Beer Can be Beautiful

Several years ago, entrepreneur Ginger Johnson said to herself, “Self, it’s time to find out what beer is about.” Now, after delving into the intricacies of the beer industry, Johnson owns and operates Women Enjoying Beer, a business that works to help breweries market to the female craft beer enthusiast. Women Enjoying Beer is based in Ashland, but Johnson is excited to appear in Eugene this week for Brew Fest, KLCC’s annual beer-tasting benefit.  Continue reading 

Aid On the Asphalt

Schizophrenics waking up in parking lots bloody and disoriented, suicidal college women threatening to jump, junkies in bathroom stalls, half-dead, face-down ‹ this is a side of Eugene witnessed by people who choose to look after the city in ways most dont or wont. Men and women working in the shadow of their better-known cohorts, Eugenes fire and police departments, CAHOOTS fills a niche somewhere between counseling and emergency medical care ‹ it helps people. The need is there every day, and so is CAHOOTS. Continue reading