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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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Driver Charged in Runner’s Death

Charges filed more than a month after the fatal accident

News 3 weeks ago

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

NewsObituary 2 months 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 8 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 8 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 10 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 →

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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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