A Gray Day is Beautiful, Too
White Lotus offers new paintings by Margaret Prentice
Some people look forward to retirement. They plan for the time when they can stop working and do nothing but take it easy and relax. … Continue reading
Year: 2017
Monsters Far Away and Close to Home
Though missing the mark, Colossal remains an intriguing failure of a film
A carousing alcoholic with a tendency toward blackout, Gloria (the excellent Anne Hathaway) saunters home at sunrise one morning to find that her boyfriend, Tim … Continue reading
Biz Beat
From co-housing to social bicycles
• A second, smaller cohousing project is forming downtown while the more ambitious Oakleigh Meadow project off River Road continues, despite legal delays. Eugene Cohousing Downtown will have 15 … Continue reading
Trouble on Water Lane
Will Alpine residents run out of water with new development?
For Southern Benton County resident Garrick Balsly, concern about his water supply and the health of his land started nearly five years ago when his … Continue reading
Farr Right? Farr Left? Farr Gone?
And you thought the Eugene City Council was goofy?
Cultural diversity stood at center stage when our Lane County commissioners bypassed conservative and liberal women and struck a blow for civil liberty. At this … Continue reading
Oregon Roots
Portland sister trio Joseph have Oregon Roots
Portland roots-harmony sister trio Joseph take their name from the northeastern Oregon town of Joseph. Band member Allison Closner says she and her sisters spent … Continue reading
Femme Diversifiée
Siri Vik’s Femme Fatale opens Friday at The Shedd
For some musicians, performing is just stepping onto a stage, singing into a mic, playing a guitar, hitting a few drums — or whatever else … Continue reading
County Initiative Power Under Attack?
Proposed community rights initiatives get OK to move forward, for now
The fight over the initiative process in Lane County took a new turn last month. Judge Karsten Rasmussen, presiding judge of the Lane County Circuit … Continue reading
Letters to the Editor 2017-04-27
EW FAILS TO SAVE PLANET Earth Day has become something of a joke, an ineffective gesture now pretty much forgotten. But nobody told Eugene Weekly. … Continue reading
Someday My Prince Will Come
A new-old look at a classic tale in Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella at the Hult
It’s not every day that an established playwright and screenwriter passes on an opportunity to create an updated Broadway show, but that’s just what Douglas … Continue reading