Move Ahead Three Spaces, Mr. Bollmann
I glanced over the game board for the Eugene Fairyland game board enclosed in EW’s Dec. 31 edition and found most of it moderately amusing … Continue reading
Year: 2021
New Year, Same Yoga
Some used yoga in 2020 to maintain mind and body in a stressful year.
Chelsea Duke and her husband, Jon, have five kids. Duke is also remodeling her home — painting her walls as she talks on her AirPods … Continue reading
Goodbye, Loser
Let’s look at King Trump’s legacy: the pandemic he walked away from, calling it a hoax, massive unemployment, people in line for food, businesses closing, … Continue reading
Riding Into the Sunset
Pete Sorenson retires from the Lane County Board of County Commissioners after representing south Eugene for 24 years
A grainy photo shows now retired Lane County Commissioner Pete Sorenson riding on a horse, dressed as the “Lone Liberal” in the Eugene Celebration parade in … Continue reading
We Need Change Now
Yes, we need change, fast. Yet carbon taxing will be too hard to initiate, too slow and inadequate to the real rate of warming and … Continue reading
Cowfish Dance Club & Cafe
Almost 11 years ago Cowfish Dance Club & Cafe opened its doors in downtown Eugene, and Shawn Di Fiore laughs at the suggestion that it’s … Continue reading
Let’s Make 2020 An Inspiration To Live Better
2020: a year of pandemic, George Floyd’s murder followed by sustained, sometimes violent protests in Portland, and the worst wildfires in Oregon’s history. 2020 also … Continue reading
You Get What You Pay For In A Mayor
In a recent letter (EW 12/31), Kate Goldsworthy claimed that Mayor Lucy Vinis has had an “unremarkable tenure” and that we deserve a more progressive … Continue reading
The Threat of the Virus
The fight with COVID in prison is not only physical but mental as well
By Will Dead three times. Blown up. Three plane crashes. Ninety-one firefights. Shot, stabbed, run over, 115 para jumps, hundreds of hand-to-hand encounters. Drowned. A … Continue reading
Slant
What the hell? As Eugene Weekly went to press at noon Jan. 6, right-wing protesters* were overrunning the U.S. Capitol, with reports of clouds of … Continue reading