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The COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns have been especially hard on seniors who were expecting to celebrate major milestones this season, including graduation.…

For 35 years, the John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts has been a performing arts center, cultural hub and music school in Eugene. On Saturday, Jan. 17, the community is invited to celebrate a new, fully accessible North Entrance with a ribbon cutting and open house.

Lauren Kessler has written more than a dozen books of literary nonfiction. Her latest is a memoir about the deaths of her husband and daughter.

While Oregon has long been known for its craft beer scene, as tastes change and sales dip, breweries around the state are shutting down. Owners of a Lane County brewery think they’ve found a path to stability.

What will become of us when we die? For some, the answer may be immediate burial. A growing number of people want to be cremated. And- there is another…

Smoke from fires across the region are affecting air quality in the area.Lane Regional Air Protection Agency says some areas may see "unhealthy" or "very…

During the composition of his Second Symphony, Beethoven began to acknowledge the deterioration of his hearing, but the piece had a humorous and happy air. His contemporaries applauded it as a work of power and depth, but they commonly described his music of that time as bizarre.

Sam Munson has written a weird book that doesn't try to hide its weirdness. It's nominally about a professor of prison architecture visitng a conference in Buenos Aires — but then there are the dogs.

From Bach on the accordion to a full-length symphony housed on a one-bit microchip, NPR Music's Tom Huizenga and Weekend All Things Considered host Guy Raz spin an eclectic assortment of new music.

Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews biographies of two musicians who transcended jazz, and to whom recognition was slow in coming: James P. Johnson, born in 1894, and Alice Coltrane, born in 1937.