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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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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