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Editor/Publisher What’s Inside This Week? Steven J. Schultz 4 Legislators Preferring THC; Not that Assoc. Editor Capital; Johnny Pleas to be Taken Johnny Beaver 5 Premature Deathication; As the State City Editor Turns Denise Ruttan 6 Corvallis Can’t Quit Books Entertainment Editor 7 See the Trails, Happy Happy Trails Ygal Kaufman 8 OSU Press Presses On as Others Pressed Words Out Johnny Beaver Kiki Genoa 9 Roy Crowe Opens Third Corvallis Sidney Reilly Pedicab Company... and He Has Ice Joel Hutton Dave DeLuca Cream Ethan Brady 10 Calendar John M. Burt Kelsi Villarreal 12 8 Days Ygal Kaufman

14 Entertainmental Design Bobbi Dickerson 15 Hard Truths Calendar Law practiced Nathan Hermanson thoughtfully, Contact us: Box 2700, Corvallis, OR 97339 compassionately 541.766.3675 | corvallisadvocate.com and carefully. editor “My commitment is to listen, to empower you with options, and consider not only your needs today, but also your interests over the long term.” calendar -Karen Misfeldt @corvallisadvocate.com Attorney at Law story ideas Estate Planning Family Care ads } Prenuptial The Corvallis Advocate is a free newsweekly with a very diverse staff that Agreements accepts materials from a number of sources, therefore it should be assumed that 310 NW 7th Street • Corvallis (541)754-7477 not all staff or even the majority of staff endorse all of our published materials. Corvallis Advocate | 3 By Kiki Genoa Losing the Buzz By Johnny Beaver Double-Dealing in Oregon’s Legislature Linn-Benton Hangs Hemp Out to Dry his summer, Oregon pot farmers will are even more complicated, especially Backwash Tbe able to relax knowing that their when state rules are placed in contrast to Flying Saucers of delicate female buds will be safe from federal law. Crime and Derp potential cross-contamination. Thanks to Peter Buckley’s House Bill 2668, created Earlier this year, Oregon hemp licensees Edition to enforce were given special permission to grow guidelines on hemp due to the medicinal benefits the harvest of CBD oil, a compound that can be he Benton County BBQ Cook-Off bicyclists, skateboard folk, and leg- of cannabis cultivated from both hemp and pot. HB Twas held outside of Murphy’s walkers. It’s time to regulate. and its close Restaurant and Lounge in south relative, hemp, 2668 would designate a few of the hemp- Corvallis this weekend—because After hearing that Oregonian all hemp growing sites for special research by OSU roasting a bunch of corpses out women will soon be able to get a grow sites biology students, but some farmers worry in the nasty heat has summer year’s worth of birth control all at around Oregon will be controlled to avoid that the bill would leave the rest of the lovin’ written all over it. It was its once, several children’s clothing traveling male hemp spores which could hemp farms at risk for being plowed into fourth year as a fundraiser for the and toy store owners in Benton and cross-pollinate with nearby weed plants the ground. Philomath Youth Activities Club, Linn counties climbed onto their and lower their valuable THC content. roofs and threw themselves to their which makes the previous statement Hemp growers who’ll have to trash their deaths. Because of HB 2668’s thinly disguised sound rude. I’m hip to your game, buzz-free gardens will be compensated favor of marijuana over hemp, 13 lone people. Expect countermeasures. The Lebanon Log: On June 5, for the several thousand dollars each hemp farmers—12 in Southern Oregon Corvallis police report for the 795th cones were knocked over at the invested into the growing season, but will Strawberry Festival—but don’t worry, and one in the Willamette Valley—may year in a row that crimes increase on be at risk of losing their crops. The not be paid back for the local and national Oregon State University’s move-out someone turned them back upright. demand for CBD oil—a demand that Later in the day another turkey conflict between pot planters and hemp date for students leaving campus for farmers is complex, and regulations could earn each hemp crop hundreds of the summer. caused another traffic jam, and a 63-year-old man was bounced concerning the harvest of industrial hemp thousands of dollars more. Lebanon City Manager Gary Marks from 7-11. On June 7, a “shredded” has received high marks in his shoe was found in a bush outside By Sidney Reilly evaluation. People driving through of Walgreens, and a van ran over a the city wonder why (just after garbage can, perhaps twice (it was Eco-CapitalNo, No, It’s Actually a Thing locking their car doors). Reports “severely damaged”). Oh, and a indicate that this evaluation was dog killed a goat. And two separate hen we look back on civilization’s This is a difficult concept to make performed by the Lebanon City people were arrested in the Mega Wimprints on nature, it’s easy to people understand, as it can seem Council. Ah, so that explains it. Foods parking lot on outstanding think how stupid and shortsighted we vague without hard data to back it up. warrants. have been/are. But it’s not so easy to see That’s what makes these new studies so Local media is still obsessed with the long-term value in resources versus powerful; they discussing ex-OSU coach Mike Riley. On June 9... and I swear to all lords the short-term gain. Fortunately, a new highlight the If you’re curious as to what he’s and ladies that I’m not joking here... report summarizing several studies, successes we’re doing with himself in his Nebraskan someone reported a large UFO spearheaded by OSU research, shows us experiencing downtime, just punch yourself in the flying around North Main Street and exactly how both the private and public worldwide in face a dozen times and check out Mary Street. The officer saw a “bright sectors are starting to understand the turning the the Albany Democrat-Herald. object in the sky” and reported that value of our natural surroundings and tide against he or she was unsure as to what it how they can be sustainably maximized. ecological Albany police are going to crack was. down on pedestrian safety by Armageddon, going gangbusters on a couple of And... I quit. Please, aliens over Dr. Jane Lubchenco, a distinguished which is at least five to ten times more city crosswalks. Look out, motorists, Lebanon, take me, take me. professor at OSU and the former head of serious than Michael Bay’s Armageddon. the National Oceanic and Atmospheric For example, there’s Costa Rica, a Administration (NOAA), was a co-leader rainforest haven that used to suffer the on the group of studies. She commented world’s highest rate of deforestation, on the value of the studies in a press and now is a net re-foresting country. Know Your Locals! release. Domestically, we’re starting to see Party... success in turning around our drastically “Valuing nature means understanding overtaxed fisheries and making them and by party we mean the myriad ways in which our healthy again. But of course there communities, health, and economies remains a lot of work to be done. depend on ecosystems,” said Lubchenco. ...KNIT! “There is now broad appreciation of “Our global economic, political, and social nature’s values and we are learning systems depend on the world’s natural how to incorporate that knowledge into resources, but many policy decisions do policy and management decisions by not yet explicitly incorporate natural governments, financial institutions, and 110 SW 3rd Street capital into the decision-making process,” Downtown Corvallis businesses. In 10 years we’ve gone from said Lubchenco in the press release. www.stashlocal.com very little specific understanding to “However, these new results from around www.sustainablecorvallis.org | www.corvallisiba.org 541.753.YARN powerful examples, where working with the world show what works. 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By Johnny Beaver By Joel Hutton As the State Turns About This Issue The Dammit Oregon, You’re Doing It Wrong Satire Challenge The Corvallis Outlier Hitler vs. the Portland Housing Tiddley-Bits Effect... Tales of Dancing Bureau The number of on Death Contrary to popular belief, “the Oregon counties e of the newspapering buying and renovation of houses that have declared Wpersuasion are all too familiar and stores in deteriorated urban a drought with what has become an old neighborhoods by upper- or middle- emergency has refrain: our deaths will be income families or individuals, thus now expanded The Corvallis aDvoCaTe improving property values but often to 19. These lamentable but The displacing low-income families and declarations allow Corvallis inevitable, it is the state to add effeCT small businesses” is not a good assumed we thing. It’s called gentrification, priority levels to Dying will be going MeDia Thrives which is basically how rich people water usage, and the way of here n Bookstores n Radio go about getting richer—all while to divert federal n University Press the wagon n Record Shop n Two Newspapers squeezing the poor, minorities, and aid to where it wheel. Also Free Every Thursday I www.corvallisadvocate.com I June 18-25, 2015 the elderly out of the community. may be needed. hacked by Also, it allows this saw of conventional wisdom Yes, that sounds like some Hitler them to completely are bookstores and record stores. sh*t. ruin any and all global warming But then there is Corvallis, stubborn jokes I was about to tell. outlier of exception to so many But thankfully, the Portland rules, home to three diverse Housing Bureau are the fiercest th bookstores, a tasty haven for vinyl For the 7,292,476 day in a row, that. Nazi killers around. Last week they Oregon Public Broadcasting and even two newspapers. And You’re this is exactly what this week’s issue unraveled the first of a long line has listed the same tired in public. is about. of initiatives designed to kick the “MEGAQUAKE” piece as their gentrification of northeast and north featured article. Is there nothing Oregon Upsets We delve into a duo of local Portland directly in their respective else interesting going on? I just saw Corvallis Satire bookslingers with two very different gonad zones. The immediate a shirtless man riding a unicycle Writer strategies for success and a blast to expansion of a home repair program on Pacific in Albany, so that’s it. The reason I have the most widely the vinyl past still unrivaled sonically by digitization. We also find an will significantly lessen the burden There’s no excuse. read column in the continental Oregon State University Press on some lower income homeowners United States is simple: I collect Washington just received a five-year curating, passionate and growing by offering no-interest loans of up to bad and stupid news... then I say $40,000. Ugh... if only they could get grant towards Ebola-preparedness where others have withered. Along hey, this news is bad and/or stupid. with all this, just three weeks back, into the student loan business. for the Pacific Northwest. Reason: And then you, the reader, are all we profiled KBVR as a vibrant Good lord, are we all doomed or A meeting was held last week that like, “Yeah!” Everybody wins. I’m alternative radio station growing what? The federales are giving our in listenership even as increasingly was attended by over 75 people. enemies to the north $4.6 million in the business of smiles, grins, and general poppycock. commoditized and boring Amongst them was a retiree who to test a biological superweapon on commercial radio is waning. was physically disabled due to us. I’ll have to start working on my But then this LGBT crowd comes hip problems. He was interested strain of Epic Deluxe Pink Eye to As to the aforementioned wagon along and creates the Pride in assistance repairing his water combat them. Don’t worry, fellow wheel, we find our fair burg gaining Northwest Festival, which is such a heater and chimney. That’s right, Oregonians, I’ve got your back. its third player in the pedicab rich folk: poor people need help even fantastic display of individual rights market, so sit back a spell and revel when it doesn’t involve blowing The Oregon Lottery Syndicate is and the true spirit of American in being a Corvallisite, you outlier rebel you. it on drugs, booze, child support in the midst of replacing 12,000 culture that I... I can’t think of any payments, and McDonald’s. Go gamblin’ machines in the state. The way to make fun of it. Portland, the figure! new machines have been described city where it is being held, elected by onlookers as “shiny,” while the first openly gay mayor in a major The program itself is part of players have described them as “god US burg (Sam Adams), and the Mayor Charlie Hales’ strategy dammit, this **%@! thing just took city council dropped a unanimous for affordable housing in north my money again.” decision in 2011 to alter its city Portland, which sings to the tune of health insurance policy to include $20 million funding-wise. Come on, The Oregon Bureau of Land those who are transgender. And you cheap bastard, loosen up those Management has a smile on its then there’s Kate Brown, the current purse strings! face after a court threw out a governor and first one to be publicly lawsuit slapped on them by timber recognized as LGBT. While some future plans have companies. The companies were already been laid out, others have arguing that they weren’t being In a world where injustice is pretty not. And though we know that offered enough logs or wood or much the universal currency, you ideas and reality often fail to meet, something, and the state was like buttholes aren’t giving me much everyone but the SS can probably derp! I believe owls were mentioned room for comedy. agree that we need more initiatives and some environmental groups 541-752-5151 like this on the street than we cheered metaphorically. And... did In fact, I’m feeling a bit proud of www.woodstocks.com currently have. you just fall asleep on me? Don’t do where I live. We Deliver (to most of Corvallis) Corvallis Advocate | 5 By Dave DeLuca Corvallis Biz Guys Bet on Books, Win Browsers’ and Grass Roots... Different Strategies Yield Success n November of 2007 Amazon wrong, the customer knows where Iintroduced the Kindle. The world’s to find them. Wolcott holds himself first mass-produced electronic book accountable for every single book reader promised to do for books what he sells, and can point to a specific the iPod had done for music. Who reason for every title on the shelf. His needs a real book when you can have staff also has the ability to order just the convenience of 1,000 books in about any book you could possibly your bag? E-readers seemed poised want overnight. This allows Wolcott to hammer a final nail in the coffin of to have a greater variety of titles the several industries associated with on the shelves. And they always real books. Most notably, book stores. carry the work of local artists and musicians. Six months prior to the Kindle on the other hand, decreased in sales launch, Browsers’ Bookstore owner very different brands. The most That pride of community is shared by about 10%. These smaller books Scott Givens bought out Albany Book obvious advantage that a bookstore by Givens as well. He pointed out are traditionally novels in popular Co., building and all. He more than has over an electronic device is the mainstream genres like mystery that buying from Browsers’ is buying doubled his inventory and investment unique experience of shopping in and horror. Browsers’ variety of local. The vast majority of the in the potentially doomed industry person. A cyber chat or FAQ page is a book styles protected them from the books in stock are purchased from of buying and selling used books. poor substitute for ambiance and real decline of paperback sales. local residents. The majority of the Givens panicked. “I had people in the customer service. money Givens earns is spent locally publishing business, smarter than Put another way, less people bought At Browsers’ Bookstore, they have through payroll and other expenses. me, saying books would no longer be “throwaway books” from Browsers’ so much stock that there’s scarcely The success of his shops indicates made in five years.” because they were downloading enough time to put it on the shelves. the willingness of the people of them instead. Apparently, not all Grass Roots Books & Music owner Both the Albany and Corvallis Corvallis and Albany to support local types of books are equally popular to Jack Wolcott, however, embraced locations offer mazes of shelves and businesses. But he also knows that e-reader users. People who enjoyed stacks, with few fancy displays or his is a fragile industry. “Bookstores e-readers as potentially viable options more substantial works continued to unnecessary decorations. The books have been going out of business for for his customers. The downtown purchase the real thing. The overall are almost always displayed spine 500 years. Prior to the invention of Corvallis staple decided to carry variety of their inventory helped out, in order to accommodate the the Internet or e-books.” e-readers in the form of Kindle absorb the decreased sales in one sheer volume of titles. There are competitor Kobo. Wolcott figured it category. Wolcott sees the continued existence rooms upon rooms of works covering was better to sell an e-reader than of bookstores, both new and used, as Just a few blocks away, Grass Roots every topic. The controlled chaos is turn away a customer, and allowed a great sign of the overall health of a continued to offer both real and intentional. Browsers’ is set up for the buying public to support his store city. “I view an independent bookstore electronic reading options side by the reader who enjoys hunting for one however they thought best. in a town like a canary in a coal mine. side. Over time, a trend developed. book, and coming away with several. As long as there is a healthy, vibrant Over the next several years, tablets Electronic book sales gradually It is designed for browsing. But the and smartphones flooded the market dropped. In comparison to his overall staff is always present to help guide bookstore, then the community is while more and more books became sales, Wolcott described the sales of the search. Givens estimates his relatively OK. But if a bookstore can’t available in electronic form. Borders electronic readers as “very small and crew of fellow book lovers spends at survive, it indicates a not overall closed its doors, along with new and getting smaller.” Wolcott clearly saw least one-third of their day helping healthy environment... You won’t used book stores in other nearby popular fiction books as the main customers find just what they’re notice it at that time, but somewhere communities. But Browsers’ and e-book sellers, confirming the trend looking for. down the line you’re going to wonder Grass Roots continued to plug along. found at Browsers’. “Luckily,” Wolcott where it went.” Why? Grass Roots provides a completely added, “we never really carried You could visit www. bestsellers or throwaway books.” different atmosphere than Browsers’. Givens found some answers after You will see plenty of book covers browsersbookstore.com or www. completing a study of Browsers’ So the dire predictions of dead displayed here, along with magazines, grassrootsbookstore.com for more sales from 2007 to 2014. Sales bookstores missed the mark, at calendars, games, puzzles, and gifts. information. But both Scott Givens increased 25% on hardcover and least here. But both store owners The staff is not only familiar with and Jack Wolcott encourage you to trade paperbacks. The Corvallis refused to credit a diverse inventory the product on the shelf but also actually stop by for a full browsing location reaped the greatest benefit of or a lucky trend for their continued with the customer. They have to be experience. Browsers’ is at 121 NW that trend with 6% growth six years success. Plenty of other factors have able to make recommendations. And 4th Street and Grass Roots is at 227 running. 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nce upon a time, a then 24-year- Zappa concert T-shirts, posters, and Restaurant Oold from Santa Clara, California memorabilia. Yet we do not go into resolved to make the journey north to the store, we don’t make our way the land of rainfall and cheap beer— to the Rolling Stones section, or the some call it Corvallis. With little but Doors. We don’t ask about the signed the hope of purchasing what any baseball behind the counter, or the clear-headed 24-year-old would want stickers slathered over the old glass to purchase: a record store. cabinets. We don’t do what we can, our part, to keep the store up and And thus, we have Doug DiCarolis, running. a bit older now and, the owner of Happy Trails Records on Monroe DiCarolis says, “Coming up here at and 3rd Street, which happens to be 24, with an ad clipped out of a free just one block down and two blocks magazine that read, ‘FOR SALE over from the original location (an RECORD STORE,’ after the first Open for the season! all-vinyl store) on 2nd next to Tom’s couple weeks you kind of become Now enjoy Saturday dinners Peacock. They are still using, even something of a local celebrity. now, the original new releases vinyl Everybody knows you. It was literally Lunch stands from the first days of the old the coolest thing that I could have 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday-Friday store. been doing. It was just the greatest.” Dinner 5:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday-Saturday Business at Happy Trails could not Go, now. Ask about the baseball, have been better from the time it find a one-dollar CD or vinyl or find Saturday Brunch was bought by its current owner to something you weren’t even looking 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. the dawn of the CD. As if by some for. Buy it if you can, and know that Farm Stand Hours: minor miracle, when the CD first you are helping keep that tune going rd 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday appeared on the scene, anyone who on the corner of 3 and Monroe. owned records on vinyl came down to www.gatheringtogetherfarm.com Summer makes for some lazy days the store and re-bought all the same here in Corvallis, we can all agree music they already owned—but on on that—and when you need that CD, a phenomenon of business that little pick-me-up, there’s nothing like There is nothing any owner of a record store could a freshly opened Jimmy Hendrix or easily get comfortable with. However, Bob Dylan CD for your car—or some you can’t do when since the late 90s (1998 to be horribly Pink Floyd on vinyl for your late- exact), with the Napster and free night beer-making ventures. There Voice becomes a music revolution of the Internet, is no telling what you will find if you the options that Happy Trails has go and check it out for yourself. Some part of you! to work with have dwindled and As DiCarolis puts it, “As long as albums may even find you… Because business has all but dried up. In a people are still buying vinyl, that’s where else can you find someone who market that is tough enough as it how long we’ll be selling it.” knows your name and that you like is and a time when musicians are the Breeders and Chet Atkins all at FREE skeptical to even create music, let Too often when walking past the open the same time? Community alone try to make money from it, door, steady drum beats and rhythm what is a record store owner to do, guitar softly making their way out to Shine on, you crazy diamond. Shine Singing close down? I think not. the street corner, we notice the Frank on. Lessons

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Corvallis Advocate | 7 By John M. Burt OSU Press Last Standing in Oregon More Than Survival, Passion and Growth he Oregon State University Press declaration about the mission of the Another aspect of history is memoir. novel, Brian Doyle’s Mink River. Since Tsurvived a fire which destroyed most OSU Press. According to Chadwell, that Not the stories of the famous names then, they have published collections of of its assets, including the only remaining mission is in line with the mission of the who supposedly “made” history, but the short fiction and other novels, the most copies of many of their books. They’ve university itself: to educate Oregonians ordinary lives of the people who lived recent being a new edition of H.L. Davis’ also survived a cultural climate in which about subjects of particular importance through it. The OSU Press devotes a lot of 1936 Pulitzer Prize-winning Honey in the every other university to them, the environment and energy to publishing memoirs like Fool’s Horn. press in Oregon has had landscape of the Pacific Northwest Hill (“a kid’s life in an Oregon coastal Chadwell considers her personal mission to shut down. They’re (Ellie’s Log), the history of the town”), Light on the Devils (“coming of to be increasing the Press’ visibility. not only surviving, Oregon Country (To the Promised Land), age on the Klamath”), and Now Go Home That’s why the OSU Press has begun they are actively and prospects for Cascadia’s future (“wilderness, belonging, and the crosscut actively expanding its outreach beyond expanding their range, (The Next Tsunami). saw”). producing and promoting the traditional, with the publication books which they feel are important for The Press’ authors look at that Our future is always unknown, but of e-books and the promotion of public we can expect it to include volcanic Oregonians to see, but which commercial environment on all scales, from the readings. activity (Living with Thunder), political publishers might not handle. immensity of Oregon’s wilderness controversy (Toward One Oregon), new Public readings are a rare opportunity for (Listening for Coyote) to the growth of Faye Chadwell, director of the Press, perspectives (Living with Bugs), new readers to connect directly and personally plants we may barely notice underfoot works alongside associate director Tom technology (Pedaling Revolution), and with writers, whose work is solitary by (Gathering Moss). Booth. Chadwell has a background food (Grow Food, Cook Food, Share Food). nature. OSU Press-sponsored readings working in libraries, while Booth by authors like Brian Doyle and Bonnie That history includes stories we all The press brings out between 20 and 25 has worked in publishing for most of Henderson can draw impressive crowds. know, but also many we do not, such as books every year on topics ranging from his career. Since the OSU Press is a the robbery and murder of 30 Chinese a memoir of life on a hippie commune The Oregon State University Press has publishing house with a special eye gold miners in Hell’s Canyon (Massacred to the challenges facing Oregon’s forest outlived the publishing arms of the towards providing libraries with books for Gold by R. Gregory Nokes), and the on Oregon-related topics, their combined products industry. (Yes, we do still have University of Oregon and the University community built by the conscientious education and experience would seem to one.) The Press’ range extends beyond of Portland. It seems ready to continue objectors of the Second World War (Here be exactly what the OSU Press needs. Oregon with books like the Holocaust into the future, serving new generations on the Edge by Steve McQuiddy). These memoir Therefore, Choose Life... and of Oregonians. If there were any life remaining in the are stories which had never been told Among Penguins (the Never Cry Wolf of stereotype of a librarian, Chadwell before, and we have the OSU Press to Adelie penguins). In 2010, they extended We should hope so. If they aren’t there, could demolish it with one passionate thank for our access to them. their boundaries by publishing their first who will be?

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Against Poverty” finishes at Rogue Ales Curtis Monette. Bombs Away Café, this unholy trinity of psychesonic soothsayers and is always a great night and a capacity Brewery in Newport. The route runs through 2527 NW Monroe Ave. 8:30 p.m. No cover. revel in the dark side of funk/rock like they’re crowd—highly recommended that you pick Blues Jam. Calapooia Brewing, 140 NW 69 miles of some of the most beautiful back For over 10 years, this local guitar legend playing in Jell-o, and whatever they’ve got, your tickets up in advance. For info, visit Hill St., Albany. 4 p.m. Every Sunday. Get out, roads of the Oregon Coast Range. Anyone has been looping, singing, and shredding you’re catchin’ it! They’ve worn the carpet www.calapooiabrewing.com. get in, and get some on ya! For info, visit can run or walk this relay. Teams of two with friends from audiophilia at Bombs Away down on every stage in town, and Bombs http://calapooiabrewing.com/blog/live-music- to seven people will run 69 miles or walk Cafe. Make tonight the night you hear this Away is pleased to welcome them back. Ed Dee’s Friends. Imagine Coffee, and-events. 5460 SW Philomath Blvd. 7:30 p.m. Ed Dee’s 35 miles. Don’t worry if you don’t have a very talented axeman. For info, visit www. Radion is cymbal-crashing, chord-strumming, Friends is the latest project of renowned team. Solo ultra runners are welcome, too. bombsawaycafe.com. bass-muff’n’, obscenity-shouting alternative- Monday, June 22 guitar player and singer-songwriter Edward Proceeds from the race benefit Community lofi-BS. Browntown is good, dirty, messy, EDM Thursdays. Riley’s Billiards Bar Dee and his friends from the musical Prenatal Yoga. Live Well Studio, 971 Services Consortium. For info, visit www. rowdy fun from Corvallis. For info, visit www. & Grill, 124 SW Broadalbin St., Albany. 9 p.m. community. For info, visit www.imaginecoffee. Spruce Ave. 7 – 8:15 p.m. Every Monday. communityservices.us/barrel-to-keg. bombsawaycafe.com. No cover. For ages 21 and older. Features DJ net. Drop-in. Cost: $50 for 30-day intro offer. Albany Walk with the Doc. The Eps. For info, call 541-926-2838 or visit www. Lowdown. Cloud & Kelly’s Public House, For info, call 541-224-6566 or visit www. Corvallis Clinic, 1705 Waverly Dr. 7:30 – 8:15 facebook.com/pages/Rileys-Billiards-Bar- 126 SW 1st St. 10 p.m. Fridays. No cover. A Dead Kingmaker Album livewellstudio.com. Grill/420896604690340. Release Party. Epsolon Nightclub, a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays through Aug. festive dance party showcasing local DJs. Five Stones Sangha: Mindful 27. The 30-minute walks are led by Jenny For info, visit http://cloudandkellys.com/ 129 W 1st Ave., Albany. 8 p.m. Cost: $8 in Olsen, M.D. They are designed to help people Friday, June 19 music_and_nightlife. advance from Happy Trails in Corvallis or at Meditation. Friends Meeting House, be active and provide an opportunity to Epsolon; $10 at the door. CD release party 3311 NW Polk Ave. 5:30 – 7 p.m. Five talk with health care specialists. All family Yoga - Bring a Friend for Free. for “Tempering” featuring Hyding Jekyll, Rob Stones Sangha meets regularly every week Live Well Studio, 971 Spruce Ave. 5:30 – 6:30 Saturday, June 20 members, including pets on leashes, are Wynia of “Floater” and Triptych Trio. For info, to practice meditations and strengthen p.m. All levels welcome. For info, call 541- welcome. For info, call 541-758-2747 or visit Second Annual International visit www.facebook.com/DeadKingmaker. mindfulness. For info, call 541-760-9760 or 224-6566 or visit www.livewellstudio.com. visit www.fivestonessangha.org. www.corvallisclinic.com. Bazaar. Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Vicki and Joe Price. Bombs Away Center, 128 SW 9th St. 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Free. Café, 2527 NW Monroe Ave. 9 p.m. Free. The Arts Blues Cabaret at the Majestic. Heroclix: Age of Ultron Month Corvallis Arts Walk. Majestic Theatre, 115 SW 2nd St. 7 p.m. Cost: Come celebrate multiculturalism in Corvallis! Right from jump-street, the electrifying sound Center, 700 SW Madison Ave. 4 – 8 p.m. Free. I. Matt’s Cavalcade of Comics, NW Buchanan $15. The Blues Cabaret is a dynamic new International crafts, ethnic and vintage goods, of Joe Price hits you in all the places you Third Thursdays. A monthly art crawl that Ave. 5:30 – 8 p.m. Every Monday. Striving to song cycle about a wistful musician who artwork, kids’ activities, music and snacks live, a one-man blues tornado who can pack, tours Corvallis’ fine art galleries (as well as provide a level playing field, the venue will finally walks the road not taken, years too from around the world. For info, visit www. command and wring-out a dance-floor with non-gallery artistic events) and utilizes a provide each player with one booster of Age late. It’s a heart-rending, knee-slapping ride cmicenter.org. the authority of an eight-piece show band. rotating group of fine dining businesses for of Ultron Wave I and one booster of Avengers through love lost, gained, and squandered, His own deep and varied bag of original final destinations. The Arts Center is a great Assemble for $28, subject to product told through 16-plus songs, four soulful Day of Sharing Benefiting music is so formidable that noted Grammy place for a first art-viewing stop, utilizing availability. For info, visit www.ilovespidey. singers, and one swinging band. The two-set Pastoral Counseling Center. Award-nominated singer/songwriter Greg their off-street parking. For info, visit www. com. show is the brainchild of Dave Fleschner, Many Hands Trading, 259 SW Madison Ave. 9 Brown has long referred to Joe as “the theartscenter.net or www.facebook.com/ writer, composer, arranger, singer, and a.m. – 6 p.m. Many Hands Trading will donate Buddha.” Vicki’s powerful bluesy voice evokes Hoolyeh International Folk CorvallisArtsWalk. serious pianist. From Portland, Dave’s toured 25% of total sales to Pastoral Counseling an image of a woman in a 1920’s speakeasy Dance. 1180 SW 25th Ave., Albany. 7 p.m. internationally with Curtis Salgado, played Center to support the low-cost mental singing her heart out. For info, visit www. Every Monday. Cost: $4. For info, contact 541- Truckstop Honeymoon with health services provided to low income and Wild Hog in the Woods. Majestic with B.B. King, and written for plenty others. bombsawaycafe.com. 967-8017 or [email protected]. For info, visit www.majestic.org. uninsured families, couples, and individuals. Theatre, 115 SW 2nd St. 7 p.m. Truckstop For info, visit www.manyhandstrading.com. Bryson Skaar. Imagine Coffee, 5460 Honeymoon is a high energy two-piece band Michelle Lowrich Drum Group. Sunday, June 21 SW Philomath Blvd. 7:30 p.m. Every Monday. with banjo, guitar, upright bass, and a truckful Imagine Coffee, 5460 SW Philomath Blvd. 7 Free Yoga at the Saturday Ralph Penunuri – Folkroots Free. For info, visit http://imaginecoffee.net. of songs. Hollering with all their hearts over p.m. For info, visit www.imaginecoffee.net. Farmers’ Market. NW Jackson Ave. a five-string banjo and a doghouse bass, Instrumentals & Storysongs. and NW 1st St. 10 a.m. Live Well Studio offers Imagine Coffee, 5460 SW Philomath Blvd. Tuesday, June 23 Truckstop Honeymoon lives the life they Engraved Acoustic. Calapooia free yoga at the farmers’ market. All levels sing about. Touring across three continents Brewing, 140 NW Hill St., Albany. 8 p.m. From 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. For info, visit www. welcome. Bring a mat, if possible. Meet on imaginecoffee.net. Albany Walk with the Doc. The with four kids and a truckload of songs, electric to acoustic, Engraved unplugged has the lawn by the market booth. For info, visit Corvallis Clinic, 1705 Waverly Dr. 7:30 – 8:15 Katie and Mike West tell stories about the been described as acoustic metal. This hard- www.livewellstudio.com. Yoga for Recovery. Live Well a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays through Aug. strangeness of everyday life. Wild Hog in the hitting quartette mixing female and male Studio, 971 Spruce Ave. 12:30 – 1:45 p.m. 27. The 30-minute walks are led by Jenny Woods has been together for over 15 years, vocals with acoustic guitars, djembe, and Picnic in the Woods. Peavy For recovery from substance abuse, eating Olsen, M.D. They are designed to help people having fun every minute of the way. They play congas will have your attention and approval Aboretum, NW Peavy Arboretum Rd. 11 disorders, codependency. By donation. For be active and provide an opportunity to kickin’ stringband music from now and then, when they hit the stage. Each song brings a.m. – 1 p.m. Free. A followup event to Get info, visit www.livewellstudio.com. talk with health care specialists. All family including traditional and original tunes. For something new to the table, whether it’s the Outdoors Day, “Picnic in the Woods” will be members, including pets on leashes, are info, visit www.majestic.org. edgy break downs, screamo undertones, or a casual event to help families feel confident Hops & Hounds. Calapooia Brewing, welcome. For info, call 541-758-2747 or visit beautiful melodic picking from the acoustic adventuring outside. We will picnic, go on 140 NW Hill St., Albany. 2:30 p.m. Meet with www.corvallisclinic.com. Rough Jazz. Calapooia Brewing, guitars, Engraved will guarantee to stir your a short hike, and do nature crafts. For info, retired racing greyhounds on the ‘Pooia patio. 140 NW Hill St., Albany. 7:30 p.m. Jazz emotions and leave you wanting to hear visit www.cf.forestry.oregonstate.edu/get- Chair Yoga. Live Well Studio, 971 Spruce band drawing from Miles Coltrane, Herbie more. For info, visit www.calapooiabrewing. outdoors-day. Enzymes – The Energy Ave. 4 p.m. By donation. Every Tuesday. Hancock, Horace Silver, John Scofield, Wayne com. Workhorse. Natural Grocers, 1235 NW For info, call 541-224-6566 or visit www. Shorter, Wes Montgomery, Charles Mingus, Pigs on the Wing! Calapooia’s Ninth 10th St. 3 – 4 p.m. Enzymes break down livewellstudio.com. Eddie Harris, and more. For info, visit www. Wups, Radion and Browntown. Anniversary and Solstice Party. 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King Legacy Advisory Board and the Footwise Display Window, 301 SW Madison cbcpubliclibrary.net/summeratyourlibrary/. chcpubliclibrary.net. Benton County Developmental Diversity Ave. Runs through June 30. Evergreen Albany Historic Carousel and Program. For info, visit www.facebook.com/ Artists is a small group brought together by Museum. 503 W 1st Ave. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. See. Read. Be Moved: Art and The Majestic Reader’s Theater. events/1657527624479689. Monday through Saturday. In the lobby, view Poetry by Incarcerated Young The Majestic Theatre, 115 SW 2nd Ave. 3 – 5 their love of working with their hands and Matt Neely Jazz Showcase. exploring the depths of their creativity. The finished animals and watch the painters work Women. Albany Public Main Library, 2450 p.m. and 7 – 9 p.m. Cost: $10 ($8 for students on a number of animals and other hand- SE 14th Ave. Eighteen young women exhibit and seniors). Last Sundays. The company Imagine Coffee, 5460 SW Philomath Blvd. group will be displaying recent works in paint 7 p.m. Matt started his music career as a and clay. crafted projects. In the carving studio, see and artwork created during an “art+poetry” will offer a production in the “reader’s touch over two dozen carvings in progress. program at Oak Creek. During this three- theater” style: trained actors, with scripts vocalist in children’s choirs and then later Albany Farmers’ Market. SW For info, visit www.albanycarousel.com. week program, Barry Shapiro, a photographer in hand, make the play come alive through in the Navy Bluejacket choir. At age 32, he Ellsworth St. and SW 4th Ave. 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. and graphic designer, and Marilyn Johnston, vocal talent, facial expressions, and minimal picked up the guitar and fell in love. He has Runs through Nov. 21. Features fresh, locally Shared Landscape Exhibit. a poet, worked with these young women staging. Reader’s theater plays are a fun, been playing it ever since. For info, visit www. grown, locally produced dairy, meat, and farm Benton County Historical Museum, 1101 Main incarcerated at Oak Creek. They wrote poems accessible way to experience contemporary imaginecoffee.net. goods. For info, visit http://locallygrown.org/ St., Philomath. 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Tuesday and took photographs that they incorporated works by famous modern playwrights home. through Saturday. The exhibit features three into the photo montages on display at the that might not otherwise be performed Thursday, June 25 artists, Tom Allen, Carolee Clark, and Sue library. The young women’s photographs and here. For info or tickets, visit https:// Corvallis Farmers’ Market. NW Harrell. Their paintings will be shown and poetry have also been incorporated into a majesticreaderstheater.wordpress.com. Albany Walk with the Doc. The Jackson Ave. and NW 1st St. 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. offered for sale through June 27. For info, call book which will be on sale at the reception Corvallis Clinic, 1705 Waverly Dr. 7:30 – 8:15 Saturdays and Wednesdays. Runs through 541-929-6230. on June 19. For info, contact 541-754-1551 or Corvallis Community Drum a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays through Aug. 27. Nov. 25. Features fresh, locally grown, locally [email protected]. Circle. 101 NW 23rd St. 7 – 8 p.m. The 30-minute walks are led by Jenny Olsen, produced dairy, meat, and farm goods. For Something Old, Something First Saturdays. All ages and skill levels M.D. They are designed to help people be th info, visit http://locallygrown.org/home. Blue Exhibit. Benton County Historical 13 Annual Around Oregon welcome. Instruments provided or bring active and provide an opportunity to talk with Museum, 1101 Main St., Philomath. Tuesday Exhibition. The Arts Center, 700 SW your own. Hosted by Michelle Lovrich of the health care specialists. All family members, Low Tide Landscapes Exhibit. through Saturday: 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Runs Madison Ave. Tuesday through Saturday: 12 including pets on leashes, are welcome. Universal Unitarian Fellowship, 2945 NW Drum Circle Connection. For info, contact through Oct. 24. The exhibition showcases – 5 p.m. Runs through July 11. This is a state- [email protected]. For info, call 541-758-2747 or visit www. Circle Blvd. 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Open artifacts from the combined Horner Museum wide exhibition that strives to show artists corvallisclinic.com. weekdays through June. This exhibit of and Benton County Historical Society artifact and viewers the quality and diversity of fine Ukulele Cabaret. First Alternative photographs by eight members of the collections, with an emphasis on the color art and craft produced in Oregon. Johanna South Store, 1007 SE 3rd St. 7 – 9 p.m. Slightly Rebellious. Imagine Coffee, Willamette Valley PhotoArts Guild reveals the blue. Sub-themes include blue in nature, art, G. Seasonwein, senior curator for Western First Fridays. Free. This is an open mic and 5460 SW Philomath Blvd. 7:30 p.m. For info, magical landscapes that emerge between sea fashion, school colors, uniforms, decorative art at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art sing-along for ukulele players of all ages and visit www.imaginecoffee.net. and land at low tides, especially during the arts, and more. The museum has also in Eugene, was the juror for the exhibit. For skill levels. Songbooks and instruction are Wild Hog in the Woods. Calapooia extreme minus tides that occur in the spring borrowed something new: man-made blue info, visit http://theartscenter.net/exhibit/13th- provided. Bring snacks to share. Hosted by along the exposed beaches and headlands of pigment from the Oregon State University Brewing, 140 NW Hill St., Albany. 7:30 p.m. around-oregon-annual-exhibit. Suz Doyle and Jeanne Holmes of the Wallop Wild Hog in the Woods have been together the central and south central Oregon Coast. Department of Chemistry. Sisters. For info, call 541-753-8530. Exhibitors include Corvallis photographers There Is a Story Behind It for over 15 years, havin’ fun every minute Jack Larson, Rich Bergeman, John Ritchie, Bill Read. Create. Celebrate. Corvallis All: John Ritchie and Alexis Reiki Healing Circle. 8285 NW of the way... and it’s contagious. So watch Laing, Craig Hanson, and Kat Sloma, as well Public Library, 645 NW Monroe Ave. Runs Spakoski. The Arts Center, Corinne Wynoochee Dr. 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. First out! They play “kickin’ stringband music” as Phil Coleman of Philomath and Kurt Norlin through August. For every eligible activity Woodman Gallery, 700 SW Madison Ave. 12 Thursdays. Donation: $5 to $10. All students from now and then, including traditional of Albany. adults aged 18 and over complete this – 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday through and interested parties welcome. For info, call and original tunes. For info, visit www. summer, they can fill out an entry form to June 27. Ritchie (photographer) and Spakoski 541-754-3595. calapooiabrewing.com. Fun-with-the-Animals Work get entered into the library’s end of summer (ceramicist) are both interested in storytelling. Riley’s Billiards Bar Party. Lighthouse Farm Sanctuary, 36831 grand prize package giveaways. Eligible Concert in the Park. Central Park, EDM Thursdays. Their choices of color, composition, shapes, & Grill, 124 SW Broadalbin St., Albany. 9 p.m. Richardson Gap Rd., Scio. Wednesdays: 10 activities include reading or listening to 650 NW Monroe Ave. 8 p.m. Join the Corvallis and patterns all reveal a story behind the No cover. For ages 21 and older. Features DJ a.m. – 12 p.m.; Saturdays: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. a book, reading to a child, using a library Community Band for an evening of free music obvious one in the image itself. Eps. For info, call 541-926-2838 or visit www. Free. For all ages and abilities. Work parties resource to create something, visiting a at the gazebo in Central Park. Every Tuesday facebook.com/pages/Rileys-Billiards-Bar- provide the sanctuary’s abused, abandoned, park. Prize packages include a Kobo, an iPod, Teen Movie Day: Avengers evening through Aug. 25, the band plays an Grill/420896604690340. or neglected farm animals with clean water, dinner and a movie, arts and craft supplies, Series. Corvallis-Benton County Public hour-long concert in Central Park. Dress for bedding, and living conditions. No RSVP annual passes to nearby parks, and more. Library, 645 NW Monroe Ave. A summer the weather, and bring a blanket or low lawn Family Dynamic and required; just show up wearing farm apparel Book and activity suggestions and community movie series for teens, featuring the Avengers chair to sit on. For info, visit www.c-cband. Sojourner. Bombs Away Café, 2527 NW and boots. For info, contact 503-394-4486 or picks will be shared all summer long on the cycle. Weekly on Thursdays at 1 p.m. org. Monroe Ave. 9 p.m. Free. Family Dynamic is about writing positive and heartfelt music that audiences will connect with and love. & Grill, 124 SW Broadalbin St., Albany. 7 – 11 Morcos, M.D., and Emily Rangel, M.D., of the are welcome. Bring a yoga mat, if possible. stems and seeds. Think of it as a nose-to- Since their recent formation in the fall of p.m. Free. A night of down-home fun. For info, Corvallis Clinic’s OB/GYN Department. They Proceeds benefit youth arts education tail approach — for vegetables! You’ll find 2011, the Eugene quartet (Christian Kinyon, call 541-926-2838. are designed to help people be active and programs. For info, visit http://theartscenter. globally inspired recipes that turn a single Dan Spangler, Ethan Souers, and Isaiah Welsh) provide an opportunity to talk with health net. plant into several meals with as little waste has been attentively crafting their uniquely Celtic Jam. Imagine Coffee, 5460 SW care specialists. All family members, including as possible. If you grow your own food at expressive progressive/alternative material. Philomath Blvd. 7:30 – 9 p.m. Every Tuesday. pets on leashes, are welcome. For info, call Linda Ly – Reading and home, you might be surprised to learn you The group takes pride in their musicianship, Free. For info, visit http://imaginecoffee.net. 541-758-2747 or visit www.corvallisclinic. Signing. Grass Roots Books & Music, 227 can eat the leaves from your pepper plants, or from Kinyon’s frenetically striking guitar com. SW 2nd St. 7 p.m. Grass Roots welcomes pickle the seed pods from your radishes. For solos to Souers’ bottomless bass grooves, Wednesday, June 24 Linda Ly to read and sign copies of her new info, visit www.grassrootsbookstore.com. Family Dynamic strives to thrill a crowd from Yoga in the Gallery. The Arts Center, book The CSA Cookbook: No-Waste Recipes the average listener to the accomplished Corvallis Walk with the Doc. 700 SW Madison Ave. 10 a.m. Explore for Cooking Your Way Through a Community Autism: The Musical. Majestic musician alike. Fresh off a victory in the Battle Bald Hill Path, Oak Creek Dr. entrance. 7:30 – the world of yoga and enjoy a sense of Supported Agriculture Box, Farmers’ Market, Theatre, 115 SW 2nd St. 7 p.m. Free. The for the Warped Tour that places them in the 8:15 a.m. Wednesdays through Aug. 26. The community in the setting of the main gallery. or Backyard Bounty. 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