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About What's happening. (Eugene, OR) 1982-1993 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1987)
FLYING DRAGON IMPORTS ART AND ARTIFACTS FROM NEPAL AND TIBET AND AN ASSORTMENT OF UNUSUAL GIFTS OPEN MONDAY-SATURDAY 12pm-5pm UNTIL CHRISTMAS L I 345-9753 • 749 WEST 13th EUGENE, OREGON (Across from the Lane County Fair Grounds) AACC /NATURAL FOODS SUNDANCE SALE Haagen-Dazs $1.79 reg. $2.19/pint Deluxe Nut Mix Dry Roast, No Salt $2.69 reg. $2.99/b. Spring Nectar Honey reg 890/lb. New Crop! Organic Raisins sale 75C only $1.15/lb. Alta Dena Honey Egg Nog special $1.99 Salsa De Casa reg. s2/pt. sale $1.59 Hand-Dipped CANDLES Concentric rings of color appear as they burn. Dripless, long-burning (8 to 10 hours) SPECIAL SALE 996 Champignon Deluxe Brle reg. $5.60/lb. $4.99 HOLIDAY WINE SALE OREGON WINES MAKE GREAT GIFTSI Some examples from our wide selection: Knudsen Erath 1985 Pinot Noir sale $12.95 "another winner from K.E." —Kevin Chambers Sokol-Blosser 1985 Pinot Noir Red Hills A shining star from a great vintage. Sokol Blosser 1985 Chardonnay reg. $9.95 sale $12.95 sale $8.95 "ripe, round, fruity, full-bodied, long in the finish and well-made" —Robt. Parker Amity 1987 Pinot Noir "Noveau"sale $4.95 A fresh wine from the new harvest—wonderfull Garden Valley 1985 Riesling reg. $5.95 Great price on a well-made wine. sale $3.50 New! Vacu-VIn Preservation System Easy to use—keeps wine fresh for days— recommended by Robert Parker. Great Gift! only $14.95 CELEBRATE! with champagne. ■ a $5 Bollinger Brut "Delicious—has rich ness, flavor & balance with nice spice—crisp with an underlying creaminess and a long ■finish—a beauty" —Wine Journal reg. $27.95 S 19.95 Palllard Brut Lean and crisp with a touch of spice—an out standing value! reg. $22.95 $14.95 Open 8-11 Daily • 24th & Hilyard • 343-9142 ■MUSIC Brew Pub lives up to its name by Dean Visser On Monday nights at J. Cole’s Brew Pub on Willamette and 10th, you can stare down a mile-long row of exotic wood and brass taps while live basket balls fly overhead. On Tuesday through Saturday nights you can ab sorb anything from pop rock to jazz from a sampling of West Coast bands, and on Sundays there are free movies, pool and popcorn. “The bottom line is sports, beer and rock ’n roll,” says owner Jeff Cole, but his establishment is no typical football counter where patrons can choose between beef jerky and pick led eggs, or between Budweiser and Budweiser. Cole wants to fill in some missing pieces of Eugene night life with a patchwork of effects, a little something for everyone. There’s the live music selected more on the basis of quality than genre, the 36 designer beers on draught and the spotless and sparse decor, but J. Coles isn’t above hosting “pig” basketball contests after Monday Night Football. Players shoot from anywhere in the building, in cluding the balcony. Ladies’ night is every Tuesday with male, exotic dancers. J. Cole’s greatest shrine to eclec ticism, though, is the beer rack that takes up half the counter. Its 36 spigots comprise the greatest variety in the Northwest, as far as Jeff Cole knows. Customers can quaff the old stand-bys, classic German pilsners such as Dortmunder Union and Pau laner, or can wade through a rare draught Guiness Stout, that sacred staple of industrial Britain, black as a peat bog and bitter as divorce. Best of all, they can critique and enjoy the products of our western microbrewer ies, America’s most welcome innova tion yet for true beer lovers. Like the great artistic breweries scattered around Europe, many of these operations are small and family run; tastes range from exquisite to “interesting,” but each has some wonderfully individualistic character instilled in its product. J. Cole’s of fers six or seven microbrewery beers that are next to impossible to find on tap anywhere else in town, including Full Sail and Oregon Trail ales. Also featured are names growing in popu larity, such as Grant’s line of ales and Seattle’s Red Hook products, in cluding the outstanding Ballard Bit ter. Ballard Bitter is as strong and - gene aeleetos 1 MUSIC oOBL/o New Age, Folk & Popular, International & Children's Music RO GROUND LEVEL RECORDS • TAPES • CD’s & UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS Tape Listening Center lets you “Tty Before You Buy” 296 E. STH AVE. 343-8043^ Fifthmas Gift Experience Fifthmas Shopping at Fifth Street Public Market. You’ll find unusual Fifthmas gifts at 75 exceptional shops & cafes. Open 7 days a week Monday - Saturday 10am - 9pm Sunday 10am - 6 pm -Cafes Monday - Saturday Tam - 9pm Sunday 9am * 6pm Sth & High, Eugene. Oregon sprightly as a clear fall day, and exem plifies the best qualities of microbrew eries: the difference between it and a bottled beer is like the difference be tween a fresh Granny Smith and a can of applesauce. J. Cole’s works on getting the same kind of quality and variety in their live music. Manager Scrafford Orser, himself a member of Eugene’s psy chedelic band Hole in the Ocean, lines up local bands during the week and goes for bigger names on the weekends. Any kind of music is con sidered, with a general aim in the direction of the danceable. “We want to provide a good club atmosphere,” Orser says, “an alternative to die teen places or discos.” A cathedral-high ceiling and bal cony add further to the appealing con tradictions in J. Cole’s atmosphere. This space opening overhead makes for a subtle, interesting variation on the standard, closet-like feeling of the usual friendly and smoky neighbor hood pub. It also makes J. Cole’s a pleasant dining spot, and so does the food; there’s breakfast, lunch and din ner, consisting mostly of the lighter American soups and sandwiches that go perfectly with a good beer. The free happy hour buffet includes hot appetizers. Cole and Orser keep the mood at J. Coles low-key, a setting in which anyone can relax and feel welcome. They are innovators of the laid-back good time people go to pubs to find, using twists like the regulation NBA breakaway basketball hoop to make things a little more interesting. Cole is considering starting his own brewery, with its works inside the club. Local laws will allow either the brewery or a hard liquor bar, but not both, so the J. Cole’s people are look ing for some public and customer in put on the subject. r Explore Bavarian Bries! d DELUXE • FINE HERB • MIXED PEPPER • MUSHROOM I ROUCEITE DOUBLE CREAM CAMBOZOLA TRIPLE CREAM on sale thru December Open 9 am-9 pm every day 2489 WILLAMETTE
