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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.
Following an unprecedented delay, on August 15 Gov. Tina Kotek named Bend poet, non-fiction writer and writing instructor Ellen Waterston to be Oregon’s 11th poet … Continue reading
Kari Boldon Welch is the first to admit she’s a newcomer to the colorful world of opera. “I don’t know a ton about opera,” she … Continue reading
One night in late 2016, Booker Bartow — best known in those days, if at all, as a skateboard videographer and hip-hop DJ performing as … Continue reading
One of the least known — but most influential — photographers ever to work in Oregon is the late Terry Toedtemeier. Trained as a scientist … Continue reading
Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley has been made into a movie twice, the more recent attempt, in 1999, featuring Matt Damon in … Continue reading
Having been banished to artistic obsolescence for the past few decades, black and white photography is enjoying a renaissance in the art world, from the … Continue reading
In 1974, the late Jan Zach, an internationally known sculptor teaching at the University of Oregon, pulled off a big idea. Gathering $145,000 in grant … Continue reading
The eeriest and most resonant public space in all of Eugene, if not in all of Oregon, is about to be demolished before more than … Continue reading
Eight years ago, Eugene Ballet created an entirely new ballet from scratch. The Snow Queen, which was performed in April 2017, featured original choreography by … Continue reading
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival seems to have been under a terrible curse since 2011, when a structural beam supporting the Angus Bowmer Theatre mysteriously snapped … Continue reading