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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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Coming Home

Portland singer-songwriter Laryssa Birdseye reaches out to her roots when she returns to Eugene  this weekend

Music 2 weeks ago

More than a decade ago, when she was just another unhappy teenager at South Eugene High School, Laryssa Birdseye took solace in music and drama, … Continue reading →

The Bard is Back 

After taking 2021 off, a much-changed OSF kicks off a new season

Theater 4 weeks ago

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is back. After two years of pandemic shutdown, made worse by summer wildfire closures and the layoffs of 90 percent of … Continue reading →

Headed for the Great White Way

A 28-year-old playwright who grew up in Eugene hits the big time next month when her new play opens on Broadway

Theater 1 month ago

Broadway is the stuff of legend in American theater. We have songs about the difficulty of making it there, like “On Broadway,” first made popular … Continue reading →

PERS Death Squads

Balancing Oregon’s state budget with a pandemic and extreme prejudice

Satire 2 months ago

In a desperate effort to get Oregon’s Public Employees Retirement System financial crisis under control, state officials have turned to murder, Eugene Weekly found in … Continue reading →

Art? No Foolin’

A spring blizzard of exhibits awaits art lovers at the April 1 First Friday Art Walk

ArtsVisual Arts 2 months ago

It’s been a long, dreary pandemic — especially for the arts world —  but following last month’s relaxation of masking rules for public spaces, the … Continue reading →

Back to Basics

A longtime rural gardener finds the secret to success is to aim low

Gardening 2 months ago

Every year about this time, I look out at the garden that takes up a large swath of our property next to the house, and … Continue reading →

Faces and Places

Downtown galleries celebrate Oregon’s unmasking with portraits and landscapes

Visual Arts 2 months ago

Two early spring shows at Eugene galleries in March are worth a trip downtown. It’s just plain serendipity that the exhibit about to open at … Continue reading →

Lawsuit Filed in Homeless Death

As she slept in a parking lot in 2019, Annette Montero was run over by a Sanipac truck

News 3 months ago

More than two years after a homeless woman was run over and killed by a garbage truck as she slept in a parking lot near … Continue reading →

Glossy Memories

A sprawling exhibition of work by the late Chinese American artist Hung Liu at the Schnitzer Museum

Visual Arts 3 months ago

It wasn’t supposed to work out this way. After nationally prominent artist Hung Liu and her collaborator, printmaker David Salgado, agreed in 2018 to donate … Continue reading →

TRIPS for Journalism

You can now support local journalism around Eugene with tax-deductible donations to a new foundation started by EW

News 3 months ago

Eugene Weekly has launched a new nonprofit foundation to boost community journalism in the southern Willamette Valley. The nonprofit Twin Rivers Institute for Press Sustainability … 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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