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This week’s Corvallis and Albany art events
A curated and frequently updated guide to arts and entertainment events in the mid-valley that might be worth your time and money.
Your Weekend Reader for May 27-28
Farewell to an important tribal leader. The decline of the Register-Guard. Beavers baseball. Wildlife on the loose. Lawsuits and legislators. AI writes scripts. And really hard spelling words. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Future sounds — and old-timey ones, too — at OSU’s ‘Soundbox’
OSU’s “Soundbox 6” festival offers a close-up look at how musicians are carving out new artistic territory — even if it requires going back to a 1916 silent movie. The festival starts Monday at OSU.
This week’s Corvallis and Albany art events
A curated and frequently updated guide to arts and entertainment events in the mid-valley that might be worth your time and money.
Your Weekend Reader for May 20-21
Independence’s renaissance. Oregon’s state motto. More bad press for Portland. Mount St. Helens. It’s tick time. Paul Simon goes deep. AM radio’s last stand. And the Cannes Film Festival. It’s all in the new (albeit late) edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for May 13-14
An election looms. Theater or theatre? Philomath News. Hot enough for you? AI and nuclear codes — a good combo? Steely Dan is back. And those other Pulitzers. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
A fond farewell to “Love, Loss and What I Wore”
Leigh Matthews Bock has directed “Love, Loss and What I Wore” four times in the last 10 years. Now, she’s staging the play one last time starting Friday at Albany Civic Theater.
OSU’s “Light Keepers:” A rip in the universe, and universal themes
OSU’s “The Light Keepers” uses a rip in the universe to explore universal themes among high schoolers — and everybody else. The play opens Friday, May 12, at the Whiteside.
Your Weekend Reader for May 6-7
A few words about the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. What was Fagan thinking? Lee Enterprises in Buffalo. World Press Freedom Day. The coronation. Expanding stars and exploding whales. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
Your Weekend Reader for April 29-30
Spring weather, at last. Beavers in the news. An easier way to get your veggies. Lee Enterprises. A requiem for newsrooms. Portland shoots back at Portland. More about that undersea leak. Why you don’t answer your phone. And Jessie Ware, just in time. It’s all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader.
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