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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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The thing about eastern Oregon’s Summer Lake is, you don’t go there for the lake. In summertime, in fact, especially during the Western drought of … Continue reading
Step into the Karin Clarke Gallery this month, and you might think you had walked through the wrong door. Instead of the gallery’s typically loose, … Continue reading
A lot of people think opera is just plain weird. But Wolfgang Mozart’s The Magic Flute is weird even by opera standards. Take a conventional quest … Continue reading