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November 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Liquid Cross, a compelling new Eugene punk trio, plays its first-ever show 8pm, Friday, Nov. 21, at Moon Rock Records.
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Read more in Eugene Weekly’s What’s Happening Calendar!
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Liquid Cross, a compelling new Eugene punk trio, plays its first-ever show 8pm, Friday, Nov. 21, at Moon Rock Records.
Read more in Eugene Weekly’s What’s Happening Calendar!
Read more in Eugene Weekly’s What’s Happening Calendar!
Elizabeth Carroll spent over a decade at Franz Bakery in Springfield. For much of that time, she says, she endured sexual harassment from her supervisor.
Read more of the story from the Catalyst Journalism Project in Eugene Weekly.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Elizabeth Carroll spent over a decade at Franz Bakery in Springfield. For much of that time, she says, she endured sexual harassment from her supervisor.
Read more of the story from the Catalyst Journalism Project in Eugene Weekly.
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Read more of the story from the Catalyst Journalism Project in Eugene Weekly.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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“I’ve been wanting to write for a very long time. It feels like it has been a lifetime. In truth, it may have been. The life we’ve known is dead. Witnessing the downfall of the American lie hasn’t garnished the feeling I imagined it would."
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Read more from Ayisha Elliott, Black Girl from Eugene.
Fall of the Myth
I’ve been wanting to write for a very long time. It feels like it has been a lifetime. In truth, it may have been. The life we’ve known is dead. Witnessing the downfall of the American lie ha…
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November 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“I’ve been wanting to write for a very long time. It feels like it has been a lifetime. In truth, it may have been. The life we’ve known is dead. Witnessing the downfall of the American lie hasn’t garnished the feeling I imagined it would."
Read more from Ayisha Elliott, Black Girl from Eugene.
Read more from Ayisha Elliott, Black Girl from Eugene.
Feeding birds is enjoyed by millions of people worldwide, and it’s interesting to see different birds coming to feeders at different times of year due to the migratory patterns.
Read more about feeding birds in this month’s Garden Palette!
Read more about feeding birds in this month’s Garden Palette!
Birds in Winter
By Dan and Barbara Gleason This month, the Garden Palette is offering something different. Gardens attract insects and insects attract birds. If you are new to the area, here are some tips by Dan a…
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November 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Feeding birds is enjoyed by millions of people worldwide, and it’s interesting to see different birds coming to feeders at different times of year due to the migratory patterns.
Read more about feeding birds in this month’s Garden Palette!
Read more about feeding birds in this month’s Garden Palette!
Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble will bring sound to Nosferatu by scoring a screening of the movie at The Monkey’s Paw 7 pm to 8 pm Saturday, Nov. 15. Accompanied by instruments such as violins, a trombone and even a triangle, Nosferatu will be given a new lifeblood. Free, but donations appreciated.
A Night with Nosferatu
Stephenie Meyer’s vampires in her Twilight series were sparkly cool kids who beguiled the town of Forks, Washington, with their elusiveness, mystery and beauty. In Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vamp…
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November 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble will bring sound to Nosferatu by scoring a screening of the movie at The Monkey’s Paw 7 pm to 8 pm Saturday, Nov. 15. Accompanied by instruments such as violins, a trombone and even a triangle, Nosferatu will be given a new lifeblood. Free, but donations appreciated.
Grindcore and extreme metal bands from as far away as Ohio descend on Eugene 3 pm to midnight Saturday, Nov. 15, and Sunday, Nov. 16, for Grinding Up Eugene II, a two-day music festival at 255 Madison.
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Read more in Eugene Weekly’s What’s Happening Calendar!
Always be Grinding
Grindcore and extreme metal bands from as far away as Ohio descend on Eugene this weekend for Grinding Up Eugene II, a two-day music festival at 255 Madison. Coproduced by DIY bookers Nail House an…
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November 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Grindcore and extreme metal bands from as far away as Ohio descend on Eugene 3 pm to midnight Saturday, Nov. 15, and Sunday, Nov. 16, for Grinding Up Eugene II, a two-day music festival at 255 Madison.
Read more in Eugene Weekly’s What’s Happening Calendar!
Read more in Eugene Weekly’s What’s Happening Calendar!
On Dec. 3, 2024, a worker from a Eugene consulting firm drove to two quiet sideroads near the Eugene Airport and, in close to freezing temperatures, stuck two plastic signs in a grassy field. The signs stated a public neighborhood meeting was set for Dec. 17 via Zoom.
Obscure ‘Neighborhood Meeting’ Paved Way for Amazon
On Dec. 3, 2024, a worker from a Eugene consulting firm drove to two quiet sideroads near the Eugene Airport and, in close to freezing temperatures, stuck two plastic signs in a grassy field. The 2…
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November 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
On Dec. 3, 2024, a worker from a Eugene consulting firm drove to two quiet sideroads near the Eugene Airport and, in close to freezing temperatures, stuck two plastic signs in a grassy field. The signs stated a public neighborhood meeting was set for Dec. 17 via Zoom.
The magic and full force of a concert choir comes to life again Nov. 15 and 16 when Eugene Vocal Arts takes the Soreng Theater stage at Hult Center.
Read more in Eugene Weekly’s What’s Happening Calendar.
Read more in Eugene Weekly’s What’s Happening Calendar.
A New Season To Sing
The magic and full force of a concert choir comes to life again Nov. 15 and 16 when Eugene Vocal Arts takes the Soreng Theater stage at Hult Center. Eugene Vocal Arts will perform selections from I…
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November 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The magic and full force of a concert choir comes to life again Nov. 15 and 16 when Eugene Vocal Arts takes the Soreng Theater stage at Hult Center.
Read more in Eugene Weekly’s What’s Happening Calendar.
Read more in Eugene Weekly’s What’s Happening Calendar.
Read Savannah Brown’s interview with Craig Allen Smith, who portrays the title character in the national touring cast of ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ at EugeneWeekly.com.
A Hip Old Nanny Hits the Stage
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), one of the ultimate Robin William’s ’90s vehicles — chock full of his expert improv and run by fruitings — is everyone’s favorite poignant story about fatherhood, masculinity…
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November 14, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Read Savannah Brown’s interview with Craig Allen Smith, who portrays the title character in the national touring cast of ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ at EugeneWeekly.com.
The November Second Friday Art Walk features Indigenous artists at Springfield City Hall Gallery, 5 pm to 7 pm Friday, Nov. 14, at Springfield City Hall Gallery. The art show is called First People: Expressions of how we move in your world
Read more in Eugene Weekly’s What’s Happening Calendar.
Read more in Eugene Weekly’s What’s Happening Calendar.
An Immersive Indigenous Art Walk Bridging the Gap
The November Second Friday Art Walk features Indigenous artists at Springfield City Hall Gallery. The art show is called First People: Expressions of how we move in your world, and is centered aro…
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November 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The November Second Friday Art Walk features Indigenous artists at Springfield City Hall Gallery, 5 pm to 7 pm Friday, Nov. 14, at Springfield City Hall Gallery. The art show is called First People: Expressions of how we move in your world
Read more in Eugene Weekly’s What’s Happening Calendar.
Read more in Eugene Weekly’s What’s Happening Calendar.
On Sept. 25, Lotus Black of Black Blossom Bakery shared a screenshot on Facebook of an order the bakery received for a cake featuring an image of Charlie Kirk, along with an American flag, a cross with the words “God,” “family,” and “country.”
“You couldn’t pay me enough to make a cake like this,”
“You couldn’t pay me enough to make a cake like this,”
Caked in Controversy
Lotus Black, owner of Black Blossom Bakery in Springfield, first realized they could use their baking and art as activism after President Donald Trump won re-election to a ’second term in 2024.&nbs…
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November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
On Sept. 25, Lotus Black of Black Blossom Bakery shared a screenshot on Facebook of an order the bakery received for a cake featuring an image of Charlie Kirk, along with an American flag, a cross with the words “God,” “family,” and “country.”
“You couldn’t pay me enough to make a cake like this,”
“You couldn’t pay me enough to make a cake like this,”
EW lists everything from traditional Christmas music events and gift markets to drag shows and a walk-through holiday experience at the Cottage Grove Speedway. We even have a couple ideas for celebrating the winter solstice on the coast.
Read all the Winter Happenings in Eugene Weekly!
Read all the Winter Happenings in Eugene Weekly!
Celebrating the Winter Solstice
Let’s start — where else? — with The Nutcracker. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s family-friendly, festive and frequently performed ballet has kept dance companies around the country financially afloat f…
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November 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
EW lists everything from traditional Christmas music events and gift markets to drag shows and a walk-through holiday experience at the Cottage Grove Speedway. We even have a couple ideas for celebrating the winter solstice on the coast.
Read all the Winter Happenings in Eugene Weekly!
Read all the Winter Happenings in Eugene Weekly!
Best of Eugene Staff Pick: Best Hidden Gem Bakery: Hideaway Bakery
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Best Hidden Gem Bakery
Every Saturday morning, I drive to Hideaway Bakery on Amazon Drive knowing that there will be a line out the door. I arrive around 10 am, two hours after opening, dreaming of my go-to order: a smal…
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November 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Best of Eugene Staff Pick: Best Hidden Gem Bakery: Hideaway Bakery
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Read more in Eugene Weekly.
When you walk into the T4 near the University of Oregon campus, not only do you get the luxury of the decent variety of boba drink options and toppings, you also get the warmest, “Hi, welcome in!” that you’ve ever heard.
Read more about T4 in Eugene Weekly.
Read more about T4 in Eugene Weekly.
Best Bobaristas to Greet You When You’re Just Plain Spent and Who Have Probably Overheard So Much College Gossip
Picture this: it’s been a long day and you’ve decided that you deserve a beverage. You’re exhausted, you’re just a couple of hours before you finally get to collapse onto your bed, and you know tha…
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November 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
When you walk into the T4 near the University of Oregon campus, not only do you get the luxury of the decent variety of boba drink options and toppings, you also get the warmest, “Hi, welcome in!” that you’ve ever heard.
Read more about T4 in Eugene Weekly.
Read more about T4 in Eugene Weekly.
On Nov. 6, the Lane County Immigrant Defense Network held a nearly two-hour-long “emergency organizing meeting,” covering topics such as protesting, spotting ICE and learning how to help those affected.
Read more about how ICE and the community from Isabella Sosa at EugeneWeekly.com.
Read more about how ICE and the community from Isabella Sosa at EugeneWeekly.com.
Community organizing event held after ICE arrests
On the evening of Nov. 6, the Lane County Immigrant Defense Network held a nearly two-hour-long “emergency organizing meeting,” covering topics from protesting, to spotting ICE to learning how to h…
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November 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
On Nov. 6, the Lane County Immigrant Defense Network held a nearly two-hour-long “emergency organizing meeting,” covering topics such as protesting, spotting ICE and learning how to help those affected.
Read more about how ICE and the community from Isabella Sosa at EugeneWeekly.com.
Read more about how ICE and the community from Isabella Sosa at EugeneWeekly.com.
An Evening with Paul Stamets: How a Mycologist Helps Communities Thrive comes to the McDonald Theatre 6 pm to 8 pm Nov. 11, bringing together science, community and a touch of Eugene history coming full circle.
Read more at Eugene Weekly’s What’s Happening Calendar.
Read more at Eugene Weekly’s What’s Happening Calendar.
Paul Stamets Brings Fungal Wisdom and Prosperity to Eugene
An Evening with Paul Stamets: How a Mycologist Helps Communities Thrive comes to the McDonald Theatre Nov. 11, bringing together science, community and a touch of Eugene history coming full circle.…
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November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
An Evening with Paul Stamets: How a Mycologist Helps Communities Thrive comes to the McDonald Theatre 6 pm to 8 pm Nov. 11, bringing together science, community and a touch of Eugene history coming full circle.
Read more at Eugene Weekly’s What’s Happening Calendar.
Read more at Eugene Weekly’s What’s Happening Calendar.
Readers have thoughts on hunger, Lane Community College and more — read them all in Eugene Weekly’s always packed full letters to the editor!
From Hunger to Troubles at LCC
This Hurts This week, over 750,000 Oregonians — including about 210,000 children and 130,000 seniors — will lose access to a program that puts food on their tables. The suspension of the Supp…
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November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Readers have thoughts on hunger, Lane Community College and more — read them all in Eugene Weekly’s always packed full letters to the editor!
From the trivial (Tillamook's new Butternaise) to the wistful (the new memorial for Frog) to politics, Eugene Weekly’s slant is full of what there is to know!
Slant — Butternaise
• Food security is still insecure (thanks, Donald Trump), and here at Eugene Weekly we are collecting food for Burrito Brigade’s Little Food Pantries. Find the list of pantries, from Eugene to Oakr…
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November 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
From the trivial (Tillamook's new Butternaise) to the wistful (the new memorial for Frog) to politics, Eugene Weekly’s slant is full of what there is to know!
Paul Thonney writes about a day in the life of an LCC instructor in a Eugene Weekly Local and Vocal viewpoint. LCC’s instructors are now bargaining with the college for an updated contract. The contract negotiations are not only about compensation.
A Day in the Life
By Paula Thonney I teach math at Lane Community College. I’ve taught full-time at LCC since 2016. LCC’s instructors are now bargaining with the college for an updated contra…
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November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Paul Thonney writes about a day in the life of an LCC instructor in a Eugene Weekly Local and Vocal viewpoint. LCC’s instructors are now bargaining with the college for an updated contract. The contract negotiations are not only about compensation.
Best gas station caught in a time warp
CRESWELL 76 STATION
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CRESWELL 76 STATION
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Best gas station caught in a time warp
Creswell, that sleepy little town a few miles down I-5 from Eugene, sometimes feels like it’s stuck in the 1950s. It has more churches than bars. The streets are mostly clean. It’s even got a popul…
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November 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Best gas station caught in a time warp
CRESWELL 76 STATION
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CRESWELL 76 STATION
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The trail to Bagby is so easy it’s almost wheelchair accessible. Giant trees 6 feet in diameter line the path. You cross two spectacular bridges, one above a churning waterfall.
Read about Bagby Hot Springs in William L. Sullivan’s Oregon Trails column in Eugene Weekly.
Read about Bagby Hot Springs in William L. Sullivan’s Oregon Trails column in Eugene Weekly.
Back to Bagby
The trailhead host for Bagby Hot Springs has to be tough and yet genial. Mona Pearson fits the bill. If you thought Lane County’s Terwilliger (“Cougar”) Hot Springs drew a motley crowd of visitors,…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The trail to Bagby is so easy it’s almost wheelchair accessible. Giant trees 6 feet in diameter line the path. You cross two spectacular bridges, one above a churning waterfall.
Read about Bagby Hot Springs in William L. Sullivan’s Oregon Trails column in Eugene Weekly.
Read about Bagby Hot Springs in William L. Sullivan’s Oregon Trails column in Eugene Weekly.
Bob Emmons of LandWatch Lane County writes in a Eugene Weekly Local and Vocal viewpoint: “A woman called me as president of LandWatch Lane County, a nonprofit land use watchdog, to ask if there was anything our group could do to protect her land from the degradation wrought by Weyerhaeuser Timber Co
Preserving Natural Features
Six years ago, a woman who owns 18 acres southeast of Cottage Grove called me as president of LandWatch Lane County, a nonprofit land use watchdog, to ask if there was anything our group could do t…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Bob Emmons of LandWatch Lane County writes in a Eugene Weekly Local and Vocal viewpoint: “A woman called me as president of LandWatch Lane County, a nonprofit land use watchdog, to ask if there was anything our group could do to protect her land from the degradation wrought by Weyerhaeuser Timber Co
Best Old-School Business Trend
BOOKS AND RECORD STORES
From Hodgepodge Books and Taproom (2025 Eugene Weekly Best of Eugene Best New Business winner) to Vinyl & Pine on Main Street in Springfield to Cottage Groove Books and Music.
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BOOKS AND RECORD STORES
From Hodgepodge Books and Taproom (2025 Eugene Weekly Best of Eugene Best New Business winner) to Vinyl & Pine on Main Street in Springfield to Cottage Groove Books and Music.
Read more in Eugene Weekly’s Staff Picks!
Best Old-School Business Trend
After years of decline, Eugene has seen an uptick in new businesses selling physical media, from Hodgepodge Books and Taproom (2025 Eugene Weekly Best of Eugene Best New Business winner) to Vinyl &…
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November 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Best Old-School Business Trend
BOOKS AND RECORD STORES
From Hodgepodge Books and Taproom (2025 Eugene Weekly Best of Eugene Best New Business winner) to Vinyl & Pine on Main Street in Springfield to Cottage Groove Books and Music.
Read more in Eugene Weekly’s Staff Picks!
BOOKS AND RECORD STORES
From Hodgepodge Books and Taproom (2025 Eugene Weekly Best of Eugene Best New Business winner) to Vinyl & Pine on Main Street in Springfield to Cottage Groove Books and Music.
Read more in Eugene Weekly’s Staff Picks!