We've got issues.
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.
Fall is on its way, and change is in the air in Eugene’s performing arts world. Just in the past year or two Eugene Symphony, … Continue reading
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