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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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Book Launch at Tsunami

Valerie Ihsan unveils her new memoir with a reading and discussion

ArtsBooksEW-Extra 2 weeks ago

Springfield author, life coach and podcaster Valerie Ishan will read from, discuss and sign copies of her latest book, You Can’t Dance a Lie: A … Continue reading →

Death Wish Tourism

Nothing livens up Oregon’s winter like the sunshine and culture of Death Valley

Travel 3 weeks ago

I can’t walk very far across wide open desert flats anywhere without humming to myself “Cool Water,” Bob Nolan’s 1930s singing-cowboy classic about a thirsty miner … Continue reading →

Life Lessons from Shakespeare

Dorothy Velasco’s new work was inspired by the real-life Eugene Shakespeare Club

ArtsBlogEW-ExtraTheater 1 month ago

Springfield playwright Dorothy Velasco’s latest play, Ladies Shakespeare Club, premieres Friday, Feb. 17, for a two-weekend run at Very Little Theatre’s intimate Stage Left. The … Continue reading →

Gloria Inge Pfund: 1956-2023

Once a bright young California girl, she died homeless on the streets of Eugene after years battling drugs and schizophrenia

NewsObituary 2 months ago

Growing up in Southern California, Gloria Pfund lived a charmed life in an upper middle-class family, with horses, nice clothes and caring parents. On the … Continue reading →

William Biyinzika Loveall: 1998-2022

Rescued from poverty in Uganda, he died as a result of untreated schizophrenia in the U.S.

NewsObituary 2 months ago

William Biyinzika Loveall, a bright young man who came to Springfield from Uganda as a teenage boy, died by suicide on June 16 in Bend … Continue reading →

Life Lessons in the Death House

VLT opens an adaptation of a prize-winning novel on facing mortality

ArtsBlogTheater 2 months ago

In Ernest J. Gaines’ 1993 novel A Lesson Before Dying, a young African American man innocent of any crime is sentenced to the electric chair … Continue reading →

Yesterday’s Art

EWEB isn’t sure what it will do with a 1929 sculpture by a once-famous artist if it demolishes historic Leaburg Dam

ArtsNews 3 months ago
Art deco cast-concrete outdoor frieze. A part of the Leaburg Dam.

When the manager and staff of the Eugene Water and Electric Board in November recommended decommissioning the Leaburg Dam on the McKenzie River, and the … Continue reading →

Community Vision

The developer whose vision shaped Eugene talks about his vision for the city

News 3 months ago
A photo of Brian Obie.

Walk into the Market Alley that connects The Gordon Hotel to Fifth Street Public Market in Eugene, and you might for a moment think you’re … Continue reading →

Christmas May Yet Come to Pemberley

OCT's COVID-delayed production of the holiday show is now set to open Dec. 14

BlogTheater 4 months ago

The Grinch known as COVID has done its best to steal Christmas this year at Eugene’s Oregon Contemporary Theatre. But OCT is fighting back and … Continue reading →

All the Saints

A new show by Olga Volchkova imagines a nature-based version of sainthood

Visual Arts 4 months ago

One of the most remarkable shows I’ve seen in years of writing about art wraps up this week at the Karin Clarke Gallery in Eugene. … 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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