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May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Soccer on the rise in Lane County

Nick Poust

Some might say that running is Eugene’s claim to fame, but the art of running while kicking a soccer ball has legions of fans in this town. Known as the world’s game, the sport has taken center stage in the states, particularly in the Northwest. It has grown so big in Eugene that some of Italy’s best female players have hopped on a plane to join in on the fun, while more and more of the city’s youth are getting into the game. And, if that isn’t enough, the possibility of Civic Stadium turning into a soccer field only adds to the buzz.

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Hashing for Hops

I drank beer and ran several miles with a bunch of hooligans

Kevin Piaskowski

Convening in the parking lot of an unspecified hardware store, passing around “vessels” filled with delicious beer and cracking sexually explicit jokes at any given moment, the Eugene Hash House Harriers will really throw you for a loop if you’re unfamiliar with the tradition (or if you can’t take a joke). The “hounds” do their best to follow the madcap path laid by the “hare,” and once they reach the end, it’s time for more fraternizing.

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Kickin’ Balls

Adult league sports

William Kennedy

A kickball outfielder hits the turf at Tugman Park in South Eugene. Play is halted while she’s carried to the sideline. Is it a twisted ankle — or worse? “Need some ice?” teammates ask. “Get her a beer — STAT!” responds a teammate helping her from the field. She ices down the calf cramp with a cold one, cracks it open and is soon sitting with her friends, laughing in the shade.

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

To Finish is to Win

Hitting the long trail, horseback

Nadia Raza

It is 4:54 pm along a dusty trail in the high desert of Eastern Oregon. I am out of breath, heaving my weight against a wooden post trying to finesse a centimeter of slack in the latch that is holding together a large, awkward barbed wire fence. There is some urgency to my efforts because two humans and three horses are waiting to access the trail on the other side of the fence. We have been riding for 43 miles and we have seven more to go. Welcome to endurance horse riding.

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Urban Disc

Alton Baker Park blazes the disc golf trail in Eugene

Alex Notman

“Golf is a good walk spoiled,” Mark Twain once said. In that vein, I would add that disc golf is a good walk enhanced. On several Sundays this spring, my partner and I have filled a bag with the candy-colored rubbery discs — drivers, putters, mid-rangers — and headed down to Alton Baker Park’s new course. After purchasing a $3 pass at the pro shop, we spend the next two hours on a leisurely amble through the course’s 18 holes, following arrows that point across sunlit fields and deep into cool, shady groves, and, of course, stopping every couple dozen or a hundred yards to pick up a disc and line-up a shot. We were not alone; dozens of groups spread out throughout the park sailing discs into the chain-link nets.

News Features

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Raising the TAG Bar

Anne Bridgman

As Eugene School District 4J works to meet a June deadline to comply with a corrective order regarding gifted education issued by the Oregon Department of Education, a second complaint has been filed against the district, according to the parent who filed the complaints and the education department.

News Briefs

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Activist Alert 5-23-2013

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Arts Hound

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Biz Beat 5-23-2013

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Changes In Store For Farmers Market

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Lane County Area Spray Schedule 5-23-13

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Merkley Takes Stand Against Monsanto

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Pesticide Spraying Results Confirmed

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Pollution Update 5-23-13

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Pot Heading To Ballot In 2014

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Slant 5-23-2013

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Web 2.0 Manifesto Author At LCC

May 22, 2013 05:41 PM

East Lane Commish Race Under Way

Views

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Of Bankruptcies and Turkeys

Tony Corcoran

Looking back in my legislative rearview mirror, it’s amazing to think about issues facing the 2013 legislative session that weren’t even imagined in 2003. Facebook and social media protection for workers, for example, or protecting human placentas from overzealous right wingnut hospital administrators, or drones. Ah, did I mention a collapse of the housing market?

Letters to the Editor

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Letters to the Editor: 5-23-2013

May 16, 2013 01:00 AM

Letters to the Editor: 5-16-2013

May 9, 2013 01:00 AM

Letters to the Editor: 5-9-2013

Happening People

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Denise Thomas-Morrow

Paul Neevel

Music

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Fiddling Fatale

William Kennedy

Laura Cortese jumps genres like freight trains. The young fiddler has appeared alongside rockers like Band of Horses, Patterson Hood and Michael Franti, while her solo work is drenched in Americana and classical sensibilities.

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Jazzing the House

Brett Campbell

With music institutions — especially those in less commercial genres — struggling musicians and fans have had to get social and entrepreneurial, increasingly relying on grassroots funding (through Indiegogo, Kickstarter and similar crowdsourcing sites) and informal venues.

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

The Misadventures of Danny Brown

Kevin Piaskowski

It takes a special character to receive surprise fellatio onstage mid-performance (we’re not making this up) and then keep performing. But I guess that’s what happens when the majority of your lyrics focus on drugs, sex and the rockstar life (listen to the track “Die Like a Rockstar”). It’s the nature of the provocative rap beast.

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

xx-rated

Alex Notman

Love or hate Baz Lurhmann’s The Great Gatsby, one of the most hypnotic scenes of the film is the first. There’s no Leonardo DiCaprio or Carey Mulligan, simply the camera zooming in on the metallic, Art Nouveau Gatsby crest as The xx’s “Together” pings with melancholy coolness.

May 22, 2013 08:16 PM

Primus Goes 3-D

Vanessa Salvia

After a week of trying to set up an interview with Les Claypool, the time and day was upon me. I was slightly nervous, but getting more so as each minute went by and the phone didn’t ring. Les Claypool stood me up.

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Savage Love

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Closure

Dan Savage

May 16, 2013 01:00 AM

Shorties

Dan Savage

May 9, 2013 01:00 AM

Reading Comprehension Fail

Dan Savage

Movies

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

In the Dark

Molly Templeton

Four years ago, J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot pulled off a slick little trick. A shiny, whizbang movie with an excellent ensemble cast, the 2009 Trek restarted the series timeline, giving Abrams and company endless freedom to boldly go to entirely new places, unencumbered by the history writ in the TV shows and earlier films.

Culture

Dance

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Harmony From Chaos

Alex Notman

Everything is dark except for the truck-sized monolith. Two female figures emerge from the shadows, their bodies athletically twisting and spinning and stomping to the electronic beat, which sounds like someone drumming on crystal stalagmites. Crisp, geometric patterns project upon the monolith, creating a digital trompe l’oeil effect, the electronic shapes dissolving into and out of the forms of the dancers, whose projected images appear to be writhing within the structure as their counterparts writhe freely outside.

Wine

May 23, 2013 01:00 AM

Memorial Day Weekend Wine Tastings

Red or white? How about both? Memorial Day Weekend is a big deal for Oregon’s viticulture industry and wine aficionados alike, and boy do Lane County and Corvallis have a lot to offer.

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