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She's debating with a hippie girlfriend if she should bike to her ex-boyfriend's, hike home and crash or saunter over and snuff out the frattv guy in khaki shorts — who's been staring her down for quite a while — by pointing to his crotch and saying. "Excuse me — are those Bugle Boy pee spots you're wearing?” She opts for the snuff, but the band breaks into something rowdy, corner couples crowd the dance floor and my view of the hippie-chick’s dude-snuff is bloc ked My friend mazes back from the bar, sticks me my drink, catches the remaining hippie-chick in our corner, tells me he's going to ask her to dance, and I say, "Wrong." He asks. "Why wrong?" and 1 say, "You don’t want to." I suck rny 7 and add, "Just trust me." This is a rocky exception at The Vet's Club, not the rule. Just a minor conflict, it is the only chaos in an otherwise calm mix of cliques at the lounge, located in The Veteran's Memorial Building at 1626 Willamette St. The building itself is split into a restaurant and a lounge. The lounge — open from 11 a m. to 2 a.m. — holds the music, booze and action. And the action is unpretentious, non segregationist drinking. Tfu Vat's is a democratic mix of all twenty-something demographics, with certain, loyal cliques of interest. Here, hippie is cool, gay is OK. grunge filters in and fiat is The Vet’s Club Is a democratic mix of all twenty-something demographics, with certain, loyal cliques of interest. Here, hippie is cool, gay is OK, grunge filters in and frat is tolerated. You see the macho and the meek, the pretty and the plain, smell Polo and patchouli, feel revulsion and lust. tolerated. You see the mm ho and the meek, the pretty and the plain, smell Polo and patc houli, fee! revulsion and lust. There are a few scattered elderlies, probably regulars, probably vets On this night, a gray guy in bifoc als and a Gulf War cap was indic ative of the lounge as a lush-melting pot; not only was he capped in a patriotic fiat but. oddly enough, shoed in a c ounter-c ulture pair of Blrkenstocks as well (Authentic ones, too — 1 followed him to the restroom and verified the trademark under the stall.) The club's best feature is its design, particularly a wall separating the lounge proper from the dunnnfloor/stoge area This addition sets The Vet's apart from other live-bond bars — Taylor s and Good Times — where you're forced to face the music: even if you just want to sit. tune-out. talk with friends and get loaded. The interior design is unforced ambianc e and total comfort. Colors are basic: block and blurry-eyed, bloodshot red. Smoky-red leather pads the long bar on one side and plumps big booths all around. Blac k veins poke out from the dark-as-dirt wood walls (hal ve soaked up a half-century of war stories and a million bar tales. The entranc e hull holds a plaque hon oring Lane County's female veterans, while badges and medals deck the lounge's main wall as proof of the prin uiplos for which our fathers fought There's a barelv-alive jukebox in a dead fireplai e next to a makeshift stage It may look cheap 'n* cheesy. but b\ no means is The Vet s a dive It s your grandfather's basement. The wait staff is as fast, accurate and attentive as the wait people at Sixth Street Grill (the best in town, despite their snobbery), but could benefit from better hygiene. Bathrooms are handit apped-ai c essi bln and huge. Big enough for one to feel comfortable retching in without disturb ing the stall next door. The Vet's Club Lounge is for honest drinkers, and the booze is moderately priced The establishment is not a jnem her of the poser's club union, headed locally by the Cuidu s Scandnl's-At The Kow l oon and Coconut-|oe's triumvi rate There's only a thin stretch of mirror above the bar area, too Mostly out of sight, this almost fulfills my law that says no drinking establishment should ever have a mirror in plain sight In the lexicon of drink similes where The Oregon Klectrii Station is like the classic martini; Ihgh Street (Utfe the simple bottle of Bud. and Club Arena at Perry's a Sc reaming Orgasm The Vets Club is a Long Island Ic ed-Tea a rowdy mix of a lot of different ingredi ents that, somehow, goes down pretty smooth and sits pretty well EXHIBIT Continued (rom Page 5 awareness of the prevalent^' of sexual abuse by bringing the issue out into the open Ixeumse "so many people want to close their eyes and deny that it's happening," said Nancy Frvv, artistic director at Maurle Kerns. A<i urdmg to i urrent statistics, sexual abuse is indeed a common occurrence Nationally, one out of four women and one out of five men are sexually abused before the age of IH. This translates into approxi mutely :tr),(iO() victim* in Eugene-Spring field. Another purpose of the exhibit is to illus trate the therapeutic effects of creative expression Even when the more traditional verbal therapy falters, art can help inner feelings of anger, frustration and c onfusion to surface, local therapists said lafigh Files, a registered art therapist and psychodramatist whose artwork is in the show, said art therapy can be particularly effective in sexual abuse cases for several reasons. For one. she said, it can help get out infor mation that cannot he expressed through words, perhaps because the victim is in the initial, more timid stages of disclosure or because the abuse occurred in the pre-verbal stage of the person's development. Another reason is that many victims repress their memory of the abuse but then experience nightmares or flashbacks. Due to the visual nature of these nhenomena. art therapy is "a good match," Files said, because it can tap into the subconscious. People retain imagery of abuse and other events subconsciously while their con scious minds may not specifically remem ber, registered art therapist Judy Franzen said during the March 14 "Critical Mass KLCC. radio talk show. The use of art as therapy implies the cre ative process can be used to reconcile emo tional conflicts associated with sexual abuse and other traumas, according to The North west Institute for the Creative Art Therapies Inc., for which Files is executive director. Furthermore, art therapy can feel more safe for survivors. Files said. For example, a Photo O* Laurie Patrick (left). Emma Daugherty and Greg Sothraa at the Maude Kerns art exhibit. child can draw a big monster hurting a defenseless rabbit to symbolize the real-life abuse in his or her home. Yet a third purpose of the show is to male available information on local counseling resources and family support services Also, local agencies such as WomenSpace and the fasper Mountain Center created a adjoining exhibit by contributing artwork by children who are in treatment at those agen cies. Having lived in abusive situations, thuse children reveal much with their fre quent use of black and red — often the col ors of choice for survivors in art therapy — and symbolic or sometimes straightforward representations of the abuse they suffered Because of the explicit content of the show, Maude Kerns has staffed the gallery with a “safe person" to provide viewers with emotional support if they need it Also, the art center staff suggests that visitors bring a friend and view the show a little at a time. Planning for “The Silent Child" began a couple of years ago when Maude Kerns member Phyllis Holland was in New York City, where she saw Ariel Orr Jordan's art work and invited him to do a show in Eugene. “The Silent Child" features Jordan's photographic installations along witn me work of 1H Oregon artists For many of thus* artists, using thoir ere ativity in the process of recovery was not necessarily a conscious choice. As Jordan wrote. "1 never planned to do work about trauma If it were up to me, I would deal with highly conceptual and non persona l artwork ~1 was surprised with the suppressed, horrifying images and their extreme emo tions that in spite of myself desperately tried to surface and be seen and heard." Various workshops and panel discussions are also presented at the art center to com plement the exhibit and further involve the community. So far the exhibit has garnered widespread community involvement, such as an opening reception attendant* of about 150 people. Frey said. Remaining workshops include "Art Ther apy for Adult Survivors." a panel discussion with Leigh Files, Steffi Neyhart and Lucy Kingsley from 7 to 9 p.m. April 15 and an "Inner Child Healing Meditation" with Lori lynn imbler at 7 p.m April 22. For more information, call the Maude Kerns Art Cen ter — located at 1910 E. 15th Ave. — at 345 1571. LIEUTENANT Continued from Page 5 moral level beneath this man. It’s not so much the acts, but the fact that they are committed so easily. If you think that showing such behavior endorses or condones it. then there is no possibility that you will find a redeeming value in this film. But that is a big pari of what For rera is trying to achieve. If by the end of this film the audience is desensitized to what they have just seen, then we are proven to not be on the high moral ground we migh' assume we are on. There’s an impli cation in this film that none of us are as far from becoming’ this character ns we may hope. It's also an indictment of the Catholic Church and any religion where salvation for a life of sin can tie gained by a statement of belief. But redemption and salvation are not that easy. Ferrara seems to be saying. It has been said that there are no atheists in foxholes. The point of course is that when people are close to death, they search for something that may or may not exist to grant clemency and forgiveness for sin This is what Keitel's character (he’s never mentioned by name) tries to do near the end of the movie. But up until the last 20 minutes of the film, there is no conscience to anything he does and no desire to redeem himself. It's only after he looks into the abyss and sees certain doom, that he finds Jesus as a conve nient solution to bis life of depravi ty Bad Lieutenant is a greater film the more one thinks about it It makes important points and is Courtofty Phoo Harvey Keitel stars In Bad Llautanant as a man apparently lacking a con aclanca. filmed in such a realistic manner that there are few moments that it even feels like a film. It's more like following a man who we hope will disappear to put him and us out of our misery Ferrara is a rare director who knows how to use silence to make a point. He can hold a certain shot and have no one make a sound and make it one of the more poignant moments in the film. He does this several times. At times. Bad Lieutenant even works as a black comedy. Don’t he surprised if you find yourself laugh ing at times, though you may feel guilty about it. This is a film filled with moments that evoke strong emotions, often surprising ones. 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