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The Shedd Institute to get tangled up in cognitive dead ends, like wondering how it was the Beatles could af- ford to quit touring, if touring had made them so much money. Maybe there’s even a branding opportu- nity here. Templeton might openly embrace the interpretative lens she always uses by means of a title for her column of reviews, something like Progressive Feminist Theater. She could go even further toward clarity by employing a rating system, but instead of stars she could use something more appro- priate, like vaginas. The Beatles documentary at issue, for ex- ample, might get a 3V (out of 5) rating, for the Whoopi Goldberg interview and the shot of a young Sigourney Weaver, with her un- mistakable “jawline and twinkling eyes.” On the downside, it spent too much time focused on The Beatles. I’ll grant you that using the genitals of ei- ther gender as a way to rate movies is pretty dicey. Two and a half penises is not a pleas- ant thought, or quite appropriate to your pa- per. I’m not married to that part of it. Something, though … there has to be something that’ll capture and communicate Templeton’s overriding cinematic concern; and thus, hopefully, turn what seems like an aesthetic and literary handicap into a coup de grâce. Timothy Shaw Eugene THANK YOU, EUGENE When my team and I started our business in Eugene, we were told that start-ups in Eu- gene are notoriously challenging. Far better, they said, to move to a more fertile city like Portland or Seattle. Funding would be chal- lenging, gathering committed interns and employees difficult, and receiving guidance and mentor support incredibly hard. However, with the help of my team and the Eugene community, we have brought our business to a point where we are begin- ning to nurture relationships with other local business owners and tap into the sense of de- cency and community that all people in the Eugene-Springfield area know and cherish. ugene Weekly We teamed up with St. Vincent de Paul in early February to sponsor the Truffle .75 x 3.25 Shuffle, a family-friendly race that raises money that goes toward veterans. We have Week 1: been 9/15/16 welcomed in the downtown commu- Week 3: nity 9/29/16 and have professional relationships with a number of local businesses in the area. We have been ably helped by RAIN Eugene and the people we met there. We have been guided, warned off riskier strategic paths and received into the fold despite a much lower starting price. The app we built connects people to lo- cals and their activity groups. So when we think back on it, there is no more poetic a starting place than Eugene, Oregon. Ben Nye Eugene www.theshedd.org - 541.434.7000 Shedd Theatricals 2016 CROSSWORD COMMENTARY Hey Matt Jones, here’s one for ya: “____” me. Edmond Stansberry Eugene VOTE STEIN Brian Willson was at an Al Nakba Aware- ness Project movie showing of Blood On The Tracks this past Wednesday, Sept. 21, in Eugene. Willson had his legs cut off by a munitions train in Concord, California, in 1987 attempting to stop the shipment of arms to Nicaragua. I was inspired by a few things that Willson said about politics. According to Willson, Trump is likely to be the less ef- fective evil compared to Clinton as Trump will not have a majority support in Congress compared to Clinton’s bipartisan support. So while Trump may want to do truly evil stuff like build a wall and cut Social Security, he likely won’t have the votes. Clinton is much more dangerous than Trump when it comes to foreign policy. Trump wants to be friends with Putin and maybe dismantle NATO while Clinton is ramping up McCarthyism and may get into a shooting war with Russia over a no-fly zone in Syria. I believe I don’t deserve a Bernie Sanders style bailout if it means that the U.S. is simul- taneously embroiled in a bloodbath interna- tionally. That is why I support Jill Stein over everyone else. That is also why I’m no longer concerned as much with the possible “spoil- er” effect for Clinton. Stein will bail me out while simultaneously getting the U.S. out of all of our foreign entanglements including wars and bad trade deals. Go to Jill2016.com to find out more. John Thielking Eugene Oliver! September 23 - October 2 Dick & Sandee Gerber Mike & Nancy Oft Rose Greg Brown Oct 6 Bruce Molsky Oct 7 Coming up at The Shedd this Fall and beyond… It's all happening under the radar – with no interruption of programming!! Support KLCC by October 3 and eliminate Fall Radiothon!! Give NOW at klcc.org NPR for Oregonians 10.9 Guy Mendilow Ensemble 10.11 JLCO/Wynton Marsalis (Hult) 10.13 Jazz Kings: Mood Indigo 10.21 Moombah: Doctor, Doctor! 10.23 Tracy Bonham 10.25 Michael McDonald 10.27 Dave Douglas meets The Westerlies w/Anwar Marshall 11.3 Bill Frisell: When You Wish… 11.4 Hapa EW-Shedd-1-2v_Sep 29.indd 1 11.5 Ehud Asherie 11.10 Michael Feinstein 11.11 Riley Etheridge Jr. 12.2-18 Annie Get Your Gun 12.8 Jazz Kings: Happy Holiday 1.11 Karla Bonoff 1.12 Tierney Sutton 1.21 Moombah: Asunder Down Under! 1.25 Mark Hummel’s Blues Harp e u g e n e w e e k l y . c o m • S e p t e m b e r 9/27/2016 2 9 , 2 0 5:16:32 16 PM 7
