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2016
George & Ira Gershwin’s
1927 musical comedy classic
FUNNY FACE
June 24-26 - The Shedd
MISFIT COMMUNITY
MISSING HAT
I went to the Voivod concert on Thursday
(with truly amazing opening bands King
Parrot, Child Bite and Hiding). The music
was a mix of thrash, prog, punk and black
metal, and as I sweated with, slammed into
and cheered alongside the crowd, I was as
struck as I was by my very first punk/metal
show — flooded by a sense of support,
shared interest and mutual enjoyment, and
as an almost perpetual outsider, that I’d
found my misfit community!
I just want to thank the incredible artists,
the venue and basically the audience —
my unique, cathartic, non-homogenous
family, who might knock you down, but
who are just as quick to pick you up and
make sure you are OK! Thank you WOW
Hall, Boreal, Old Nick’s, Wandering Goat
and my crowd!
Steve Boggs
Eugene
I am offering a reward for the return
of Old Man Dancing’s hat with pins taken
from my cart at the Seneca Goodwill
Sunday afternoon, June 12. “Old Man
Dancing” is still faintly visible under the
front pins.
That hat is part of my dance. I need
it back with all pins. The Weekly has my
phone number for reward instructions.
Please return it and get some good karma
points. I am not angry and I have already
forgiven you.
In keeping it, you also have collected
some bad karma points. I will give you
some good ones and dance for you.
John H. Williamson
Old Man Dancing
Eugene
VEXED ABOUT VAXXED
Before you spend money going to
Vaxxed, read the reviews and read what
happens if a person gets measles, mumps
or rubella. You may decide to spend the
money on a lottery ticket.
Dick Ricketts
Eugene
ISLAM VS CHRISTIANITY
Christians haven’t been running around
killing people in the name of Christianity
since the Crusades. The Muslims have
been killing each other in the name of
Mohammed since 700 AD. Now they
are killing us, too. How can Tim Hilton
[Letters, June 16] compare what Christians
did then to what the Muslims are doing
now?
Tim is a moron. Sorry, Tim, but
Christianity teaches to love your enemy
and the Muslims teach it is their duty, or
jihad, to kill infidels. That’s you and me,
Tim. So Islam is worse than Christianity.
Thomas Laird Twyford II
Eugene
RAPE CULTURE
Keith Southworth’s letter “Rape
Confusion” is a great example of how
deeply entrenched rape culture is and
how easily it can cloud clarity. It is not
up for debate that at least one out of
every four women are sexually assaulted
during their lifetime. Many have said
that that statistic is conservative, given
how many women don’t actually report.
Southworth’s ability to empathize must
be brutalized if he is saying things like
“Alleged rape victims should either
report to the police or move on in life.”
This is incredibly callous and reeks of
male privilege. Do you know everything
about post-rape life, Keith? Do you think
reporting to the police or an institution
like the UO (which has proven itself
more loyal to perpetrators of sexual
violence than to survivors) is easy?
My suggestion: Listen to more
women. No, really listen. Eventually you
might learn that the law and large, male-
dominated institutions do not have the
interests of women’s bodily safety at the
front of their concerns.
Dillon Thomson
Eugene
Shedd Theatricals 2016
Leonard Bernstein,
Betty Comden & Adolph Green’s
1944 musical masterpiece
On The
Town
July 29
-Aug 7
Oregon Festival of American Music 2016
g.i.jive
Good Cheer From Home, 1939-45
July 29 - August 13
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