Oregon Daily Emerald

Kweller changes horses for show

by Ott Tammik

Poppy folk rocker Ben Kweller performs tonight at the WOW Hall with his band, The Trio on the Train Track. The mop-headed, boyish-looking Texan will give fans a chance to hear new material from his upcoming album, "Changing Horses," which is scheduled for release in early 2009.

The honorary Mississippian

From blues to ballet: an Oregonian soaks up a summer's worth of Southern culture

by Lisa Anderson

Mississippi seemed the antithesis of Oregon. Its simultaneous tragedy and charm had always intrigued me. I set up an unpaid internship with the Jackson Free Press, asked my editor's flamboyant 64-year-old friend if I could live with her, and left the Willamette Valley for an adventuresome Southern summer.

"Blindness" turns a deaf ear to thrill-seeking audiences

Meirelles' attempts at being cutting and edgy ends up as soft and safe as a glass of warm milk

by Alex Gabriel

I don't want to have to say it, but Fernando Meirelles' "Blindness" made me wish I was, well, blind. And deaf. And confined to a hospital bed. I won't call it a bad movie because it's not a bad movie. It's worse. "Blindness" is plagued with the "untapped potential syndrome" that inflicts all too many Hollywood thrillers.