My Pitbull Ate Your Newspaper
Photo contests, vet bills and even a couple cats
As Weekly photographer Eve Weston was doing a photo shoot for this week’s cover, a man hollered from a truck driving by our bright red … Continue reading
Camilla Mortensen
Camilla Mortensen is the longtime local editor of Eugene Weekly, the area’s alternative newspaper. The paper, which has been in print since 1982 (originally as What’s Happening) continues to print more than 27,000 copies a week in addition to its popular email newsletters and website. Camilla has a masters degree in folklore and mythology from UCLA and a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Oregon. She has been a reporter and editor at EW since 2007 and teaches journalism at the UO in the mornings before heading to the Weekly’s office. She also teaches newswriting at Lane Community College and advises The Torch student newspaper.
Author: Camilla Mortensen
Activist Alert
Protests, activism and more around Lane County
“Which side are you on, boy?/ Which side are you on? My daddy was a freedom fighter/ And I’m my daddy’s son/ And I will … Continue reading
‘In da Clerb, We all Fam’
Need to get out more? There’s a club for that!
By Camilla Mortensen We’re a couple years past Netflix and chill and the days of COVID shutdowns (and hoping to stay that way), but some … Continue reading
Activist Alert
Protests, activism and more around Lane County
‘In the largest sense, every work of art is protest… A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it… A hymn is a … Continue reading
Fire Near Oakridge and Old Hazeldell Quarry Site
The Aubrey Mountain fire broke out August 7, east of Oakridge and firefighters continue suppression efforts
Shortly before 4 pm Thursday, August 7, a vegetation fire was reported along Highway 58 near milepost 37, just east of the city of Oakridge … Continue reading
Activist Alert
Protests, activism and more around Lane County
‘Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights/ Get up, stand up, don’t give up the fight.’ — Bob Marley Upcoming Rallies, Marches, Talks, Trainings … Continue reading
Activist Alert
Protests, activism and more around Lane County
‘Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.’ — Ovid Upcoming Rallies, Marches, Talks, Trainings and Protests • Rejecting Billionaire Rule and … Continue reading
Activist Alert
Protests, activism and more around Lane County
‘Many of us didn’t choose to become activists. We were activated.’ — Black Lives Matter activist and former Rep. Cori Bush Upcoming Rallies, Marches, Talks, … Continue reading
Activist Alert
Protests, activism and more around Lane County
‘Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.’ — Rep. John Lewis on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, … Continue reading
When Life Gives you Lemons
You squeeze those beater cars into races and rallies
I clutched the steering wheel — my hands dutifully at 10 and 2 o’clock — and stared through the bug-spattered windshield at the race track … Continue reading