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For The Old Mole July 14 2008, we review WALL-E, the latest Pixar animation, also brought to us by Disney.   The title character is a lonely trash compactor, a Waste Allocation Load Lifter—Earth-class—the last operating robot on a desolate planet Earth, with mountains of... Read more

Eugene's Angry Indian Minute read on 11-11-10. Don't call me chief! Calling me chief is not a term of respect. Calling me chief is a term of you seeing what race I am and for some reason thinking you have to honor me. There are many Indians who don't look like the stereoty... Read more

A serf is a feudal subject, as you know, not quite a slave but imprisoned in a system of exploitation.  Land owners also owned the labor of the people living on the land, so if you were a serf, you had to work at certain times of the year to get in the Master's crops, an... Read more

The Hopi Indian Reservation sits atop three mesas tucked away in a remote corner of northeast Arizona. It may be one of the few places in America where religion and culture are a part of everyday life. In many ways, things have not changed much over the last thousand yea... Read more

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 The January meeting of the KBOO Board of Directors is coming up on Monday the 25th starting at 6 p.m.  Since Membership Central will be set up in our normal meeting space, we have to relocate. The site of the 1/25/2010 Director's Meeting will be the Men's Resource Cente... Read more

 I spoke with three dancers at the Portland Project at Performance Works Northwest, an umbrella organization for some of the most skillfull dancers in Portland. Linda Austin started this venue ten years ago. She's joined on today's Stage and Studio with Anne Furfey and T... Read more