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Uke Can’t Miss It (opens the original)
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Feng E was once a 10-year-old ukulele player, going viral on YouTube with his rendition of Tommy Emmanuel’s cover of guitar instrumental “Classical Gas,” originally composed by Eugene-local Mason Williams in 1968. The Taiwanese ukulele prodigy would appear on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Asia’s Got Talent and America’s Got Talent before eventually touring worldwide. Feng E, now 19, is touring across the United States, playing WOW Hall Oct. 4. “I play music from my originals to classical music, to r
Joint Effort (opens the original)
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During the COVID pandemic, some people picked up hobbies like breadmaking, knitting and puzzle solving. Others, like my father, decided that at the ripe age of 56, it was the perfect time to start growing weed on our patio. What followed was a crash course in backyard cultivation. As a family we were trained to constantly worry about the “plants,” conducting seaweed fertilizer checks, fighting off the depredations of corn earworms with increasingly desperate soapy concoctions and trimming buds w
Where Art Meets the Vine (opens the original)
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It was two years ago and more than 5,500 miles from his home in Eugene, and Stephen McKeon found himself at the global art exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. There, he stood face to face with “A Puzzled Mind,” a seven-foot-tall, 1,500-pound bronze self-portrait by Jim Dine, one of Stephen’s favorite artists and a major figure in American contemporary art. Stephen had admired Dine’s work for years, tracing his love for sculpture to seeing Dine’s “Two Big Black Hearts” in 2015 at deCordova Sculptu
Making Room (opens the original)
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On a quarter acre of land in Eugene’s Santa Clara neighborhood live three friends. Between them are decades of stories — of loss, health care, chickens and, most notably, an age gap. Tea is a regular ritual in the house, and over cups shared together, Sue Sierralupe, Debra Birkinshaw Harrow and Sequoia Merced are often reminded they are more than just roommates. “I consider them like family already,” Merced says. “It’s just quiet, peaceful.” For all three, living together was less a master plan
More Than Skin Deep (opens the original)
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Months earlier, breast cancer had taken both of Meridith Pyle’s breasts, her nipples and, she says, much of the woman she recognized in her reflection. Now, sitting inside the nonprofit where Varga provides medical tattooing, Varga Medical Art Inc., Pyle watched as hyperrealistic areolas emerged over the scar tissue left behind by a double mastectomy. “I just wanted to feel like me again,” Pyle says. “Not because it hurt,” Pyle says. “But because she gave me a sense of womanhood again.” For more
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