EW’s Annual Pet Photo Contest Winners
You submitted 'em; we voted
Thank you to everyone who entered this year’s Pet Photo Contest. Submissions were judged by our staff, with winners selected for the categories of Cutest … Continue reading
Whats-Happening: Page 383
The Pets Issue
Dogs, cats and chimps, oh my!
What are “pets,” anyway? Humans have kept animals around for just about as long as we’ve been human. Dogs helped us hunt. Cats guarded the … Continue reading
Pot Petition
Creswell’s One Gro seeks to repeal the town’s pot ban and create a local monopoly
In a small café just off I-5 that proprietors hope to convert into a weed dispensary, a marijuana company’s leaders met with a few citizens … Continue reading
The Fuzzbutt Network
Sniffing out the Eugene-Springfield Husky/Malamute Meet-up
At a recent Eugene Husky/Malamute Meet-Up at Amazon dog park, 50 or more huskies and malamutes play like there’s no tomorrow — running in giant … Continue reading
Good News!
Shedd Theatricals revives a seldom-seen Broadway show
The year is 1927. The Great War, which we now remember as World War I, is a distant memory. The stock market is booming. Life … Continue reading
Need a Dog?
Consider taking in a hard-to-adopt dog like Tank
When you’re looking to adopt a dog, you’re probably thinking of a sweet, quiet dog that comes right up to the cage and gives you … Continue reading
Songbook Standards
Oregon Festival of American Music celebrates the show tunes of the mid-20th century
These days, we take pop songs and turn them into musicals: Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys, Beautiful, etc. It used to be the other way around, back … Continue reading
Out to Pasture
Oregon Horse Rescue strives to give unwanted horses a forever home
Humans, if we’re very lucky, get to retire in some comfort. Horses — some of humankind’s closest companions for thousands of years — have to … Continue reading
Anti-Capitalist Art Punks
Kilynn Lunsford, vocalist with noisy art-rock band Taiwan Housing Project, is feeling scattered as she talks to me on the phone from her home in … Continue reading
Chimps Inc.
An Oregon chimpanzee sanctuary cares for rescued chimps
On a stifling summer day in Oregon’s high desert, I drive past several ranches with cattle, horses, goats and a few llamas or alpacas. I … Continue reading