We'll take our iced tea with a twist.Byline: BUZZWORTHY by The Register-Guard Most places, Fourth of July weekend is all about picnics and fireworks. Here, too, but with a few extras. Like Art and the Vineyard, a feast for all the senses (today through Sunday in Alton Baker Park, 100 Day Island Road). Like the Eugene Pro Rodeo, a three-day competition with fireworks every night (Oregon Horse Center, 90751 Prairie Road). Like the Light of Liberty celebration, a new event sponsored by the Springfield Utility Board, with music by Riders in the Sky (5 p.m. Sunday, Island Park, 200 West B. St., Springfield). Like the Oregon Bach Festival. The festival will give its hard-working singers, musicians, staff members and volunteers Sunday off to be patriotically lazy bums with the rest of us, but it has plenty to offer this weekend and next week: The Mozart Requiem and Felix Mendelssohn's setting of Psalm 42 at 8 p.m. today (Hult Center's Silva Hall) Rilling and his Gachinger Kantorei from Stuttgart singing J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor at 8 p.m. Tuesday (Silva Hall). Celebrated Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki conducting Ludwig van Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony and his own Flute Concerto, at 8 p.m. Thursday (Silva Hall). If you have arachnophobia, you should stay away from the movie theaters. "Spider-Man 2' opened Wednesday and will be crawling all over six screens this weekend, catching villains and greenbacks in its web. Which may explain why the only other new movie on the horizon is "King Ar- thur," opening Wednesday. It's billed as the first "realistic" portrayal of this mythical king, but how realistic is it, we ask peevishly, to cast slender Keira Knightley, who could barely hold her soccer shorts up in "Bend It Like Beckham" or her bodice up in "Pirates of the Caribbean," as Guinevere - after Julia Ormond has already been there and done that in "First Knight"? |
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