This Friday, Proud Larry’s will fill with old fans and new listeners for performances by some old favorites: Youth Lagoon and Moon King. Youth Lagoon, known also as Trevor Powers, showcases a psychedelic, dreamy energy in his work. Powers got his start by self-producing his music and putting it online....
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Coming to the South after living in Oregon for a year was the biggest culture shock I have ever experienced – and I lived in Paris for six months. My brother and I were in Oxford for a campus tour before I committed to transferring here from the University of Oregon. Eugene, the location of UO, is exactly the way you’d think any Oregon city to be: a bunch of pot...
Scorpio, the Scorpion: October 23 — November 21 Scorpio, Scorpio, Scorpio, look at you! The stars are smiling on you, and you have got some serious good luck coming your way. The celestial bodies have deemed it fit to reward you with good fortune in money, at work and in love. But be warned: this month, around the nineteenth, you will be overwhelmed with a sudden sensation...
(Whiskey Myers | Photo Courtesy of: WhiskeyMyers.com East Texas band Whiskey Myers will make their debut in Oxford at 9 p.m. Wednesday at Proud Larry’s. Self-described “rock n’ roll with a little bit of country twang,” Whiskey Myers is strongly reminiscent of Lynyrd Skynyrd or the Allman Brothers in their sound and style approach. “When writing, we revert back...
Rating: A “Bridge of Spies” earns the three-word description “audience satisfaction guaranteed.” The film screams mainstream entertainment with its exploration of America as the place that out-negotiates Communist countries and gives even a Soviet spy a fair trial. Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg (“Schindler’s List,” “Saving Private Ryan”) manages...
Sometime in the middle of a gray game day, I came-to with a pounding skull. I am walking in an alley between buildings on campus: leather soles scraping against the rough sidewalk. I can’t tell if I was just lying on the ground or walking the whole time, and I don’t know what’s just happened. The gray-orange sky is indicating either morning or evening. I...
As an adult, I’ve never been the type of person to run from the unknown. As a child, though, I would turn tail and hide from anything that went bump in the night. Usually, those things would turn out to be the cat or the ice maker. One night however, something much more sinister was lurking in the dark. I was nine. I had just slipped down into my bed when I...
