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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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Sharon Schuman, 1946-2025

Through music, literature and running, she rose up from childhood poverty to offer decades of service to the community

NewsObituary 4 weeks ago

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

Arts 2 months ago

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

Satire 2 months ago

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 

Satire 2 months ago
University of oregon duck statue

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

News 5 months ago

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

News 6 months ago

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 →

Death Knell for Clutter

A writer discovers the late-life joys of döstädning

Culture 7 months ago

Let’s get this straight right now: I’m not planning to die anytime soon. But consider: One day you’re young and in recklessly good health; the … Continue reading →

The Three Colors of Nature

After a two-decade hiatus, artist Mike Pease is back with a Eugene gallery show

Visual Arts 7 months ago

The first thing to know about Mike Pease’s art is how incredibly precise his process is for producing it.  Pease creates his careful landscapes, rendered … Continue reading →

A Season of Change

The audience gets to listen in this fall as Eugene’s two classical orchestras try out new musical leaders

Music 9 months ago

Fall is on its way, and change is in the air in Eugene’s performing arts world. Just in the past year or two Eugene Symphony, … Continue reading →

Rhymin’ Time Again

After a nudge from EW, the governor at last springs into action and appoints a new poet laureate

News 9 months ago

Following an unprecedented delay, on August 15 Gov. Tina Kotek named Bend poet, non-fiction writer and writing instructor Ellen Waterston to be Oregon’s 11th poet … Continue reading →

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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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