Eugene Weekly

Can Eugene and Springfield learn anything about growing more compactly from Seattle’s successes and failures? Tara Sulzen, outreach director for 1000 Friends of Oregon, attended the Urban Land Institute Northwest Young Leaders Regional Conference in Seattle in early August and wrote about it the latest 1000 Friends newsletter. She also picked up some insights from noted political thinker Matthew Yglesias at a Bus Project event in Portland. Check out her report at:   http://www.friends.org/about/profiles/Making-Density-Work Continue reading →

Nothing adds more fun to politics than puppies. Seriously. All this brouhaha over Romney and his competitive horse prancer Rafalca (full disclosure, I do a little competitive horse prancing myself) has distracted us from poor Seamus, the pup Mitt strapped on the roof of his car. Luckily,  "Obama 2012 + Puppies All the Time" is keeping us focused on pups as well as ponies and brings us a link to the Seamus pooping game.  Continue reading →

A candlelight prayer vigil to remember the victims of the tragic shooting at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee, Wisc., will be from 7 to 8 pm Wednesday, Aug. 8, at Tugman Park, 36th Place and Hilyard in Eugene. The local Eugene Sikh community is inviting the greater Eugene/Springfield communities to join them.   Continue reading →

Architect Mark Lakeman will speak about Opportunity Village Eugene  in a talk called "Let's Do It Right" from 7 to 9 pm Tuesday, Aug. 14, at the new Unitarian Universalist Church, 1685 W. 13th Ave. in Eugene. This video is from an earlier talk. Continue reading →

The chronic drought that hit western North America from 2000 to 2004 left dying forests and depleted river basins in its wake and was the strongest in 800 years, scientists have concluded, but they say those conditions will become the “new normal” for most of the coming century, according to a press release from Oregon State University. Here is the rest of the statement by David Stauth at OSU:   Continue reading →

EW film critic and former arts editor Molly Templeton got some love on Jezebel for her response to the New York Times Book Review's How-To Issue, which included 2/8 cover stories from women, which were about cooking and raising kids. I love how Molly explains her objections: Continue reading →

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I admit, the Eugene Emeralds lost some of their fun for me when they moved to PK Park. I miss Civic; it had that peanuts and CrackerJacks feel that I associate with baseball. Since I associate very little else with baseball, including how to play, this was a rather important element. But I do give the Ems points for all their promotional efforts. This week it's Grateful Dead night at PK Park.  Press relase:    Ems Host Grateful Dead Night Thursday Continue reading →

In case you missed our July 16th post mentioned in this week's "Cruel Rabbit Roundup" story, here it is again as filmed by Heather and Alex Crippen of the Red Barn Rabbit Rescue. Heather Crippen points out that YouTube has designated the video not suitable for those under 17 due to the animal cruelty portrayed. Ironic, she says, since the participants in the "animal scramble" are 4 to 14. Continue reading →

As promised in "Let's Boogie"; Dog dancing, aka, canine musical freestyle videos. The merengue:   Britain's Got Talent has kicked off a new wave of dog dance enthusiasm:   Continue reading →