Coffee and art
Caffeine, painting draw patrons to High Street spot
By CAROLINE PETRICH
Of the Emerald
Unlike other Eugene restaur
ants that sell coffee, the High
Street Coffee Gallery combines
the atmosphere of a European
coffee house with that of an art
gallery.
Besides drinking coffee and
pondering art, customers study,
read the newspaper and play
chess. The gallery is also a
home of sorts to regulars who
come every night, employee
April Anthony says.
"All kinds of people come
together here,” says Ann Blan
din, gallery owner. "I like to be
able to create environments
where things can happen. I like
putting things together for
people.”
Classical or jazz music is
usually playing Blandin says
that’s the only music she will
play.
A substantial part of the gal
lery's home-like atmosphere is
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the 70-year-old house itself.
Blandin says. It’s filled with
wood tables, chairs and lace
curtains. One almost expects to
see a motherly figure bustling
from table to table with a plate of
cookies.
“It has a very different
feeling.”
What sets the gallery apart
from other coffee shops is the
art exhibit.
The works change each month,
so customers are never sure
what they’ll find Blandin says
she tries to incorporate art into
everyday life by displaying it in a
casual atmosphere.
Under each painting is the
artist’s name and the selling
price, and Blandin likes to see
patrons browse.
However, Blandin says she
doesn’t like to see customers
”sit all day with a cup of coffee,”
under the artwork.
She does like to encourage
her customers to pamper their
palates with a variety of foods,
Photos by Martha Stanton
Sandra Goffard and Debbie Hessel share a cup of tea at the High Street Coffee Gallery.
ranging from cheeses to
pastries.
The gallery’s menu includes
breakfast, lunch and dinner en
trees, Blandin says the food
menu is a necessary income
supplement — without it, she
says, she wouldn’t be able to
support the gallery, her three
children and herself.
Blandin hopes to bring more
art to the gallery this spring and
summer, and perhaps poetry
readings and plays on the gal
lery’s brick patio.
Justice suspends prison release order
SALEM (AP) — Oregon of
ficials got some breathing room
Monday when U S. Supreme
Court Justice William Rehnquist
suspended a federal court order
requiring the state to relieve
overcrowding in its male
prisons.
Rehnquist gave attorneys
representing Oregon’s prison
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inmates until Wednesday to say
why they oppose the emergency
stay of last summer's order by
U S. District Judge James Burns
of Portland.
Burns said overcrowding in
Oregon’s prisons was unconsti
tutional cruel and unusual pun
ishment. He ordered the state to
reduce its male prison popula
tion by 500 by Jan. 31st and by
another 250 by March 31.
In seeking the stay, the state
attorney general’s office argued
that Oregon officials were not
sure they could meet the Jan. 31
quota
The state said Burns’ order
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should be held up while the
state’s appeal is pending before
the 9th U S. Circuit Court of
Appeals. Last week, the appeals
court in San Francisco turned
down a similar request for a
stay.
Scott McAlister, an assistant
Oregon attorney general, said
that as of Monday, the state
would have needed to release
an additional 88 inmates by Jan.
31 to comply with Burns’ order.
“Needless to say, we are ex
tremely pleased that Justice
Rehnquist has given the state
the vitally necessary breathing
room to prepare our case fully
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before further actions may be
required under Judge Burns’
ruling,” said Attorney General
Dave Frohmayer.
The appeal before the 9th
U.S. Circuit Court is scheduled
for arguments in April. Oregon
officials also felt that Burns'
order should be suspended
pending a Supreme Court ruling
on a similar prison overcrowd
ing case from Ohio.
State corrections officials
have put more inmates on work
release type programs and
changed some of the standards
for determining parole in order
to reduce the prison population.
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