Murder in Black and White
The latest, creepy, The Talented Mr. Ripley
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
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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Back to Black (and White)
Photography at Oregon’s show at Maude Kerns Art Center revels in a return to monochrome
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
When Art Mattered
Six big-name sculptors came to Eugene in 1974, and some of their art still lingers
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 Secret Temple of EWEB
Let’s give College Hill Reservoir the splendid musical sendoff it deserves before it falls victim to progress
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
Ballet Score Takes Flight
Eugene Ballet’s Peter Pan will be performed to an original score by Portland composer Kenji Bunch. It’s the biggest piece he’s ever worked on.
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
Undoing the Curse
Oregon Shakespeare Festival opens the Scottish play — and begins to heal
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
Trumpstone
Donald Trump moves to Eugene, where he bought the Crapstone complex and plans to take over the University of Oregon Athletic Department
Faced with hundreds of millions of dollars in civil penalties and the collapse of his real estate empire, former president Donald Trump is moving his … Continue reading
Eugene Hops on the e-Train
A revolutionary revision to the city’s transportation plan will put us on the map, officials say
Despite fierce criticism from downtown drivers whose commutes have been disrupted by the city’s downtown bike-lane project, city planners have expanded the municipal transportation program … Continue reading
Plummeting into the Afterlife
OCT’s ‘Ride the Cyclone’ is the best thing to happen on stage in Eugene this year
As the lights come up on this brilliant little musical that opened March 1 at Oregon Contemporary Theatre, we learn that six members of the … Continue reading
Picturing a Myth
Barbora Bakalarova’s dark manipulated photography has begun to find an audience
One of the most interesting but least known photographers around town is showing her unusual work during February at two local arts venues: The New … Continue reading