Eugene Weekly

08/23/2026

EW Asks! It’s Best of Eugene season! And the OG (30 years baby, it’s like we’re adults) Best of Eugene wants to know: What are your fav things about Lane County? Head on over to EW Asks!

08/23/2026

We must keep the Eugene Emeralds in Eugene. Eugene has a park, school and street named after people who shouldn’t be honored: Westmoreland, Polk and Churchill. William Westmoreland was commander of…

08/22/2026

Got a local gem that deserves the spotlight? Nominate them for Best of Eugene before the runoff round of voting opens Sept. 3. Vote.EugeneWeekly.com

08/22/2026

“I think that Donald Trump is the most grave threat we will face to our democracy in our lifetime, and potentially in American history.” — Cassidy Hutchinson, former White House aide •

08/22/2026

The Salty Chef is back with another food review, bi***es!

“After spending a week trying to sell my car online to people who channel exclusively through Wayne Brady’s “Let’s Make a Deal,” I decided I deserved a reward for not committing a felony. So I headed to the new-and-improved Paddock, now owned by the former culinary queens of Lion & Owl.

I sat at the empty bar because people annoy me, there are fewer of them there, and it’s the best seat in the house to see and hear the tea brewing behind the scenes. As a food reviewer, I’m a nosy bitch.

The service was exactly what I needed after wading through the CarSoup crowd, where “What’s your lowest price?” is apparently how people say hello.

Read the full review in Eugene Weekly!

After spending a week trying to sell my car online to people who channel exclusively through Wayne Brady’s Let’s Make a Deal, I decided I deserved a reward for not committing a felony. So I headed to…

08/21/2026

We all hope to live long enough to grow old. But Charla Hathaway, a 77-year-old Portland-based doctor of clinical s*xology, hopes that we don’t wait until then to really start living. At age 55, she made a career change from violinist to s*x worker and stayed in the industry for 15 years — during which she earned a Ph.D. With her expertise, she educates (in numerous ways) about the importance of pleasure — giving, and more significantly, receiving — to encourage everyone to live life to the fullest.

Hathaway is no longer a s*x worker in the traditional sense, but she’s not done educating. She returns to The Hybrid Gallery August 22 to perform her latest one-woman project, More Naked than Ever. The show is a double bill with clown comedian Nicole Medema’s play The Domme, where she interactively dominates audience members with their consent.

Read the rest in Eugene Weekly!

We all hope to live long enough to grow old. But Charla Hathaway, a 77-year-old Portland-based doctor of clinical s*xology, hopes that we don’t wait until then to really start living. At age 55…

08/21/2026

Thirty years of celebrating Lane County's best starts with you. Nominations are open now, just head to Vote.EugeneWeekly.com and put your favorites on the map.

08/21/2026

Five blocks from Steve Law’s home in Southeast Portland lies Mount Tabor. Law goes hiking there a few times a week. When he found out that 100 years ago, the Ku Klux Klan would burn crosses there, he was shocked. “Nobody talks about it,” Law says. “It’s like people have forgotten about it or never knew it happened.”

Law spent most of his over 30-year career as a reporter for the Portland Tribune. He says his life’s work is heavily influenced by lawyer, activist and author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Bryan Stevenson. While listening to a podcast featuring Stevenson, he learned about Stolpersteine — brass plates embedded in the sidewalks of Germany denoting victims of the Holocaust. Literally translating to “stumbling stone,” they’re a physical daily reminder of one of the greatest tragedies in history.
Law thought it might be fraught to embed something similar in Portland’s streets, indicating the victims of the Klan, so he set out to write a reminder in the way he knew how.

Oregon State University Press publishes his book Peddlers of Hate: How the Ku Klux Klan Seized Power in 1920s Oregon, in August 2026. It is a comprehensive account of the impacts the Klan left in the state of Oregon, how it rose to power and the influences it left behind. Read more at EugeneWeekly.com.

Five blocks from Steve Law’s home in Southeast Portland lies Mount Tabor. Law goes hiking there a few times a week and served as chairman of the Friends of Mount Tabor Park Board. When he found out…

08/21/2026

A circus with a unique equine twist comes to town August 21 through 29. Cirque Ma'Ceo is a spectacle from the mind of Olissio Zoppe, an eighth generation Italian equestrian circus performer on his father’s side — and ninth generation on his mother's side. The show features many of the same electrifying stunts, dance, acrobatics and aerial arts that a circus provides, but its horses are as much the stars as the humans that accompany them. The show displays ba****ck riding, where performers stand on horses’ backs and do a series of jumps. There is also Russian Cossack riding, which is a series of different types of gymnastics performed on top of a high-speed horse running around the ring.

The cast is made up of different horse breeds from around the world, including mustangs, miniature horses, a Friesian horse from the Netherlands and an Andalusian horse from the Iberian Peninsula. Cirque Ma'Ceo is 7 pm Friday, August 21 and August 28, 4 pm and 7 pm Saturday, August 22 and August 29, 1 pm and 4 pm Sunday, August 28 at Oregon Horse Center. Tickets are $40 for adults and $25 for children.

Read more in Eugene Weekly’s What’s Happening Calendar!

A circus with a unique equine twist comes to town August 21 through 29. Cirque Ma’Ceo is a spectacle from the mind of Olissio Zoppe, an eighth generation Italian equestrian circus performer on his…

08/21/2026

Costco likes buying things in bulk, including, it turns out, Eugene real estate.
The retailing giant is negotiating to buy the 10-acre Oregon Community Credit Union headquarters next to Costco’s Chad Drive store and use some of the site for parking, the credit union says. This, just a year after Costco bought another nearby Chad property that it has said it wants to use for parking.

The popularity of the Chad Drive Costco has turned its parking lots into a perpetual traffic jam. The world’s third-largest retailer seems intent on spending whatever it takes to ease that parking-spot pain.

OCCU, meanwhile, says its 53,000-square-foot 25-year-old Chad Drive headquarters office building is 60 percent empty, mainly because so many non-branch employees now work remotely.

Read the rest in Eugene Weekly’s Bricks $ Mortar column.

Costco likes buying things in bulk, including, it turns out, Eugene real estate. The retailing giant is negotiating to buy the 10-acre Oregon Community Credit Union headquarters next to Costco’s Chad…