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Ben Ricker was a Eugene Weekly calendar editor and staff writer.
A couple degrees colder and the rain would freeze. “Hi there. Hello. Excuse me,” Pastor Dan Bryant says to a crumpled heap of blankets and … Continue reading
Late last year, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency tried adding an obscure herbal leaf with narcotic effects called kratom to its list of banned substances. … Continue reading
General Lee is no bigger than a burrito. The couple-week-old pit mix — named for the flame red Dodge Charger in the ’80s TV series … Continue reading
Shirley Temple once paid a visit and may have rested her blonde ringlets on soft Hotel Benton pillows. Symmetrically doomed presidential candidates John F. and … Continue reading
Marijuana is a crutch on which many were hoping to lean for the next four years. That alone explains why our bronzed chief executive might … Continue reading
You hear the rhythmic metal tick-tock of armor plates clapping against chainmail from a long way off. The sun sinks in the west as three … Continue reading
Years of deliberation, millions of tax dollars spent, and still nothing to show but a city block of gravel flats and an angry clutch of … Continue reading
On a borrowed plot only a stone’s throw from the Eugene Mission, the Nightingale Health Sanctuary is tidy and obliging, even as biting autumn winds … Continue reading
Police in August responded to calls from a South Carolina school saying that scary clowns tried luring some kids into the nearby woods. Around the … Continue reading
In a dark corner of Cordley Hall on the edge of Oregon State University campus, an unsorted knot of dead ants floats preserved in a … Continue reading