Best Musical Instrument Store
1. McKenzie River Music 455 W. 11th Avenue. 541-343-9482. McKenzieRiverMusic.com. 2. Buy and Sell Center 410 E. 11th Avenue. 541-344-9273. BuyNSellEugene.com. 3. Beacock Music 791 W. 8th Avenue. 541-653-9929. BeacockMusic.com. No one in Eugene has a better selection of stringed instruments than McKenzie River Music. McKenzie River Music owner Artie Leider says the store specializes…
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Best Drag Queen
1. Karress Ann Slaughter (Cornel Hardiman) Facebook.com/GlamazonsEugene. 2. Slutashia Facebook.com/Slutashia. 3. Trai La Trash Facebook.com/MsTraiLaTrash Nothing says “fierce” like perfect eyebrows, sequins and Karress Ann Slaughter. Slaughter is the picture of queenly perfection and an icon in the community. This is certainly not her first Best of Eugene win, and considering the fire she brings…
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Best Actor/Actress
1. Storm Kennedy StormKennedy.com. 2. Inga Wilson Linkedin.com/in/IngaRWilson. 3. Teia Thompson Storm Kennedy has once again stormed right through the Best Actor/Actress category in Best of Eugene. The popular Eugene personality swept more than 40 percent of the vote this year. She also took first place in voting last year. A 1981 South Eugene High…
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Best Photographer
1. Athena Delene AthenaDelene.com. 2. Bob Williams BobWilliamsPhotographer.com. 3. Ashley Morris AshleyMorrisPhoto.com.
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Best Journalist
1. Rick Dancer Rickdancer.com. 2. Camilla Mortensen Editor, Eugene Weekly. 3. William Kennedy Freelancer, Eugene Weekly.
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Best DJ Radio
1. Downtown Deb Trist Dead Air. KLCC 89.7. 2. Barrett, Fox and Berry KKNU. 3. Beefcake KNRQ. Perhaps it was a needed change of scenery that brought Deb Trist to Eugene in 1983. Perhaps she was fleeing the congested streets of New York, where she’d lived. Maybe it was a love for the Grateful Dead,…
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Best Singer-Songwriter
1. Halie Loren HalieLoren.com. 2. Calysta Cheyenne Fortune’s Folly. FortunesFollyBand.com. 3. Bettreena Jaeger BaroqueBetty.com. At this point it’s pretty clear: Eugene loves Halie Loren, winner of this year’s Eugene Weekly’s Best of Eugene best singer-songwriter category. Lucky for us, Halie loves us right back. “There are many things that I love about playing for my…
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Best Local Theater Company
1. The Shedd Institute 868 High Street. TheShedd.org. 2. Very Little Theatre 2350 Hilyard Street. TheVLT.com. 3. Actors Cabaret of Eugene 996 Willamette Street. ActorsCabaret.org. Pssst: Don’t tell anyone, but Eugene and its surrounding communities have been enjoying an incredible explosion of great local theater in the past few years. You might even call it…
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Best DJ Music
1. DJ Kalien (Katey Harvey) The Drake. Instagram.com/DJKalien. 2. Connah Jay (Connor J. Sullivan) CJ.Sull@gmail.com Soundcloud.com/ConnahJay. 3. DJ Jon “Supa J” Smith (Jon Smith) Blairally Vintage Arcade. Facebook.com/DJ-Jon-Supa-J-Smith-398091873734699. Within the past three years, you could have seen DJ Kalien spinning records at a slew of different Eugene bars and clubs. You most likely have seen…
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Best Local Band
1. High Step Society HighStepSociety.com. 2. Fortune’s Folly FortunesFollyBand.com. 3. Medium Troy MediumTroy.com. High Step Society, winner of this year’s Best of Eugene best band category, plays electro-swing, a style of music popular in Europe but just catching on in the States. Electro swing, sometimes called swing house, combines electronic music with jazz stylings, but…
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Best Event Venue
1. Cuthbert Amphitheatre 2300 Leo Harris Parkway. 541-762-8099. TheCuthbert.com. 2. WOW Hall (Community Center for the Performing Arts) 291 W. 8th Avenue. 541-687-2746. WOWHall.org. 3. McDonald Theatre 1010 Willamette Street. 541-345-4442. McDonaldTheatre.com.
continue readingThe Best Of Eugene 2019-2020
It’s the one and only Best of Eugene — no, seriously, there are imitators but Eugene Weekly’s got the original reader-survey “Best of” in this town. Every year we ask you to tell us about your favorite things in the area, and for some categories it’s clear that the more things change, the more things stay…
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