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Huck and Jim

2009-11-05T11:36:31+08:00

Well, dang me. On Friday night, the University of Oregon theater department will open its production of “Big River,” a musical version of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” That means, among other things, putting on a show in lily white, country-music-free Eugene that requires a fair number of black …

Artist from Mexico visits for an exhibit and teaching

2009-11-04T01:35:02+08:00

A series of new watercolors by Mexican artist Javier Hernández Capelo, better known as Capelo, is on exhibit through Nov. 21 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 1430 Johnson Lane on the University of Oregon campus. Capelo — who works as a teacher of design, drawing and lithography at …

Buzzworthy

2009-11-04T01:35:02+08:00

take a walk Check out a new exhibit of calligraphy scrolls from China and Japan (above) at White Lotus Gallery, 767 Willamette St., the first stop on this month’s First Friday Art Walk. The free tour begins at 5:30 p.m. Friday and continues with stops at Imagine Gallery, showing paintings …

Artist has stepped out of his father’s shadow

2009-11-04T01:35:01+08:00

Erik Sandgren, son of the late and influential Corvallis painter Nelson Sandgren, has long been an artist in his own right both despite and because of his father’s enormous shadow. If you ever had any doubts about the younger Sandgren’s independent talent, they should be eliminated by an unusually captivating …

Comic book creator loses his grip

2009-11-04T01:35:01+08:00

Besides the musical “Big River,” opening at the University of Oregon (see cover story), a new comic fantasy about comic book characters opens at Lane Community College this weekend. Dwarfman, Master of a Million Shapes Lane Community College Blue Door Theatre Tonight through Nov. 21 Comic-book creator Stanley Dorfman is …

Tribute to Villa Lobos among concerts at UO

2009-11-04T01:35:01+08:00

Two concerts featuring UO music faculty are among the five events scheduled in the coming week at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance, 961 E. 18th Ave. Jazz Café Friday, Room 190 The School of Music’s Jazz Café returns with another group of jazz combos in a …

ART NOTES

2009-11-04T01:35:01+08:00

Jacobs opens show of photos, sculpture “Earth, Light and Stone,” an exhibit of photography and sculpture, opens with a reception at 5:30 p.m. Friday at the Jacobs Gallery in the Hult Center, Seventh Avenue and Willamette Street. The show runs through Jan. 2. It has work by photographers Anne Godfrey, …

PERFORMANCE NOTES

2009-11-04T01:35:01+08:00

Concert to celebrate music of Glenn Miller The Blue Skies Big Band, along with the Jewel Tones, play their annual Veterans Day dance concert at the Oregon Air and Space Museum, 90377 Boeing Drive, from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. Sunday. The concert is a tribute to Glenn Miller, whose …