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WHO YOU GONNA BLAME?
tfiewDmnT BY DENNIS SHINE
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Reasons why we should all care about the LCC deficit
Lane Community College is faced with a major budget deficit for the
2006/2007 fiscal year. The problem is that revenues in the forms of prop¬ erty taxes, student tuition and fees plus state funding have not kept up with expenses and, as a result, the college may be forced to cut programs.
The guestion for some people may be "So what? I don't work there; I am not a student there and I have no children who so there, so why should I care?" The an¬ swer to that guestion is vital if the college is to avoid cutting the services it offers to those of us who live in Lane County. Therefore, I will give you some reasons why you should care.
• LCC is a major employer in Lane County and pays about $60 million a year in direct faculty and staff wages. This income is used to purchase goods and services from Lane County businesses. Since the majority of LCC staff and faculty, just like most Americans, spend about 95 percent of their income, there is what economists call the multiplier effect of 20. This means that a person or business who received the money from an employee of LCC will in turn spend a similar percentage of that money locally, which in turn becomes income to a third party and so on. The original wages and salaries paid to LCC employees of $60 million a year has a total impact on Lane County of about $1.2 billion.
• Students who attend LCC will receive a major return on the tuition and fees they pay for their education. A study done on this shows that for every dollar a stu¬ dent pays in fees and tuition at LCC, they will get a $4.99 return due to the higher wages and salaries they earn over their employment lifetime of 30 years. This higher income to the student also means that LCC graduates will pay higher taxes and will have higher purchasing power.
• The taxpayers of Oregon benefit since the state, counties and cities will pay less in welfare, unemployment and health care if its population is better educated and has marketable skills. Crime also costs a lot of taxpayer money. According to a study done by ECO Northwest for Springfield, about $5 million a year's worth of property is stolen from the 20,514 households in Springfield, or about $250 per household every year. A number of studies have shown that the number of property crimes committed is inversely related to the education level in the community. As the population of Springfield acguires more marketable skills as a result of the edu¬ cation they receive at LCC, the cost of property crime goes down because more people will be employed.
If we lump together all the benefits of having LCC, it is an impressive list of ben¬ efits that we receive. A cost benefit study done by the firm of CC Benefits, Inc. esti¬ mates that the total return on each dollar of state and local tax money invested in LCC is about $8.80 over the next 30 years. I don't know about you, but this sounds like a good investment to me.
So what we can do to help alleviate this impending 2006/2007 deficit? One per¬ son who does have a suggestion is Lane County Commissioner Peter Sorenson who is very familiar with both community colleges and with LCC. He received his first de¬ gree from a community college; his father taught at a community college and he served as a member of the LCC Budget Committee and later as the chair of the LCC Board of Education prior to serving as a state senator and being elected to his pres¬ ent position. According to Sorenson, the 17-member community college system in Oregon has shown a drop of 75,000 in enrollment, due largely to decline in state support.
Sorenson has proposed that the state discontinue the tax kicker for Chapter C category corporations which employ more than 75 employees and which are incor¬ porated outside of Oregon. This change, if enacted, would provide about $70 million more a year to community colleges. To do this would reguire a change in Oregon law, and as long as the Republican party controls the House where tax legislation must originate, such a change in the law seems unlikely, no matter how logical and desirable such a change would be from an economic point of view.
Dennis Shine of Springfield is a retired economics instructor, a former LCC board member and presently serves on the LCC Budget Committee. For more information on Sorenson’s proposal, e-mal info@petesorenson.com.
For more information on LCC’s situation, e-mail President Spilde at spildem@lancecc.edu
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I’m certainly glad to hear someone else (Dan Carol’s Kumbaya Dammit column, 3/2) thinks something should be done about the holes downtown. Eugene: City of Holes isn’t the best image.
Other suggestions for improvements to Eugene: How about an 18 and over club with good DJs and buses that run at night so we can get to it? After all, we’re going to have a new (and expensive) “rapid transit” bus sys¬ tem soon. Why not run it until the bars get out?
Felicia Kenney Glenwood
DRAIN ON ECONOMY
If Whole Foods, or Dubyamart, or any other chain retail decides to land on the Eugene economy, it is because it believes it can extract profit from that economy. No matter what it contributes, it has to take more, and this will, primarily, be out of local pock¬ ets.
Whole Foods is not going to be a huge draw for customers from other places be¬ cause other places big enough to support a store have the chain. The net effect of a store in Eugene will be to shrink the local cash flow. Any chain retailer that must make prof¬ its for investors or owners who live elsewhere will do this. Why must we pay to have the raiders strike? They will do it anyway, if the economy will support them. They don’t need additional incentives.
If the purpose of bribing a business to come to Eugene is to grow the economy, choose one that sells to a larger market but pays people to do the work locally. A business such as the former Aster Publishing, which unfortunately was sold and no longer has a presence here, sells to the entire country and Europe, but pays local people to do the work. It brought money into Eugene for roughly twenty years. In contrast, big-box retail is a drain.
Karen Carlson Eugene
LOOK NORTH
In letters (2/23), Lynn Porter wrote: “Americans went on a psychotic rampage and began killing Iraqis in order to steal their oil and use their land for military bases.” If that was America’s intent, then why go halfway around the world and take on the world’s fourth-largest army to do so, when the U.S. could simply roll the tanks north of the Montana border and take over half of the world’s oil supply (the Alberta tar sands) in a day?
Perhaps instead George Bush, Jean Chretien, Tony Blair, Hans Blix, and Bill Clinton were telling the truth: that they be¬ lieved that Saddam Hussein was developing or possessed weapons of mass destruction and was a supporter of terrorism.
Ed Minchau Calgary, Alberta, Canada
BRILLIANT!
President George W. Bush’s plan to fight terrorism: Brilliant! Get Muslims so fired up that they kill each other over there, so that we do not have to kill them here: Brilliant! Like Forrest Gump’s mama always said, “Brilliant is as brilliant does.”
Michael T. Hinojosa Drain
PERPETUAL WAR
After reading Gore Vidal’s Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace detailing our 200 inva¬ sions, slaughters, bombings and atrocities since World War II, I am convinced that the U.S. is the perpetual initiator of most of the perpetual violence around the globe for impe¬ rial global power and monetary gain, at the expense of social programs and our own civil liberties. Our ruling regime’s secret police thugs — the CIA and FBI — are perpetual violators of human rights here and abroad.
The undemocratic PATRIOT Act, signed and passed by our cowardly, obedient non¬ readers in Congress, allows torture, home in¬ vasion and retaliations for 9/11. How many innocent Iraqis, women, children and babies must continue to die for our war, weapons
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and oil profiteers?
Under the PATRIOT Act, we need an al¬ ternative Citizens Terrorist Protective Unit to legally spy on and eavesdrop on the regime gang and to conduct home invasions (includ¬ ing the White House) to root out evidence of the perpetual plotting and planning of more global slaughters and atrocities to come.
Instead of our legalized torture, all guilty culprits should be given long sentences work¬ ing in our American slave factories around the globe. Now that would be perpetual justice!
Alice Keiser Greth Bend
SANIPAC SOLUTIONS
The “Trash-y Neighbors” letter to the edi¬ tor (2/9) from Michael Comstock caught my eye because we at Sanipac always try to be part of the solution, not pat of the problem.
In the past we have mailed customers a schedule of which alternate week they have recycling service and we include in our web¬ site, www.sanipac.com, a printable schedule as well. It has been some time since we have mailed out updated schedules, however, and Mr. Comstock’s letter convinced me that our next quarterly newslet¬ ter should include a for¬ ward-looking schedule.
To this end, our April/May/June newsletter will include a full-size schedule de¬ tailing when your com¬ mingled recycling roll- can should be at the curb. Also, you can, at any time, go to our website. Click on the Commingled Recycling tab, and then click on the Residential Commingled Recycling Schedule and follow the directions to get your printable schedule. Remember: yard de¬ bris is on the opposite week of your recy¬ cling.
I hope this helps, and I appreciate the feedback. Comments like Mr. Comstock’s help us to look at what we do from a different perspective. We are always interested in how we can be a better neighbor.
John Hire General Manager, Sanipac
PORT-O-PROBLEM
I did not know about the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) until recently. CFIUS was estab¬ lished by Executive Order 11858 in 1975. In 1988 the president, by Executive Order 12661, “delegated his responsibilities ... CFIUS to receive notices of foreign acquisi¬ tions of U.S. companies, to determine whether a particular acquisition has national security issues sufficient to warrant an inves¬ tigation and to undertake an investigation, if necessary, under the Exon-Florio provision.”
In 1993, by Executive Order 12860, membership was expanded to include the di¬ rector of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the assistant to the presi¬ dent for National Security Affairs, and the as¬ sistant to the president for Economic Policy.
In February 2003 the Department of Homeland Security was added to CFIUS. The committee now has 12 members. The secretary of treasury is one; along with the secretaries of state, defense and commerce; the attorney general; the director of the Office of Management and Budget; the U.S. trade representative; and the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors.
This cabal runs the show when it comes to foreign countries wanting to buy American companies that have to do with national secu¬ rity issues. Where are the Senate and Congress on this? I feel they should be deal¬ ing with these issues, not some back-room cabal. This is a very scary situation, and the current UAE deal should be stopped.
There are people in both parties that are against this port deal and I hope lawsuits are filed. I hope bills are passed against this deal.
Rush Limbaugh thinks this deal going through would be the best thing since OxyContin, Lorcet and hydrocodone. But I feel if the port deal goes through it will endanger national se¬ curity and take more jobs from Americans.
The Congress and the Senate need to do whatever they can to block this sale and do away with this CFIUS. Elected officials need to be making decisions of matters of national security.
We the people need to keep the pressure on to end this deal and breakup CFIUS.
W. Joe Lyon Eugene
BIRDS & BOMBS
I love Harry Whittington for expressing his sympathy to Vice President Cheney for mistaking him for a little bird. That level of compassion and forgiveness represents the true mark of a Southern gentleman. By con¬ trast, a lowlife like Saddam Hussein doesn’t seem to give a damn about the anguish and remorse he has caused our vice president for ignoring the U.N. arms inspectors and launching an avoidable war.
John Agnew Eugene
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- Clay Reynolds, on Western Movies, from the foreword to How the Cimarron River Got Its Name
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Sustainable
Greenwash
Good intentions, but absurdities abound.
The right analogy for U.5. survival is no longer Apollo 11; it's Apollo 13. They had their emergency dropped in their laps with no foreknowledge; we wasted ours when we politically killed President Carter. Now we're all in that busted spaceship, improvising. - Jamey Hecht, From the Wilderness
I bought my first solar panel in 1992, use biofuels, and run websites on energy politics and energy solutions (oilempire.us and permatopia.com). Sadly, I can¬ not support Mayor Piercy's Sustainable Business Initiative or the Apollo Alliance, which are good intentions undermined by poor implementation that dis¬ tracts from underlying destructive policies.
The city's most important recent decision about energy was the withdrawal of support for the West Eugene Parkway in October. But the construction or cancella¬ tion of WEP would be a federal decision, there is no money for it, and WEP would violate numerous federal laws. Despite the change of policy, the city is still holding on to parcels bought for the road, is about to permit another big box store near the WEP route, and has declined to highlight the “no build” recommendations that the city, county, state and feds agreed to on June 19, 2001 (details are at www.per- matopia.com/wetlands.html).
There are many practical things the city could do toward bioregional sustain¬ ability. One short-term idea would be to help neighborhoods sponsor classes in gardening, energy efficiency, water storage and other skills.
At a recent "sustainability” meeting with the city's neighborhood associations, it was suggested that we must go slow to enact any changes. Unfortunately, that is a recipe for failure. Last year, the Department of Energy's "Hirsch Report” con¬ cluded it would take two decades of sustained effort to switch our energy infra¬ structure to prepare for peak oil, but we are near peak oil now, and climate change is accelerating faster than predicted. Schizophrenic sustainability leads to absurdi¬ ties such as planning new parking garages next to the EmX Bus Rapid Transit route.
Sustainability does not mean turning over the economy to out-of-state and transnational corporations who take more out of the community than they put in.
It refers to practices that your great- great- great- grandchildren could still do after the oil is gone. The city's promotion of a Texas hospital next to the Delta Highway gravel pits, in an inaccessible location, is the result of a desperation that is exploited by land speculators. This desperation is why the Piercy administration is giving consideration to a proposal to demolish the city-owned Atrium building for national franchises, and is going to subsidize the Whole Foods corporation (the Wal-Mart of health food). If Connor-Wooley-Opus creates more downtown pits and then goes bankrupt, the city should reroute the Mill Race through these holes to create a new tourist attraction (gondola rides?).
The Apollo Alliance is a Democratic Party-linked group advocating alliances between environmentalists, labor unions and pro-war neo- conservatives. Both Apollo Alliance and George W. Bush claim that the solutions to oil addiction are primarily technological. While larger investments in renewable ener¬ gy would be good, focusing on techno-fixes is dangerously inadeguate.
Sincere energy independence goals prioritize reducing overconsumption. We are not going to be flying in biodiesel-powered jet planes. Solar panels cannot power the shipment of food from Mexico and Chile to the new Whole Foods store.. Apollo Alliance is part of “Set America Free," a group that includes warmongers partly responsible for the political collapse that has kept renewable energy initia¬ tives from being enacted. While it is nice to see militarists embrace the need for energy efficiency and solar power, militarism is the main obstacle toward these goals.
One participant is former CIA Director James Woolsey, a co-signer of the September 2000 Project for a New American Century report "Rebuilding America's Defenses,” which predicted that a "new Pearl Harbor” would be needed to enact the neo-con plans for global empire. PNAC includes Cheney, Rumsfeld,
Jeb Bush and the rest of the gang that brought us World War IV (WW III was the Cold War). On Sept. 10, 2001, PNAC member Donald Rumsfeld admitted $2.3 tril¬ lion was "missing" from the Pentagon budget - that money would be enough to fund needed energy shifts. See www.oilempire.us/apollo.html for details.
Shifting the military budget toward peaceful purposes, ending what is euphemistically called growth, and relocalizing production are needed to mitigate peak oil. Will we use the remaining oil for solar panels or fighter planes?
Mark Robinowitz of Eugene is publisher of oilempire.us — a political map to understand peak oil, and per- matopia.com — a graceful end to cheap oil. James Woolsey spoke Saturday at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference.
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LfiUfiES. TO THE EDITOR
• Sustainability — High-rises are built with concrete and steel, and these materials come at an environmental cost. Manufacturing cement contributes about 10 percent of carbon dioxide emissions globally. Mining iron ore and manu¬ facturing steel generates toxic waste, and re¬ leases toxic chemicals and greenhouse gases into air and water.
• Ease of movement for people with disabil¬ ities — Price rated the city as “OK” for access. He could say only that the disabled community has been active, and closeness to services is helpful.
• Affordability — Because of a rapidly growing population, Vancouver is expensive. It doesn’t have enough rentals. Low-income housing helps people who qualify, but mid¬ dle-income earners find it hard to live there. In one condominium complex, parking spaces are sold separately for $20,000.
• Reverse commuting — Vancouver has gone from “de-industrialization to re-natural- ization.” Industry moved out of town, forcing workers to commute.
Joanne Vinton Eugene
BAD EATING HABITS
Whole Foods is a corporation based in Texas. Instead of taking money out of our state, how about building an indoor facility for a farmer’s market? This would help support our farmers. I would be interested in knowing what portion of every dollar would go out of Oregon with a Whole Foods store. We have plenty of health food stores in the Eugene area that are locally owned. What happened to sus¬ tainable, local businesses, Kitty?
I also would love to see our public schools tear up much of the grass and plant gardens and build greenhouses to teach kids how to grow food, and also feed them healthy, fresh organic food. The closer we are to the source of our food the less expensive and more nutri¬ tious. With climate change, a third of all species threatened with extinction and the price of oil steadily rising, we need to seri¬ ously rethink where we get our food and how much of our lands we tear up to build suburbs and freeways.
Instead of building more parking garages, how about getting our buses to run on bio-diesel 24 hours a day and have a gas tax pay for it? The planet is not getting bigger and the human pop¬ ulation is not declining. Let us, everyone, get our heads out of the shopping malls, television and computer screens and get real.
Pam Driscoll Eugene
SPIN CYCLE
Apparently, facts are the one thing you do not print in your letters section, so in this let¬ ter I’ll confine myself to opinion. By ignoring the story of the $155,000 financial settlement reached by the city of Eugene in the Southtowne Beat Down, your cover story on laun¬ dromats (2/23) is to alter¬ native weeklies what the runaway bride story was to cable news channels.
Charles Varani Eugene
NATURE FOR SALE
I applaud the intent behind Scott Peterson’s letter to EW (2/23). However, he may have be¬ come muddled in the twisted logic behind the “shoot, shovel, and shut-up” argument. Their argument states that “unless we pay developers to NOT develop, then they will shoot an en¬ dangered species, bury it, and keep quiet.” The logic is similar to “let’s pay murderers not to murder (or rapists not to rape).”
The argument emerged from anecdotal evi¬ dence that private land owners in parts of Northern California and southwest Oregon were shooting spotted owls because they didn’t want their land to be tied up with the legal restrictions of the Endangered Species Act. The attempt to change the ESA by provid¬ ing financial incentives to land owners has ac¬ tually passed the U.S. House, and will be up for a vote in the Senate in just one or two months. Unfortunately, the proposed change will make it much harder for endangered species to sur¬ vive. If the ESA is revised, it will provide tax dollars for land owners, developers and specu¬ lators, but it will offer no real protection for those species threatened with extinction.
Guess which one of our beloved senators will likely vote to change the existing law in favor of developers?
What is immediately distressing is that there is already an easy way that private landowners can be compensated for provid¬ ing a habitat for an endangered species. They can simply sell all or parts of their land to a conservation organization. These truly benevolent souls will simply purchase sensi¬ tive land, and then let it sit undisturbed for¬ ever. If you would like to help these conser¬ vation organizations or take advantage of their services please visit online: www.na- ture.org or www.lta.org
Matthew Froelic Eugene
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I’d like to take issue with Harry Norman’s letter (2/23) endorsing Whole Foods. It seems long on adoration, short on concrete reason¬ ing and leaves out at least one thing I think contraindicates his conclusion.
His first sentence is so laudatory I initially wondered whether he was either an employee in WF’s public relations department or an owner of adjacent property (whose value might shoot up as a result of WF building on the proposed site).
“One of the finest corpo- &
rate citizens on the planet”?
That’s quite a claim. How about some data to back up the claim?
His second sentence follows the pattern of making a claim without offering any data be¬ hind it: “the largest investor in wind energy credits.” What exactly does that mean, any¬ way? How do you invest in wind energy credits anyway?
The next thing he says is that WF “would be a tremendous addition to our community.” Why is that, because “they are the finest cor¬ porate citizens on the planet”? Whatever might that mean?
I’m sorry, but my understanding is that the primary stockholder of the company gave a substantial donation to the Republican party, and to Little George’s re-election campaign, in the last election cycle. I can’t see anyone who finances such people running a company for the benefit of anyone but himself — and to our detriment.
Stephen Ramey Eugene
HEYr FELONS!
Calling all Eugene criminals! Tired of com¬ mitting crimes and getting caught? Well here’s how to get away with murder in Eugene: sim¬ ply commit your crimes on the last Friday of every month between the times of 5:30 to 7 pm. At that time of day, the Eugene Police Department will be using nearly a dozen squad cars to tail and assault peaceful bicyclists as¬ serting their legal rights to safely use alterna¬ tive transportation on city streets, during a Critical Mass bike ride.
In fact, the Eugene police consider these bike riders to be such a massive threat to the public that they occupy the majority of the officers they have on duty at the time to follow the bicyclists, block off entire city streets with their squad cars, and roughly knock several of these citizens off their bicycles to fall hard to the pavement, where they are held down, hand¬ cuffed, thrown in the back of a squad car, threat¬ ened with spending a weekend in jail, and fi¬ nally cited with “disorderly conduct.”
So, Eugene criminals, while the bulk of the Eugene city police are using taxpayers’ money to harass and arrest pedaling pacifists, you can get away with your reckless and drunk driving, your burglary and theft, your methamphetamine production and distribu¬ tion, your beatings, your rapes and your mur¬ ders. It’s like a get out of jail free card!
Doesn’t it make you want to stick around town, knowing Eugene is so tolerant of the criminal element — unless, of course, you’re a peaceful citizen standing up for what you believe in?
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• Connor, Woolley & Opus are huddling behind closed doors Friday with a dozen downtown property owners to try to hash out some kind of group agreement. We suspect the strategy behind getting everybody together in the same room is to get some peer pressure working - kind of like jury deliberations. The dozen "jurors," in this case, will be listening to closing arguments and deciding life or death for CWO. This is a high-stakes trial that can go either way for the downtown developers, but it appears that negotiating with some of the owners one- on-one wasn't getting anywhere. What happens if it's a hung jury? Opus is threatening to pull out if the partnership can't acguire all the property at a reasonable cost. Is it a bluff? Maybe not. On one hand, John Bartell of Opus is a former Eugenean for eight years and he appears to be highly motivated to work with Connor & Woolley. On the other hand, Bartell is not the big cheese at Opus, Eugene is not the only town with potential, and the project has already dragged out nearly a year with nary a brick moving. Despite our reservations about some aspects of this project, we hope Friday's "verdict" is a victory for everyone involved. Then it will be on to the next trial facing CWO: City participation in the project through tax breaks and parking subsidies is certain to be con¬ tentious as well.
• Big turnout this week to protest city subsidies for Whole Foods downtown.
It's great to see the local grocery folks taking a stand against unfair competi¬ tion. What will happen if Whole Foods doesn't get its $8 million city parking garage next door? WF might still come to Eugene, just not downtown. That's OK. As downtown residential development grows, more small corner groceries will pop up to fill the need. And they won't need parking. We hear Market of Choice has eyeballed downtown in the past. Downtown would be good for a mixed-use Market of Choice site. We were disappointed when they didn't add residential floors to their plans for the new south Eugene store - what a great way to guarantee a loyal customer base. It's probably not too late to tweak those plans.
• Good news this week that a couple of folks have filed against Faye Stewart for the East Lane County Commission seat. Voters need a choice in this race, and Jim Weaver made a last-minute decision not to run. Ron Davis is a 30- year Cottage Grove resident, teacher and a clinical laboratory scientist for 35 years, including lab supervisor at Sacred Heart. He owns a small business, was an organizer of EPUD and served on the EPUD board for 13 years, five years as president. Gary Kutcher is executive director of the Sustainable Forestry Network, and a longtime community organizer and journalist. He's run for the U.S. Senate before under the Pacific Party banner, and his politics are nearly 180 degrees from Stewart's. Two candidates running against Stewart? That could make it harder for Stewart to get more than 50 percent of the primary vote and avoid a November runoff. It could be close. East Lane County likes its timber industry, but the district is also evolving in awareness of environmental and social issues, thanks to groups like the Blackberry Pie Society.
• In late-breaking news, the city's Department of Cultural Services is once again drawing fire, this time from the head of the UO Cultural Forum. On March 2 the city posted a reguest for proposal (RFP) for outside consultants to "develop an action-oriented arts and cultural plan that focuses primarily on downtown Eugene." Over a two-year period, the city has allocated $250,000 for the entire process of the cultural review including the RFP process, staff time and hiring consultants. The RFP details the work the consultant will do including marketing and promoting the arts in Eugene, identifying existing arts organizations and facilitating more collaboration and cooperation between them, assessing the current audience and working to increase the numbers of arts supporters and consumers, and identifying funding sources. The submitted proposals will be evaluated and rated by a diverse panel of people involved in the arts in Eugene. UO Cultural Forum Director Darrel Kau was one of the people the city asked to be on the panel. But after reading the RFP, he flatly declined to participate, writing an extensive e-mail to city repre¬ sentatives, Mayor Piercy and council members criticizing the city for out¬ sourcing a job he says should be the responsibility of the city's Cultural Services Department. "The topical issues are daily responsibilities of cultural managers and the reason why you receive public funding to support your salaries," he wrote in the e-mail. "Just because managers of the cultural serv¬ ices division may not have the work ethic, knowledge base, insight or willing¬ ness to fulfill these tasks, does not allow you to receive additional funding to employ a consultant to fulfill your working obligations." Stay tuned.
SLANT includes short opinion pieces, observations and rumor-chasing notes compiled by the EW staff. Heard any good rumors lately? Contact Ted Taylor at 484-0519, editor@eugeneweekly.com
by TOM TOMORROW
WHAT ABOUT NO-BUILD?
The Osprey Group of Colorado has been hired by city, state and federal officials to try to facilitate consensus on the West Eugene Parkway (WEP). Consultants John Huyler and Dennis Donald claim to be unbiased and unattached to outcomes, but their website touts successes in the construction of high¬ way projects over the objections of environ¬ mentalists and Indian tribes. The website (www.TheOspreyGroup.com) says “The support we help generate means that projects are actually embraced and then built or im¬ plemented.”
The site says Osprey has “extensive expe¬ rience helping jurisdictions solve transporta¬ tion problems at the state and local levels. Our public engagement work has helped build community support on projects ranging in complexity from specific intersections, to widening interstate highways, to the design and implementation of TDM programs.” (TDM refers to Travel Demand Management.)
One example cited on the website is an apparent resolution over the South Lawrence Trafficway (SLT) in Kansas, a project similar in many ways to the WEP, including the fill¬ ing and paving of high-value wetlands over the objections of environmentalists. Native Americans objected to the SLT’s encroach¬ ment on spiritual and historic sites, and a local university objected to anticipated traffic noise and pollution. Opponents and propo¬ nents were nearly evenly divided on the proj¬ ect in 2001. Osprey interviewed 30 individu¬ als and reports that an agreement was made to
proceed with the SLT. Federal permits were issued in 2003, but the highway has still not been built. The local newspaper, the Lawrence Journal-World, reports of ongoing lawsuits and lack of funding that could either kill the SLT or delay it until 2012.
— Ted Taylor
DAVID JOHNSON REMEMBERED
Two services are planned to celebrate the life of Eugene native son, poet David Johnson (Aug. 12, 1945 — Feb. 21, 2006). The first will be held from noon to 4 pm Saturday, March 1 1 at St. John’s Community Center at 8427 N. Central Street, in northeast Portland. The second will be held at noon Saturday, March 25 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 85789 Mcbeth Road, off Lorane Highway, Eugene. Bring poems, sto¬ ries to share.
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COPS BASH CRITICAL MASS
During the monthly Critical Mass bike ride, local cyclists clump together and cruise around town, sometimes choking busy roads like West 11th Avenue and Willamette Street with an impenetrable throng of bikes. The last Friday of the month event — which orig¬ inated in San Francisco and spread to cities worldwide — is intentionally disorganized and celebratory, but it also sends political messages about fossil fuel dependency and the lack of bicycle-friendly streets.
In the local version, cops play a starring role. They generally show up about a half- hour into the ride, blockade the cyclists and issue a few citations, charging bikers with failure to obey traffic sig¬ nals or blocking traffic.
Participants often pool their money to pay off the fines.
According to several witnesses, Eugene police were especially rough with Critical Mass partic¬ ipants at the Feb. 24 ride.
As the bikers rode down East 13th Avenue toward Oak Street, they said, about eight police cars approached from different directions and boxed them in.
“A cop jumped out of his car and tackled me off my bike,” Josh Schlossberg said. “I fell down real hard — luckily I was wearing a helmet — and two cops wrestled me and pinned my arms and cuffed me.” Schlossberg and five others were charged with disorderly conduct, but none were taken into custody.
Richey Thomason, who was also arrested at the ride, feels that the cops should have bet¬ ter things to do. “I work in the Blair neighbor¬ hood as an auto mechanic and all day I see crackheads dealing methamphetamines to each other,” he said. “They are living horrible lives of addiction and the police are the only way to set a lot of them straight, but the cops pretend they don’t exist. The priorities of the police disgust me.”
EPD spokeswoman Pam Olshanski said that the police only responded after receiving calls from motorists about bike riders blocking traffic. “When officers tried to get the bicy¬ clists to stop, some of them were charged with disorderly conduct,” she said.
— Kera Abraham
FED FUNDS FOR FORESTS
Thanks to nudging from Mayor Kitty Piercy, Rep. Paul Holvey and Eugene park planners, President Bush has included $460,000 in the federal 2007 budget proposal for the city’s planned purchase of forested wildlife habitat in the southwest Eugene hills.
The money is part of the federal Forest Legacy Program, a partnership between the U.S. Forest Service, state and local govern¬ ments and private landowners. The program identifies and protects ecologically important forest habitats threatened by development.
Parks planner Philip Richardson said that the city will match the federal grant to buy a 24-acre parcel from developer James Evans for about $900,000. The plot of pine- oak savanna would connect the
Ridgeline Trail with the West Eugene Wetlands near Bertelson Road.
The grant’s in¬ clusion in the pro¬ posed federal budget is a victory for city parks planners after years of frustrating close calls. In 2002, the feds awarded Eugene more than $1 mil¬ lion in Forest Legacy funds, but the state Legislature forfeited the money by refusing to participate in the federal program. The ef¬ fort to stymie the grant was led by Rep. Susan Morgan, a Myrtle Creek Republican and for¬ mer timber lobbyist who opposes making forest land public. Oregon’s grant money was re-routed to New Mexico.
Last year, Holvey and Sen. Frank Shields convinced the Legislature to finally approve Oregon’s participation in the program. But House Republicans, led by Morgan, pushed through a restriction that made land outside of the urban growth boundary (UGB) ineligi¬ ble for the Forest Legacy grants.
“I spoke on the floor and told them that it was not very wise to put this restriction on and that I would work to remove it next ses¬ sion,” Holvey said. “It’s important to protect the state’s forest lands, whether for conserva¬ tion or economic purposes.”
Despite the restrictions, Eugene’s 24-acre parcel fits all the criteria for the grant. “It’s not guaranteed that we’ll get the money, but
the president recommended it,” Richardson said. “We’ll do everything we can to buy this parcel, even if we don’t get the federal fund¬ ing.” Congress will vote on the proposed budget in fall 2006.
Meanwhile, local land use activists con¬ tinue to oppose several planned develop¬ ments in the south hills — particularly three ecologically valuable parcels owned by de¬ velopers Joe Green, Norman McDougal and Martin and Leslie Beverly. But a deal can’t happen unless the developers agree to sell for the land’s appraised value or less.
“We’re still very interested in working out agreements on all of those properties,” Richardson said. — Kera Abraham
BIKE BIZ GETS VOICE
What does it take to give our local bicycle industry a boost at a time when the lion’s share of city and state tax subsidies are ear¬ marked for polluting industries such as Hynix and national retail corporations and develop¬ ers such as Whole Foods and Opus?
Owners and managers of Eugene-area bi¬ cycle manufacturers, dealers, repair shops and bike-related enterprises attended a roundtable discussion Feb. 23 on “Growing the Local Bicycle Industry.” The forum was part of the Mayor’s Sustainable Business Initiative Task Force outreach, and included representatives from city, state and local eco¬ nomic agencies. The forum was chaired by Bob Doppelt and David Funk.
Bike advocates noted the “deterioration” of the area’s bike paths and bike infrastruc¬ ture over the past decade, the decrease in bike commuting, and the small amount of state and local transportation funding dedi¬ cated to non-auto transportation.
“Eugene is a destination for peo¬ ple dedicated to bicycling,” said Hanz Scholz of Bike Friday. “We should make bikes an integral part of the transportation system. Bikes are part of the solution. Let’s stop subsidizing automobile use.”
City support for polluting enterprises and big business was also a sore point for several speakers.
“Hynix got $85,000 [in tax breaks] for every new job created,” said bike dealer Paul
Nicholson. “I’d like to see Burley get the same thing. ... If the city is going to help businesses, they should help the local busi¬ nesses that have been here for many years.”
Some of the ideas tossed around at the roundtable were:
• Forming a new coalition or association of bike-industry people to network, lobby for change, support job training, buy supplies in bulk, buy group health insurance, etc.
• Working more closely with the city and county on economic issues and access to tax breaks, low-interest loans for new buildings, etc.
• Putting bike shops on city bike maps.
• Increasing capacity for bikes on LTD buses.
• Making the bicycle industry even more sustainable through energy efficiency, better wages and benefits, etc.
• Building a covered, elevated bike sky¬ way through town “for less than the cost of a new parking garage.” — TJT
TAKE BACK OUR AMERICA
March 18 is the third anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and so far U.S. deaths are tallied at 2,300, U.S. injuries surpass 16,650, and Iraqi civilian deaths number be¬ tween 28,800 and 32,500. To observe the an¬ niversary, a coalition of local progressive groups is mobilizing a rally, teach-in and gathering the day of the anniversary.
The anniversary coincides with the ap¬ pearance in Eugene of liberal talk show icon Ed Shultz March 17. Shultz is expected to join in several local events in addition to host¬ ing his nationwide show on KOPT, the local Air America affiliate.
The theme of the March 18 event is “Take Back our America.” People will gather at three locations at 10:30 am: Alton Baker Park near the Bike Bridge, Lane County Fairgrounds, and the EMU on the UO campus. Starting at 11 am, the three marches will converge on the Federal Building on 7th
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at noon for a rally. Starting at 2 pm will be a teach-in with workshops at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 13th and Pearl. And from 6 to 8 pm will be a social gathering at Cozmic Pizza, 8th and Chamelton.
Speakers during the day are expected to include Carmen Urbina, Mayor Kitty Piercy, Rep. Paul Holvey, Hope Marston, Jan Spencer, Dwight Sowers, Iana Mathews- Harris, Gretchen Miller and a “surprise na¬ tional speaker.”
For more information, contact Michael Carrigan, Community Alliance of Lane County, 485-1755 or calcdev@efn.org
Following the Saturday events, a smaller group is planning to conduct civil disobedi¬ ence actions at three locations on Monday, March 20. They will be “demanding an end to funding for the war while openly and nonviolently breaking the law,” says Peter Chaberek. The group plans to hang several very large anti-war banners from prominent downtown buildings early that morning.
A civil disobedience training is planned for the day before, March 19. For informa¬ tion, contact Chabarek at ffodo55@epud.net
GLENWOOD BIKE PATH
Bike activists continue to push the city of Springfield to approve a deal that would open
14th Avenue in Glenwood, currently owned by Lane Transit District and closed to the public, as a bike path. The 250-foot property would connect Glenwood Boulevard with Henderson Avenue, allowing bikers to travel between Springfield and Eugene without tra¬ versing a dangerous section of Franklin Boulevard that has no sidewalks or bike lanes.
The city of Springfield will not close the deal before resolving a conflict between the Glenwood Water District and the Springfield Fire Department.
A small group of local bike activists held a demonstration outside of the LTD offices in Glenwood on March 3, holding signs in sup¬ port of the proposed bike path. Some demon¬ strators blamed the district for the stalled deal, but LTD spokesman Andy Vobora said that LTD has already agreed to provide an easement for the bike path. “The develop¬ ment is a City of Springfield decision,” he said.
Regardless, some bicyclists are losing patience. “I’ve ridden Franklin Boulevard 1,000 times in the last 12 years, and it’s be¬ coming more and more dangerous for us and for motorists who have to deal with bicyclists on that street,” said bicyclist Shannon Wilson. “It seems like a simple remedy would be to put in 250 feet of bike path on 14th. But instead, they’re playing politics with our lives. This bike path could’ve been opened last week.”
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Skeeter Heater
Mosquitoes adapt to global
It’s not even a debate anymore: Global warming is changing life on Earth. Today’s cutting-edge research focuses not on whether climate change is happening, but on how it will affect various species — which will adapt and which will perish, and over what time frame.
Some species seem resilient to rising tem¬ peratures. Scientists have shown that several kinds of European birds and butterflies have responded to global warming by moving north into places that were too cold for them a century ago. And certain fungi have thrived in the warmer temperatures caused by global warming.
But what’s great for some species, like fungi, may be deadly to others, like frogs. A study recently published in the journal Nature blames global warming for nurturing para¬ sitic fungi that may have doomed as many as 65 Central and South American frog
species. Another study in Nature predicts that global warming will push more than a mil¬ lion species toward ex¬ tinction by 2050.
As huge a topic as global warming is, leaps in under¬ standing can happen in small places — even here in Eugene, in a lab on the UO campus, where evolutionary geneticists
Christina Holzapfel and William Bradshaw test how mosquitoes re¬ spond to various light conditions.
Holzapfel and Bradshaw, who are part¬ ners in life as well as the lab, have been doing research on mosquitoes for more than 30 years. Their discovery that mosquitoes at higher altitudes behave like their cousins fur¬ ther north made the cover of Nature in 1976.
In 2001 the couple made another major discovery, one significant enough to warrant mention in The New Yorker , National Geographic , Scientific American and BBC News. They found that populations of Wyeomyia smithii , a non-biting mosquito that lives in the water-filled leaves of a carnivo¬ rous pitcher plant, have genetically re¬ sponded to a changing climate. It was the first study to show that global warming is actually driving evolution.
Wyeomyia smithii get busy all through the growing season, sometimes reproducing through five or six generations in a few months. But at some critical point near the end of the summer, the larvae go dormant, and they remain in that state (called diapause) through the winter, emerging from the leaves as adults in the spring.
How do the mosquito larvae “know” when to go dormant? They use genetic cues that are sensitive to day length. For example, about half of the W. smithii larvae in Manitoba, Canada, go dormant when the day is 15 hours and 17 minutes long, around Aug.
14. But move south to Florida and the mos¬ quitoes party longer, eating late-summer nec¬ tar and having sex until the day is only 12
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hours and 9 minutes long, around Oct. 21. (Like human party-goers, some “crash out” a little earlier than the majority and some a lit¬ tle later, depending on their genes.)
Bradshaw and Holzapfel found that W. smithii populations are now going dormant later than they were 30 years ago. The Manitoba population that now enters dia¬ pause around Aug. 14, did so around Aug. 5 in 1975.
That told the researchers that nature is se¬ lecting for the individual mosquitoes that stay awake through the end of the party, tak¬ ing advantage of the longer growing season brought about by global warming. And those that enter diapause too early die at higher rates, giving new meaning to the phrase, “You snooze, you lose.”
The good news — for insects and bacteria at least — is that some species may be able to successfully adapt to climate change. The bad news — especially for slow-evolving critters such as polar bears and humans — is the im¬ plication that “having the wrong genet¬ ically pre-disposed reaction to the day length is very seriously bad for you,” as Bradshaw put it.
The mosquitoes now party later in the season, a genetic adaptation to climate change.
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Holzapfel is more blunt. “As the world warms, discordance in communities is going to become immense,” she said, her big blue eyes magnified by round plastic glasses. “It’s hard to envision how something good can come out of maj or disorganization. ” Bill
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President George Bush’s administration has charged a dozen environmental and animal rights activists with “terrorism” for allegedly destroying property, and is threaten¬ ing life sentences behind bars.
“We will not tolerate any group that ter¬ rorizes the American people,” Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said at a Jan. 20 Washington, D.C. press conference.
But as the government brings the massive post-9/11 security apparatus to bear against activists accused of burning gas-guzzling SUVs, a ski resort, and corals at a wild horse slaughtering facility, the really burning ques¬ tion may be, what is terrorism?
Despite the fact that the nation has sup¬ posedly been at war against it for almost five years, there’s no clear definition. A recent U.N. report notes that international efforts against terrorism have been hampered by the lack of a universally accepted definition. “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter,” is an often quoted aphorism among terrorism experts. When the Taliban were fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan, they were freedom fighters. When the Taliban were fighting the U.S., the same people became ter¬ rorists.
Environmental and Animal Rights activists say the true ecoterrorists are the cor¬ porations that are destroying the Earth with global warming, logging and other “atroci¬ ties,” and who are unnecessarily “torturing” thousands of animals for profit.
Of course, the Bush administration has a different definition, but even it’s not consis¬ tent. The State Department terrorism defini¬ tion focuses on violence against people, but
the very broad FBI definition of domestic ter¬ rorism includes any politically motivated crime, including property sabotage. Even protest acts as small as clogging a toilet or graffiti are included in the FBI’s lists of domestic terrorism incidents by animal rights and environmental groups.
The FBI describes such political property damage as “violent.” That contradicts the rules in the FBI’s national Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system. In the UCR, the leading source of U.S. crime statistics, the FBI defines “violent crime” as murder, rape, robbery and assault.
Without being asked, Bush’s political appointees insisted at the D.C. press confer¬ ence that the administration’s focus on prop¬ erty crime by left-wing protesters wasn’t politically motivated. AG Gonzales said “the indictment proves” that the government will go after any terrorist group “no matter its intentions or objectives.”
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III told the cameras that “animal rights and environ¬ mental extremism is one of the FBI’s highest
domestic terrorism priorities” and claimed “no person — no matter what his or her polit¬ ical or moral convictions are — is above the law.”
Priorities
But critics have questioned why property damage by animal and environmental protest¬ ers is the Republican administration’s top domestic terrorism priority.
Fast May the U.S. Senate Republican majority staged a committee hearing on “ecoterrorism,” which Republican Sen. James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) described as the nation’s #1 domestic terror concern.
Democrats at the hearing condemned the property destruction, but questioned whether the Republican administration has its priori¬ ties straight. Sen. Barak Obama (D-Illinois) noted that incidents of environmental sabo¬ tage are declining and said that the threat is not equivalent to other crimes. Obama cited FBI statistics from 2003 showing 7,400 hate crimes committed and 450 environmental crimes involving threats to workers, public
‘To date, not a single incident of so-called environmental terrorism has killed anyone.’
— SEN. FRANK LAUTENBERG
health or the environment. Obama said the Senate environment committee’s time would be better spent on larger threats, such as the failure of the EPA to protect thousands of chil¬ dren from lead poisoning.
“We need to keep things in perspective,” Sen. Frank Fautenberg (D-New Jersey) said. “The Oklahoma City bombing killed 168 peo¬ ple. The attacks of 9/11 killed 3,000. Since 1993, there have been at least five fatal attacks on doctors who performed legal abor¬ tions. Eric Rudolph recently pleaded guilty to placing a bomb in a public area during the Olympic Games in 1996, as well as bombing a Birmingham women’s clinic and a gay nightclub. All of these cases involved the loss of human life. To date, not a single incident of so-called environmental terrorism has killed anyone.”
Abortion activists can’t claim that. Since 1977, anti-abortion activists have perpetrated more than 59,000 acts of violence and destruction in the U.S. including seven mur¬ ders, 17 attempted murders, 41 bombings, 165 arsons, three kidnappings, 122 assaults, 343 death threats and, most recently, 480 anthrax threats, according to the National Abortion Rights Action Teague.
Sen. James Jeffords, a Vermont independ¬ ent, noted that while the FBI is focused on eco-terrorists, it is not doing enough to fight right-wing domestic terrorists such as the KKK, skin heads and the militia members who bombed Oklahoma City. Jeffords also noted that the administration has failed to require adequate security at chemical and nuclear plants — “pre-positioned weapons of mass destruction” — that threaten millions of people.
At the hearing Inhofe and corporate lob¬ byists sought to paint mainstream environ¬ mental and animal rights groups as somehow linked to the “ecoterrorist” label and ques¬ tioned their non-profit status.
Fautenberg and other Democrats objected to the tactic. Bomber Tim McVeigh was a member of the National Rifle Association, and abortion clinic bombers were involved in mainstream right to life groups, but that does¬ n’t make them terrorists, Fautenberg said. “We must take care not to lump legitimate groups with terrorists. To do so would only minimize the very real threats against our society.”
The FBI’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has also questioned the department’s “ecoterrorism” priorities. In a 2003 report, the OIG recommended that the FBI take its anti¬ terrorist staff off of environmental and animal rights property crimes to focus on more seri¬ ous threats. “To the extent that the FBI seeks to maximize its counterterrorism resources to deal with radical Islamic fundamentalist ter¬ rorism, WMD, and domestic groups or indi¬ viduals that may seek mass casualties, we believe that FBI management should consider the benefit of transferring responsibility for criminal activity by social activists to the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division.” The FBI refused to alter its priorities.
In that sense, not much has changed since 9/11 at the FBI. While al Qaeda was planning to crash airliners into the nation’s largest buildings, the FBI was focused on “ecoterror¬ ism.” Six months before the mass casualties, then FBI director Fouis Freeh testified to a congressional committee on terrorism threats, giving about the same amount of time to envi¬ ronmental and animal rights groups as he
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Craig Rosebraugh, a former spokesman for an environmental sabotage group.
The Bush administration accused Chelsea Gerlach of “ecoterrorism.”
gave to Osama bin Laden and Middle-East terrorist groups.
EPD
The Eugene Police Department apparently shares the FBEs top prioritization of environ¬ mental property crime. The EPD has fre¬ quently complained that it doesn’t have enough time to pursue bike and car thieves, burglars and even domestic violence cases. But the EPD apparently has prioritized ample time to participate in the FBEs years-long “intensive” Joint Terrorism Taskforce investi¬ gation of property crime by environmental¬ ists. One EPD officer was even sent to New York City to pursue a suspect, according to court documents.
Another EPD officer, Chuck Tilby, had the time to research and co-author a treatise on “criminal anarchists.” The report in the jour¬ nal Studies in Conflict & Terrorism last year describes anarchists today as “no less vexing for law enforcement” than the “terrorist siege” of the bomb-throwing, assassin anar¬ chists of two centuries ago. Tilby’s article on the “threat posed by anarchists” attempts to link and lump together criminal anarchists with “ecoterrorism” incidents, violence, armed militias and mainstream environmental and anti-war groups and low level civil dis¬ obedience like sit-ins and hanging banners, and even independent media activities pro¬ tected by the First Amendment.
The Tilby article acknowledges that not all anarchists advocate or engage in violence and that many law enforcement professionals “view modem anarchists simply as a protest group” and “may be tempted to ignore the movement.” But Tilby says law enforcement should infiltrate, grand jury subpoena, and use informants against anarchists “because of the tactics that may be used” to enact their revo¬ lutionary ideas.
EPD spokesperson Pam Olshanski refused to provide any information on how much time and taxpayer money local officers spent on the environmental property crime investiga¬
tion. In Portland, local police participation in the terrorism taskforce sparked heated debate about police priorities, civil rights and officer supervision. But in Eugene there has been no such discussion.
Anti-Environmental Violence
While law enforcement has focused on property destmction by environmental and animal rights activists, it has largely ignored a long list of alleged violent crimes by anti- environmentalists.
Ignored anti-environmental crimes include: a car bomb directed at protesters against redwood logging that seriously injured two activists in 1990; Eugene police dousing non-violent tree sitters with pepper spray, and northern California deputies using Q-tips to apply the burning spray directly to protesters’ eyes in 1997; a logger who allegedly intentionally fell a tree on a forest protester, killing him in 1998; and complaints by tree-sitters last year that they had been shot at with bullets and a hunting arrow in the McKenzie River headwaters.
Anti-environmentalists have also largely gotten away with targeting government work¬ ers with violence. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility documented a
three-year string of serious incidents from 1995 to 1998 including: an anti-government landowner who ran over a park service ranger in Arizona; shootings and attacks against Vermont National Parks Service employees; the beating of an EPA employee in Missouri by suspected pro-mining activists; a car bomb that seriously injured a federal mine inspector and his wife in California; and a Forest Service Ranger beaten by cattle ranchers.
These violent incidents don’t include the many incidents of property destruction anti-
environmental groups have also engaged in without facing prosecution or labeling as ter¬ rorists. For example, in 2001 angry ranchers near Klamath Falls cut through fences and forced open dam gates to release water held back for endangered fish during a drought.
Big Brother
In going after environmental property crime, critics fear that the federal government is not only misusing the massive anti-terror¬ ism resources created after 9/11 but also the huge spying apparatus set up to eavesdrop on the Soviets during the Cold War.
Greenpeace, renowned for its efforts to block international whaling, has joined the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other groups to sue the federal government for warrantless wire taps. “A government that can’t maintain a distinction between terror and civil dissent is not a healthy or democrat¬ ic government,” Greenpeace said in a state¬ ment.
Bush has proclaimed that because of his declared “War on Terror” he has the inherent power to tap anyone’s international phone calls whenever he wants. The ACLU says wiretaps without a court warrant are illegal. The Bush administration hasn’t said that it
— GREENPEACE
used warrantless wiretaps against Greenpeace or any other environmentalists, but, of course, such wiretaps are generally secret and rarely acknowledged.
In what appears to be a reference to wire¬ taps in the Senate hearing last year, FBI Deputy Assistant Director John Lewis testi¬ fied that the FBI employs its “expertise in the area of communication analysis to provide investigative direction” for “ecoterrorism” investigations.
The EPD’s Tilby writes as if he and others
are already engaged in spying on anarchists who aren’t discussing crimes. “Infiltration into large affinity group meetings is relatively simple,” his article states.
The law against warrantless wiretaps and law enforcement guidelines against spying on political groups came about after abuses in the late 1960s and early ’70s when the FBI used its COINTELPRO program to spy on and dis¬ rupt the civil rights movement and peace groups opposed to Vietnam. Targets of the spying included Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lennon. Now, the Bush administration has resumed the wiretaps and political spying, civil liberties groups say.
Harsh Sentences
And now the dozen recently arrested envi¬ ronmental and animal rights activists face harsh sentences.
“Persons who conduct this kind of activity are going to spend a long time in jail,” FBI Director Mueller said.
Most of the defendants could face life sen¬ tences, with some sentences of over 300 years possible. By comparison, the average federal sentence for murderers convicted in federal court is 20 years, robbers average six years and assaulters two years.
“It’s outrageous,” said Karen Picket, a San Francisco Earth First! activist. “If there is a political reason for doing the same act, and it’s a political reason the federal government doesn’t like, the sentence is altogether differ¬ ent and often several times worse.”
Ironically, someone who steals an SUV out of greed faces a far lower sentence than an environmentalist who destroys the vehicle because it pollutes. In Oregon, the average sentence for motor vehicle theft was 17 months in 2001. In 2001 a state judge sen-
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tenced Jeff “Free” Luers to 23 years in prison for burning three SUVs and attempting to set fire to an empty fuel truck. The average arson sentence in Oregon that year was just under six years, rapists averaged 10 years and mur¬ derers 14 years.
But law enforcement and anti-environmen¬ tal politicians are pushing for even harsher sen¬ tences for those who commit property crimes for environmental and animal rights reasons. Corporate and hunter groups have circulated model laws to state legislatures that would set up special crimes and harsh sentences for sabo¬ tage by environmental and animal rights activists. The laws are working their way through nine state legislatures and some could make it a crime to reduce business profits by protesting, civil rights advocates fear.
In 1999, Oregon passed a law making it a crime to interfere with agricultural or timber operations, including logging.
An existing federal law already makes dis¬
rupting animal enterprises a crime. Last year, the FBI and Senate Republicans called for strengthening the law and expanding it to apply to business disruptions by environmen¬
tal activists.
Long prison sentences can be especially hard on environmental and animal rights activists. The non-violent activists can fall
prey to violent inmates, suffer malnutrition from lack of nutritious vegan food and lose access to the nature they love. One of the alleged “ecoterrorists” recently arrested suffo¬
cated himself with a plastic bag in an Arizona jail cell. He reportedly left a note calling the suicide a “jail break.”
Backfire
Mueller said the long sentences will have a “dramatic impact on persons who contem¬ plate these crimes.”
Environmental activists are calling the “ecoterrorism” crackdown a “green scare,” comparing it to the “red scare” periods of anti¬ communist repression and civil rights abuses after World War I and in the 1950s.
Jim Flynn, a local Earth First! activist, said that after the indictments “people were quite intimidated” in the environmental protest movement.
John Zerzan, a local anarchist author, said the arrests and the recent conviction of seven animal rights activists in California for what they wrote on a website “is very scary.”
Zerzan said the government is pushing back the line on what before was considered free speech. “That’s a police state kind of move.”
Lauren Regan, a local attorney who directs the Civil Liberties Defense Center, noted that Congress also just made permanent the FBI’s extensive secret search powers under the PATRIOT Act. “It is very, very scary to see what’s going on.”
Environmentalists worry that the govern¬ ment’s target goes beyond even property destruction to previously accepted lawful protests.
In his anarchist article, the EPD’s Tilby lists law enforcement strategies used against free speech protest rights supposedly protect¬ ed by the Constitution. Tilby described attempts to “create ’protest zones’ so far away from the event that it was impractical or unat¬ tractive to protesters who wanted their mes¬ sage heard by event participants,” and “requiring demonstration permits with high fees and designating approved parade routes in remote areas.”
Although Mueller may have hoped that the FBI’s “Operation Backfire” would intimi¬ date environmental protesters, that goal may have itself backfired.
Environmental activists at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference last week at the UO said that after the initial scare, the repression would bring unity, public sym¬ pathy, new recruits and increased determina¬ tion. “The time for action is now,” said Kim Marks, a Portland forest activist.
Sessions on environmental sabotage drew more attendance than previous years at the conference and less debate about whether sabotage was an appropriate tactic.
Craig Rosebraugh, a former spokesman for an environmental sabotage group, ran through a list of “atrocities.” The millions of people in poverty, global warming, a 90 per¬ cent loss of old-growth trees, and 100,000 dead in Iraq demand direct action, he said to loud applause from about 200 activists. “We have an obligation to do whatever we can by any means necessary to stop that.”
The environmentalists invoke the nation’s long history of civil disobedience against repression to justify their actions — from the Boston Tea Party, to the underground railway for slaves, to the women’s suffrage, labor and civil rights struggles. “Without debate and without dissent we do not have a democracy,” Regan said. BIN
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The Eugene Concert Choir brings the five-time Grammy award-winning Paul Winter Cons to the stage for a joint performance of Winter's Missa Gaia. Winter, a saxophonist, bandlea and composer, has worked for decades on what his website calls "Earth Music," celebratin creatures and cultures of the planet. Since 1985, the Missa Gaia, or Earth Mass, has been per¬ formed to celebrate the Feast of St. Francis at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. Alas, there won't be a parade of critters in the Hult Center this weekend, but this is still something special for the ECC. See Saturday Calendar.
The Eugene Symphony features pianist Kevin Cole (left) in "American Legends," a program featuring work from a trio of famed New York composers: George Gershwin, Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein. Cole is a world-renowned inter¬ preter of Gershwin, leaving gushing critics in his wake - like Howard Reich of the Chicago Tribune, who wrote, "When Cole sits down at the piano, you would swear Gershwin himself was at work." With two Gershwin pieces on the program, including the famous Rhapsody in Blue, Cole is sure to shine. See Thursday, March 16 Calendar.
It's an unusual - and entertaining - press release header: "Local businesses band together to fight schlocky wedding industry." For any area brides-to-be, what's not to love? The Eugene Boutique Bridal Show, hosted by Marche Catering and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, brings together local businesses and resources to offer an alternative to, as they put it, "the tidal wave of often tacky, often expensive wedding paraphernalia that the about-to-be-married wade through." The show features members of Eugene's Bridal Arts Collective, a group of local businesses that works on cre¬ ative wedding products, as well as local boutiques, wedding planners, bakeries and even pre-marital counselors. What more could you want? Especially when there won't be an embarrassing floral chartreuse bridesmaid's dress for miles. See Saturday Calendar.
Saturday afternoon, Jacobs Gallery hosts an artists' insight talk and reception for "Double Vision - Shared Site," a new exhibit curated by Terri Warpinski that features photographic work by Warpinski (below), her late husband Garry B. Fritz and six other artists within their creative sphere. Originally intended as a means for Fritz and Warpinski to focus on creative interaction in their work, the exhibit's purpose shifted after Fritz's sudden death to include the work of artists sharing a broad range of influences with the couple. See Saturday Calendar.
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THURSDAY
Sunrise 6:35am; Sunset 6:11pm Av High 55; Av Low 36
BENEFIT One Love Date Auction with DJ, dancing and food, a benefit for a UO student whose family is fighting cancer, 7:30pm, Red Lion Hotel. Sug. don.
FILM The Archaeology Channel International Film & Video Festival: Introductions, 6:20pm; Vesuvius: Deadly Fury, 6:30pm; In the Land of Black Pharaohs, 7:28pm; Oudad: Reinventing a Tradition, 8:26pm, McDonald Theatre. $7.
Bukowski: Born Into This, 9:30pm, DIVA. $5.
GATHERINGS Caregiver Support Group, open to anyone caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's or other memory dis¬ ease, 9:30am, Junction City Retirement Center. 345-8392.
Americorps National Civilian Community Corps assist seniors with Medicare Part D enrollment, 1pm-6pm, Cottage Grove LCC Outreach Center. 434-7026.
Education and social service agen¬ cies are invited to learn how to apply for a First Book grant to support a literacy component in their services or programs, 4pm, Downtown Library. Christine, 484-1466.
Lane County Home & Garden Show with plant sales, garden art, tools, more than 300 exhibiting firms, hourly how-tos and more, 5pm-9pm today & tomorrow; 10am-9pm March 11; 10am-5pm March 12, Lane County Fairgrounds. FREE; canned food donation reguested.
WAND meeting, learn songs of peace and protest with Carol Melia in preparation for the national protests of the 3rd anniversary of the start of the war in Irag, 6:30pm, McNail-Riley House. FREE.
Cascade Mycological Society meeting with demonstration by Beth Miltko on dyeing fabric with mushrooms, 7:30pm, 115 Building 16, LCC. Kyle, 463-5447.
League of Women Voters of Lane County March Unit Meetings on the topic of Metropolitan Government, today through March 16, various times & loca¬ tions. Details at www.lwvlc.org
KIDS Gimme Games for grades 1- 6, play word and storytelling games, 4pm, Downtown Library. FREE.
LECTURES "The Latest in Health and Hazards Research," Jessica Greene and Andre LeDuc, 12:30pm, 119 Hendricks, UO. FREE.
"Who Was the Snake Woman Who Traveled With Lewis and Clark?,” an Archaeology Channel Film and Video Festival presentation about Sacajawea by Tony Fargue, 4pm, Downtown Library. $2 sug. don.
LITERARY ARTS Robert Pape discusses Dying to Kill: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, 7pm, 180 PLC, UO. FREE.
MUSIC Girlyman, 7pm, John Henry's. 21+ show. $12.
The American Symphonia: "The Classical Benny Goodman,” 7:30pm, Jagua Concert Hall. 434- 7000. $20-$30.
Lane Symphonic Band, Lane Chamber Orchestra, 7:30pm, Performance Hall, LCC. $2-$8 sug. don.
Repertoire Singers and Concert Choir, 8pm, Beall Hall, UO. $5, $3 stu., sr.
Sleepsound Records showcase: Testface, Armored Frog, The Fast Computers, 9pm, Sam Bond's Garage. 21+ show. $5.
ON THE AIR "The Jefferson Exchange” feaures Nancy Willard, author of Computer Ethics, Etiguette and Safety for the 21st Century Student, 8am and 8pm, KRVM 1280 AM.
"New Dimensions” features "Teaching Ecological Imagination” with David Orr, 6:30pm, KLCC 89.7 FM. THEATER After Mrs. Rochester, 7:30pm tonight; 8pm tomorrow and March 11, 17 & 18; 2pm March 12, Robinson Theatre, UO. 346-4363. $12, $9 stu., sr., $5 UO stu.
Waiting for Codot, 8pm tonight, tomorrow and March 11; 2pm March 12, Very Little Theatre. 344- 7751. $10.
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ARTS/VISUAL An opening for work by Rod Gillilan, 3pm, Of Grape and Grain. FREE.
BENEFIT Rumi Night with poetry, Turkish Bazaar and meal, music by Turkish Aksent, whirling meditation and "The Journey of the Dervishes," story and pictures of the journey of five whirling dervish women from Eugene, a benefit to pay for the journey, 6:30pm, Eugene Friends Meeting House. Reservations reguired at mfitch@uoregon.edu $20-$50 ss.
DANCE Dance Theatre of Oregon presents Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, 7:30pm tonight and 2:30pm March 12, Hult Center. $16, $14 sr.
FILM The Archaeology Channel International Film & Video Festival: Introductions, 6:20pm; Blood of the Vikings, Episode 2: Invasion, 6:30pm; The Disappearing of Tuvalu - Trouble in Paradise, 7:26pm; The Truth of Troy, 8:47pm, McDonald Theatre. $7.
Symposium on Heritage Film, with presentations by Dale Marston, Richard Pettigrew and Guy Prouty followed by a roundtable discus¬ sion, open to all interested in film- making about human cultural her¬ itage, 1pm-5pm, Downtown
Library, www.archaeologychan- nel.org $20 sug. don.
Kitchen Stories (Swedish with English subtitles), 7pm, 221 McKenzie, UO. FREE.
Movie and discussion: Crash, 7pm, Unity of the Valley. 345-9913. FREE.
YouthVisions 2004-2005 Video Festival, an evening of 11 award¬ winning videos by area teens, 8pm, DIVA. $2-$5 ss.
3-D Asian Film Night: Revenge (Chinese), 8pm; Empire (Japanese), 9:30pm, 180 PLC, UO. FREE.
GATHERINGS Oregon Supreme Court oral arguments: Schnitzer Investment Corp v. Lloyds of London, 9am; State v. Lisa Ann Henderson, 10:30am; State v. Gregory Allen Bowen, 1:30pm, 175 Knight Law, UO. 346-3885.
City Club: "Governor Campaign '06: Issues That Shouldn't Be Overlooked” with gubernatorial candidates, 11:50am, Downtown Athletic Club. $3, members free.
Pacifica Forum: "Holocaust Denial Update: David Irving in Oregon and Austria," report by Orval Etter and others, 4pm, 125 McKenzie, UO. 344-0483. FREE.
"Alchemical Healing and Animal Guides” with Nicki Scully, 7pm, Mother Kali's, 1849 Willamette. FREE.
Lane County Home & Garden Show continues. See Thursday, March 9.
KIDS World's Fair with Italian cafe, carnival and global market, 6pm, Hillside Elementary, 955 W. 22nd Ave. $4 for dinner.
LECTURES "Boring
Spectacle: The Production of Localness in the 'Local View' Film, 1914-1945,” Michael Aronson, noon, 159 PLC, UO. FREE.
"China: Its Borderlands and Its Neighbors," Morris Rossabi, 3pm, Clark Honors College Library, UO. 346-3345. FREE.
"Science Circus I: Snap, Crack, Fling, Boom,” a physics demonstra¬ tion show with "Dr.” Stan, Dean Livelybrooks and Sam Sampere, 6:30pm, 100 Willamette, UO. FREE.
"Living on the Edge: Searching for Certainty in an Anything-But-
Eliel Lucero is the featured poet at round six of the Eugene Poetry Slam Saturday at Territorial Winery.
Certain World,” Cara Barker, 7:30pm, Sacred Heart Medical Center Auditorium. $8, $5 stu., Eugene Friends of Jung members.
MUSIC Collegium Musicum, 5pm, Collier House, UO. FREE.
Natural Progression, Michelle of Little Girl Big Spoon, The Tito Caplan Experience, The Jimmy Utterback Trio, Alliance, Undermine and more, a benefit for the South Eugene PeaceJam Club, 7pm, Cozmic Pizza. $5-$10 ss.
Darby O'Gill, 7pm, Borders Books. FREE.
Spoken, Dizmas, Manafest, Red, Until June, 7pm, WOW Hall. $10 adv., $12 dos.
Free Reign with WayWalker, Nik Fury, Incomplete, 8pm, Centennial Christian Center. 344-3370. FREE.
Michael Chapdelaine, 8pm, Luna. 21+ show. $10.
Paul Mazzio, trumpet, with Oregon Jazz Ensembles, 8pm, Beall Hall, UO. $5, $3 stu., sr.
ON THE AIR "The Jefferson Exchange” discusses rural health issues and prescription drug prices with Senator Bill Morrisette, 8am and 8pm, KRVM 1280 AM.
"One Hour, One Band,” Dionne Warwick sings Bacharach/David on part two of Rev. Marc Time's month-long tribute to women in music, 4pm, KWVA 88.1 FM.
SPIRITUAL Community BreathWork Circle, 6:30pm, Tamarack Wellness Center. Kassy, 683-1776.
THEATER Actors Cabaret Youth Academy presents Crease: The School Edition, 7:30pm tonight, tomorrow and March 12, Actors Cabaret Annex. $10, $6 under 12.
Sweet Charity, 7:30pm tonight, tomorrow and March 17 & 18; 2pm March 19; 7pm March 22 & 23, North Eugene High School Theatre. 687-3163. $8, $6 stu., sr.
After Mrs. Rochester continues. See Thursday, March 9.
Waiting for Godot continues. See Thursday, March 9.
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Sunrise 6:32am; Sunset 6:14pm Av High 55; Av Low 36
ARTS/VISUAL An artists' insight talk for "Double Vision - Shared Site,” work by Garry B. Fritz, Terri Warpinski, Gina Rubin Cody, Shelley M. Foster, John Holmgren, Lorri Nelson, Kurt Norlin and Michael Sherwin, 3:30pm, reception follows at 5:30pm, Jacobs Gallery. FREE.
BENEFIT Dinner and silent auc¬ tion with music by Red Pajamas Duo, a benefit for Skyanne Housser, 5:30pm & 7:30pm, Morning Glory Cafe. Reservations at 741-8074. $15 & up ss.
COMEDY Glenwood Chucks vs. Eugene Wilders, 8pm, Comedy- Sportz Theater. $8, $6 stu.
FILM "Seed to Scenes: Growing a story idea into a shootable script,” a program for teens with Jon Labrousse, 10am, DIVA. Register at 344-3482. $10.
The Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival: Introductions, 10:50am; Viking Voyages, 11am; Cone to Pat, 11:58am; Secrets of the Karakoum, 12:34pm; King Solomon's Tablet of Stone, 2:30pm; Following Antigone: Forensic Anthropology and Fluman Rights Investiations, 3:26pm; The Kingdom of the Nabateans: From Petra to Medain Saleh, 4:09pm, McDonald Theatre. $11.
An awards reception for the Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival, with clips of top films, 5:30pm, DIVA. $5.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, book discussion 6pm, film 7pm, Lorane Grange. Shannon, 942- 2219. $7 sug. don.
GATHERINGS McKenzie River Cat Club Annual Show, 10am- 4pm today and tomorrow, Lane County Fairgrounds. $4, $3 sr.
Learn about the 2006 Cultural Opportunity Grants, 10am, EWEB. FREE.
Eugene Irish Cultural Festival with non-stop music, workshops, talks, family activities, Irish ceili dance, food and craft vendors and more, with evening concert featuring Gerry Carthy, Circled by Hounds, Fiddlehead and the Murray Irish Dancers, 10:30am-5pm with 7pm concert, Sheldon High School. Daytime: $7, $4 stu., sr.; Evening: $15, $10 stu., sr.; Both: $20, $12 stu., sr.
Songwriters Workshop, bring 12 copies of lyrics and a song to play live or recorded, 11am, Tsunami Books. Rocky, 345-9253. FREE.
Dharmalaya permaculture devel¬ opment tour, noon, Dharmalaya Center. Joshua, 344-4378.
The Eugene Boutigue Wedding Show, an informal show created to battle the tidal wave of often- tacky, often-expensive wedding paraphernalia, 1pm-4pm, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Jessica, 683-2260. FREE.
emuLAN, the largest LAN gaming event ever produced in Eugene, 4pm today through 4pm tomorrow, EMU Ballroom, emulan.uoregon.edu $15, $12 stu. Bring your own PC.
City of Eugene celebration dinner commemorating 100 years of cre¬ ating public parks, 6pm, Downtown Athletic Club. 682-5010.
Emerald Valley Opry, music by Judy Chartier, Steven Smith, Brooks Robertson and more, 6pm, Willamette High School. Joyce, 688-0937. $5, $4 sr.
USA Dance monthly social ball¬ room dance with performance by OSU Ballroom Dance Formation Team, 6pm lesson, 7pm dance, Vet's Club. 463-8337. $6, $4 stu.
Contra Dance, music by The Generic Stringband, calling by Ruth Lowengart, 7:30pm lesson, 8pm dance, Kelly School Gym. 302-2628. $7.
Lane County Home & Garden Show continues. See Thursday, March 9.
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KIDS 49th Annual children's theater production of Charlotte's Web, with shadow puppet show of Where the Wild Things Are, 10am, 11am, 1pm & 2pm, First United Methodist Church. $3 adv., $4 dos.
Early childhood open house, 11am, Eugene Waldorf School. FREE.
Kids' Art: Handmade books for ages 4 & up, 11am-3pm, MECCA, 43 W. Broadway. 302-1810. $2-$5 sug. don.
Discovery Family Saturdays, partic¬ ipate in hands-on activities and learn about archaeology, in con¬ junction with the Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival, 1pm-4pm, Museum of Natural and Cultural History, UO.
$3, $5 family.
American Girls book group, 2pm, Barnes & Noble. Register at 687- 0356. FREE.
LECTURE "Introduction and History of Fire Walks,” Ginger Cloud, 2pm, Downtown Library. FREE.
LITERARY ARTS Poets Deborah Narin-Wells and Anita Sullivan read, 5pm, Tsunami Books. 345-8986.
Eugene Poetry Slam Round 6, last gualifying round, with featured poet Eliel Lucero, 7:30pm, Territorial Winery, www.eugenepo- etryslam.com $5, $3 under 18.
MUSIC 21st Annual Adult Band Festival with 11 bands from around the state and beyond including and hosted by the Eugene Symphonic Band, 9am-6:10pm, Performing Arts Building, LCC. FREE.
DirtyMac, 9:30am, Jamocha's. FREE.
Atrium Amateur Hour: Grand re¬ opening with potpourri for winds and strings, 2pm, Atrium, 10th & Olive. 344-0483. FREE.
Oregon Children's Choir: Junior Boychoir, Boychoir, Young Men's Ensemble, The Classics, 3pm, Northwood Christian Church, Spfd. $10, $8 stu., sr.
Eugene Irish Cultural Festival evening concert: Gerry Carthy, Circled by Hounds, Fiddlehead and the Murray Irish Dancers, 7pm, Sheldon High School. $15, $10 stu., sr. Heir Born, WayWalker, Nik Fury, 7pm, His Church, Cottage Grove. 729-0331. FREE.
Opeth, Devil Driver, Dark Tranguility, Northwest Royale, 7pm, WOW Hall. $19 adv., $21 dos.
Hapa, 7:30pm, Jagua Concert Hall. 434-7000. $22-$30.
Eugene Concert Choir and the Paul Winter Consort perform the Missa Gaia, 8pm, Hult Center. $10-$28.
Future Music Oregon, 8pm, 198 Music, UO. $5, $3 stu., sr.
Gamelan Sari Pandhawa shadow puppet theater production of the Jewish passover legend with pup¬ pets & music, 8pm, St. Mary's Episcopal Church. 683-9257. Don.
Americanistan with featured dancer Razia, 9pm, Luna. 21+ show. $6.
Vagabond Opera, 9:30pm, Jo Federigo's. 21+ show. $5.
ON THE AIR "Jivin' John's Country Classics” features The Sons of the Pioneers, 9am, KRVM 91.9 FM.
OUTDOORS/RECREATION
Blanton Heights lichen identifica¬ tion walk with Daphne Stone, 9am, meet at South Eugene High School. Dave, 345-5531. Bring hand lens and wear boots.
GEARs ride, over the hump and around the dump, 35-50 miles, 10am, meet at Alton Baker Park. www.eugenegears.org
Northwest Association for Adult Competitive Kickball game, 2pm, 19th & Washington. www.myspace.com/eugene_nwaack FREE.
Obsidians trip, Trestle Creek Falls hike, 4 miles. See YMCA board for details.
SPIRITUAL Beyond Sunday Discussion: Lecture-based conver¬ sation on how churches should interact with our culture, 10am, Grace Community Fellowship. 683-9205. FREE.
Interfaith Prayer and Reflection Service, "Sacred Teachings of the
Creation Story” shared by tradi¬ tions of Vedanta, Evangelical Christian, Baha'i, Jewish, Sikh Dharma, Sufi, Islam, Native American, Buddhist and Christian Science, 6:45 prelude, 7pm service, First Christian Church. 344-5693.
THEATER Actors Cabaret Youth Academy presents Really Rosie, 2pm today, tomorrow and March 18 & 19, Actors Cabaret Annex. $8, $6 under 12.
After Mrs. Rochester continues. See Thursday, March 9.
Waiting for Godot continues. See Thursday, March 9.
Grease: The School Edition contin¬ ues. See Friday.
Sweet Charity continues. See Friday.
VOLUNTEER Orientation and celebration for new and seasoned Eugene Stream Team volunteers, 3pm, Downtown Library. Reservations at 682-4850. FREE.
Young Women's Choir, Synergy, 3pm, Northwood Christian Church, Spfd. $10, $8 stu., sr.
Portland Gay Men's Chorus, Soromundi: Lesbian Chorus of Eugene, a fundraiser for HIV Alliance, 3pm, First United Methodist Church. $10, $5 sr., kids
Laura Cortese Band, 6pm, Cozmic Pizza. $10, $5 under 18.
Pat McGee, Steven Kellogg and the Sixers, 7pm, Taboo, 23 W. 6th Ave. 338-8787. $13 adv., $15 dos.
Shawn McDonald, Warren Barfield, visual artist Scott Erickson, 7:30pm, McDonald Theatre. $12 adv., $14 dos.
ON THE AIR "The Sunday Morning Hangover” features part three of Rev. Marc Time's Women's History Month tribute, showcasing the music of The Ronettes, The Crystals, The Shangri-Las and The Shirelles, 8am, KWVA 88.1 FM.
Sunrise 6:30am; Sunset 6:15pm Av High 55; Av Low 36
ARTS/VISUAL Open house, noon-5pm, Eccentricities Gallery, 2368 Agate St. FREE.
An opening for "Landent,” 35mm experimental photography by Carly Boyer, 4pm, WOW Hall. FREE.
COMEDY Comedy Spring Cleaning with the Comedy Workout, 7pm, Actors Cabaret of Eugene. 683-4368. $7.
DANCE Snow White and the Seven Dwarves continues. See Friday.
GATHERINGS American Songs of Protest," an Oregon Chautaugua program with Twilo Scofield, 2pm, Baker Downtown Center. 682-4242. FREE.
Food Not Bombs serves meals, 3pm-5pm, near deer mural at Washington Jefferson Park. FREE.
"What We Can Learn from the Collapse of Ancient Civilizations," a discussion led by Guy Prouty, 5pm, Springfield Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. FREE.
Lane County Home & Garden Show continues. See Thursday, March 9.
McKenzie River Cat Club Annual Show continues. See Saturday.
emuLAN continues. See Saturday.
KIDS Signs of Spring guided nature walk for kids and families, 1pm, Mount Pisgah Arboretum Visitor Center. 747-1504. $3 don.
LITERARY ARTS Katz/The Athens Boys Choir, spoken word, 7pm, Mother Kali's, 1849 Willamette. FREE.
MUSIC Youth, Praise and Sanctuary choirs with soloist Jamie Weaver perform Haydn's Missa Brevis, 11am, First United Methodist Church. FREE.
Chamber Music on Campus, 1pm, Collier House, UO. FREE.
Pat McGee, 1:30pm, CD World. FREE.
Oregon Children's Choir: Prelude Choir, Junior Girlchoir, Girlchoir,
OUTDOORS/RECREATION
GEARs ride, Walterville, 35-60 miles, 10am, meet at Alton Baker Park, www.eugenegears.org
Obsidians trip, Fawn Creek snow- shoe, 7 miles. See YMCA board for details.
SPIRITUAL Silent meditation seminar, 6am-noon, Dharmalaya. 686-0506. FREE.
"Be Careful What You Pray For” adult spiritual enrichment program with Beverlee PattonAllen, 10:30am, Eugene Baha'i Center. 344-3173. FREE.
Dances of Universal Peace, dances from many spiritual traditions taught to all ages, 7pm, St. Mary's Episcopal Church. Don.
THEATER Emerald Valley Playback Theater, improvisational theater based on true life stories told by the audience on the theme "taking risks,” 3pm, DIVA. $5-$10 sug. don.
After Mrs. Rochester continues. See Thursday, March 9.
Waiting for Godot continues. See Thursday, March 9.
Grease: The School Edition contin¬ ues. See Friday.
Really Rosie continues. See Saturday.
VOLUNTEER Volunteer Knitting Corner, improve your craft, learn new skills and make a gift for someone in need, 2pm, EMU 318, UO. FREE.
Sunrise 6:28am; Sunset 6:16pm Av High 56; Av Low 37
ARTS/VISUAL An opening for work by Erin Rose Garden, Collin Janke, David Wagner, Jane Snar and Patience Wyman, 5pm, Laverne Krause Gallery, UO. FREE.
GATHERINGS Gay Men's Night, play board games and meet new people, 6pm Mondays, Q Center, 1309 Lincoln. FREE.
UO juggling club, 6pm weekly, B- 50 Gerlinger, UO. 346-4436. $1, students free.
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River Road Community Organization meeting, 7pm, River Road Annex. Rob, 689-6372. FREE.
Urine Therapy Information Hour, 7pm Mondays through March 27, Maitreya Eco-Village Community Hall. Don.
LITERARY ARTS Socrates Cafe book group, discuss The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, 7pm, Barnes & Noble. FREE.
Performance poet Katie Daley performs her one-woman show, 7pm, Mother Kali's, 1849 Willamette. FREE.
ON THE AIR "The Jefferson Exchange” features Michael Stone, co-author of Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World, 8am and 8pm, KRVM 1280 AM.
"'60s Beat” features The Who, 5pm, KRVM 91.9 FM.
"UO Today” features art collector and
author Richard Weisman, midnight and noon tonight, 11:30pm tomorrow and 11:30am March 15, Community TV of Lane County Ch. 29.
VIGIL "Women in Black Standing for Peace,” 5pm-5:30pm, 7th Avenue & Pearl St. FREE.
Sunrise 6:26am; Sunset 6:18pm Av High 56; Av Low 37
FILM A Man for All Seasons, 6pm, 100 Willamette, UO. FREE.
GATHERINGS Speed dating for single professionals, go on up to 12 six- minute dates in one evening, 6:30pm, Adam's Place/Luna. Register at www.cupid.com/predating
Intercambio: Conversation circles /circulos de conversacion, adults and teens practice English and Spanish, with hora de diversion for grades 1-6, 6:30pm, Downtown Library. FREE.
Report on World Social Forum in Venezuela: Stan Taylor, Ruth Wren, John Hofer and Allan Hancock give an account of the anti-corpo- rate globalization movement gath¬ ering, 7pm, 110 Knight Law, UO. CISCAP, 8633. FREE.
Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group meeting with "What Everyone Needs to Know About Trees” pres¬ entation by Whitey Lueck, 7pm, Agate Hall, UO. $6, $3 members.
KIDS Sparkplug Dance Party for ages 6-10, 4:30pm, Washington Park Community Center. Reservations at 689-3233. FREE.
LECTURE Health talk on fibromyalgia with Dr. Sunny Kierstyn,
7pm, Wynant's Family Health Food Store, Spfd. 746-4251. FREE.
LITERARY ARTS Explor ations book group, discuss Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier, 7pm, Barnes & Noble. FREE.
Kickoff event for "Let's Talk About It: Jewish Literature-Identity and Imagination” reading and discus¬ sion series, with music by David Helfand and an introductory talk by Martha Ravits, 7:30pm, Knight Library, UO. FREE.
MUSIC Michael Kay, 5:30pm, CD World. FREE.
Lane Chamber Choir & Concert Choir, Spectrum Vocal Jazz Ensemble, 7:30pm, Performance Hall, LCC. $2-$8 sug. don.
University Singers and Chamber Choir, 8pm, Beall Hall, UO. $5, $3 stu., sr.
ON THE AIR "The Jefferson Exchange” discusses the pros and cons of our election system with for¬ mer secretary of state Phil Kiesling, 8am and 8pm, KRVM 1280 AM.
"UO Today” continues. See Monday.
OUTDOORS/RECREATION
OP kayak pool session, 7:30pm, Gerlinger Pool, UO. Outdoor Program, 346-4365. $5, $3 stu., $5 kayak rental.
Obsidians trip, Mount Pisgah sun- set/moonrise, 3 miles. See YMCA board for details.
SPIRITUAL Living the Four Agreements Wisdom Circle, 7:30pm, DIVA. Paul, 461-1977.
VIGIL "Practicing Being Peace,” silent meditation, 8:15am-8:45am, Federal Building. FREE.
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ARTS/VISUAL
"Contemporary Artists from the Netherlands,” a lecture by Toon Verhoef, 4:30pm; "Notes in Transit: Observations on the Contemporary Scene,” a lecture by Bruce Guenther, 6pm, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. 346-3027.
DANCE Dance Quarterly, 7pm, Dougherty Dance Theatre, UO. 346-3386. FREE.
FILM The Idiot, Episode 10, 6pm; The Diamond Arm, 7pm; Brigade, Episode 10, 9pm, Russian with English subtitles, 111 Pacific, UO. FREE.
The Producers, 7pm, 180 PLC, UO. FREE.
GATHERINGS "Open Hall” at the Shedd Institute, expore and tour the space, noon-3pm weekly, Jagua Concert Hall. 687-6526. FREE.
Eugene Macintosh User Group meeting with Q&A session & dis¬ cussion of Tiger interface tips & favorite web sites, 6:30pm, Vet's Club. FREE.
"Guantanamo, Torture, Kidnapping and Civil Liberties," a panel discus¬ sion led by ACLU of Oregon Director David Fidangue, 7pm, Downtown Library. 345-6162. FREE.
KIDS Classroom tour, 8:30am, Eugene Waldorf School. FREE.
Teen Book Club, discuss Sandry's Book by Tamora Pierce, 4pm, Downtown Library. Register at 682-5450. FREE.
MUSIC Oneida, Parchment Farm, The Mood, 8pm, WOW Hall. $10, $8 stu. adv.
Koenigsberg Three, 8pm, Cozmic
Pizza. $1.
5th Annual American Beauty trib¬ ute/memorial show with The Great All Merge, 9pm, Sam Bond's Garage. 21+ show. $3-$5 ss.
ON THE AIR "The Jefferson Exchange” features two represen¬ tatives of the Oregon National Guard discussing recruiting and the guard's role at home and abroad, 8am and 8pm, KRVM 1280 AM.
"UO Today” continues. See Monday.
THEATER Preview perform¬ ances: Suddenly, Last Summer, 8pm tonight and tomorrow, Lord Leebrick theatre. $8.
VIGIL Faith in Action and Progressive Responses Peace Vigil, 4:30pm-5:30pm, Federal Building. FREE.
Sunrise 6:23am; Sunset 6:20pm Av High 56; Av Low 37
FILM Streetwise, panel discus¬ sion about hunger and homeless¬ ness to follow, 5pm, 307 Building 17, LCC. 463-5166. Two nonperish¬ able food items or $3 don.
Arctic Dance: The Mardy Murie Story with Q&A with filmmaker Bonnie Kreps, 6pm, Knight Law, UO. FREE.
I Know I Am Not Alone, 6:30pm, 110 Willamette, UO. FREE.
GATHERINGS "Leadership Issues for Organizations Committed to Race Relations and Diversity," a luncheon panel dis¬ cussion, 11:30am, Banguet Room, Northwest Christian College. Reservations reguired at www.nwcc.edu $10.
Sacred Birth Circle: Empowering Mothers, a gathering of birth prac¬ titioners, pregnant women and mothers to share stories and pro¬ mote conscious childbirth, 6:30pm, South Hills Yoga. Anita, 556-7144. FREE.
Bridging the Gap, support group for grandparents raising grand¬ children, 7pm, Willamette Christian Center, 2500 W. 18th. FREE.
Bus Project Presents "Cheers!," have a beer with Eugene and Springfield City Council, Lane County Commission and EWEB Board candidates, 7:30pm, Eugene City Brewery. 344-9999.
KIDS Tween Scene for grades 4- 6, discuss Gregor the Overlander by Suaznne Collins, 4pm,
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Keep it local, Eugene ! It’s our town!
The city government SAYS it supports local business, but it ACTS to subsidize a big national chain that could drain as much as $46 MILLION out of local hands!
The city government wants the citizens to pay $8 MILLION to build a parking garage right next to Whole Foods Market, in a no-bid contract awarded to the developer of the Whole Foods site!
Eugene’s locally- owned food stores are not against competition, but want to compete FAIRLY on a LEVEL FLAYING FIELD!
Local grocers, bakers, butchers, wine shops, and restaurants will lose sales to a new Whole Foods. Do YOU want to subsidize Whole Foods5 parking needs?
Studies show shopping local keeps 3 to S times more money circulating in the locally for longer periods, keeping more of us employed and prosperous.
Come to the public hearing on Monday, March 13th, at City Hall!
TeU the city councilors you do not want to subsidize national chain stores at the expense of local businesses and that public contracts need to be bid competitively to assure responsible use of public money! Write and call them, too!
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Book Buddies for grades 2-3, dis¬ cuss Gloria's Way by Ann Cameron, 4pm, Downtown Library. Register at 682-5450. FREE.
LECTURE "My Favorite Native Plants,” a slide show lecture with Phyllis Gustafson, 7pm, Eugene Garden Club. Holly, 345-9103. FREE.
MUSIC Dinner with The Tones, 6pm, music at 8pm, Blue Luna Club. Reservations at 484-2583. $6.
David Wilcox, 6:30pm, Unity of the Valley. Wayne, 302-1616. $8-$20 ss.
Eugene Symphony presents "American Legends,” featuring Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and work by Bernstein and Copland, with pianist Kevin Cole, 8pm, Hult Center. $15 & up.
Phil Berkowitz, 8pm, Luna. 21+ show. $12 adv., $14 dos.
Sol Jibe, 8pm, Cozmic Pizza. $2-$3 ss.
Lennon, Shannon Curfman, Grynch, Blunt Point, Forrestal's Fall, 9pm, WOW Hall. $8 adv., $10 dos.
ON THE AIR "The Jefferson Exchange” discusses efforts to pro¬ mote civil rights at home and end war around the world with Holly
East of the Ashland Peace House, 8am and 8pm, KRVM 1280 AM.
"New Dimensions” features "The Unpredictable, Benevolent, Brilliant Revolution" with Rob Brezsny, 6:30pm, KLCC 89.7 FM.
THEATER Suddenly, Last Summer previews continue. See Wednesday.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 9
"Proof of Identity: Scientific Evidence and Historical Method Since the Renaissance,” a lecture by Ken Alder, 4pm, MU, OSU. 737- 3421. FREE.
Spring rummage sale, 9am-9pm today and tomorrow, Albany American Legion Hall. FREE.
7th Annual Conference on Gender and Culture, speakers, feminist film festival and more, through March 10, various locations, OSU. 737-3186. FREE.
The Underpants, 8pm tonight, tomorrow and March 11, Albany Civic Theater. $9.
FRIDAY, MARCH 10 Wine tasting, appetizers and live music, 4pm-6pm, First Alternative Co-op South Store. FREE.
Corvallis-OSU Symphony with pianist Rachelle McCabe performs work by Verdi, Shumann and Sibelius, 7:30pm, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. $12-$30.
LBCC Concert & Chamber Choirs, 7:30pm, Russell Tripp Performance Center, Linn-Benton Community College, Albany. 917-4531.
Corvallis Community Theatre presents Pygmalion, 8pm tonight, tomorrow and March 16-18; 2:30pm March 12 & 19, Majestic Theatre. $10, $8 stu., sr.
Anthony Tran, 7pm, Borders Books. FREE.
SATURDAY, MARCH 11
Emerald City Jazz Kings: "Days of Wine and Roses,” 7:30pm, LaSells Stewart Center, OSU. $18.
OSU student recital: vocalist David Emmert with Rebecca Robison and Tyler Abbott, 3pm, First Presbyterian Church. FREE.
Pacific Green Party convention with gubernatorial candidate and other nominations, food, music, panel discussions and more, 10am, First United Methodist Church. 800-705-5203. FREE.
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TH: Adult ballet-10 & 5:30, Paradise Dance. 485-4669. Adult/teen ballet-6, The Shedd. www.oregonballetacademy.com
Adult urban beat jazz dance-4:30, In Shape Fitness. 517-9665. Argentine tango, all-level-8; Studio B. www.eugenetango.com iBailamos! dance concepts en Espanol for ages 3-4-3:30, Washington Park Community Center. 689-3233.
Ballroom, beginning-7, St. Mary's Episcopal Church. 344-7591. Hip hop, beginning/intermediate-4, Paradise Dance Studio. 747-1323.
NIA-9 & 6, Body Now (women only); 9, Studio B; 5:30, YMCA; 5:30, Willamalane Adult Activity Center, www.nia-nia.com Salsa, Cuban style with Josh Remis-8, In Shape Fitness. josh@eugenesalsa.com
Sparkplug Dance, creative dance for teens and adults-6:30, Washington Park Community Center. 689-3233.
Swing aerobics-noon, Paradise Dance Studio. 343-7826.
Swing and ballroom dance, beginning-7; experienced or contin- uing-8:30, St. Mary's Episcopal Church. 344-7591.
West Coast Swing lesson-7, dance-8, Vet's Club Ballroom. No dancing first Thursdays. 510-9553.
Women's dance workshop-6, Elation Art Center, Veneta. 935-3993. FR: Adult ballet-530, Paradise Dance. 485-4669.
Bhangra-6, Yoga West.
Capoeira, all-level-7, In Shape Fitness. www.capoeiraeugene.org Flamenco, beginning-5. 43T1640.
HoopDance-7, Core Star Cultural Center. www.mandalahoops.com
NIA-9, Body Now (women only); 10:30, Core Star; 5:30, In Shape Fitness (868-5900). www.nia-nia.com Oregon Ballroom Dance Club dance-7:30 lessons, 8:30 dance. 346-6025.
Salsa-9, Studio B. 687-0678.
Salsa-9, Vet's Club Ballroom, www.eugenesalsa.com Tango, intro class-8; Milonga (social dance)-9, The Tango Center, www.tangocenter.org SA: Adult ballet-10, Paradise Dance. 485-4669.
African, all-level— 11, Skinner Butte Park near Campbell Senior Center. 653-2840.
Ballroom dance workshops with Beth Knoll: international fox¬ trot-noon; East Coast swing-1; cha cha-2, Vet's Club. 463-8337. Ballroom, Latin— 7:15, Studio B. www.alexanderdanceonline.com Brazilian (Samba, xe, Coco, Maracatu, Forro)-1, Core Star Cultural Center. 686-5708
Healing dance & yoga-11, Fool's Paradise Tea House. 653-2840. NIA-9, Body Now. Women only, www.nia-nia.com Tango intro class-8; Milonga (social dance)-9, The Tango Center, www.tangocenter.org
West African, all levels-6:30, Odd Fellows Hall, Corvallis. 753-6833.
SU: Ballet, intermediate-4:30, InShape Fitness.
Capoeira, all-level-7, Core Star Community Space. www.capoeiraeugene.org
Contact improvisation-4, Eugene School of Ballet. 607-9416. International— 7:15, In Shape Fitness. 726-7548.
Lindy, advanced-5; intermediate-6; Lindy hop swing basics-7, Agate Hall, UO. www.thejointisjumpin.com NIA-12:30, In Shape Fitness, www.nia-nia.com West African-11, WOW Hall. 687-2746.
MO: Adult ballet— 5:30, Paradise Dance. 485-4669.
Capoeira, all-level-8, In Shape Fitness. www.capoeiraeugene.org Flamenco, beginning-7. 431-1640.
NIA-9 & 5, Body Now (women only); 9 & 7, Eugene School of Ballet (868-5900); 9:30 & 5:30, Tamarack Wellness Center; 9:30, YMCA; 10:30, Core Star, www.nia-nia.com Tap, beginning-7, Paradise Dance. 747-1323.
West Coast swing-7, Agate Hall, UO. www.68swing.com TU: Adult ballet-10, Paradise Dance. 485-4669.
Adult dance-9, The Shedd. www.oregonballetacademy.com Adult jazz-5:30, Paradise Dance. 747-1323.
African-6:30, Fool's Paradise Tea House. 653-2840.
Eugene Swing Team-7:30, Rock 'n' Rodeo. 687-9464. International, Eugene Folk Dancers-7, St. Mary's Episcopal Church. 344-7591.
Mom and Me for ages 2-4-10:15, The Shedd. www.oregonbal- letacademy.com
NIA-9 & 6, Body Now (women only); 9, Studio B; 9, YMCA;
5:30, Willamalane Adult Activity Center, www.nia-nia.com Neuro Nurture developmental movement for babies and par- ents-10:30, Sparkplug Dance, www.sparkplugdance.org Women's dance workshop-6, Elation Art Center, Veneta. 935-3993. WE: Adult ballet— 5:30, Paradise Dance. 485-4669.
Bellydance with Astryd deMichele, beginning/intermediate- 7:30, Ballet Fantastigue. 683-7778.
Capoeira, all-level-8, In Shape Fitness. www.capoeiraeugene.org
Contact improvisation-5:30, Agate Hall, UO. 343-2913.
Dance in earth tones-9, Studio B. 342-4690.
Flamenco, beginning-6. 431-1640.
Fluid movement-9, Tamarack Wellness Center. 683-9501.
NIA-9 & 5, Body Now (women only); 10:30, Core Star; 7,
Eugene School of Ballet (868-5900); 5:30, Tamarack Wellness Center, www.nia-nia.com
Pilates mat-9, The Shedd. www.oregonballetacademy.com Pre-ballet for ages 3-4-10, The Shedd. www.oregonballeta- cademy.com
Swing, lindy hop-8, Studio B. www.eugenelindy.com Tap, intermediate-4:30, Paradise Dance. 747-1323.
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it’s 1:15 am on a Thursday night and downtown Eugene’s pretty much dead. It’s dark, cold and silent, save for a consistent thumping beat and a small patch of light coming out of one of the bars near the comer of Broadway and Olive. I get closer and realize the band is none other than Ric Ocasek and the Cars. The light is a bunch of brightly-colored beams flashing through the door mixed with the glow of cig¬ arettes from the patrons outside. It’s ’80s Night at John Henry’s, and that’s precisely where I’m headed.
It’s a mystery to me why ’80s Night is such a hit in Eugene. Could it be an excuse to hop in Spandex, Jazzercise gear and David Bowie outfits and snag a few cheap beers while you’re at it? Well, as I enter the bar and scope out the dance floor, I find that nearly everyone’s dressed in plain of modem club attire: button-down shirts and jeans for the men, halter tops and jeans or skirts for the ladies.
The dancing is different, though — not the freak dancing that’s popular at the hip hop joints like Taboo and Tsunami, but more open to big groups with every¬ one doing their own thing. It looks like one of those dances I’ve seen on old Saved By the Bell episodes, aside from the fact that everyone’s got some sort of alcohol in their hand.
“It’s more of a casual night,” says Keith Martin, manager and co-owner of John Henry’s. “I think so many people come because they familiarize them¬ selves with the music quickly. From 10:30 all the way until close we’re pretty packed.”
Practically everyone who attends knows all of the words to the songs, so with each record change you see dozens of mouths moving to the music. Michael Jackson comes on and suddenly everyone’s singing “Beat It” as loudly as possible and jumping up on stage near the DJ.
This isn’t even the cheap beer night, yet the bar is full of people just chilling out and chatting away with the bartenders. Not being a fan of beer, I take a seat and
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shell out $8 total for a Jack and Coke and gin and tonic, double fisting it. “Our $1 well drink night was yesterday,” says Matthew “Ditto” Depew, who is a magician by day and a bartender when the sun goes down. “It’s $2 tonight, yet we still get great crowds, especially recently.”
After I down both drinks, I head up the walkway to the turntables, passing a bunch of kids leaning over the wall and nodding their heads to the music. Are they too drunk? Not into shaking it to Cyndi Lauper? Who knows.
DJ Jenn, who has done this as her only gig for eight years, takes tons of requests from anyone still sober enough to jot down a title on her clipboard. At the moment I arrive at the club, she puts on “It’s Raining Men,” requested by two giggling girls. A big cheer and scream from them and yet another sing- along from the crowd (now, not surprisingly, very female-dominated) ensues.
If drinking or dancing isn’t your thing, you may just want to see the one dude who does put on a cos¬ tume every night. Tonight he’s Data from The Goonies, and he jumps and dances through the crowd, drawing laughter wherever he goes.
“That guy alone is worth going to see,” says Keith with a laugh. “He dresses up as just about any¬ thing from The Goonies characters to Indiana Jones and so on. If I can’t make it, I’ll still call and ask someone, just to find out what he was for the night.”
Whatever the reason, ’80s Night has garnered a huge following and remains packed until they turn on the lights and kick everyone out. As I head on out just before 2 am, the dance floor is still hoppin’ to the likes of Depeche Mode and Madonna. This party’s not about the drinks, what you wear or who you are — it’s about dancing like no one’s watching and reliving America’s most quirky period in music.
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First it was wine, as Oregon winemakers gained fame and notoriety for their fabu¬ lous pinot noirs. The explo¬ sion of high quality, hand¬ crafted grape-y goodness from California and the Northwest reshaped the industry and, at the same time, educated the public. Quality wines became the norm, replacing the two or three bland brands that had once dominated the market. Consumers learned the difference between a light, fruity Beaujolais and a complex, rich cabernet. The national vocabulary expanded to include words and phrases like hints of oak, spicy reds and tannins.
Then it was beer. Oregon’s micro¬ breweries gained a reputation nationwide for producing some of the tastiest porters and ales money could buy. Consumers learned about hops and the differences between a hefeweizen and an ale. Beer terminology became general knowledge and people in New York, Chicago and L.A. now drink Oregon brews.
Today, Oregonians are once again leading the newest trend in booze as prod¬ ucts from our 10 or so small-batch distill¬ eries gain national attention and recogni¬ tion. You can read about Oregon gin, vodka and eau de vie in Gourmet , The New York Times Magazine , GQ, Mens Journal , Food & Wine , The Wall Street Journal and Bon Apetit, to name a few.
According to Bill Owens, founder and president of the American Distilling Institute, about 72 microdistillers are operating in the U.S. Ten of those are in Oregon. Only California, with 12, has more operating small distilleries than Oregon. Michigan has 10.
Part of the reason we’re seeing so many local, small-batch distilleries pop¬ ping up around the state is because it’s those same folks, the people who’ve been working for decades with beer and wine,
who are now trying their hands at distill¬ ing. “I see it as a natural evolution of both the wine and beer industries,” said Ty Reeder, distiller for McMenamins. “With such large numbers of people working [with beer and wine], you’re bound to have people looking for the next step.”
They Call Him Yoda
While most of Oregon’s microdistil¬ leries have only been in operation for a few years, Steve McCarthy of Clear Creek Distillery has been in the game for more than two decades. Other Oregon distillers refer to him as the grandfather or the Yoda of small-batch distilling in the state. He founded Clear Creek back in 1985 as a way to make money from the pear orchards he owns in Hood River. But he also had other objectives, including putting Oregon on the map for its high quality local products and finding a bet¬ ter, more profitable use for the land; to lead the way in alternative land use and prove to farmers it’s possible to make money without selling out to developers. Plus he wanted some pear brandy, which, at the time, was extremely rare.
Like an older sibling who breaks in the parents by fighting for later curfews and more freedom, McCarthy paved the way for Oregon’s now burgeoning distilling market. For 21 years he’s educated the public, going restaurant to restaurant, talk¬ ing to one person at a time explaining what he does and what he makes. He’s also refined his pear brandy, officially called Eau de Vie de Poire, and created an award¬ winning product so exceptional it’s well known throughout the nation and even in Europe, where eau de vie originated. He’s also expanded his product line to include about a dozen other spirits, with an Eau de Vie de Douglas Fir as his most recent.
“It’s been 21 very long years,” he said. “I would say we make lovely stuff and
many of our products are recognized as the very best in the world.” The Eau de Vie de Poire was awarded a double gold medal at the World Spirits Competition held in San Francisco in 2000, a year in which no other eau de vie was even awarded a sin¬ gle gold. The next closest contender received a silver. “We’re finally starting to make some money,” he added. “And get¬ ting some attention. So I don’t feel like I have to personally hand sell every bottle.”
Legalize It
McCarthy was brewing up fine spirits while some of today’s microdistillers were still playing with Legos. But his longevity isn’t the only thing that makes him a key player in the development of distilling in Oregon. He and the McMenamin brothers got the OLCC to change their regulations, making it possible for small-batch dis¬ tillers to actually sell their own products and hold tastings. Without that change in the rules, microdistillers would have a tough time making a go of it.
The way the OLCC works is that a producer of spirits sells their products to the OLCC, which, in turn, places those products in OLCC-controlled liquor stores through retail agents. Prior to 1987, OLCC regulations prohibited a distiller from selling distilled products to anyone except the OLCC.
“What the McMenamins wanted to do, and also Steve McCarthy of Clear Creek, was to take it out of the huge industrial process and handcraft small- batch products,” said Katie Hilton, rules coordinator for the OLCC. “The trouble is they didn’t make enough to sell it through the OLCC’s liquor stores.”
So, according to Marketing Director Renee Rank, the McMenamins hired a lobbyist and convinced the OLCC to change the regulations. “We carved out in law an exception to allow these small
manufacturers to get their products out through tastings, and a way for them to sell their own products by becoming one of our [retail] agents,” Hilton said.
That made the whole business of microdistilling much more palatable. Even though a small-batch distiller will most likely lose money for the first three to five years they’re in operation, they can now directly promote and sell their products, which makes microdistilling as a business possible.
The McMenamins opened their Edgefield distillery in 1998 immediately following another 1987 change in OLCC mles that allowed a company to own and operate both a brewery and a distillery. Prior to 1987 you could have one or the other, but not both. And now McMenamins isn’t the only Oregon brewing company to get into the distilling business — Rogue recently started making both a light and a dark mm.
Making a Market
Right now the behemoth corporations that control the spirits industry barely seem to notice microdistillers. While the local trend is small, handcrafted distilled prod¬ ucts, worldwide, the spirits industry is con¬ solidating. “That could be one of the things that’s making microdistilling more appeal¬ ing to consumers,” said Ken Kossler, vice president of marketing and sales for Hood River Distillers. “We’re seeing a huge con¬ solidation [in the industry] and sales of major companies around the world. It’s opened the door to some of the boutique operations, some of the smaller shops. And as we saw with microbrews, the Pacific Northwest is leading the way.”
Unlike the beer industry, where the giants like Miller and Busch saw micro¬ brewers as a major threat, for now the spirits corporations are taking little notice of the microdistillers. “I don’t feel the top down pressure that we felt in the brewing industry,” said Anders Johansen, who owns Dolman Distillery and worked in the beer industry from over a decade. “I don’t think the big distilleries are looking at the small guys as any kind of competi¬ tion. Nor do we have the same impact.”
Steve McCarthy of Clear Creek thinks that might eventually change, but he’s happy to be operating under the radar of the spirits corporations. “Guys like me, without knowing what we were doing, stumbled into an industry dominated by a couple of huge giants,” he said. “And at this point, we’re so small, they haven’t started to pay attention to us.”
Savvy Consumers Buy Local
Johansen, like many other distillers, comes from a long background in the beer brewing business and worked at breweries in Eugene, Bend (Deschutes Brewery) and finally for Pyramid Brewery. He said that in the 15 or so years he’s been in the busi¬ ness of making brews and booze, con¬ sumers have become much more educated and savvy in their buying practices and in their knowledge of the products.
Sipping a frothy bitter at the Bier Stein in Eugene, he explained that one of the things the microbrewing and wine revolu¬ tion did was educate the public and raise consumers’ expectations. Where before people might have been happy with low quality, mass-produced pilsners or wine in a box, now they expect rich, tasty beer and
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a varied selection of high-quality, afford¬ able, local and regional wines.
“With microdistilling, you’re getting the same handmade, artisanal qualities you’re getting with the microbreweries,” said Scott Gallagher, director of leverage for Rogue Ales, which recently started distilling rum.
And that’s what consumers want these days. “People don’t care about the big cor¬ porations,” said Bill Owens of the American Distilling Institute. “They want something where they can go to the distill¬ ery or the winery and meet the people who make it and then support those people by buying the products. The public is out there on a quest for the best. They want high quality things and distilling is just part of that, things that are crazy and over the edge in wonderfulness.”
Another thing that’s helping out Oregon’s microdistillers is the growing awareness that buying locally-grown and -made products is one of the keys to creating sustainable communities. So indirectly, increased environmentalism and political awareness are also helping folks like Johansen and McCarthy build their businesses.
“I think today consumers, especially
consumers of distilled spirits, are very intelligent people,” Kossler said. “They’re very knowledgeable and are looking to purchase something very different and unusual. And especially in Oregon, peo¬ ple are very happy to support local indus¬ try. There is a ‘buy local’ culture here.”
Plus most of Oregon’s microdistillers are committed to using local products, from grains to grapes. Reeder, distiller for McMenamins, said they use pears from Hood River in the pear brandy. For their aged brandy, they grow the grapes on site in Edgefield. “I can look out my window and see the vineyard where my grapes are grown,” he said.
McCarthy uses the pears he grows in his own vineyards for his famous Eau de Vie de Poire, and Johansen has been eyeing an Asian pear orchard up the road for a new product. For his Eau de Vie de Douglas Fir, McCarthy hauls buckets of high proof neu¬ tral spirits out into the forests in the spring and snips the bright green buds off the tips of the trees right into the buckets. And Bend Distillery uses juniper berries har¬ vested locally in their gins.
Local restaurants like Marche were some of the first supporters of the local distillers, carrying their products from the
start. Specialty cocktails like Marche’s summer Basil Vice, which features House Spirits’ Medoyeff vodka with Oregon huckleberry and basil, also help promote the products. For the winter, bar manager James West uses Medoyeff vodka in another cocktail, the P.A.S.S., a perfectly balanced blend of vodka, fresh grapefruit juice, creme de cassis and champagne that’s just amazing.
West stocks various local spirits including a few from Clear Creek, House Spirits and Bend Distillery. He said mix¬ ing it up with local products behind the bar is just an extension of Marche’s com¬ mitment to support local farmers and growers by buying their products and fea¬ turing them on the menu.
But West doesn’t stock the products from Oregon distilleries just because they’re from Oregon. Pouring out two small sam¬ ples of apple brandy, one from the famous French distiller Calvados and one from Clear Creek, he swished the amber liquid in stemless Riedel glasses and said, “Taste these. You tell me whether or not you think the Clear Creek is better.” All three tasters agreed: the Clear Creek was smoother, with a richer nose and more flavor.
“The high quality of the local distilled
products is simply a reflection of the high quality of life in Oregon,” he said.
Defining the Future
With an average two-year process to get a federal distilling license, high cost equip¬ ment and the likelihood of losing money for at least a few years, we probably won’t see dozens of microdistillers popping up around the state the way we did with micro¬ brewers in the ’80s and early ’90s. “These are people who understand that if you’re going to put a product out there, it has to be excellent,” West said. But currently at least three more local distillers are working through the process of getting licensed.
We can expect the microdistilling scene to continue growing and if the current qual¬ ity of products is any indicator, Oregon may once again become the frontrunner in the newest trend in booze. “The beer indus¬ try got saturated pretty fast,” said Christian Krogstad, who owns House Spirits in part¬ nership with Lee Medoff. “A lot of people got into it and you had a lot of people mak¬ ing one style of beer, those hoppy sweet ales. But distilling is pretty open. No one style has become associated with Oregon distilled spirits yet. We’re on the cutting edge, creating the style and the market.”
TASTE TEST
I discovered an unexpected benefit to writing about spirits: Everybody wants you to taste their products before you write about them. So for a week, boxes filled with bottles of vodka, gin, rum and brandy rolled through the doors of Eugene Weekly.
To get a varied array of opinions, I held a semi-formal tasting over the weekend. This was not a gathering of hoity-toity tasting snobs, but a group of 20- and 30-somethings who drink everything from PBR and three-buck- Chuck to Sangiovese hauled back from Italy and some of the finest whiskies money can buy.
The tasters didn’t know the brands they were trying until the end, and wrote their observations and comments on numbered sheets. As they made their way out the door, they got to take two of their favorite bottles along with them. Here’s what they wrote about the ones they chose:
Jake Baker booze aficionado Hood River’s Pendleton 10-Year Whisky: Extra smooth with the taste and texture of vanilla. Balanced and clean with a light, rich aftertaste.
Melissa Beams associate editor Clear Creek’s Loganberry Brandy: Has a deep juicy color and smells like a sunny summer day. The taste is sweet, an intensely wonderful explosion of berry that lingers and fades incrementally. “Right now I don’t want to taste anything else because the taste in my mouth is so good,” commented Molly.
Bend Distillery’s Cascade Mountain Gin: Has a very clean, bright flavor with prominent aroma of juniper. Smooth going down with a lingering aftertaste. Love this gin!
Jennifer Donahue, sales
Edgefield Distillery’s Hogshead Whisky: A little young but with a robust, leathery flavor and a smooth finish.
Jef Stout, classified manager House Spirits Gin (on the mar¬ ket in mid-March): Incredibly unique, with a spicy, sweet anise flavor and a hint of high-quality root beer flavor.
Brandy Creek Blackberry Liqueur: Sweet, slightly peppery and inno¬ cent. A nice balance between sweet and tart.
Molly Templeton, calendar editor and food editor
House Spirits’ Medoyeff Vodka: It’s got a bite, but is smooth and disappears quickly. I want to mix drinks with this one. (Later, I found this makes a fantastic vodka gimlet.)
Clear Creek’s Eau de Vie de Poire: Smells sweet, like extremely strong pear cider. Doesn’t burn like the others, and the pear flavor is much richer.
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y their early 20s, brother and sister Jeff and Megan Meyers had almost $100,000 in credit card debt between them. They weren’t buying clothes or cars or any of the cool things people usually want at that age. They were sink¬ ing their money into remodeling a 500-square-foot shop in their parents’ back yard and buying the equipment they needed to turn Jeff’s senior project at Cottage Grove High School into a real business.
It all started with Bloody Mary mix. Jeff was 17, and for his cross-disciplinary senior project at Cottage Grove High School he chose to start a small business making the mixer. His parents had been self-employed his whole life and he knew that was what he wanted to do too. So he chose a project he could actually turn into a real business. And his family members were the guinea pigs.
“Oh my god, you should try some of the early batches,” Jeff said, his gray-green eyes twinkling beneath the band of his backwards baseball cap.
He and Megan still have the booklets where they wrote down those early recipes — 5 pounds of this, 2 pounds of that and a dash of something else. They’d test them on their parents and their friends, and when the tasters reached a consensus, they made that recipe a keeper and started making it in bulk.
They got the necessary permits from the FDA and the Oregon Health Department, bottled the stuff and started going liquor store to liquor store trying to sell it. The first person who bought their products was a woman named Kitty, who at the time owned and managed the Cottage Grove Liquor Store.
That was 10 years ago. Now Jeff is 28 and Megan is 30. They own hundreds of thou¬
sands of dollars worth of bottling, filtering and distilling equipment and make three dif¬ ferent kinds of vodka, create and bottle products for dozens of other companies and have expanded their little backyard project into a big-time business.
Sitting in the meeting room of their 36,000-square-foot production building, Jeff does most of the talking. Megan, her wavy, chestnut hair pulled back into a pony tail, sits qui¬ etly, chiming in occasionally to fill in bits of the story as her brother speaks.
On the table in front of them they’ve laid out a rainbow of bottles: green sweet and sour mix, lime-colored mojito mix, crimson strawberry daiquiri mix, their second- to-bot- tom-shelf vodka, Octane, with blue flames on the label, and even their environmentally friendly firestarter/lighter fluid. But the bottle that jumps out at you, maybe just because of the name, is their high-end vodka, the clear, tall, graceful bottle marked boldly with the name: Lubrication. “People ask us where we come up with these ideas,” Jeff said, grinning. “Meg and I talk about this stuff 24/7. And it’s not all sexual by the way.”
Their company, Side Pocket Foods, has finally started to make some money and they’ve been in the black since last year. “But then we go back into debt because every time we get some money, we buy equipment,” Jeff said. “Clients will come visit this place and they look at us, and they can’t understand how we can be so young and have all this incredibly expensive equipment. Well look at the cars, look at the houses. All our money has gone into this. We’re hoping this will be the year that the houses and the cars will come through for us.”
Ironically, even though they distill spirits, Jeff is a professed beer drinker. “Well, even if we don’t have as good of a year as we’re hoping, at least PBR is always on sale,” he said.
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2 oz. Tanqueray No. 1 0 gin 1 .5 oz. Presh lime juice 1 oz. simple syrup Large sprig mint
SPiake ingredients well over ice and strain into a chilled 9 oz. (at least) cocktail glass.
The Eugene origins of a trendy cocktail
by Molly Templeton
On an unremarkable night last year, I was at Luckey’s, and I was bored with my drink. “I don’t know what I want,” I said to the bartender. “Have you had a Richmond gimlet?” he asked.
“No,” I said. “What’s that?”
Simply delicious was the answer: A gimlet made with Tanqueray No. 10, fresh lime, simple syrup and mint, it tasted like summer, bright, herbal, sweet and tart. I Googled it later, thinking for sure it was some secret Southern cocktail that had just recently made its way to the Pacific Northwest.
I was wrong. The Richmond gimlet, though certainly not the only gimlet variation in the world to use mint, is the particular creation of Jeffrey Morgenthaler, a bar¬ tender at El Vaquero whose blog turned up on that Google search — complete with Richmond gimlet recipe and sightings in other Eugene bars. I clearly had to try more. And I had to take Morgenthaler with me. Who better to try a migrating, evolving cocktail than the guy who mixed it up in the first place?
We met up at the Turtles bar, where owner Kate Boney made us a pair of sweetly wonderful Richmond gimlets. At Turtles, they replace simple syrup with sweet and sour and add Rose’s lime to the recipe; Boney said, “I found our clientele likes it with a little more sweet¬ ness to it.” She was also the first of many people, that evening, to say “I don’t like gin, but I like this.”
“It’s really good,” Morgenthaler said of Boney’s ver¬ sion, before giving me the short history of the drink. “In
2001, I was working at Bamboo, which was where Vaquero is now,” he began. “I had this guy that was the head waiter at Marche who would come up after work every night and have a Tanqueray 10 gimlet. We’d fool around with Beefeater gimlets and he’d always want something different.” One night, mint went in the drink. “He loved it,” said Morgenthaler, who later named the drink after the waiter, Daniel Richmond, and put it on the menu “kind of as a joke.”
The drink took off at Bamboo. Later, when Bamboo closed, Morgenthaler took it with him to Red Agave, Marche and Vaquero, but recently it’s turned up at sev¬ eral other bars in town. “It’s really exciting for me to see this dumb drink I came up with years ago spread¬ ing,” he said over mild, limeade-like Richmond gimlets at Luckey’s. “I mean, people go crazy — we make like a hundred of them in a night.”
Morgenthaler ’s fellow Vaquero bartender Scott Butler, along for the tasting ride, said, “On a busy Friday, I’ll easily do 50. We go through three fifths of Tanqueray 10 on a busy night, easy.”
“On a busy night, we go through four,” Morgenthaler said. “We sell more Tanqueray 10 than any other bar in the state.”
“Tell her about the olive jar,” Butler said.
“Sometimes we get so many Richmond gimlets in one order — ”
“If someone orders eight — ”
“We have an olive jar — ”
“A big Costco lookin’ thing that we cleaned out — ■” “Like a pickle jar. We’ll make eight of them in that,” Morgenthaler finished. Butler added, “It’s like you’re making a pitcher of something for a party. We just need a giant strainer to go with it.”
The Luckey’s concoction, Morgenthaler said, was pretty good for a Richmond gimlet, but really good “as far as just a drink is concerned.” Glasses drained, we headed to Cafe Soriah, where we encountered Erin Carlin, one of the drink’s first fans. “We were addicted to them, just a lit¬ tle bit,” she said, laughing. “They’re just the perfect sum¬ mertime drink.” At Soriah, Morgenthaler noticed, the Richmond gimlets are “a lot drier.” Still delicious, though.
We left Soriah to end the night at Marche, where Butler and Morgenthaler agreed the Richmond gimlet whipped up by bar manager James West was most like the drinks they make upstairs at Vaquero. “The way I like them,” Morgenthaler said, “is when they ride the line between sweet and sour just perfectly, like your mouth doesn’t really know where it’s at.”
The Marche Richmond gimlet certainly did that — but ultimately, though every gimlet we drank was very good and slightly different, the best place to get a Richmond gimlet is Vaquero. A week later, I tried one mixed by Butler and one by Morgenthaler, who had said, “I always tell peo¬ ple that Scott doesn’t make the second best Richmond gim¬ let in town, he makes the other best Richmond gimlet in town.” He wasn’t wrong — the drinks were both perfect. In fact, I think I’d like another. Now.
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We’ll admit it. This year, we were late getting the word on the street about our Eugene’s Sexiest Bartender contest. Instead of flooding the airwaves with radio ads and clogging up a month’s worth of issues with print ads, we decided to send out a team of guerilla marketers (read: powerless interns) to slather the city with flyers hyping a contest that measures pure, unadulterated sexiness.
The response, to say the least, was surprising. We received more than three times as many votes as last year in a quarter of the time. A majority of the bars in town were represented, though some voters had some fun at our expense (e.g. IVlike Hunt seems to be a popular name around town).
But here, without further ado, are Eugene’s Sexiest Bartenders: Jeb Wilhelm of Diablo’s Downtown Lounge and Kisha Pruitt of Eugene City Brewery. We’re getting hot just thinking of them shaking up our round of Red-Headed Sluts.
Jeb Wilhelm
Jeb Wilhelm is the resident piece of man-meat at Diablo’s
Downtown Lounge, although he prefers to be called a piece of ass. “It just sounds a bit more fun,” he says. His patrons voted in droves, saying things like, “IVImm ... enough said,” “If I were a chick I’d be all over this guy!” and even “He reminds me of Chuck Norris.” EW had to see what the fuss was all about.
How long have you been tending bar at Diablo’s?
Two and a half years. I started as a cook. But they saw quickly I had no skills doing that. Instead of firing me, they moved me.
Do you make any special drinks?
I have five or six drinks that are my own recipe: the Russian Peach, the Russian Tea Room, the Walker, Texas Tea...
Any outlandish or nasty tips that stick out in your mind?
Last night we got a penny on an $1 1 tab. That was pretty nasty. I got $100 from a woman who came in from the bus station. She had never played video poker before, and left her ticket with me, then didn’t pay for her drink. The ticket was for like $110, $112.
What’s your most memorable pick-up line?
IVIy favorite is when a guy asked me if I wanted to be at a gay bar, in that special way, with that special look. With the girls, it’s the “I bet I can drink more than you” game. They don’t win.
Any super-saucy moves behind the bar?
Definitely not. The last time I tried that I broke a glass, cut my hand and was out of work for awhile.
Are you more like Tom Cruise in Cocktail or Ted Danson in “Cheers”?
A little bit of both. I’m not as big of a schmuck as Tom Cruise in Cocktail , but I like to have fun at work like he did.
If you weren’t you , would you come on to yourself?
Oh yeah! IVIy beer belly is probably my best feature.
What’s the sexiest part of your job?
Probably when I have to clean up vomit in the ladies room.
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Kisha Pruitt
If Kisha Pruitt is one thing, it’s sexy. If she’s another thing, it’s bois¬ terous. In an interview with EW just hours after having her purse, phone and credit cards stolen, Pruitt was cracking jokes, compli¬ menting her “honky-tonk badonkadonk” and waiting to crack open a Bud Light. Pruitt edged out Allison Crispen of Diablo’s Downtown Lounge to be crowned Eugene’s Sexiest Bartender, sans jeweled crown and ceremony.
How’d you get your job tending bar at Eugene City Brewery?
Well, I tell people I’m a bartender because I tend to be at bars. But, actually, I moved from Chico to New Orleans in July, and then Hurricane Katrina kicked me out ... to Eugene.
Consider any drinks your specialty?
Bloody IVIarys. When I was making my last Bloody IVIary I cut myself, so it was literally a Bloody IVIary.
What’s your day job?
I’m a dental assistant. At the bar, I’m like, “Drink this, then come see me once it rots away your teeth.”
What’s your drink of choice?
Bud Light and tequila. I just bought a 12-pack of cans. That’s what hap¬ pens when your purse gets stolen.
Any significant other?
Yes. Matthew McConaughey ... I’m actually single.
Anyone ever make a creepy pass at you?
When I was working at the Seafood and Wine Festival in Newport a group of four women offered my boss $20 an hour to let me off so I could hang out with them. They wanted me to go back to their hotel so they could do bad things to me.
How do you spruce yourself up for work?
I go home to change between jobs. I put on black pants
really that I have a great ass
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badonkadonk. My ass
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has gotten me where I am today.
Ever get sexified at work?
I’m not sure what that means.
[Ed. ’s note: Neither are we.]
But I do molest all
my co¬ workers.
What celebrity do you resemble?
[Consults co-workers for three minutes.] I can’t really be classified. But if I had to, I’d say a bit of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from the movie. There’s a little bit of Dave Chappelle — my wit, my charm. And maybe a bit of Jessica Alba. [Argues with co-workers about her own voluptuousness.]
What’s the best night to come see you at ECB?
Friday night is Trivia Night with Mr. Bill. It’s a lot of fun. You get smarter the more you drink.
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if I had my own bar it would be fucking awesome. Crazy disco lights would pierce through eerie darkness. A long, fancy bar would run alongside pool tables while a video projector flashed obscure movies on the front window. Couches with fish tanks behind them would surround fireplaces. A small comer stage would constantly offer the opportunity to bring the house down.
But there’s one problem: These elements of bar space, while each legitimate in itself, just don’t go together. I’ve never been one to enjoy playing pool in eerie dark¬ ness. And eating tasty food in an elegant maple booth isn’t the same when disco lights threaten to induce seizures before the main course.
Luckily, these elements (and more) are found in a number of Eugene bars that you might not have checked out for a while. Here’s a look at four spaces that were recent¬ ly renovated and the kind of vibe they’ve got these days.
JAMESON’S - 7 7 5 West Broadway
Formerly Cafe Paradiso, Jameson’s is now bringing a sense of swank back to Broadway. Similar in aura to the Indigo District, Jameson’s is a dimly lit, highly sociable space with touches of fanciness at every turn. A huge maple shelving unit behind a 30- foot angling bar displays rows of liquor bottles from eye-level to nearly ceiling-level. Booths (also maple) line the opposite wall beneath original paintings that are changed monthly for the First Friday Art Walk. Large, planetary-like fixtures hover over each booth while an obscure collection of lamps, collected by the owner at garage sales and thrift stores, dimly dot the rest of the room.
“I wanted to create a space that I was comfortable hanging out in — kind of a nice, classy, low-key place,” says owner James Carroll, who also helped design John Henry’s and Horsehead bar.
Strangely, a 5 -foot section of the outdoor brick patio leads through the side doors and along most of the bar. The rest of the place is the original carpet, which Carroll says will be replaced once the downtown development drama gets settled. Until then, the renovation process is at a convenient halt with nearly every detail — from the orange, yellow and purple walls to the pool table and dartboard — already altered.
“I think it’s a tribute to making a nice place for people,” Carroll says. “When they find out about it, they like it and they appreciate it and they’ll come down and support you. Anybody can build a bar, but if you build something nice, I think people really appreciate that.”
LATITUDE 21 - 25 W. 6th Ave.
Last September, Josh Tuckman took over the monstrosity that was Joe’s Bar. The black- painted windows and gangster-welcoming darkness immediately called for a facelift. “It was a dark pit,” says Tuckman, the current general manager. “This town has plenty of dark pits. There are plenty of places to go and spit on the floor and no one gives a shit.”
Tuckman envisioned a more urbanized space at the 6th Avenue and Willamette location. He decided to offer two different atmospheres in Latitude 21 — one on each side of the back-to-back bars that split the room in half. The front room houses two pool tables and a dinner area with a small stage against the front windows (which now are clear and open to the parking lot). Tuckman revamped the kitchen menu and says that the food at Latitude 21 might be the best bar food in the state.
“Our menu is international — Caribbean, Polynesian, Italian,” he says. “We get all our meat from Long’s Meat Market.”
The opposite side of the bar is now more of a lounge. The lighting is slightly dimmer, with red conical fixtures over the bar and red bulbs in the ceiling lights. Couch areas, a fireplace and fish tank offer a more intimate setting.
“It’s nice but not pretentious,” says Tuckman, who ran Wetlands for seven years. “We’re looking for a little bit older and a little bit more mellow crowd.”
At least one remnant of Joe’s remains, however. The coolest arcade game ever sits next to the front door — yes, Big Buck Hunter made the remodeling cut.
SNAFU - 6d W. 8th Alley
Perhaps the most personal of the newest spaces in town is Snafu, which basically is seating around a dance floor with a bar at one end. Faux animal skins drape a bench seat that spreads along the left wall with two-person tables across from it. The right side of the room is a rectangular indoor cabana with two seating areas raised 3 feet off the ground. Rugs, pillows and tree stump tables offer patrons a place to chill out and watch people dance.
“I call it a tribal dance house,” says owner Joshua Keim. “It’s a neighborhood flavored, gay- friendly bar.”
The most striking renovation to Snafu is the sophisticated lighting system, which, because of the small space, catches your eye as soon as you walk through the doors. A large mechanical disco ball contraption flutters lights on a white screen that is visible from outside. Three rows of theater-style lights hang above the candle-lit bar and tables. A video projector that Keim says will project films on the front screen hangs in the back of the room.
“I love lighting and going to clubs in New York,” Keim says. “They always have fancy lights. I just wanted to bring a little of that to Eugene.”
In the near future, Snafu will offer a drink menu with its own renamed concoctions such as Spiced Monkey and Gator Bite.
TABOO - 23 W. 6th Ave.
Taboo General Manager Jim Bachelder squeezed a paper towel around his bleed¬ ing finger. It seemed to be a commonplace afternoon occurrence. “Yeah,” he said. “It’s a bar.”
Aside from whatever glass smashing antics Bachelder is into, he’s also spent some time tidying up the club formerly called The Jungle. Gone are the fake trees, the camo netting, the cheesy leopard print on velvet and the festering fountain. Bachelder ’s main change to the spacious, dark dance club is including the once roped-off 18-and-over side. The place now has the capacity for 777 grind-dancing patrons. Bachelder added seating to the stage and plans to add a fifth bartender.
“It’s gotten to the point where we’re putting 500 in here on Thursday and Friday night and getting to capacity on Fridays,” he says.
The stage sits in the back comer of the bar with dance space between it and the main bar. Two smaller bar areas are dispersed among the open space near the front of the room and pool tables offer a more chill area near the kitchen. Word on the street is that this kitchen, “Barb’s Cafe,” is the place to be. Barb and J.B. Black, Las Veganites by way of Mississippi, will cook up the house special for $8.95 — Southern Deep Fried Catfish.
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When first approached me about writing an article on how to sur¬ vive as the designated driver, I thought, “you’re barking up the wrong tree, muchachos.” But later that morning, after I sobered up a little, I decided to go for it. Of course, to do this thing right, I knew I’d have to get inside the mind of a designated driver. Become that which I’d only read about, or seen on TV. I knew it could be one of the most difficult assignments of my journalism career. But with EW throwing, literally, suitcases full of money at me, I knew I could rise to the challenge.
First off, I needed to round up some hard- dr inkin’, chain-smokin’, hell-raisin’ human guinea pigs to act as comic foils to my proverbial straight man. But where could I find anyone so shameless, so depraved, and so insane as to let me write an article about them behaving like idiots in their most vulnerable state, then print that article in a paper likely to be read by more than 100 people? Why, the EW intern desk, of course.
For those of you who don’t know, every six months or so, EW receives a new batch of interns. Usually they’re brought over on container ships from some Nike- owned country, deloused, then taught to sort mail, make coffee and discern when it’s appropriate to ask the editor for a bathroom break (helpful hint for future interns: It’s not when he’s on the goddamn phone). Of this last shipment, only two hearty souls survived the Darwinian nightmare of a four-month ocean voyage in a poorly ventilated steel crate. I’ll call them “Tim” and “Danny,” because I can’t come up with any good fake names. Lucky for me, these two drink as they live: like motherf’n Vikings.
My plan was simple. We’d all get together on a Friday or Saturday. I’d shuttle the boys around to some of the seediest bars in town. They’d get sloppy drunk. And I’d soberly record what transpired. Bar fights, tearful confessions, projectile vomiting, who knew what magic this night would bring. Then, on the Friday before my deadline, we suddenly abandoned our weekend plans. We had received word that Wednesday was “Coyote Ugly” night at The Lone Star Bar and Grill, and Tim and Danny insisted we go. Danny kept talking about how his “personal heaven” would be a cheap steak, a baked potato and a room full of drunk chicks table-dancing to Billy Ray Cyrus albums. I had to indulge him?
When Wednesday rolled around, Tim and Danny were well prepared. They had quite a buzz on by the time I picked them up at their “intern yurt” (which is really just an overturned dumpster with holes cut out of the sides for doors. Rustic, but cozy). On the way to the bar, Tim kept saying how he “loves this song,” and that I needed to “turn it up.” But I didn’t even have the radio on. Danny kept laughing hys¬ terically, then getting really angry, then falling asleep, then twitching a lot. Designated driving was turning out to be way cool. And this was just the beginning.
We followed the sweet aroma of axle grease and sweat straight into the Lone Star’s parking lot, which seemed curiously deserted for a Coyote Ugly night. Inside, a lone bartender stared absently at a muted TV screen, while an elderly woman, hunched in a dim comer of the bar, fed quarters into a grimy slot machine. “Where’s all the action?” I asked the bartender. She responded with devastating news. The DJ called at the last minute: Coyote Ugly night had been canceled! I saw Danny’s knees buckle, but he grabbed hold of a bar stool and managed to hang on. The news was just too much for Tim though. Silent tears streamed down his cheeks, soaking his shirt collar the way I’d hoped beer vomit would.
We were banking everything on Coyote Ugly night, and it blew up in our faces. A heavy cloud followed us home that night as I thought about what I could turn in to EW the next morning. I was deep in thought when Danny puked all over him¬ self in the back seat. And just like that, it hit me. This was designated driving. My work here was done. I pulled up to the yurt, pushed the interns out of the car with my foot, then headed home to write, feeling like a million bucks.
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As the stray hand from an angry redhead connected with my cheek, I thought, for the millionth time that night,
‘Why in the hell did I agree to be Harry’s wingman? Why?’ See, as the wingman, I’ve taken quite a few for the team. But this was bringing that concept to a whole new level.
The wingman is the set up man, the guy who tests the waters, the guy who takes the bumps and bruises. In my case, as wingman, I’m the one who sets up my best friend Harry so he can get some booty. I am like Goose was for Maverick, Jon Baker for Frank Poncherello, #2 for Dr. Evil and Igor for Dr. Frankenstein.
The mission set before me was straightforward, yet extremely challenging. My good friend needed to get laid. Not a relationship, not a date, just a good, old-fash¬ ioned one night stand. But Harry isn’t the best looking dude (picture a tall version of Yoda), well mannered (nose picking, scratching his bathing suit places and belch¬ ing are common), or real up to date with fashion trends (remember acid washed jeans and high top Reeboks?).
But he does have one redeeming quality some women are drawn to. It’s hard to put your finger on it, but there is something contagious about his personality. The more he drinks, the more fun he is to be around. And if I could just find the right girl and get her to actually talk to him, I knew I could pull this off. I was the set-up guy, the used car sales¬ man. I needed to take this run-down lemon of a car and find someone to give it a test drive.
About 9 pm on a Thursday night we met up at Jameson’s, a new bar downtown. I had picked a quiet, laid back place where we could talk — I needed to go through a laundry list of pre-party prep with Harry. And we needed a few stiff drinks.
“First of all, Harry, don’t scratch at your bathing suit places,” I said bluntly. Harry frowned. “Yeah, but I can’t help it, especially when I am nervous,” he responded. “See I sweat a lot and I get this rash ...”
“Whoa! OK, too much information, Harry,” I said quickly. “Secondly, we have to pull your ass out of the ’80s butt rock era and get you into some newer clothes.” I opened my bag and pulled out the outfit I had picked up for him at Buffalo Exchange. Nothing too lavish, just a nice (non- acid washed) pair of jeans, a black Kenneth Cole button up shirt and a pair of black leather lug sole shoes.
When Harry returned from the bathroom in his new duds, it was a marked improvement. But there was one final thing we had to go over. “Now for the love of God, Harry, you have to remember to be outgoing,” I pleaded. “We’re working with a few strikes against us here so we need to bring out your A-game personality and we need it sooner rather than later.”
I slid him a generously filled tumbler of single malt scotch. After downing a few, Harry and I headed out into the cool February night and across the way to John Henry’s. Since it was ’80s Night, Harry almost could have gotten away with wear¬ ing his own clothes. But he looked almost attractive in his new outfit and in the loud, dark room, he blended right in.
I will spare you all the gory details of the crash and bum attempts at John Henry’s. They’re too painful to recount and too numerous to tally. At one point, I thought he had hit pay dirt. I approached a tall, leggy bmnette that I thought was about Harry’s speed. She had just sat down at the bar and was drinking something pink and icy cold. As the first bit hit her mouth, her eyes seemed to cross and she grabbed the side of her head (brain freeze), spilling just a bit on the front of her skirt.
“Bet you could use one of these,” I said, handing her a bar napkin. She thanked me politely and we continued to talk. As I had already done repeatedly that night, I pointed Harry out at the other end of the bar and told her I had a friend that I thought she should get to know.
“Who? Yoda?” she said, laughing a bit too loudly. “Yeah, he is kinda goofy look¬ ing, but once you talk to him you’ll see what a great guy he is,” I said convincingly. I’m not exactly sure what went wrong, but a long middle finger 2 inches from Harry’s nose was not a sign of a one night stand in the making.
Not ready to admit defeat, I told Harry it was time to pull out all the stops — we were going to go to Diablo’s, the Mecca of the singles scene in Eugene. It was almost 1:30 am and the dance floor at Diablo’s was packed. We had both had our share of drinks and as I watched Harry, I could tell his standards had dropped a few notches. Not that his standards were very high to begin with, but we were getting to a level that was a bit more attainable for him.
In the final minutes after last call, Harry, drink in hand, approached a woman who had made eye contact with him earlier. Slurred speech and clumsy dancing aside, he seemed like he was doing OK. I on the other hand was getting the spins and that freakin’ disco ball was about one sparkle away from making me blow chunks.
It was then that I made the decision to leave Harry to his own devices. I had done all that a wingman is expected to do. I prepped him as best I could, dressed him up, got some booze in him and talked him up to more women than I can remember. I stumbled my way across the dance floor toward the stairs leading out of the club giv¬ ing him the nod. As I passed him on my way out, I whispered, “Good luck Mav!”
12 SWIZZLE March 9, 2006
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AMBROSIA RESTAURANT & BAR
7 74 E. Broadway. 342-4141.
Ambrosia’s long, impressive bar just asks to be stopped at for cocktails, wine or beer and snacks to start out the night. There’s even a slightly-out-of-place TV on which you might catch a game, though this comfortable Italian restau¬ rant is definitely not a sports bar. 1 1 :30am-1 Opm M-Th, 1 1 :30am-1 1 pm F-Sa, 4:30pm-1 0 pm Su.
AX BILLY GRILL & SPORTS BAR
999 Willamette St. 484-401 1.
Wine, beer, microbrews, full bar. Live jazz on Saturday nights. 1 1 :30am-10pm M-F, 5pm- 1 0pm Sa.
BIER STEIN, THE
345 E. 1 1th Ave. 485-2437.
Voted Best Beer Selection in Eugene Weekly’s 2005 Best of Eugene poll for a reason: with 700 bottled beers and ten beers on tap, the Bier Stein’s selection simply can’t be beat. The deli counter serves up soup, salads, sandwiches, grilled panini and appetizers. This place is packed after work, so arrive early if you want to sit! 11 am-1 1 pm daily. TV
BLACK FOREST
50 E. 11th Ave. 686-6619.
Great stage, music, comfortable atmosphere and good food. No cover charge ever; music or karaoke just about every night. Rocker scene. Specials: $3 Jager, $4 Long Islands, $1 add red bull to a shot, $2.50 PBR, $3 Big Fosters Can, $5 Steak Night on Tuesday. Happy Hour: 4pm-7pm. $1.75 domestic, $2.75 micros, $2.50 wells. 8am-2:30am. Lottery games, TV, karaoke.
BLUE LUNA CLUB
1280 Willamette St. 484-2583.
Full Caribbean restaurant with live music ranging from acoustic solo performer to MCs, reggae, jazz and blues. A business crowd at dinner changes to a col¬ lege crowd at night. Karaoke on Tuesdays. $1 .50 rum <& Coke and $2 Red Stripe. Happy Hour: 2pm-9pm. $2 pints and $2.50 well drinks. 1 1am-2am Tu-S. Darts, outdoor seating, TV, karaoke, DJs.
BRICK HOUSE, THE
136 4th Street. Spfd. 988- 1612.
1 1am-2 :30am daily. Adult.
CAFE LUCKY NOODLE
207 E. 5th Ave. 484-4777.
A dynamic clientele and one of the only places in town to go after 1 0pm to enjoy non-bar food. Cool, funky music and decor, and great service. Specialty cocktail list features 22 original and smooth tasting drinks for starlets (Champagne Bellini), harlots (the stilletto), jocks (Italian cowboy), Southern Belles (mint julep), and Hell’s Angels (the good, bad and ugly). Blended drinks with homemade gelato also available. Voted Best Margarita in Eugene Weekly’s 2005 Best of Eugene poll. 8am-midnight Su-Th, 8am-1am F & Sa. Outdoor seating, DJs.
CAFE SORIAH
384 W. 13th Ave. 342-4410.
Dimly lit, romantic yet comfortable bar with specialty drinks and more. 5pm- 10pm Su-Th, 5pm-1 1pm F-Sa.
CANDY SHACK
2251 Main St., Springfield. 744-5499.
18 and over gentlemen’s club. 8pm-3am Th-Sa.
CLUB 1444
1444 Main St., Spfd. 726-7299.
Noon-2 :30am M-F; 3pm-2 :30am Sa & Su. Adult.
CLUB TSUNAMI
2222 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. 343-4734.
COOLER BAR & GRILL, THE
20 Centennial Loop. 484-4355.
All ages until 7pm. Now serving breakfast seven days a week until 2pm. A great place to watch Duck football, or stop in before a night on the town. Young crowd, live music. Specials: M - Burger & Brew 4pm-9pm, $3 Hornitos shots 7pm-midnight, $2.50 Corona & Deschutes drafts 9pm-midnight; Tu - $1 domestic drafts and $2 micro