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The parking lot began to fill first thing Monday morning, five days before the Oregon Country Fair’s 50th Anniversary begins. Yet, there wasn’t a single one of the 45,000 expected attendees on the property. 

Eugene’s First Friday ArtWalk makes art accessible to Lane County.

This is the perfect time to be a tourist in your own city and explore what Eugene has to offer. 

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After a period of static, the 2019 Bumbershoot lineup has finally been released early Monday, June 3. Taking place at the Seattle Center every Labor Day Weekend, the international arts and music festival withheld the release for seemingly longer than usual this year, ramping up anticipation.…

Hundreds of people gathered in the Bier Stein parking lot to converse, listen to music and drink glasses of some seriously unusual beer on Saturday, June 1.

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Colorful and intricate art pieces of all different mediums lined the entire Mills International Center, covering every wall and even requiring easels and tables to hold the pieces. May is dedicated as National Mental Health Awareness month which focuses on celebrating and discussing mental h…

Last year, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art hosted the student-run exhibit “Don’t Touch My Hair” to open up a conversation about hair, identity and race on the University of Oregon campus. This year, the co-curator of “Don’t Touch My Hair,” Kristen Clayton, came back as the creative projec…

Children clad in tie-dyed shirts and face paint ran around in the rain before a stage with a bluegrass band on a Sunday afternoon.

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ASUO hosted the street faire last week! 

When the “Snowpocalypse” smothered Eugene with a thick blanket of snow in late February, roughly 20,000 trees fell on trails in the area, according to a DOD estimate. Three months later, many of these trails are still impassable for the hikers, equestrians and mountain bikers who normally use them.

The Native American Student Union hosted their 51st annual mothers day powwow this weekend. 

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Members of the University of Oregon’s African Student Association gathered around a conference table in the Erb Memorial Union for their last staff meeting before their biggest event of the year. The table was scattered with computers open to various planning documents, advertisement posters…

FYGU Fest will be held this Saturday, May 11, at the Matthew Knight Arena. On FYGU Fest’s website, you can register for a free ticket to the festival, and all you need to attend is your confirmation email and a valid college student I.D. Students from any college can attend.

“Everything is an experiment,” said 19-year-old Mic on the Bike interviewer Joaquin Arriola, minutes before the debut of his new series.

This year, the University of Oregon Zine Fest brought together artists from UO and the Eugene community to celebrate independent publishing and art for the third year in a row. The festival has grown over the last few years to include artists with many different preferred creative media and …

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Damsels, Divas and Dames will be taking the Hult Center stage on April 20 for their 20th anniversary show. This year they are bringing an extended director’s cut that is full of exciting guest appearances, bonus acts and tons of new surprises.

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Eugene Ballet is closing their 40th anniversary season with the world premier of Suzanne Haag’s reimagined version of Igor Stravinsky’s “The Firebird,” set to take place at the Hult Center for Performing Arts. “The Firebird” is no stranger to Eugene Ballet — it was first choreographed by co-…

Food for Lane County held it's annual Chefs Night Out fundraiser at the Hult Center on Monday.

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Dan Savage’s HUMP! Film Festival — a not-so-average porn festival in its 14th year — hit the Bijou Art Cinema this past week with great success on two challenging fronts.

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University of Oregon's Vietnamese Student Association put on their annual culture night on Saturday March 9th.

The Asian-American Film Festival of Oregon, DisOrient, arrives at the University of Oregon on March 14 and continues through March 17. The festival showcases Asian-American documentary, fiction and short films “by us, for us and about us.” In its 14th year, the festival strives to raise awar…

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Vipertoons Productions and Whirled Pies hosted a Women in the Blues event on Friday, March 8 to celebrate International Women’s Day. The event was held as a benefit fundraiser to support Womenspace, a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing domestic violence in Lane County and offeri…

The University of Oregon is bringing the TEDx conference back to campus. The talks are a branch of the TED speaker series and are organized by approved independent organizations like universities to share the thoughts of local inventive thinkers. UO has hosted a conference of this kind in th…

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The University of Oregon Domestic Violence Clinic is celebrating their 20th anniversary on March 14, 2019, by hosting a gala and fundraiser in the Ford Alumni Center. The clinic is a part of the UO School of Law and provides free services for low-income community members and UO students who …

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Former and current University of Oregon students of all shapes and sizes sashayed down a long, lit runway in the Global Scholars Hall as guests sat and cheered them on. Applause and words of encouragement were spewed from every row of onlookers as the men and women posed and showed off their…