Eugene’s longest-running alternative pageant returns Friday, as the Society for the Legitimization of the Ubiquitous ...

On Aug. 8, the S.L.U.G. Queens will gather once again to continue their tradition of crowning the unofficial goodwill ...

The free event featured a fashion show, talent competition and more at the Saturday Market Pavilion from 6 to 9 p.m. on ...

Eugene's 40th SLUG Queen told the crowd, “I promise to keep this legacy strong, to grow it bigger, to make Eugene slimier, weirder and sillier for the whole year!” ...

It was slime well spent. The second incarnation of the giant slug inches down a damp Charnelton Street as parade-goers do their best to keep dry during the Eugene Celebration Parade in 2009.

Friday's event was the 39th Slug Queen Coronation. Mitra Gruwell, aka Eve Slug Laurent, was named first runnerup. Beings of Eugene: Jenette Kime, your 2019-20 Eugene Slug Queen ...

The Eugene Celebration hasn’t been around since 2015, but the SLUG queen competition has carried on — and the dedicated volunteers that run it have no intention of stopping. It’s worth mentioning that ...

EUGENE, Ore. — A summer celebration of Eugene’s wacky ways has been canceled, for this year at least, but there’s some hope for the annual parade featuring the city’s Slug Queen.

EUGENE, Ore. — It wasn’t easy, but 25 years after the birth of the Society for the Legitimization of the Ubiquitous Gastropod (SLUG) and the crowning of Queen Bruce, the first Slug Queen ...

Once a new Eugene SLUG queen is crowned, they are invited to events around the community in their Slug costumes as a figurehead of the SLUG queen community and Eugene in general. “Organizations ...

Totally unexpected. Totally slimy. Yes, my friends. It is the yearly contest, held each September in Eugene, Ore., to crown a slug queen.

It was slime well spent. The second incarnation of the giant slug inches down a damp Charnelton Street as parade-goers do their best to keep dry during the Eugene Celebration Parade in 2009.