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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.
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
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 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
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