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REVIEW: DON’T THINK TWICE MAY BE AN INSTANT CLASSIC
The Cast of Don’t Think Twice. (Courtesy of Creative Commons)
Improvisational comedy didn’t really take off until the late ‘50s and early ‘60s, but it’s still baffling that a movie like Don’t Think Twice hasn’t already been made. In a way, it feels like an instant classic. Part Woody Allen, part Robert Altman and part The Big Chill, writer-director Mike Birbiglia has made a near-perfect movie. The film focuses on a six-person improvcomedy group called The Commune with a steady tenure in New York City. Each of the troupe’s performers — especially KeeganMichael Key (Key and Peele), Chris Gethard and Kate Micucci (Garfunkel and Oates) — are written with brilliant, idiosyncratic nuance and play off one another with a homey comfort. When their theatre is about to close in a few weeks and one of the performers is offered a role on Weekend Live (a pitchperfect SNL pastiche), the group’s unity and security is dismantled. Pride for their friend’s accomplishment is traded for the more realistic reactions: jealousy, self-doubt and manic hubris. Birbiglia’s bittersweet screenplay handles these explicit adult problems with a humane consideration and sincerity. It’s disquieting to see their relationship fracture. Birbiglia plays Miles, an improv teacher in the group who insists that he was once “inches� away from getting a spot on Weekend Live, a repeated sentiment that only adds a grim irony to his namesake. When the group assembles to watch Weekend Live (a tradition among them), he remarks with
nerdy reverence that it’s the “sporting event� equivalent for comedy. The film is chock-full of jokes, many of which are more charming than laugh-out-loud funny. It has wisecracks that deliberately fall flat, improv bits that flop and off-base oneliners traded between the friends, the kind that would offend anyone not used to the bruising, spontaneous nature of the art form. Birbiglia’s last movie was Sleepwalk With Me, about his concurrent real-life battle with sleep apnea, marriage anxiety and his blossoming career as a road comic. Don’t Think Twice, although not as autobiographical as Sleepwalk, shares many of the same qualities, but Don’t Think Twice is more adult, more fully visualized and overall a more successful film. Samantha, played by Gillian Jacobs, is impeccable as the movie’s emotional heart. Her performance adds a vulnerability to the narrative. While everyone is watching Weekend Live, they each voice their disbelief when their former troupe member pops up during the opening montage. But Samantha remains silent, her face slipping into reluctant bemusement as she fully processes seeing her colleague, a heartbreaking manifestation of success, parading across her TV. The movie is a candid look at how adults attempt to cope with witnessing a close friend living their dream, while simultaneously realizing it may be time to stop playing make-believe.
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This Monday marks the first of a five-game series this week between the Eugene Emeralds (46-19) and the Tri-City Dust Devils (29-36) at PK Park. After a record-setting streak of 15 consecutive wins on Aug. 19, the Emeralds later fell to the Everett Aquasox, winning just one game in the series. This could be the teams comeback.
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Malala Yousafzai at Moda Center in Portland — Tickets start at $29 — 7:30 p.m.
“I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children,� begins Yousafzai’s book I Am Malala. In Oct. 2012, then 15-year-old Yousafzai, was shot by the Taliban while traveling home from school in northern Pakistan. A long-time advocate on behalf of universal education, she’s since become an internationally renowned activist and was awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize (its youngest-ever recipient). Yousafzai is visiting the Moda Center this Tuesday evening.
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This Monday, visit the downtown library for a back-to-school book sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with a wide selection of educational materials, including books, CDs and DVDs, all on sale for $1 apiece. Then on Wednesday, visit the library for a free hands-on workshop “3D Print a Keychain� to learn the basic mechanics behind 3D printing and design through the Tinkercad software. A Eugene Public Library card and pre-registration are required.
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Game begins at 2 p.m. The University of California – Davis Aggies (2-9 in the 2015 season) are facing off with the Oregon Ducks (2015 record: 9-4) at Autzen Stadium this Saturday in the first game of the 2016 football season. This marks a return of Aggies coach Ron Gould – a UO alumnus (class of ’88) and former Ducks defensive back player in the ‘80s, as well as a graduate assistant coach with the Ducks from 1990-’91. Aggies quarterback CJ Spencer will be competing opposite Dakota Prukop, the Montana State graduate transfer student who’s playing his first game as the Oregon starting quarterback. Eugene native and UO freshman Justin Herbert was named Prukop’s backup on Friday. Devon Allen is also returning as junior wide receiver after competing in the Rio Summer Olympics, where he placed fifth in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 13.31 seconds. This game also follows news that broke Friday that Oregon senior lineback Torrodney Prevot is under investigation for physical assault against a former UO athlete.
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This weekend, check out the UO’s extension building in Portland, where the White Box space will feature work from artist Bruce Conkle’s solo exhibition Surface Glitch. Conkle’s new body of work tackles visual motifs from natural phenomena such as hurricanes, glacial shifts and volcanic eruptions to illustrate our responses to environmental concerns. “In the present day existential threats are never far from the conscious mind and in the studio I am constantly trying to cope with the realities of present day,� writes Cronkle in a statement on the exhibition. Surface Glitch will be on display from Sept. 1 through Oct. 15.
Wilco visits Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland (1111 SW Broadway) — Tickets start at $40 — Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Autzen Stadium (EmeraldArchives)
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Last summer, Wilco unceremoniously dropped its ninth studio album, Star Wars. The group, deemed “country music on acid� by UrbanDictionary, is releasing another glibly titled album Schmilco next month. Has the definitive dad-rock group going through a dadjoke phase? This will be Jeff Tweedy’s third show in the Portland area this summer, after two excellent solo acoustic sets at the Pickathon Music Festival in early August, and will doubtlessly be even better, given that master guitarist Nels Cline and company will back him up this time.
Pretty Lights visits the Cuthbert Amphitheater — Tickets start at $40 — Gates open at 5:30 p.m.; Show starts at 7 p.m.
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to grow a year after legalization THE RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA INDUSTRY is “doing phenomenal� in Eugene, Oregon. That’s what Courtney Delaplain, the manager of a local dispensary named Casper’s, said of Eugene’s newest industry. A recent report published by the Department of Revenue shows that Oregon state-licensed dispensaries sold $42.2 million worth of recreational marijuana in June and July combined. This comes after selling $59.6 million worth from January to May. Recreational marijuana has generated $25.5 million in tax revenue for Oregon so far in 2016, while state economists only predicted $10.75 million for the whole year. One person who is adding to this state’s newest source of revenue is Tallia Riemel, a 23-year-old local grower who has been in the industry for the last eight months. Riemel invested nearly $20,000 to start, including $3,750 a year to maintain a state license.
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Many like Riemel are getting into the industry, but the first steps are expensive. Owner of Oregon Microgrowers Guild Adam Jacques says that, “[The costs] add up pretty quickly. If people can’t keep up with the requirements, they will be washing out.� It’s been a year since legalization, and many hiccups in the emerging industry still remain. As a Schedule I substance, the federal government groups marijuana with other drugs such as heroin and LSD. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration continues to reject requests from several state governors to declassify weed as a dangerous drug — stating it has no medical benefit. Eugene has deep roots in marijuana culture – people have been growing and consuming the Schedule I drug here for decades, Jacques said. Having grown medical marijuana since 1998, Jacques is noticing changes that are turning the industry upside down. “It’s very cost-prohibitive,� Oregon Microgrowers
Guild manager Jon de Kluyver said. “You have to be business savvy to stay sustainable in this business.� From high-priced licensing to the overregulation of farms, the system has become too bureaucratic, said Jacques. “The state really overregulated a lot of this market,� Jacques said. “They’re treating it as though it is a poison, or like we’re dealing with nuclear weapons, when it’s just plant-growing.� At his 20,000 square foot outdoor cannabis farm, Jacques said he has 42 surveillance cameras running at all times. According to state regulations, farms must be equipped with video surveillance systems that can monitor the whole farm in any lighting conditions. “It’s easier to rob a bank than an [Oregon Liquor Control Commission] approved weed farm,� Jacques said. Temporary regulations for the industry can be found in a 78-page document located at Oregon.gov. Before recreational marijuana was legalized,
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there were no regulations, OLCC spokesperson Mark Pettinger said. “So any amount of regulations can be considered overregulated.” Qualifying to be a recreational weed grower is not difficult, Pettinger said. The state only requires that applicants be Oregon residents for at least two years and possess a clean background without drug and alcohol violations or a history of felonies; however, of the 829 growing license applicants, only 194 have been accepted. Although he says that qualification to apply is simple, Pettinger acknowledges the inspection process is complicated and time-consuming – considering there are only seven inspectors on the team for the whole state. All applicants must file a Land Use Compatibility Statement. The process requires applicants to submit a form stating the use of the land to local government, along with a fee of $130. After local government officials inspect the proposed site and ensures it adheres with local land use regulations, applicants then submit the
date stamped form to OLCC. Only then can OLCC begin its own inspection process. Incomplete applications will also not be processed right away. When Measure 91 was passed, it didn’t only affect growing, processing and selling weed. Medical marijuana users were also impacted. Delaplain agrees. Because the dosage of medical marijuana is now capped, she has seen many patients struggle. Although they can go to multiple dispensaries to acquire enough, it’s a big inconvenience, she said. One dose of cannabis-infused edibles can have no more than 15 milligrams of THC. “Now I’m hacking people’s doses in half,” Delaplain said, referring to the 180 milligram chocolate bars she once sold whole. Some patients are able to meet their needs on the black market, Jacques said. Although the legal market is thriving, the black market is here to stay as long as marijuana remains a schedule I substance, Jacques said.
Jacques said most growers in Oregon are “guerrilla growers,” who grow marijuana without registering with the state. They often smuggle it out of Oregon to the Midwest and the East Coast. OLCC is joining in the Franwell Metrc Cannabis Tracking System to prevent licensees from leaking their cannabis product to the black market, Pettinger said. The technology uses a unique serial code system that allows the government to track the mass of every plant. Since April, OLCC has received over 1,298 applications for laboratory, processor, producer, retailer, wholesaler and research certificates, with the overwhelming majority being for recreational producers. Eugene’s marijuana industry is now established, and with growing profits, there are regulations and taxes. As marijuana seems to be moving toward normalcy, it faces many problems that other successful industry have overcome.
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Psy 607: Everything is Fucked was set to be taught by professor Srivastava Monday mornings in Straub Hall. A common concern among psychology researchers was summed up in a joke syllabus written by University of Oregon associate professor Sanjay Srivastava earlier this month. The syllabus was never intended to represent a real class, but a number of visitors to Srivastava’s blog jumped at the idea of it. “I just want you to make sure, this is a fake class,� Srivastava told the Emerald in an interview. “I have talked to some people who actually thought it was real and were disappointed when it wasn’t.� Srivastava’s class got laughs out of lay people and chuckles from other psychological researchers — the target audience of the blog according to Srivastava— but is facilitating a very real conversation. All of the readings “assigned� in the class are actual papers that deal with the “reproducibility crisis� facing psychology. A number of researchers are finding that ageold experiments that have been reproduced many times over are now beginning to turn up different results, prompting the feeling behind Srivastava’s course title. Research has been done on top of foundations that are crumbling, because so many
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factors in recreating past experiments have changed, including confirmation bias and poorly controlled variables. “A normal, well-functioning science should be producing ideas that after a while don’t pan out. That’s just what happens when you push boundaries,� Srivastava said. “In psychology, really in the last five years or so, there’s been a sense from a lot of people that we may be falling short of the expected amount of dead ends.� With questions about his profession and livelihood at hand, Srivastava responded with humor rather than despair. Working off of Michael Inzlicht’s comment in a Slate article that says “meta-analyses are fucked,� Srivastava compiled his own list of potential problem areas. “I started making a list in my mind of ‘What are all the things that are fucked?’� Srivastava said. “It was just sort of floating in the back of my mind, and at some point I thought, ‘Ok, this would be funny to turn into a syllabus.� It didn’t take long for him to realize that he successfully planned an entire quarter of readings and discussions about psychological topics that are “fucked.� Despite the relative ease that Srivastava had in compiling the list, he says that he isn’t pessimistic
about the field moving forward. Pointing to evidence that psychology is not the only science that is facing these problems, Srivastava is, “actually very optimistic about these issues.â€? “This is a set of real and important issues,â€? Srivastava said. “Some of them are sort of fundamental issues in science that are never going to be solved.â€? As a member of a brand new society, the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, which had its first meeting this summer, he is involved in working on the very issues he is joking about. Srivastava is battling the pessimistic view choking the field, using his undergraduate class, Psy 468: Motivation and Emotion, to explain the problem. Addressing the change in the historically consensual view of self-control as a depletable resource through a scientific lens, he is teaching his students to analyze the self-control experiment from its origins to the point when it was called into doubt. “If science is about discovery [‌] about pushing into the unknown, then that means taking risks,â€? he said. “Maybe this sort of thing is happening too much, maybe there are things we can do to make it happen less likely to happen [‌] but this is how science progresses.â€?
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lthough wide receiver Devon Allen went to the Olympics to represent the United States, NBC’s television coverage showed him, more often than not, as a University of Oregon representative. Whenever Allen was spotlighted throughout the coverage, much of the talk centered around his role on the Oregon football team, as well as being an Olympic track athlete. “I think that Oregon has a pretty big name already, so anybody associated with Oregon is going to get a little bit more pub,” Allen said. “It’s just kind of cool, you know, because I’m still in college representing the country as well as the school and myself and my family.” Thursday, after Allen’s second day back with the football team since he finished fifth overall in the 110-meter hurdles final in Rio De Janeiro, Oregon held a press conference for Allen to reflect on his Olympic experience and answer questions about his future. Most significantly, the question of whether or not he will turn professional in track and field. “I haven’t really decided yet, but there’s a good—I don’t know. We’ll see,” Allen said. “I guess, for me, it’s just there’s not much more I could do in college track other than break the collegiate record, which I was a couple hundredths off.” With all of Allen’s success in track, many wonder why he doesn’t focus all of his time on track and leave football. He said he values playing with his teammates and coaches in Eugene. “Football is a great thing, but, you know, it doesn’t last forever,” Allen said. “I love these guys on the team here and I just want to play with them as long as I can. So that’s pretty much the deciding factor on me whether to come back or not.” Despite missing the majority of fall camp, Allen believes he is ready for the first game of the season. The Ducks host UC Davis on Sept. 2 at Autzen Stadium to open the 2016 season. “I know the plays pretty well. Obviously I went through some stuff today and was kind of like, OK, maybe I need to brush up on some stuff,” Allen said. “So I’ve got about a week to do that. We’ll see, as long as Coach Helf and Coach Lubick see fit that I’m ready to play, they’re going to put me in there and kind of just go with the flow and get reps, and the reps will grow as the season goes. “I think we have a lot of guys that can make plays too, so it’s not really a dire need for me to play anytime soon.” Track is something that Allen believes can take him places. With next year’s World Championships in London and the next Olympic Games in Tokyo, he’s not wrong. But at the same time, Allen dreams of playing in the NFL. “In four years, I want to win a gold medal,” Allen said, “so there’s one more stepping stone to that dream, but now my next dream is to play in the NFL and, you know, the Super Bowl is always the height of that sport, too.”
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