We've got issues.
As of Tuesday, March 3, current info on Bel Ami/Midtown can be found in the following post. Word is coming in from multiple places that Bel Ami Restaurant and Lounge is closed. The fate of the front of the building — the coffee shop, wine shop and bistro — is less clear, though it sounds as if they’re remaining open. More detail will come as we have it. Continue reading
CarrotMob could make Eugene a greener place. The local idea from the GreenLane Sustainable Business Network goes like this: clipped from greenlane-sbn.org Continue reading
A good local alternative to Starbucks downtown—light, airy, comfy chairs, friendly, free wi-fi and a big green tree soaring to a vaulted ceiling with skylights. They could use a little bigger baked goods selection, though. Continue reading
I have an ungodly plethora (by which I mean “an overflowing Stickie on my desktop”) of links to articles about this, that and the other thing about how hard the economy is hitting (book) publishing. This particular piece, though, caught my eye; maybe it was the first-person perspective, maybe the resigned yet not hopeless tone. Regardless, maybe you’ll find it interesting too. It’s from the London Review of Books, and is by one Colin Robertson. This paragraph in particular is lovely — what he says isn’t new, but it’s so nicely put: Continue reading
Because I still have the tabs open: In this Thursday’s paper, you’ll find a wee tiny last minute preview of a show at Sam Bond’s by a band called The Clues. The Clues, assuming it’s the right Clues, include former members of Arcade Fire and the short-lived but beloved and awesome Unicorns. (There’s another The Clues in Colorado, apparently.) The Clues are kind of a pain to Google unless you include the band members’ former bands. But there’s some good stuff out there: Continue reading
Which of these is “Meth Mouth” and which is “Mountain Dew Mouth?” A. B. A is Dew, B is Meth. So is Mountain Dew the new Meth? ABC news reports : Continue reading
Blog? What is this blog you speak of? Continue reading
The Eugene Fire Department deployed 23 people for five hours to respond to a “small leak†of hydrochloric acid gas from a railroad tank car last night. The city responded in moon suits and evacuated Union Pacific employees from the rail yard off the Northwest Expressway. But the city didn’t evacuate the neighborhood next to the accident. To get money for new offices, the city is now trumpeting the chance of a few police cars getting trapped under City Hall in an earthquake. But a far more dangerous and likely hazard may be a toxic train derailment. Continue reading
Facing huge cuts in city services due to the recession, the Eugene City Council voted unanimously today to blow at least $17 million in city reserves on a new police station that voters opposed three times. Continue reading
Going to church on Sunday? Most people in Eugene won’t. The Eugene/Springfield metro area ranked as one of the very least religious places in the nation in a 2000 national study by the Glenmary missionary group. Only one in four people in Eugene go to church, half the national average, according to the study. Out of 276 metro areas, Eugene ranked 273 for the lowest percentage of adherents. Continue reading