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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.

Author: Bob Keefer

UO Nixes Duck Coach Pay Bump

Board votes unanimously to spend the money instead on 20 percent pay raises for entire academic faculty 

Satire 6 months ago
University of oregon duck statue

Posted 2025-04-01 At an unannounced emergency session held just before midnight Wednesday, April 1, the University of Oregon Board of Trustees voted unanimously to claw … Continue reading →

‘A Theory of a Cat’

Artist Jud Turner offers a home to a challenging feral cat rescued from a toxic waste site in Eugene

News 9 months ago

When Greenhill Humane Society needed to find homes for a dozen feral cats and kittens that had been removed from a colony at the J.H. … Continue reading →

The Mayor in Waiting

Months after winning election in a landslide, Kaarin Knudson will become Eugene’s official mayor in January

News 10 months ago

At a moment when the United States is awash in bitter divisiveness, Eugene’s mayor-elect Kaarin Knudson is being swept into office on a tsunami of … Continue reading →

Death Knell for Clutter

A writer discovers the late-life joys of döstädning

Culture 11 months ago

Let’s get this straight right now: I’m not planning to die anytime soon. But consider: One day you’re young and in recklessly good health; the … Continue reading →

The Three Colors of Nature

After a two-decade hiatus, artist Mike Pease is back with a Eugene gallery show

Visual Arts 11 months ago

The first thing to know about Mike Pease’s art is how incredibly precise his process is for producing it.  Pease creates his careful landscapes, rendered … Continue reading →

A Season of Change

The audience gets to listen in this fall as Eugene’s two classical orchestras try out new musical leaders

Music 1 year ago

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 →

Rhymin’ Time Again

After a nudge from EW, the governor at last springs into action and appoints a new poet laureate

News 1 year ago

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 →

Operatic Debut

Eugene actress and arts administrator Kari Welch takes charge of Eugene Opera

News 1 year ago

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 →

Drawing Themselves Straight

The son of Oregon’s late Indigenous artist Rick Bartow begins to walk in his father’s footsteps with a gallery show in Newport

Visual Arts 1 year ago

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 →

Beauty in Basalt

A small exhibit of landscape photos at the Schnitzer Museum is worth visiting campus to see

Visual Arts 1 year ago

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 →

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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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