Mike McInally

An election looms. Theater or theatre? Philomath News. Hot enough for you? AI and nuclear codes -- a good combo? Steely Dan is back. And those other Pulitzers. It's all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader. mikemcinally.com/your-weekend-r…

Leigh Matthews Bock has directed "Love, Loss and What I Wore" four times in the previous decade. For her fifth (and final) time with the show, she brings it to Albany Civic Theater starting Friday. mikemcinally.com/a-fond-farewel…

OSU's "The Light Keepers" uses a rip in the universe to explore universal themes and high school students -- and everybody else. The play opens Friday, May 12 for six performances at the Whiteside Theatre. mikemcinally.com/osus-light-kee…

@kemc He was the best.

A few words about the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. What was Fagan thinking? Lee Enterprises in Buffalo. World Press Freedom Day. The coronation. Expanding stars and exploding whales. It's all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader. mikemcinally.com/your-weekend-r…

Spring weather, at last. Beavers. An easy way to get your veggies. Lee Enterprises. A requiem for newsrooms. Portland shoots back at Portland. More on that undersea leak. And Jessie Ware, just in time. It's all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader. mikemcinally.com/your-weekend-r…

I've picked my poem for Thursday's Poem in Your Pocket Day; it's a well-loved poem by Peter Sears, a former Oregon poet laureate. The poem is posted on my blog and on my voicemail. Pick your own poem for the day and join me in celebrating poetry. mikemcinally.com/a-poem-for-poe…

Get your poems ready for Thursday. Earth Day and Record Store Day fall on the same day -- coincidence? Netflix. Kristof on guns. Good Food Awards for Philomath and Corvallis. And Miller High Life. It's all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader. mikemcinally.com/your-weekend-r…

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival. "The Phantom of the Opera." The Cascadia subduction zone, harbinger of doom. Bill Bradbury. Lee Enterprises. TikTok. Twitter. NPR. Ice cream, good for you? Introverts. It's all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader. mikemcinally.com/your-weekend-r…

Breaking eclipse news. Clarence Thomas and his good friend. Twitter labels for Musk companies. A boom in homelessness. Beer awards and book awards. Flu news. "Star Wars" questions. And Ann-Margret! It's all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader. mikemcinally.com/your-weekend-r…

Your Weekend Reader for April 1-2 mikemcinally.com/your-weekend-r…

Rachel Kohler took two texts of "Taming of the Shrew" to create a streamlined version of the play that grows increasingly dark. Her "Blaming of the Shrew" opens Friday at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. mikemcinally.com/a-streamlined-…

Just in time for spring break: A (mostly) all good-news edition of Your Weekend Reader. Also: Wolverines. Comfortable shoes. Moans and groans. A historic basketball game. Traveling to Europe. "Succession." And John Wick. mikemcinally.com/your-weekend-r…

Atmospheric rivers. Greater Idaho. The Pac-12 Conference. Let's build new housing, sure, but somewhere else. School board elections. Colleges in small towns. NuScale Power. An Oscar wrapup. All this and more is in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader. mikemcinally.com/your-weekend-r…

"Everything Everywhere All at Once" seems to have the edge going into this year's Oscars. But I've been wrong before. Here are my guesses for all 23 categories. mikemcinally.com/at-this-years-…

Getting dirty with OSU's James Cassidy. The Oscars loom. When weather forecasters miss the call. NW Natural, fighting for its life. Daylight saving blues. Local journalism and Gannett. It's all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader. mikemcinally.com/your-weekend-r…

Remembering Wayne Shorter, that "Mysterious Traveller." Daylight saving time, again? Protecting butterflies and beavers. Even more on the Pac-12. Lee Enterprises. Teen voters and school elections. It's all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader. mikemcinally.com/your-weekend-r…

Christians and climate change. Closing credits at the movies. The gap between how old we are and how old we THINK we are. And, of course, the Pac-12 and the Webb telescope. It's all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader. mikemcinally.com/your-weekend-r…

Your Weekend Reader for Feb. 18-19 mikemcinally.com/your-weekend-r…

The latest on the Pac-12. Legislature ponders aid to newspapers. A bid for the Register-Guard. Ray Kopczynski's ghost phone. The Super Bowl's Radio Row. Christianity in decline. And pickleball fashion. It's all in the new edition of Your Weekend Reader. mikemcinally.com/your-weekend-r…