Best Actor/Actress
Storm Kennedy Stormkennedy.com. Colin Gray Facebook.com/colintheroo. Evynne Hollens Evynnehollens.com. You might say that Lisa Wilken has taken Eugene theater by storm — by “Storm Kennedy,” that … 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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Best Secondhand Shop
St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County Thrift store and organization headquarters at 2890 Chad Drive, 541-687-5820. Fifteen retail outlets in western Oregon include … Continue reading
Best Indie Bookstore
Smith Family Bookstore 525 Willamette Street, 541-343-4717; 768 E. 13th Avenue, (541) 345-1651. Smithfamilybookstore.com. Tsunami Books 2585 Willamette Street, 541-345-8986. Tsunamibooks.org. Black Sun Books 2467 … Continue reading
Nightmare in Pittsburgh
A retired Eugene rabbi overslept — and missed the synagogue service attacked by a gunman
Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin, the retired leader of Eugene’s Temple Beth Israel, may be alive today because he overslept on Saturday. Husbands-Hankin was visiting the Squirrel … Continue reading
It’s All Happening at the Zoo
America’s alienation never sounded so articulate before Albee
As the lights come up on Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo, now making a short run at Oregon Contemporary Theatre, we find ourselves … Continue reading
Nightmares in Pittsburgh
A retired Eugene rabbi overslept — and missed the synagogue service attacked by a gunman
Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin, the retired leader of Eugene’s Temple Beth Israel, may be alive today because he overslept on Saturday. Husbands-Hankin was visiting the Squirrel … Continue reading
Parsing the UO Puppet Show
A new book details how Nike controls the University of Oregon
The ancient Greeks called it peripeteia, the turning point in a classical tragedy that comes when the hero makes a decision that inevitably seals his … Continue reading
RG Goes Full Frontal in Artsy Website Ad at Top of Home Page
Jock Sturges photo is strong stuff for mainstream newspaper site
Like many newspapers in recent years, The Register-Guard relies on digital advertising to shore up flagging print ad revenues. But that often means outsourcing the … Continue reading
A small show of Mark Clarke’s paintings reminds us of what we lost
The late Mark Clarke was such a gentle, unassuming man that it was easy, when he was alive, to forget what a masterful artist he … Continue reading
Solving the Big Problems
Eugene’s Matt Ginsberg just wants life to be interesting
“Information,” Matt Ginsberg says, “is stored in my head in a slightly odd way.” We’re sitting outside at Starbucks near Valley River Center on a … Continue reading