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|2 EXPOSURE COLOR PRINT FILM DEVELOP and PRINT LIMITED TIME OFFER 13th & Kincaid 686-4331 Open: Mon-Fri 8:15-5:30 Sat 10:00-2:00 Cray, dam SHARPSHOT* bordarlass prints. ar is mpm i We’ve got new shipments of Christmas gift wrap, cards and ornaments. Come soon for the best selection. Also lots of: cards posters & prints calendars stationery velvet bound books electronic travel clocks other neat things 5th St. Public Market Courtyard Level 343-2622 Special Menu for the Kids. At El Comedor, it’s no fuss at all to fix Tacos or Beef Enchiladas (and other Mexican food favorites) just the way they like 'em. You can order a la carte, or ask for our special child s plate... tasefully seasoned ground beef, beans and rice (just 85c). Vflkxp&EL COMEDOR £ * MEXICAN RESTAURANT On Oakway Road lust behind fhp Oalru/av Mall v Open Dadv 11am Road just behind the Oakway Mall Eugene Phone 343 1788 Open Dady 11 a m to 9 p m Sundays noon to 8 p.m. r Books Dining Naturally in the Pacific Northwest: A Guide to Vegetarian and Natural Food Restaurants By Merilee Pruitt and Thomas Yesberger © 1978 Dining Naturally $2.95 paperback, 87 pages. When it comes to food, Ameri cans are learning to take chances. Ordinary salt and pepper has been supplanted by kelp and cayenne. Honey has beaten out sugar. Carbonated beverages (even the word beverage!) have been replaced by juice. Not just orange juice or tomato juice, but apple-strawberry juice and canteloupe-pomegranite juice. Creative juices. A veritable network of veg etarian and natural food restaur ants has sprung up. And why not? The time has come when decent folks from all walks of life occa sionally prefer a home-made r bagel paired with a ripe tomato and cream cheese over a chicken-fried steak. This trend toward more health conscious eating habits is re flected in the publication of Dining Naturally in the Pacific Northwest: A Guide to Vegetarian and Natural Food Restaurants. Written by Merilee Pruitt and Thomas Yesberger, who dined at over 65 natural restaurants from Vancouver, B. C. to Klamath Falls, the book is designed to present an ‘ alternative guide for a natural food conscious traveler.” Included in the guide are Eugene’s own Zoo-Zoo’s, the Homefried Truckstop (Mama’s), Gertrude’s, the Nice Cream Parlor and the Vegetarian. Omitting the Fountain of Juice seems like an error. Amazingly enough, the prices are current and the menus are accurately represented. And that’s really about all any guide can do, besides letting you know that a restaurant exists. However, the particular political flavors of Eugene’s natural food restaurants aren’t captured in the book. This omission is too bad, because for many people, places like Mama's and Zoo-Zoo's are much more than natural restaur ants, they are spiritual refuges. But perhaps politics are irrelevant. Tourists don't eat tofu anyway, do they? In short, it’s a good unpretenti ous book but it suffers because the authors deliberately down played their roles as critics and remained as inoffensive as possi ble. Besides, whatever happened to that old-fashioned natural way of finding a restaurant in a strange town? You know stopping some one on the street and asking, "Where’s the nearest decent place to eat.?’’ Dining Naturally is available in local bookstores for $2.95 or by writing to Dining Naturally, 8806 218th S. W. Edmonds, Wash. 98020. By Peter Leibik Northside Gallery Ceramics Bob James and Richard Wan derman If you haven’t jogged or bicycled along the bike path between Franklin Boulevard and the Wil lamette River, you probably aren’t aware of the Northside Gallery. In fact, even if you have traveled the route you still might have missed it. Just west of the bike path, the inconspicuous Northside Gallery opened in January. Its smaller size provides an intimate campus alternative to the University art museum and the Fine Art Gallery in Lawrence Hall. “Northside is an opportunity for people to display their art in smal ler, less formal, more innovative atmosphere,” says Laurie Kovac, one of the students involved in making Northside a viable gallery. “It’s impossible for under graduates to show their work in the museum and the Lawrence gallery is used for extensive MFA and BFA efforts," Kovac adds. ‘‘We see Northside as a place where students can more readily show their work.” Under the direction of weaving instructor Barbara Setsu Pickett, students Kovac, Lisa McDowell, Theresa Boock and Holly Hutton currently provide the physical sustenance for the new gallery. With funds typically scarce, these four women, who also comprise the gallery’s selection committee, have had to occasionally contri bute some of their own money to supplement the money earned through sales and other fund raising activities. % je?»e? Vsa vet vest m vh m *. “We re in the process now of planning a winter term benefit party to raise money for both the Northside and Lawrence gal leries,” remarks McDowell. “We want to become self-sufficient." Fiscal restraints notwithstand ing, Northside supporters con cede one of their main problems is exposure. A former anthropology quonset north of Franklin Boulevard isn’t exactly high visibil ity real estate. “We want students to know the gallery is not exclusively for art students,” McDowell em phasizes. “We encourage any student doing presentable art to come over and talk with us; we're open to suggestions. And al though faculty members do ex hibit here, we wanto stress priority for student work.” The variability of past Northside exhibitions reflects the gallery's encouragement of innovation. In addition to more traditional media, Northside has featured edible art works. ." am,™n*&%"$sxwsl A ceramics show featuring Bobl James, former fine arts depart ment chairman, and graduate student Richard Wanderman, is currently exhibiting at Northside James' pieces, his first work in years, are small and fragile. Un glazed, hand sculpted and mounted on found materials of wood and string, they exude an unalytical simplicity, creating spaces that complement Northside's intimacy. In contrast, Wanderman's co vered pieces are more elaborate in their utilization of Raku and salt-fired processes. His incorpo ration of such modern material elements as Perlon and Gortex — both mountaineering equipment materials — present interesting aesthetic questions to be resolved by the viewer. Northside hours are noon to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Persons in terested in exhibiting at Northside should call Barbara Pickett at 686-3658. By Richard Lee & .. ■BBTI & Let Us Wrap Up Your Christmas Shopping Besides our good ideas for the hard to please people on your list we will wrap your gifts from the Bookstore for free. Check out our 40,000 books, University clothing, sporting goods, electronic items and art supplies. 13th & Kincaid 686-4331 Open. Mon-Fri 8:15-5:30 Sat 10:00-2:00 lOKSTORE & K :* &
