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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

The Question of Youth

Symphony orchestras, dance companies and other performing groups wrestle with the question of who their audience is, or ought to be

Arts 10 months ago

One of the biggest fears in the performing arts world in recent years has been about demographics. Look around the audience for a classical music … Continue reading →

UO Dismisses Complaint Against Student

The dean of the College of Design had accused an undergraduate of antisemitism for an art exhibit

News 10 months ago

In a 14-page Notice of Dismissal dated August 27, an outside investigator hired by the University of Oregon ruled that a complaint filed in January … Continue reading →

Musical Memories 

Classical musician Amy Adams works a different musical genre

Music 11 months ago

At least once a week, and usually more often than that, Eugene chorister Amy Adams sings for a special audience. Some listen from sofas. Others … Continue reading →

Old Age Magic

Cottage Theatre brings Shakespeare’s last play to the stage, with variations

News 11 months ago

Tony Rust must be a magician. What else could explain the eerie and wonderful magic that fills the stage in a new production he directed … Continue reading →

Art of Politics

A student’s exhibit in a UO art gallery questioned UO officials’ complicity in Israel’s war in Gaza. One of the exhibit’s targets — the art school’s dean — filed a complaint. The student artist could be expelled. 

NewsVisual Arts 11 months ago

Cassy Steuerwald’s art installation was titled “We Tried Throwing Them a Dinner Party.” It consisted of a small dining table with a pink tablecloth and … Continue reading →

Driver Charged in Runner’s Death

Charges filed more than a month after the fatal accident

News 1 year ago

Eugene architect Scott Shawn Stolarczyk was charged on Thursday, May 29, with second degree manslaughter in the death of Sharon Schuman, a popular local musician … Continue reading →

Sharon Schuman, 1946-2025

Through music, literature and running, she rose up from childhood poverty to offer decades of service to the community

NewsObituary 1 year ago

Sharon Schuman, a concert violinist, political activist and retired university professor in Eugene, died Wednesday, April 23, when a driver lost control of his car … Continue reading →

Oregon’s Cowboy Artist

A new book on painter C.S. Price is coming out in June, in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art

Arts 1 year ago

When Eugene lawyer Roger Saydack was growing up in Detroit, Michigan, his father made it a point to regularly take him and his sister to … Continue reading →

Mapping for MAGA 

Lane County Commission votes to rename the Willamette Valley

Satire 1 year ago

Posted 2025-04-01 After a contentious two-hour discussion during an unannounced meeting on Wednesday, the Lane County Board of County Commissioners voted 3-2 to rename the … Continue reading →

UO Nixes Duck Coach Pay Bump

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

Satire 1 year 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 →

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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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