Dan Buckwalter

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Editor and Staff Writer at Eugene Weekly

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From Russia With Love

1 week ago | eugeneweekly.com | Dan Buckwalter

It’s been three-plus years of brutal warfare since Russia invaded Ukraine with more than 100,000 troops killed combined, according to the Biden administration in 2024, and more than 13,000 Ukrainian civilians killed, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights this year.
An Intimacy Like No Other

1 week ago | eugeneweekly.com | Dan Buckwalter

There is no orchestra for support, nothing to divert attention from the performer and the music. It’s just the pianist and the Steinway on stage at Beall Concert Hall at the University of Oregon, and that’s how Alexandre Dossin wants it. Dossin — a UO professor at the School of Music and Dance — and wife Maria Dossin co-founded the Oregon Piano Institute in 2024, and the first season of the Murdock International Piano Series ends May 28 with a varied recital from Russian pianist Valery Kuleshov.
Music with Pride for Oregonians

2 weeks ago | eugeneweekly.com | Dan Buckwalter

Fresh off the release of their newest album, The Rockdown, it is time for the Gabriel Cox Band to hit the road again with a first stop May 23 at The Hybrid Gallery in Eugene. This Salem-based rock and blues group plays in venues throughout the Northwest wherever they’re appreciated — from honky tonk bars to festivals — and it’s a growing and loving fan base for Cox and his band that, among other performances, opened for the Robert Cray Band at a sold-out Elsinore Theatre in Salem in 2024.
The Return of Cuckoo’s Nest

3 weeks ago | eugeneweekly.com | Dan Buckwalter

Randle Patrick McMurphy is as charismatic and rebellious as ever, and Nurse Ratched is every bit the iron-fisted manipulative control freak with zero empathy that you remember. They and the 14-member cast of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest are back at it with three final performances May 16 through 18 at Zero Clearance Theater in Oakridge.
It’s A Cappella - On The Rocks

1 month ago | eugeneweekly.com | Dan Buckwalter

They have come a long way in 25 years, and they have brought song, joy and a brotherhood that endures. All of it is on display Saturday at The Shedd when the University of Oregon-based On The Rocks a cappella group brings in the noise with the On The Rocks 25th Anniversary Alumni Show.
No Letting Up Now

1 month ago | eugeneweekly.com | Dan Buckwalter

Buckle up, Eugene. The high-flying and beat-dropping big band rocket ship born in 2015 in the Whiteaker neighborhood returns to Eugene to transcend the troubles of the world with an old-time jazz party fused with electronic dance music. High Step Society celebrates 10 years April 19 at WOW Hall, the venue where the original group had its very first show. Bassist Ethan Rainwater, who also is a founding member, says this show is a “full-circle moment” for High Step Society.
A Night for ‘The Toni’s’

1 month ago | eugeneweekly.com | Dan Buckwalter

Her final year has been a whirlwind already. There have been well-wishers and tributes at every turn for the woman who has led Eugene Ballet Company for more than 40 years, and now the esteemed EBC Artistic Director Toni Pimble is ready for more. The Toni’s, featuring Orchestra Next, comes to Hult Center April 12, and will honor Pimble by presenting three of the more than a dozen full-length ballets she has choreographed through the years as well as a brand-new ballet, The Lark Ascending.
10 Minutes to Tell a Story

2 months ago | eugeneweekly.com | Dan Buckwalter

It’s a rapid-fire lineup of plays — eight of them, to be exact, and all of them just 10 minutes long — full of whimsical moments and laughs with touches of anger and sweet poignancy thrown in for good measure. It’s Northwest 10: The 17th Annual Festival of New 10 Minute Plays, which begins its seven-performance run April 3 at Oregon Contemporary Theatre.
She Sticks the Landing on a Leap of Faith

2 months ago | eugeneweekly.com | Dan Buckwalter

She came back to her first love, labor-intensive in itself but different from the near 100-hour work weeks and crazy-constant travel of working as a lawyer at a multinational law firm. “I was a writer first,” says Alice Austen, and a decade ago, she left full-time legal practice at Dentons to pursue her dream.
It’s a Pokémon Feast for the Eyes

2 months ago | eugeneweekly.com | Dan Buckwalter

Throw out the standard polite and pristine garden party. This drag show ain’t it. Instead, Haus of Dharma has something better going on March 21 at Whiteside Theatre in Corvallis.