The Corvallis Sustainability Coalition is encouraging Corvallis residents to leave their vehicles

The Corvallis Sustainability Coalition is encouraging Corvallis residents to leave their vehicles

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has announced a 2-disc DVD ($39.99) and 4-disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo ($45.99) releases of Fantasia and Fantasia 2000: 2-Movie Collection which will arrive in stores from November 30th. Extras on the DVD release will include a commentary on Fantasia with Disney historian Brian Sibley, a tou

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The Hilltop Big Band will be playing their final Central Park Concert tonight September 1, 2010.

The Hilltop Big Band will be playing their final Central Park Concert tonight September 1, 2010.

A new study by the Urban League of Portland shows little to no progress for African Americans in Oregon since their original report last year.

There is a vociferous ongoing debate about current stock valuations. Some argue that stocks are "dirt cheap" while others

Apple today announced the new Apple TV which offers the simplest way to watch your favorite HD movies and TV shows on your HD TV for the breakthrough price of just $99. Apple TV users can choose from the largest online selection of HD movies to rent, including first run movies for just $4.99, and [...]

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More Cross-Blog Content CougCenter's Jeff Nusser is assembling a series of quick interviews heading into the Pac-10 season with a representative for each of the other conference teams' SB Nation sites, and your

Ed. note: The following book review comes to us from Robert Geary. His look at Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans (U. of Wisconsin Press), by Philip Gambone, follows. Mr. Gambone’s spare writing prompts me to wonder if he, an observer of our community, missed the riches of a Liberal Arts education.

Bad books are the new violent video games.If you're not foll

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When an economy is suffering, that's when people need mass transit the most: buses and rail to take to work when they might not be able to afford a car anymore. That's why it is all the more disappointing to...

Apple today introduced iTunes 10 with Ping, a new music-oriented social network for following your favorite artists and friends to discover what music they’re talking about, listening to and downloading. iTunes Ping lets you post your thoughts and opinions, your favorite albums and songs, the music you’ve downloaded fro

Aziz Poonawalla makes a compelling argument in favor of the building of the Mosque in NYC: [I]t really does boil down to an issue not just of religious freedom but also a means of putting into practice the very American values which Al Qaeda seeks to deny. A mosque in NYC, near to the site [...]

Find those old flies left forgotten in old licorice tubs, fly boxes and plastic bags. I recently wrote about this. So, today, for drill I looked out in the shed. There was an old yellowed, plastic tub…the kind red vine licorice comes in. The tub was almost full and the plastic fairly brittle to the [...]

Burley's Travoy brings home the gold (and the groceries). Burley Design, a Eugene-based company known for its bicycle trailers, has won big at the Eurobike trade show that kicked off today in Friedrichshafen, Germany today. Eurobike announced today that Burley has won a 2010 Eurobike Gold Award for their new Travoy cargo

Apple today announced the new redesigned iPod shuffle which features both clickable “ring” buttons and Apple’s innovative VoiceOver technology, enabling users to easily navigate their music and playlists without ever looking at their iPod shuffle. The new wearable iPod shuffle has an all-aluminum enclosure with a buil

I’ve been waiting for push-back against food carts, and it sounds like a groundswell is building. From the EnzymePDX website, there are currently 534 licensed food carts in Multnomah County, with applications for 82 more under planned review. Even John Hamilton, vice president of communications for the restaurant lobb

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I loved how the dusky orange sky was reflecting off of this building. Pretty building on its own.

Apple today unveiled a completely redesigned iPod nano featuring Apple’s Multi-Touch interface that lets users navigate their music collection by simply tapping or swiping a finger on the display. Nearly half the size and weight of the previous generation, the new iPod nano features a polished aluminum and glass enclosure

Good day!Originally I intended to show you a layering combo, poorly done nail art and some snazzy decals I got. I was waylaid by some Twitter drama though. So this has taken me two hours to write this post. Oy.So let's get to the pics!

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Apple today announced the new iPod touch, packed with incredible new features including Apple’s stunning Retina display, FaceTime video calling, HD video recording, Apple’s A4 chip, 3-axis gyro, iOS 4.1 and Game Center—all combined in the thinnest and lightest iPod touch ever. The new iPod touch features up to 40 hour

When the United States initially advanced the Bush family's mindless vendetta by invading Iraq, the common wisdom was that our country's military could never withdraw from that land without starting a bloodbath. But now, seven and a half years and thousands of young American lives later, we're declaring our "combat role" i

MyEugene presents the second video in its series: Can you describe Eugene? Thanks to our summer University of Oregon intern and recent graduate, Alex Strack, for producing this fun piece! For those of you who missed Volume 1 in July 2009, visit our YouTube page here.

Here's a look at some events coming up in September 2010 that you might consider attending if you love Oregon craft beer

Oregon's minor political parties don't want their party names abbreviated on the ballot. Since Secretary of State Kate Brown and her election folks are planning to do just that for the November election, the whole thing is goin

The prospect of a national, free, but low-bandwidth wireless broadband network, promoted by M2Z Networks, has been killed by the FCC, reports Wireless Week. The main objection was that signals in the AWS-3 spectrum (2155-2180 MHz) that M2Z proposed to use, would interfere with signals in the AWS-1 band (2110 to 2155 MHz). T

Finally, the stalker-friendly Facebook application Foursquare is using its powers for good. The app, which awards “badges” for frequent “check-ins” to places like the bar or the gym, will allows you to announce to friends when you “check in” to the bar, the gym or the office, now offers a

Free Coffee, Special Stuff, Crazy People, Private Number, Laughing Boy, Facebook Unfriending, Ball Talk, Golf Fire, Masoli, Drunk Lion, Browns Gun, Manny, World Of Crazy, Parole, Baboons, Incest Is Best, Wiffle Ball Beating, Calf Milk

Wider, smoother shoulders would be nice.(Photo © J. Maus) On Monday, the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO) -- an influential group of state DOT directors -- announced a report calling on Congress to prioritize funding for expanded rural highway capacity in the forthcoming re-write of

SB Nation Pac-10 Preview All of the Pac-10 SB Nation websites, including Buildingthedam.com have collaborated to assemble this season's Pac-10 Preview, and Oregon St. is picked to

Treat the family to a Celebration in Boring Sept. 12 at the Boring Station Trailhead Park.

It's clear that this year, Indian Summer has been chased out of the Pacific Northwest and contained on some reservation in Montana, do

A wall-like structure is materializing around what has long been a glaring vacant block on North Fremont between Williams and Vancouver. It’s not the kind of wall you would expect. There’s no...

A new study looks at the history of climate and its relation to the spread of bubonic plague. Pandemics of bubonic plague have occurred in Eurasia since the sixth century ad. Climatic variations in Central Asia affect the population size and activity of the plague bacterium’s reservoir rodent species, influencing the

We’ve been living in Oregon four years as of today. Still feels like home! Editing… I wanted to add this photo, taken just now:

The worst, most confusing logo of all time? Jesus,

not to show them what is likely to excite their desires is the way to keep their minds from disorder.~ James Legge translation, from The Sacred Books of th

Doug Fir—Stereo Total, Allister Izenberg, 9 pm, $12 Holocene—Mattress, Thicket, Stag Hare, Actual Magik, DJ Nightschool, 7 pm, free Mississippi Studios—

Call these the end-of-summer doldrums. Absolutely nothing to discuss. I will try to have a review of Prodigal Son up tomorrow. Meantime, I guess I'll be doing not a whole lot of blogging.Oh, I guess I should mention Lucky Lab's cool event tomorrow where they pluck fresh hops for The Mutt. Bill

Some great new shows opening this month.

Hairy is very ill with a severe URI. He is currently in a rabbit hutch in my garage. Poor fellow has gone through way too much. He was trapped by a woman out on Country Club Drive because he was fighting her cats for food. He is thin as thin can be.I'm trying to figure out who he is and where he comes from. He was desp

With Hood to Coast now fading into a memory, we are looking forward to the start of school next year. We're trying to enjoy these last moments of summer vacation. No summer camps this week, only organizing school supplies and...