Musical Memories
Classical musician Amy Adams works a different musical genre
At least once a week, and usually more often than that, Eugene chorister Amy Adams sings for a special audience. Some listen from sofas. Others … Continue reading
Bob Keefer
Bob Keefer is Eugene Weekly's arts editor. He was a news and arts writer for The Register-Guard for 30 years before coming to EW.
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Old Age Magic
Cottage Theatre brings Shakespeare’s last play to the stage, with variations
Tony Rust must be a magician. What else could explain the eerie and wonderful magic that fills the stage in a new production he directed … Continue reading
Art of Politics
A student’s exhibit in a UO art gallery questioned UO officials’ complicity in Israel’s war in Gaza. One of the exhibit’s targets — the art school’s dean — filed a complaint. The student artist could be expelled.
Cassy Steuerwald’s art installation was titled “We Tried Throwing Them a Dinner Party.” It consisted of a small dining table with a pink tablecloth and … Continue reading
Driver Charged in Runner’s Death
Charges filed more than a month after the fatal accident
Eugene architect Scott Shawn Stolarczyk was charged on Thursday, May 29, with second degree manslaughter in the death of Sharon Schuman, a popular local musician … Continue reading
Sharon Schuman, 1946-2025
Through music, literature and running, she rose up from childhood poverty to offer decades of service to the community
Sharon Schuman, a concert violinist, political activist and retired university professor in Eugene, died Wednesday, April 23, when a driver lost control of his car … Continue reading
Oregon’s Cowboy Artist
A new book on painter C.S. Price is coming out in June, in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art
When Eugene lawyer Roger Saydack was growing up in Detroit, Michigan, his father made it a point to regularly take him and his sister to … Continue reading
Mapping for MAGA
Lane County Commission votes to rename the Willamette Valley
Posted 2025-04-01 After a contentious two-hour discussion during an unannounced meeting on Wednesday, the Lane County Board of County Commissioners voted 3-2 to rename the … Continue reading
UO Nixes Duck Coach Pay Bump
Board votes unanimously to spend the money instead on 20 percent pay raises for entire academic faculty
Posted 2025-04-01 At an unannounced emergency session held just before midnight Wednesday, April 1, the University of Oregon Board of Trustees voted unanimously to claw … Continue reading
‘A Theory of a Cat’
Artist Jud Turner offers a home to a challenging feral cat rescued from a toxic waste site in Eugene
When Greenhill Humane Society needed to find homes for a dozen feral cats and kittens that had been removed from a colony at the J.H. … Continue reading
The Mayor in Waiting
Months after winning election in a landslide, Kaarin Knudson will become Eugene’s official mayor in January
At a moment when the United States is awash in bitter divisiveness, Eugene’s mayor-elect Kaarin Knudson is being swept into office on a tsunami of … Continue reading