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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 17h

After a depressing summer sitting on the back deck overlooking one lone, dying birch and a grass desert with a few dandelions visited upon occasion by a bumble bee, we both agreed we wanted to create a habitat where a variety of insects and birds could visit and flourish.
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Creating a Healthy Garden

Six years ago, my sweetie and I moved from a home with a very diverse and interesting garden in the South Hills to a more normal plot in the flatlands of north Eugene. After a depressing summer sit…

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 19h

There are lots of great lesser-known places for new students who may be underage to catch a show. These venues book everything from jazz to punk, acoustic music and more. For our back-to-campus edition, we’ve compiled some of them here. Did we miss one? Let us know.

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Beyond the Bars

Eugene’s larger venues, like the Hult Center, McDonald Theatre, John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts and WOW Hall, are well-known to locals and those new to town soon hear about them. Some other pl…

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 21h

This year’s Environmental Film Festival festival kicks off with the Love Where You Live river cleanup Oct. 12. Film screenings at Art House — along with field trips and walks with nonprofits and businesses, Bulk Handling Systems, BRING Recycling, Beyond Toxics and more — are set for Oct. 13 - 19.

‘Being Part of the Solution’

It’s been a labor of love since 2017 when Ana McAbee co-founded the Eugene Environmental Film Festival. This year’s festival kicks off with the Love Where You Live river cleanup Oct. 12. Film scree…

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 1d

Eugene’s Bird Friendly Community Coalition — made up of 11 local ornithological and conservation groups — will celebrate local migratory birds with Wings on Willamette: A World Migratory Bird Day Festival 1 pm to 4 pm to Sunday, Oct. 12, at Alton Baker Park Shelters.

Birders of a Feather

The Vaux’s swifts are headed to Central America and Venezuela; the Hammond’s flycatchers have already left for Mexico; and the warbling vireo will soon, too, be flying south. Many of Lane County’s …

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 1d

A Eugene shrimp farm? An Iowa-based entrepreneur is considering building a computer data center in west Eugene and using cooling water from the facility as warm water for a shrimp farm that would be built next door. The details are fuzzy and it’s uncertain whether the project will ever move forward.

Combo Meal: Data Center and Shrimp Farm

An Iowa-based entrepreneur is considering building a computer data center in west Eugene and using cooling water from the facility as warm water for a shrimp farm that would be built next door. The…

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 2d

Sharing the bill with Lazarus Pearl on Sunday is Eve ’n the Bad Apples, a soul, funk and pop group. Cover charge $5. Read more in Eugene Weekly's What's Happening Calendar.

Musical Love at First Sight

It often happens that when talented musicians meet organically out in the world, it is musical love at first sight. But sometimes, when you’ve just become musically “single,” it’s important to put …

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 2d

It’s Banned Books Week.

Should Adolph Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf, be banned from libraries in Oregon? That is the question members of Authors Against Book Bans asked visitors to our table at the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) show in Spokane, Washington, at the end of September.

Good News on Book Bans

Should Adolph Hitler’s book Mein Kampf be banned from libraries in Oregon? That is the question members of Authors Against Book Bans asked visitors to our table at the Pacific Northwest Booksellers…

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 2d

This is a guide to some of the best options for, I’ll just be blunt, where to get your weed as a college student. Read the rest in Eugene Weekly’s Back to Campus issue.

Dazed in the Eug

Duck football Coach Dan Lanning’s famous quote, “The grass is damn green in Eugene,” is applicable to the Big E in more ways than one. Eugene is not just Tracktown USA and the home of a certain leg…

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 2d

Celebrate a decade’s worth of artistic creation at Hiding in Plain Sight, an exhibit of artist Don Hudgins’ softcut block carvings at Black Forest Tattoo in Springfield. The show kicks off with an artist’s reception 5 pm to 7:30 pm, Friday, Oct. 10, as part of downtown Springfield’s Second Friday Ar

What’s Hidden, On View

Celebrate a decade’s worth of artistic creation at Hiding in Plain Sight, an exhibit of artist Don Hudgins’ softcut block carvings at Black Forest Tattoo in Springfield. The show kicks off with an …

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 2d

Back to Campus!

Food, fun and other random bits of information for the start of the college year in Eugene Weekly’s Back to Campus issue!

Back to Campus!

It’s Oregon, so that means the college year has just begun! The West Coast likes the quarter system, so while most of the country is slogging back to school at the end of August, we like to wait ti…

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 7d

Legendary British rock singer Morrissey performs Oct. 9 at the Hult Center, though he arrives in Eugene in the doghouse with much of his once-loyal fanbase.

But we asked Eugene fans if Morrissey's political turn affected their decision to buy a ticket. Read more at EugeneWeekly.com in an online ext

Legendary British rock singer Morrissey performs Oct. 9 at the Hult Center, though he arrives in Eugene in the doghouse with much of his once-loyal fanbase. (As an aside, in his autobiography, Morr…

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 7d

It seems like magic: The Metolius River emerges fully grown at 50,000 gallons a minute from the base of an old volcano in Central Oregon. Sample the river’s wizardry with either of two easy hikes along the oasis-like riverbank.

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It seems like magic: The Metolius River emerges fully grown at 50,000 gallons a minute from the base of an old volcano in Central Oregon. Sample the river’s wizardry with either of two easy hikes a…

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 7d

The Native American Arts & Crafts Makers Market returns 10 am to 4 pm Oct. 5 at the Farmer’s Market Pavilion, showcasing works from Indigenous artisans and craftspeople from the Pacific Northwest and the Americas.

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Crafted by Native Hands

The Native American Arts & Crafts Makers Market returns Oct. 5 at the Farmer’s Market Pavilion, showcasing works from Indigenous artisans and craftspeople from the Pacific Northwest and the Ame…

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 8d

The University of Oregon Neuroscience Club is partnering with the Alzheimer’s Association for Eugene’s annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s. The event will be held on the UO campus for the first time Sunday, Oct. 5. Read more about the UO Neuroscience Club and the Walk to End Alzheimer's in Eugene Weekly.

The Annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s Strides to the UO campus

The Alzheimer’s Association’s annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s is the largest fundraiser fighting for Alzheimer’s care and research in the world, with more than 600 participating communities. The Uni…

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 8d

The “Delgani family” has a new member. Amanda Grimm played alongside Delgani String Quartet last season as a guest violist in a series of concerts in Salem, Corvallis, Portland and, finally, at Springfield’s Wildish Theater in celebration of dance with members of Eugene Ballet Company.

A New Note For Delgani

The “Delgani family” has a new member. Amanda Grimm played alongside Delgani String Quartet last season as a guest violist in a series of concerts in Salem, Corvallis, Portland and, finally, at Spr…

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 8d

The owners of one of Lane County’s most visible and unusual residential construction projects —- the massive unfinished vacant home on the east side of Interstate 5 near Coburg — have managed to cling onto the house after a two-year legal battle against their mortgage lender.

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The owners of one of Lane County’s most visible and unusual home construction projects — the massive unfinished vacant house on the east side of Interstate 5 near Coburg — have managed to cling ont…

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 9d

Pocket O’ Posies Perfumerie is a sophisticated, high-end gothic apothecary in an otherwise sleek and modernistic building. It bears a plague doctor surrounded by flowers as its logo, whose essence is present throughout the dark minimalistic gray and red shop.

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Aromatic Dramatic

When Kimberly Pimentel first walked into the newly leased commercial space in downtown Eugene’s Miner Building, it was bare and white with ugly lights, a cold cement floor and a large architectural…

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 9d

The Comic Art Festival of Eugene is 10 am to 7 pm Saturday, Oct. 4, at 5th Street Market Alley. Read the rest of Books With Pictures’ story in Eugene Weekly!

Visual Storytelling

The Pacific Northwest is an intense hotbed for independent publishers and artists of comics. That’s according to Andrea Gilroy, and she should know since she has a Ph.D. in comics. Well, not exactl…

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 9d

If “Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting,” then Friday night is an excellent time to “Crocodile Rock” with a tribute to one of the greatest performers of all time. Electric Elton is coming to the Hult Center, 7pm, Friday, Oct. 3, to deliver all of the best Elton John songs of his heyday, at half th

A Show for Rocketmen and Tiny Dancers

If “Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting,” then Friday night is an excellent time to “Crocodile Rock” with a tribute to one of the greatest performers of all time. Electric Elton is coming to the …

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 9d

Described as the “7-Eleven version of a hardware store” by owner Lucy White, who runs the store with her husband Terry White, Eugene True Value Hardware offers customers the options of buying canning jars, hammers, bike lights and nails all under one roof.

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Described as the “7-Eleven version of a hardware store” by owner Lucy White, who runs the store with her husband Terry White, Eugene True Value Hardware offers customers the options of buying canni…

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 9d

The second season of the Oregon Piano Institute’s Murdock International Piano Series begins Oct. 3 at Beall Concert Hall on the University of Oregon campus. Opening night is 7pm, where Canadian concert pianists Angela Cheng and Alvin Chow will perform works for two pianos. Read more in Eugene Weekly

Four Hands, Two Pianos

The second season of the Oregon Piano Institute’s Murdock International Piano Series begins Oct. 3 at Beall Concert Hall on the University of Oregon campus. That night, Canadian concert pianists An…

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 9d

Congresswoman Val Hoyle visited the Eugene federal building where Immigration Customs Enforcement temporarily detains immigrants for transfer to the larger Tacoma, Washington, detention center. Hoyle reports ICE staff voicing concerns over doxing, harassment and sanctuary laws that prevent them from

‘We Have A Broken System’

On Sept. 25, Congresswoman Val Hoyle exercised her right to tour the Eugene federal building where Immigrations Customs Enforcement holds detainees for 4 to 12 hours while they await transfer to th…

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 13d

“On Sept. 11, a guest viewpoint in Eugene Weekly noted, ‘LCC stands at an inflection point.’ I couldn’t agree with that sentiment more — but not for the reasons laid out,” writes the president of Lane Community College’s faculty union.

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Leading For Our Students, For Our Democracy

By Adrienne Mitchell On Sept. 11, a guest viewpoint in Eugene Weekly noted, “LCC stands at an inflection point.” I couldn’t agree with that sentiment more — but not for the reasons laid out. …

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 15d

Jana Rygas was an active political organizer and strategist who contributed to civics in Eugene for decades.

Read about Jana Rygas’ life and work in Eugene Weekly.

The Life and Legacy of Jana Rygas: June 2, 1954 – March 27, 2025

“In campaigns, there’s a lot of pressure to be perfect all the time,” former Eugene mayor Kitty Piercy says. But in her 2004 campaign, Piercy says that Jana Rygas helped her “to joke and make fun o…

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Eugene Weekly @eugeneweekly.com · 15d

Travel back in time with the NAACP Harlem Renaissance in Blue and Gold 4:30 pm, Sept. 27, at the Hult Center.

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The quickest way to Harlem

Travel back in time with the NAACP Harlem Renaissance in Blue and Gold Sept. 27 at the Hult Center. In the 1920s and ’30s, the Harlem Renaissance was a flourishing of Black voices in art, theater, …

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