Letters to the Editor 2017-03-16
LOGGING SCHEME The Aufderheide National Scenic Byway out of Oakridge, one of the nation’s most scenic drives, has been severely degraded by Willamette National Forest … Continue reading
Year: 2017
Activist Alert
350 Eugene, Climate Change, Liquefied Natural Gas Pipeline
• Join 350 Eugene Thursday, March 16, for a spring membership potluck and meet-up at First United Methodist Church, 1376 Olive Street. Bring food to … Continue reading
It’s About Time
Spring is slow this year
For the past six months or so, some animal has been digging holes next to the path along the ponds on the east side of … Continue reading
Slant
RG layoffs and Mercer Money
• Rumor has it that The Register-Guard is laying off another 20 employees. The toll this time includes reporter Lillian Schrock, who was let go … Continue reading
‘Amputation Season’
Occupy Medical addresses winter’s effects on the unhoused
Despite signs of spring in Oregon, the risk of frostbite is still prevalent with freezing nights and cold rain. It is still what Occupy Medical … Continue reading
Where do you go to have a drink?
Local trendsetters share where they go and what they order when they’re in the mood for a drink
Brian McWhorter Conductor of Eugene’s OrchestraNext and a professor of trumpet at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance Close call between Rye … Continue reading
Unspoken and Beyond Language
Two shows at Maude Kerns Art Center
Most of us collect objects of some kind: a shell, a concert ticket, a dried flower kept in a book as a keepsake. But what … Continue reading
Looking Backward
Oldies dominate this month’s musical calendar
My, my, the country seems to be in a conservative mood. Our con-mander-in-thief wants to take us “back” to an imagined time, somewhere after we … Continue reading
Porn by the People
Dan Savage’s annual HUMP! film fest brings a smattering of amateur erotica to Eugene
As is now somewhat of a tradition, this year’s annual HUMP! homemade porn festival — conceived and carried out by “Seattle’s only newspaper” The Stranger … Continue reading
Standing in the Spotlight
UO’s New Voices features two emerging playwrights
The University of Oregon Theatre Program presents two student plays this weekend and next: The Fruit Stand by Sravya Tadepalli and On the Street Where … Continue reading