It’s a Miracle!
Milagro tells the story of a Eugene girl’s miraculous bicultural life
OK, show of hands: Who in the arts world hasn’t ever daydreamed of writing a musical and having it go to Broadway? Eugene singer Evynne … 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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Smoked Out
Wildfire smoke in Ashland canceled all but two August performances of the only play running this summer at Oregon Shakespeare Festival
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, which shut down most of this season and last due to COVID, has been slammed by wildfire smoke as it tries … Continue reading
Oregon Culture Takes a Road Trip
Eugene’s Liza Burns wins design competition to create new Oregon Cultural Trust license plate
You may not think of your Oregon license plate as a work of art. The Oregon Cultural Trust does, though, and on Sept. 15 the … Continue reading
Surprise! Now say, ‘I Do’
An orchestra conductor springs a wedding on a former ballerina in Eugene
When Victoria Allen-Harvey walked into the Hult Center on July 8, she thought she was there just to watch a quick photo shoot on the … Continue reading
A Very Earnest Fannie
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival rebounds from the pandemic with a rushed and borrowed show — and no Shakespeare
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has had a very rough couple of years. Already hurting from the late summer wildfires whose billowing smoke shut down performances … Continue reading
Shakespeare Festival Seeks Comeback, Cuts Indoor Shows
OSF will stage a single one-woman show followed by a holiday special for the 2021 season
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland has been having a rough time in the pandemic. In March 2020, after shutting down all three of its … Continue reading
Oregon’s Wildlife Savior
A new biography of William L. Finley honors a pioneer conservationist
Plenty of people, at least in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, have heard of the William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge a little south of Corvallis. But … Continue reading
Sold!
A Eugene techie won our auction and paid $1,000 for a unique digital copy of an EW cover
Eugene software engineer Miguel Cervera has been a student of blockchain technology for years. “Many of the use cases for NFTs have not been discovered … Continue reading
The Photographer and the Poet
Terri Warpinski talks about her words-image collaboration in a show about the southern border at Maude Kerns
Transcending Borders, which runs through April 30 at Maude Kerns Art Center, offers a photographic look at the U.S. southern border from a variety of … Continue reading
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You, too, can own a unique piece of collectible, locally produced crypto art — and support local journalism in the process. Here’s how.
For the first time ever, Eugene Weekly is offering the public the chance to buy the cover of our newspaper. That’s digitally speaking, of course. … Continue reading