Art Animals
A studio menagerie provides therapy
Eugene sculptor Jud Turner often surrounds himself at work with animals — shiny metallic critters made of recycled car parts and other industrial detritus. He’s … 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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Swinging Eugene
OFAM opens its annual jazz fest at The Shedd with Chuck Redd at the helm
Maryland jazzman Chuck Redd, who’s played with the likes of Charlie Byrd and Mel Tormé, has been a regular with the Oregon Festival of American … Continue reading
Speak of the Devil
Shedd Theatricals 2019 opens this weekend with Damn Yankees
The 18th season of musical theater at The Shedd kicks off Friday, July 12, with the opening of Damn Yankees — one of the oddest … Continue reading
Janelle McCoy Out at Oregon Bach Festival
She was behind the controversial firing of Matthew Halls
Janelle McCoy, the controversial executive director of the Oregon Bach Festival at the University of Oregon, is to be laid off and her job eliminated … Continue reading
The Comedy’s Afoot
VLT stages a cozy whodunnit about a mystery writer
We all love a good classic mystery, the kind of cozy whodunnit in which one of the biggest challenges of life — solving a murder … Continue reading
Music to Heal a Dying Planet
Contemporary composers contemplate the apocalypse
On a warm, sunny Sunday afternoon in May, hundreds of people crammed into the gymnasium at Burns High School in eastern Oregon for a concert. … Continue reading
Chilling in Nebraska
South Eugene drama students will perform new musical at international theater fest
South Eugene High School’s drama department is taking its show on the road this summer — all the way to Lincoln, Nebraska. About 40 cast … Continue reading
Bach to Summer
The Oregon Bach Festival is back — as are Eugene Symphony’s outdoor concerts
For classical music lovers, summer in Eugene means Bach. The two-week Oregon Bach Festival, a fixture here for more than four decades, opens June 28 … Continue reading
RG loses more employees as GateHouse slashes jobs
At least three more employees of The Register-Guard have lost jobs, apparently as part of a new round of layoffs by its new corporate owners, … Continue reading
A Trip to Southie
OCT’s Good People offers serious entertainment
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People, at Oregon Contemporary Theatre in a run that’s been extended through June 8, is a classically constructed play … Continue reading