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CALENDAR OF EVENTS The Vienna Piano Trio plays Nov. 2. Listings in the Corvallis calendar are free. We don’t list workshops, classes or events that cost more than $30. Submit listings to cal@eugeneweekly.com by noon on Thursday the week prior to publication. Note: Continuation dates for events are listed under the first day of the event. Thursday, Oct. 13 Corvallis-OSU Symphony Orchestra with Andreas Klein, pianist, 7:30pm, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. 737-5591. Pattiann Rogers reads from Firekeeper, Revised and Expanded Edition, 7:30pm, Corvallis Arts Center. FREE. Preschool Storytime for ages 2.5 to 5, 10am, Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. 766-6794. FREE. Better hearing support group, 3:30pm, Corvallis Senior Center. Ron, 754-1377. FREE. Primal Mates, noon, MU Lounge, OSU. FREE. Neil Grandstaff & Ray Brassfield, 7pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE. An opening for “Sharing Lithography Secrets,” work by Chi Meredith, Angelita Surmon, Kristina Kennedy Daniels and William Shumway, 5:30pm, Pegasus Frame Studio and Gallery. Show runs through Oct. 31. Open house and reception for work by Mara Friedman, 3pm, Women’s Center, OSU. FREE. Friday, Oct. 14 Wine tasting, appetizers and live music, 4pm-6pm, First Alternative Co-op Main Store. FREE. Treehouses, 7:30pm tonight and tomorrow, Withycombe Lab Theatre, OSU. 737-2784. Clinton Fearon and His Boogie Brown Band, 9:30pm, Platinum. 21+ show. $10. Jackstraw, 10pm, Bombs Away Café. $7. DJ EZ Rider, 10:30pm, Iovino’s. FREE. Saturday, Oct. 15 Farmers’ Market, 9am- 1pm, First & Jackson. FREE. Farmers’ Market, 8am-noon, Water & Broadalbin, Albany. FREE. “Rockin’ the Cradle of Jazz,” a United Way benefit concert with Reggie Houston, Chamaine Neville and Amasa Miller, 7pm, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. 757-7717. Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild Show, 10am- 5pm, St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, Lebanon. 451-3424. Alpaca & Llama Show, 8am today and tomor- row, Linn County Fair & Expo Center, Albany. FREE. Quilting Tea silent auction of contemporary quilts inspired by the Susan Cockrell Quilt Collection, a benefit for the Cockrell Collection and the Save the Horner project, 2pm, Benton County Historical Museum. 929-6230. $15, $10 members. La Fiesta De Su Biblioteca, English/Spanish event for youth of all ages, make crafts, hear stories and sing songs, 11am, Corvallis- Benton County Public Library; 1:30pm, Monroe Community Library. 766-6794. FREE. Boo Boogie Bash Rough Stock Rodeo, 7:30pm, Linn County Fair & Expo Center, Albany. www.wildwestevents.com Starlight Gala with music, silent auction and more, a fundraiser for the operation of the Majestic Theatre, 7pm, Majestic Theatre. $50. Jerry Joseph, 10pm, Bombs Away Café. $8. David Feinberg & Mark Bielman, 8pm, Iovino’s. FREE. Sunday, Oct. 16 Norm Winningstad, author of The Area of Enlightenment: Don’t Confuse Me with the Facts, I’ve Already Made Up My Mind, speaks on conflict resolution, 2pm, Corvallis- Benton County Public Library. FREE. Monday, Oct. 17 Tommie Shelby speaks on “Race, Class and Shame: DuBois on Black Solidarity,” 4pm, 206 MU, OSU. 737-3421. FREE. Ira Shorr leads a discussion on “Iraq, Terrorism, Nuclear Dangers and Global Warming: Feeling Secure Yet?,” 7pm, Corvallis Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. FREE. Phyllis Bennis speaks on her book Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, 7pm, Odd Fellows Hall. FREE. Low vision/mascular degeneration support group, 2pm, Corvallis Senior Center. Vision Northwest, 800-448-2232. FREE. Bedtime storytime for kids of all ages, 7pm, Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. 766-6794. FREE. Tuesday, Oct. 18 Toddler Storytime for ages 1 to 2.5, 10am, Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. 766-6794. FREE. Wednesday, Oct. 19 Infant Storytime for kids up to 1 year old, 10am, Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. 766-6794. FREE. Farmers’ Market, 8am-1pm, Benton County Fairgrounds. FREE. Peaceful Poetry: Haiku & Cranes, write haiku and fold origami cranes as part of a commu- nity commitment to writing for peace, 3:30pm, Multicultural Center, Linn Benton Community College, Albany. FREE. San Francisco/Lake Tahoe trip presentation, 2pm, Corvallis Senior Center. 766-6959. FREE. Senior Citizens Council of Benton County meeting, 1:30pm, Corvallis Senior Center. 766-6959. FREE. Beth Willis, 7:30pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE. Sam Holmes & Friends, 9:30pm, Iovino’s. FREE. An opening for “Be Useful,” work by Andrew Myers, 4:30pm, Fairbanks Gallery, OSU. Show runs through Nov. 2. FREE. Thursday, Oct. 20 Visiting Writers Series: Alice Fulton, 7:30pm, Valley Library, OSU. FREE. Laura Zaerr and Nancy Andrew, noon, MU Lounge, OSU. FREE. Colin Metcalf & Kevin Grady, visiting artists’ lecture, 7pm, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. 757-4745. Preschool Storytime for ages 2.5 to 5, 10am, Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. 766-6794. FREE. American Gothic, 11pm, Withycombe Lab Theatre, OSU. 737-2784. VJT, 7:30pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE. Friday, Oct. 21 Wine tasting, appetizers and live music, 4pm-6pm, First Alternative Co-op Main Store. FREE. Paul J. Kuhse discusses “Ethics Errors: Why Smart People Can Do Such Dumb Things,” noon, 224 Gilbert, OSU. FREE. Shine on Scio Moon, 6:15 dinner & show; 7pm show only, tonight, tomorrow and Oct. 28 and 29 and Nov. 4 and 5, Flinn’s Theater, Albany. $27.50; $10 show only. Hackleman Creek mushroom hike, 9am-4pm, Sweet Home Ranger District. 367-9206. Herbie Hancock Tribute, 10pm, Bombs Away Café. $7. DJ Rematoes, 10:30pm, Iovino’s. FREE. DoXology, Debra Arlyn, 9pm, Platinum. 21+ show. $6. Saturday, Oct. 22 Farmers’ Market, 9am- 1pm, First & Jackson. FREE. Farmers’ Market, 8am-noon, Water & Broadalbin, Albany. FREE. Allan Byer, CD release for Money Talks Too Much, 7pm, Beanery. FREE. Swing Review, 8pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE. Paul Chenard & Jim LaRocca, 8pm, Iovino’s. FREE. Sunday, Oct. 23 OSU Triathlon Club Beaver Fever Duathlon, 5K run, 18 mile road or 12 mile mountain bike and second 5K run, 8:30am, Philomath Middle School. oregon- state.edu/groups/triclub/du Monday, Oct. 24 Robin Schulze discusses “‘Beyond the Yawp’: Nature, Natural History and the Origins of Modernist Poetry,” 4pm, Center for the Humanities, Autzen House, OSU. FREE. “Death & Fiesta: The Celebration of Dia de los Muertos” slide show and lecture by Susan Dearborn Jackson, noon, Fireside Room, Lane Benton Community College, Albany. FREE. Tuesday, Oct. 25 Bilingual kids’ book club for grades 3-6 discusses Esperanza Rising/Esperanza Renace by Pam Muñoz Ryan, 6:30pm, Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. FREE. Work by Lid Rhynard, through Nov. 23, ArtCentric. Noon-5pm Tu-Sa. www.artcen- tric.org Wednesday, Oct. 26 Farmers’ Market, 8am- 1pm, Benton County Fairgrounds. FREE. String Loaded, 7:30pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE. Thriving Theatre! Improv Night, 9:30pm, Iovino’s. $5. Thursday, Oct. 27 Darkwood Consort, noon, MU Lounge, OSU. FREE. Londa Schiebinger discusses “Agnatology and Exotic Abortifacients: The Cultural Production of Ignorance in the 18th Century Atlantic World,” 4pm, 206 MU, OSU. FREE. Lloyd C. Irland discusses “U.S. Forest Ownership: Historic and Global Perspectives,” 4pm, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. 737-2329. Ben Mutschler, 7pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE. Friday, Oct. 28 Wine tasting, appetizers and live music, 4pm-6pm, First Alternative Co-op Main Store. FREE. The Magic Barrell: A Reading to Fight Hunger, Willamette Valley writers, musicians and local eateries team up to help feed the hungry in a benefit for the Linn Benton Food Share, 7pm, Majestic Theatre. Gregg, 753-8080. $7 sug. don. OSSA Snosports Expo & Convention, 4pm- 9pm today and 9am-6pm tomorrow, Linn County Fair & Expo Center. www.oregon- snow.org Rope, 8pm tonight, tomorrow and Nov. 3-5; 2:30pm Oct. 30, Albany Civic Theater. $9. Michael Allen Harrison, piano, 7:30pm, First Presbyterian Church. 753-2228. The Hounds, 10pm, Bombs Away Café. $3. DJ Down, 10:30pm, Iovino’s. FREE. The Noah Peterson Duo, 8:30pm, Big River Restaurant. 757-0694. Mary Flower, Carl Smiley, 7:30pm, Westminster House. $3-$10 ss. Crazy Train, Knockout John, 9:30pm, Platinum. 21+ show. $6. An opening for “El Dia de los Muertos” ex- hibit, 7pm, South Santiam Hall Gallery, Linn Benton Community College, Albany. FREE. Saturday, Oct. 29 Farmers’ Market, 9am- 1pm, First & Jackson. FREE. Farmers’ Market, 8am-noon, Water & Broadalbin, Albany. FREE. Howling Success, a fundraiser for the Louisiana SPCA to help animals affected by Hurricane Katrina, with dog agility demon- strations, dog Halloween contest and more, 10am; “Whine and Cheese” auction gala with music by The Hounds, 7pm, Benton County Fairgrounds. Tara, 758-9181. $5, $2.50 kids daytime event; $50, $75/couple gala auction. Flinn’s Haunted Horse-Drawn Wagon, 6pm, Historic Flinn Block, Albany. www.flinns.com Poet Pattiann Rogers reads Oct. 13 Downtown Halloween trick-or-treating, 10am-1pm, Albany. FREE. OSU football, Beavers vs. Arizona, time TBA, Reser Stadium, OSU. $36. Sunday, Oct. 30 Corvallis Repertory Singers present Handel: “Israel in Egypt,” 7:30pm, First Presbyterian Church. $15. American Gothic, 11pm, Withycombe Lab Theater, OSU. 737-2784. Monday, Oct. 31 Louise Westling discusses “Darwin in Arcadia: A New Look at the Pastoral,” 4pm, Center for the Humanities, Autzen House, OSU. FREE. Tuesday, Nov. 1 Grass Roots book club dis- cusses The History of Love by Nicole Krauss, 6:30pm, Grass Roots Books & Music. FREE. Wednesday, Nov. 2 Vienna Piano Trio, 7:30pm, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. $22. Last Best Chance, 10am & 1pm, Linn Benton Community College Forum, Albany. FREE. Craig Lesley reads from Burning Fence: A Western Memoir of Fatherhood, 7pm, Grass Roots Books & Music. FREE. Farmers’ Market, 8am-1pm, Benton County Fairgrounds. FREE. Alex from Costa Rica, 7:30pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE. Open mic night, 9:30pm, Iovino’s. FREE. Thursday, Nov. 3 OSU Chamber Choir, noon, MU Lounge, OSU. FREE. Linn Benton Opera Guild preview lecture, Angela Carlson discusses Puccini’s Tosca, 7:30pm, 303 Benton, OSU. 757-8949. John Bliss Xtet, 7:30pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE. Friday, Nov. 4 First Friday events, evenings to 8pm, Downtown Albany. FREE. “Peak Oil and Old Chinese Poets: Why Classical Chinese Poetry Matters,” reading and discussion with Mike O’Connor, 11am, Takena Hall, Linn Benton Community College, Albany; 7pm, The Annex, LBCC Lebanon. FREE. Corvallis Community Theatre presents Blithe Spirit, 8pm tonight, tomorrow and Nov. 10-12; 2:30pm Nov. 6 and 13, Majestic Theatre. $10, $8 stu., sr. Sweater Club, 10pm, Bombs Away Café. $3. DJ Loopy, 10:30pm, Iovino’s. FREE. “In Print,” group printmaking exhibit, through Dec. 31, Benton County Historical Museum, Philomath. 10am-4:30pm Tu-Sa. FREE. Saturday, Nov. 5 Farmers’ Market, 9am- 1pm, First & Jackson. FREE. Farmers’ Market, 8am-noon, Water & Broadalbin, Albany. FREE. Willamette Valley Kennel Club, 8am today and tomorrow, Linn County Fair & Expo Center, Albany. 360-687-7983. “Peak Oil and Old Chinese Poets: Why Classical Chinese Poetry Matters,” reading and symposium with Mike O’Connor and Charles Goodrich, 1pm, 104 Benton Center. FREE. Naturally Fun Fiber Show, 9:30am-4pm, Albany Senior Center. www.cityofalbany.net Siobhan, CD release for Anima, 9pm, Bombs Away Café. $3. Neal Grandstaff & Ray Brassfield, 8pm, Iovino’s. FREE. Monday, Nov. 7 Charlotte Headrick dis- cusses “Women of Some Importance: Irish Artists Who Influenced Theater in the Twentieth Century,” 4pm, Center for the Humanities, Autzen House, OSU. FREE. OSU Civil War Blood Drive, 11am-4pm today through Nov. 10, MU Ballroom. FREE. Tuesday, Nov. 8 An evening with Ben Mikaelsen, 7pm, Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. 766-6794. FREE. Wednesday, Nov. 9 Farmers’ Market, 8am- 1pm, Benton County Fairgrounds. FREE. Random Reviews: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, reviewed by Elizabeth Campell, noon, Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. FREE. Thriving Theatre! Improv Night, 7:30pm, SunnySide Up Café. Sug. don. Johanna Beekman, 7:30pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE. Poetry Slam with host Michael Faris, 9:30pm, Iovino’s. FREE. Thursday, Nov. 10 OSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble, noon, MU Lounge, OSU. FREE. The World We Live In/The Insect Comedy, 7:30pm tonight, tomor- row and Nov. 12, 17, 18 and 19, Withycombe Main Stage Theatre, OSU. 737-2784. Publication reception for Ever Blooming, prints of Bonnie Hall, 6:30pm, Pegasus Gallery. FREE. Neil & Ray, 7pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE. Friday, Nov. 11 Jim Breuer, 6:30pm and 9pm, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. $28-$36. Veterans’ Day Parade, 10am, Dowtown Albany. FREE. DJ Schmooz, 10:30pm, Iovino’s. FREE. Johnny D and His Badfish Band, 10pm, Bombs Away Café. $3. Saturday, Nov. 12 Farmers’ Market, 9am- 1pm, First & Jackson. FREE. Farmers’ Market, 8am-noon, Water & Broadalbin, Albany. FREE. Poet Richard Dankleff reads; Clem Starck, Charles Goodrich and Anita Sullivan read their own work and Dankleff’s work, 2pm, Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. FREE. OSU football, Beavers vs. Stanford, time TBA, Reser Stadium, OSU. $36. Nancy Ream Trio, 8pm, Iovino’s. FREE. Sunday, Nov. 13 Opera Workshop perform- ance: Oh, THAT’s Opera, 2pm & 4pm, 202 Benton, OSU. 737-4061. Oregon Soundscapes: Bells of the Cascades, 4pm, Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan. 757-6647. Monday, Nov. 14 Julie Green discusses “The Last Supper: Final Meals of U.S. Death Row Inmates,” 4pm, Center for the Humanities, Autzen House, OSU. FREE. Tuesday, Nov. 15 A lecture by Luis Valdez, screenwriter and director of La Bamba, 7:30pm, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. FREE. Reading Education Assistance Dogs, 3:30pm today, tomorrow and Nov. 17, Corvallis- Benton County Public Library. Reserve a time for a kid to read to a dog at 766-6794. FREE. Wednesday, Nov. 16 Farmers’ Market, 8am- 1pm, Benton County Fairgrounds. FREE. Beth Willis, 7:30pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE. Sam Holmes & Friends, 9:30pm, Iovino’s. FREE. Thursday, Nov. 17 OSU Concert Band, noon, MU Lounge, OSU. FREE. Patricia Marchak discusses “The State of Nature and the Nature of States,” 4pm, 107 Richardson, OSU. 737-2329. VJT, 7:30pm, Bombs Away Café. FREE. Friday, Nov. 18 Majestic Education pres- ents The Comedy of Errors, 7pm tonight and tomorrow and 1pm tomorrow, Majestic Theatre. $8, $7 under 18. Black Swan Classic Jazz Ensemble, 7:30pm, First Presbyterian Church. 753-2228. Gary Ruppert and guests, 8pm, Russell Tripp Performance Center, Linn Benton Community College, Albany. 917-4531. Laura Kemp, 10pm, Bombs Away Café. $7. DJ Butta, 10:30pm, Iovino’s. FREE. Saturday, Nov. 19 Linn Benton Concert Band “Patriotic Pops” concert, 7:30pm, Lebanon Elks Ballroom. $8. Toby Koenigsberg, 8pm, Russell Tripp Performance Center, Linn Benton Community College, Albany. 917-4531. Linda Crew presents a slide talk on her book A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon 1845, 2pm, Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. FREE. Farmers’ Market, 9am-1pm, First & Jackson. FREE. Farmers’ Market, 8am-noon, Water & Broadalbin, Albany. FREE. Albany Indoor Swap Meet, 9am, Linn County Fair & Expo Center. 926-3972. Stairway Denied, 10pm, Bombs Away Café. $5. Robert & Chris Dillon, 8pm, Iovino’s. FREE. Sunday, Nov. 20 Corvallis-OSU Symphony Orchestra performs work by Rossini, Rachmaninoff and Dvorak, with pianist Alexander Tutunov, 7:30pm, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. $20, $10 stu., OSU students free. Darrell Grant, 3pm, Russell Tripp Performance Center, Linn Benton Community College, Albany. 917-4531. “The Spirit of OSU” Choral Showcase, 3pm, First Congregational Church. 737-4061. Monday, Nov. 21 Bob Leslie and Steve Matthes, 7pm, First Presbyterian Church. WHAT’S HAPPENING Corvallis • 11
