1. Very Little Theater 2350 Hilyard St. 541-344-7751. TheVLT.com. 2. Oregon Contemporary Theatre 194 W. Broadway. 541-465-1506. OCTheatre.org. 3. Actors Cabaret of Eugene 996 Willamette. 541-683-4368. ActorsCabaret.org

1. Slutashia (Sam Thrower) Facebook.com/Slutashia 2. Karress Ann Slaughter (Cornel Hardiman) Facebook.com/GlamazonsEugene 3. Lyta Blunt (Deziree Brock) Facebook.com/Lytablunt/ In a post-pandemic lockdown Eugene drag scene where new performers are popping up left and right, Slutashia has maintained her status as one of the town’s most…

1. Chadhurst Sharpe ChadhurstJainlettSharpe.com.  2. Cai Emmons CaiEmmonsAuthor.com.  3. Jeff Geiger JCGeiger.com.  Chadhurst Jainlett Sharpe has long held a passion for the written word. He vividly remembers walking into Barnes and Noble when he was 20, and discovering a treasure in the works of Neil…

1. High Step Society HighStepSociety.com. 2. The Sugar Beets Facebook.com/TheSugarBeets. 3. Fortune’s Folly FortunesFollyBand.com.

1. New Zone Gallery 110 E. 11th Ave. 541-683-0759. NewZoneGallery.org. 2. Karin Clarke Gallery 760 Willamette. 541-6847-7963. KarinClarkeGallery.com. 3. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 1430 Johnson Ln. 541-346-3027. JSMA.UOregon.edu. As it approaches middle age — it was founded in 1983, meaning it’s about to turn…

1. Downtown Deb KLCC Dead Air 89.7 FM. 2. Rev. Marc Time The Sunday Morning Hangover KWVA 88.1 FM. 3. Mike Meyer KEPW Island Earth Radio 97.3 FM.

1. Spoc-3P0 (Shawn DiFiore) Cowfish Dance Club. Find on Facebook.  2. DJ Supa J (Jon Smith) Find on Facebook.  3. DJ Smuve (Bobby Green Jr) Find on Facebook and Instagram.  Entering Cowfish Dance Club in downtown Eugene is like entering a colorful club from the…

1. Eugene Symphony 115 W. 8th Ave., ste.115. 541-687-9487. EugeneSymphony.org.  2. Chamber Music Amici 174 E. 16th Ave., ste. 122. 541-953-9204. ChamberMusicAmici.org.  3. Delgani String Quartet 541-650-5040. Delgani.org. 

Inga Wilson OCTheatre.org/staff. Russel Dyball Find on Twitter.  Storm Kennedy StormKennedy.com.  Inga Wilson, our readers’ choice this year for Best Actor/Actress in town, got her start on stage because she was born a redhead. “I did a whole lot of Annie stuff,” she says, starting…

1. Suspish Facebook.com/SuspishBiz and Suspish Fish on Facebook.\ 2. Bayne Gardner BayneGardner.com. 3. Ila Rose IlaRoseArt.com. In a city filled with amazing murals and street art, Suspish’s work still manages to stand out. There’s something about those blue-ish fish that delights folks of all ages.…

1. Athena Delene (Delene and Co.) 541-515-9442. Delene.co. 2. Michael Sherman (Spring Fed Media) SpringFedMedia.net. 3. Sarah Northrop (@sartakespics) SarTakesPics.com.

1. Halie Loren HalieLoren.com.  2. Bettreena Jaeger BaroqueBetty.com. 3. Cameron Daye Find on Facebook.

1. Jen Jay Find on Facebook. 2. Seth Milstein Find on Facebook and Twitter. 3. Mike McGowan Find on Facebook and Twitter. After a few false starts in comedy in her teens and 20s, Jen Jay signed up for her first comedy open mic at…

1. Henry Houston Eugene Weekly. 2. Camilla Mortensen Eugene Weekly. 3. William Kennedy Eugene Weekly.

1. Cuthbert Amphitheater 2300 Leo Harris Pkwy. 541-762-8099. TheCuthbert.com. 2. WOW Hall 291 W. 8th Ave. 541-687-2746. WowHall.org. 3. Hult Center for the Performing Arts 1 Eugene Ctr. 541-682-5000. HultCenter.org.