interviews with Lou Grant. Grant has a frozen smile all through it, then tells her ... Read more

Tom Ball, VP of the Native's Program at U of O, will be interviewed on "Tillicum Wawa" Thursday 2-21

Tom Ball , Vice President of the Native American porgram at the U of O in Eugene, will be our guest on KBOO radio station, for this week's "Tillicum Wawa" show on Thursday 2-21-13. Tom Ball, Emillio Henandez of the Latino programs and Carla Gary of the African Amer... Read more

Review of Big Fan, opening Sept. 11 at Cinema 21

Big FanDirector: Robert SiegelWith: Patton Oswalt, Kevin Corrigan, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Michael RappaportThe best thing about this movie, among a lot of good things, is that a viewer can project her/his own prejudices on to the main characters. No matter what you think ab... Read more

Relational Cultural Theory Resources

BOOKS: Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World- A Guild for Activists and Their Allies by Pattrice Jones Constructing the Self, Constructing America: A Cultural History of Psychotherapy by Cushman, P. The Century of the Self by Adam Curtis (BBC Series) All... Read more

New Music in the KBOO Library

Yvonne Washington with Gary Norian - Trust in Me 2CELLOS (Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser) - 2CELLOS Arnold McCuller - Soon As I Get Paid Disappear Fear - Get Your Phil Joe D'Amico - Asleep in My Shoes JC Stylles - Exhilaration & Other States Pat Donohue - Nobody's Fault Guy Cla... Read more

Movies opening this weekend (Dec. 17, 2010)

The Hollywood Theater is showing a new print of Mon Oncle, a film by the sublime French actor/director Jacques Tati. When I heard that it was the English-language version I worried, until I recalled that there is virtually no dialog in the film anyway. What there is, is... Read more

Friends of Trees is looking for crew leaders. Are you one?

Why are these people smiling? Because they’re Friends of Trees crew leaders! You can be one, too.Friends of Trees is seeking new crew leaders for the upcoming Oct.-April planting season. If you like working with people, enjoy being outdoors, and are interested in restori... Read more

Review of "The Road," now open (Nov. 25)

The RoadDirector: John HillcoatWith: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Molly Parker, et al.The post-apocalypse movie is a genre within itself, and goes back years. The World, The Flesh and the Devil; The Omega Man; Mad Max, etc. Despite it... Read more

CLR James

Born in Trinidad in 1901, CLR James was a leftist writer and social theorist until his death in 1989. In the 1930s, he worked for West Indian Independence, and moved to Britain, where he wrote a number of novels, and was the cricket reporter for the Manchester Guardian... Read more

New! Talking Earth online Anthology: Poems by A. Molotkov, Chris Ridenour, John Sibley Williams

Water Each lake is a pinhole poked from a larger map of land. Each nameless roadside creek is born of curious scissors. I am sorry, cartographer of my life.... Read more