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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.
Live performance all but died in and around Eugene more than six months ago. That’s when the COVID-19 pandemic began to take hold in Oregon, … Continue reading
Here at Eugene Weekly we freely confess we’ve been obsessing over the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests for the past few decades years … Continue reading
When he was a boy growing up in New York, Mike Schill wanted a dog. His parents said, “No.” Flash forward a few decades, and … Continue reading
In the theater world, timing is everything, as Bill Rauch certainly knows. The visionary who ran the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for a decade moved to … Continue reading
A gently humorous era comes to an end later this month when Eugene cartoonist Jan Eliot retires her popular family cartoon strip Stone Soup after 25 … Continue reading
One of my happiest if most-unexpected discoveries while sheltering at home this spring has been this: You can learn a lot about visual art — … Continue reading
Just before Oregon plunged into lockdown this spring, Eugene artist Julia Oldham began a new art project. She had brought home an elderly, sick and … Continue reading
Oregon has a new official poet laureate. On May 4, Anis Mojgani became the 10th poet to enjoy that slightly archaic-sounding title — and the … Continue reading
Ian Whitcomb, a longtime favorite performer and lecturer in Eugene at the The Shedd Institute’s Oregon Festival of American Music, died in Los Angeles Sunday, … Continue reading
For the first time in half a century, Eugene will have a summer without the sounds of Bach. Bowing to the danger of the novel … Continue reading