Friday, January 20, 2006

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NEW MOVIES • "Underground: Evolution" opens today at Cinema World and Cinemark. • "End of the Spear" and "The New World" open today at Cinemark. …
Rotisserie to make your taste buds spin

Aside from Mr. Pibb and Red Vines, nothing says crazy delicious like a supermarket rotisserie chicken. It's cheap and easy, and you can pick the perfect roaster from beneath those …
Local picker picked up by Kennedy

Ever watched a Webcast? On Tuesday at 3 p.m., turn your computer to www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/ and catch Eugene finger-style guitarist Larry Pattis in action. …
Side Show: Music

Christian groups offer 'Will Play for Food' Three Christian music acts will team up Saturday for a show to benefit FOOD for Lane County and Hosea Youth Services. "Will Play for Food" …
Belly Up is out; Taboo is in

For the nightclub that changes names as often as Paris Hilton changes boyfriends, this is a new record. In November we told you about The Jungle, at 23 W. Sixth Ave., becoming Belly Up. Its new …
Fiddler, cellist let them sing

Scots Magazine has called Alasdair Fraser "one of the finest fiddle players Scotland has ever produced." Natalie Haas is a young cellist who fell in love with Scottish and Celtic music at the …
Old folkies have star power

FLORENCE - One of the two headlining concerts for the fourth annual Winter Folk Festival, the New Christy Minstrels, is sold out. But the two-day event offers plenty of music, crafts and food to …
Sexy cover is just a put-on

At last. Proof that there's truth in the adage, "Don't judge a book by its cover." Because when nous non plus' self-titled CD landed on my desk, I took one look at the cover photo - a nearly …
Young jazz players gather

The second annual Oregon Jazz Festival will feature two evening performances in the Lane Community College Performance Hall, 4000 E. 30th Ave. The festival kicks off today with a concert at 7:30 …
Side Show: Wild card

Dances from the Balkans to be taught this weekend New York City dancer Michael Ginsburg will teach dances from Serbia, Macedonia, Croatia and Bulgaria this weekend during the Veselo …
A very un-Disneylike Pocahontas tale

Terrence Malick's ``The New World'' strips away all the fancy and lore from the story of Pocahontas and her tribe and the English settlers at Jamestown, and imagines how new and strange these …
Side Show: Screen

Women's film festival on campus on Tuesday Lunafest, a festival of films by, for and about women, will stop at the University of Oregon on Tuesday for a screening to benefit …
Exotic star, unlikely résumé

HOLLYWOOD - Q'orianka Kilcher looks slightly out of place with the lunch crowd at the Four Seasons. Kilcher, who stars as Pocahontas in Terrence Malick's historical epic ``The New World,'' is …
Movie's mission partly accomplished

``End of the Spear,'' directed and co-written by Jim Hanon, is based on a true event in 1956, when five American missionaries were speared to death by the very Ecuadorean tribesmen they had hoped to …
The terror of bad stand-up

Question: Why is there no Halloween in India? Answer: They took away the Gandhi. Ho, ho. Of course, if there is no Halloween in India, then they wouldn't know they …
Now showing at local theaters

Opening today End of the Spear (NR) Mincayani (Louie Leonardo), a tribesman in the Ecuadorean rain forest, lives by a violent code: kill or be killed. His world …
Calendar: Friday, Jan. 20, through Tuesday, Jan. 24

Today Jan. 20 MUSIC Oregon Jazz Festival - Featuring the Oregon Jazz Ensemble and the Lane Jazz Ensemble, 7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Building, Lane Community …
Calendar: Thursday, Jan. 26, through Sunday, Jan. 29

Wednesday Jan. 25 MUSIC Hot Buttered Rum String Band, New Monsoon - Bluegrass and jam rock, 9 p.m., WOW Hall. $12, $10 advance. (687-2746) Terry Robb - …
Calendar: Stage, Art exhibits, Museums, Opportunities, Karaoke and DJ dances

Stage "Betrayal" - Harold Pinter's play about love and betrayal; directed by Hans Christofferson. Lord Leebrick Theatre, 540 Charnelton St. Through Feb. 4 (465-1506) "Are …
Calendar: Venues

Actors Cabaret of Eugene - 996 Willamette St. (683-4368) Agate Hall - 1787 Agate St. (346-3465) Alton Baker Park - 100 Day Island Road. Ax Billy Grill & Sports …
Calendar: Concerts

Concerts ON SALE THIS WEEK Solo Flamenco - 7:30 p.m. May 25, Aladdin Theater, Portland, $22, TM. On sale at 11 a.m. today. Cheap Trick - 8 p.m. April 21-22, …

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