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Will the deepening nationwide credit crisis torpedo the UO basketball arena? The UO has proposed borrowing $200 million for the new arena through the bond market. But the New York Times reported today that the weakened condition of two large bond insurers has become a “potential time bomb” for such borrowing. Continue reading
I always mange to forget it’s Oscar nominations day until I see one of my usual morning reads (i.e. blogs) mention something about it, then bolt immediately to the Oscars site to see what the hell is going on. This year, well, frankly I just need to see a lot of movies. But naturally I have opinions even about the things I haven’t seen. So here are my thoughts at present. A bit off the top of my head, sure, but we’ll come back to this. Probably. Continue reading
I love Augurie. But very shortly, that sentence will become past tense: after less than a year in business, owner Dagua Webb Nelson is closing up shop — and soon. The space will be taken over by neighboring salon Rapunzel, which is cool enough, but it’s not a store full of cute cards and dresses I dream of being able to wear. Still, I understand. Continue reading
Warning: This page is only interesting to those who are interested in the peculiarities of the internet age. I’m not ashamed to admit that I Google myself. Mostly, it’s just to see if anyone has linked to or otherwise noticed anything I’ve written in the paper; I’m a nosy girl and I’m always looking for feedback. I also have a relatively unusual name. Or at least I did have a relatively unusual name. Continue reading
So I’ve come to the conclusion that this year (and I bet I said this to myself last time, too), I will listen to what the presidential candidates say, I will listen to what (non-insane) commentators say about them, but I will not, under any circumstances, listen to what they say about each other. I’m just not interested in that aspect. And I don’t care who’s the prettiest or the emo-est or the toughest or the sensitivest or the … OK, stopping now, because it’s irrelevant to this post and I can’t hang my entire unfair distrust of one particular candidate on one very Bushlike quote. Continue reading
What did you do over the holidays? Whatever it was, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t quite as cool as this: Tolkien’s Battle of Pelennor Fields recreated … in candy. Choice quips from the post include: “For two days the evil host, under the brutal licorice fist of the Witch King of Angmar has bombarded the ancient city with stone and fire.” Continue reading
Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy delivered her 2008 State of the City address in the Hult Center lobby on Monday night, January 7 to a large crowd. Here’s the last part of Mayor Piercy’s speech summarizing her goals for the year as a slide show with audio: Continue reading
The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association announced the winners of their 2008 awards today; six titles were chosen from the almost 200 nominees: Continue reading
The world is flat, right, we all know that. The world is also very small. The latest example of that is this: I have a good friend in Brooklyn who has a pretty expert grasp on my taste in, well, most things, or at the very least books, movies and music. Continue reading
We interrupt Suzi’s politi-blogging with this totally needless whining: Oh, Ducks. Oh, Ducks, Ducks, Ducks. Way to throw the game away. All those turnovers! Not drawing the fouls! What the hell is going on with Tajuan Porter? Why can’t they shoot threes OR make free throws? What happened to Kamyron Brown that he couldn’t hold on to the ball? Totally unnecessary last-few-minutes commentary after this here jump. Continue reading