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.
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