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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.
New York jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli, who for more than a decade was a regular performer at The Shedd Institute in Eugene, died in New … Continue reading
One night nearly three decades ago, following a performance of Evita in which he had sung several ensemble roles, Calvin Orlando Smith stepped out on … Continue reading
Last summer, for the first time in four decades, I visited Yellowstone National Park. A 3,500-square-mile rectangle in the northwest corner of Wyoming, Yellowstone is … Continue reading
In another life, Richard Quigley was almost certainly a mellow surfer dude. The affably high-energy Eugene artist has been making art — and teaching art, … Continue reading
Conductor and cellist Eric Jacobsen, head of the popular New York chamber group The Knights, is the new third finalist for the artistic director position … Continue reading
In pornography, size really does matter — though not the way you might think. Think small size, like an iPhone instead of a film studio. … Continue reading
It’s nice to discover, at long last, that Eugene’s Wayne L. Morse Federal Courthouse is officially un-American. Who hasn’t suspected this all along? When the … Continue reading
One of three finalists being considered by the University of Oregon to become the new artistic director of the Oregon Bach Festival has pulled out … Continue reading
The Oregon Bach Festival has finally begun to re-invent itself. In the wake of a 2017 scandal that drew international publicity and threatened the festival’s … Continue reading
The Oregon Bach Festival has named three finalists in its search for an artistic director to replace Matthew Halls. They are Miguel Harth-Bedoya, music director … Continue reading