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Fall brings big rise for film quality.


Byline: BUZZWORTHY The Register-Guard

Ah October. Month of falling leaves, pouring rain and Halloween candy tumbling into waiting sacks. It's also become the month big budget moviemakers try to position themselves for Academy Award contention.

Let the Hollywood powerful scramble for the best way to tap into the American psyche and grab for that golden statue. We, the general public, benefit with many more high quality options at the theater. Enjoy the feast.

For those of you who enjoy the visual treat of a circus, but could do without the olfactory olfactory /ol·fac·to·ry/ (ol-fak´ter-e) pertaining to the sense of smell.

ol·fac·to·ry
adj.
Of, relating to, or contributing to the sense of smell.
 experience of a 3-ring affair, Cirque Dreams' Jungle Fantasy on Thursday at the Hult is a good choice. It's a stage show with a script and no loud-mouthed Loud´-mouthed`

a. 1. Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent or offensive.

Adj. 1. loud-mouthed - given to loud offensive talk
 ringmaster or poopy animals.

The Lord Leebrick Theatre continues its weekend late night series today and Saturday with sketch comedy by Kitsch Alive! You can even bring your own snacks.

There's much to take in this weekend in live music with the Shedd's Now Hear This series starting off with Bill Frisell, Jack DeJohnette and Jerome Harris doing jazz and avant-garde music.

Another ongoing series getting underway this first week of October is the Creswell Grange Opry, which will happen the first Saturday of each month through the school year.

Also Saturday in Cottage Grove is the Cascadia Wildlands Project's annual hoedown hoe·down  
n.
1. A square dance.

2. The music for a square dance.

3. A social gathering at which square dancing takes place.
. The Conjugal Pertaining or relating to marriage; suitable or applicable to married people.

Conjugal rights are those that are considered to be part and parcel of the state of matrimony, such as love, sex, companionship, and support.
 Visitors provide the boot-stomping bluegrass bluegrass, any species of the large and widely distributed genus Poa, chiefly range and pasture grasses of economic importance in temperate and cool regions. In general, bluegrasses are perennial with fine-leaved foliage that is bluish green in some species.  beats.

If you missed Halie Loren's standing-room-only CD release party last week, check her out at the Oregon Electric Station The Oregon Electric Station is a restaurant in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It was originally built in 1914 as a station for the Oregon Electric Railway and was designed by A. E. Doyle.  on Saturday when she sings with local guitar master Don Latarski.

Finally, in a party befitting the most festive and fastidious diva, the 5th Street Public Market is holding its grand reopening starting today. The staff has whipped up an action-packed 1 1/2 weeks of music, free carriage rides, strolling magicians, dancing stilt stilt, common name for some members of the family Recurvirostridae, shore birds including the avocet. Stilts, as their name implies, have the longest legs of any bird except the flamingo.  people, acrobatics and giveaways.
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Publication:The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Date:Oct 6, 2006
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