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About Eugene weekly. (Eugene, Oregon) 1993-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 2006)
BEST BAR GAMES 1. Luckey’s Club Cigar 2. Tie: The Horsehead Highlands Brew Pub 3. Wetlands Brew Pub dollars that make sense BEST GREEN BUSINESS 1. Down to Earth 2. Sundance Natural Foods 3. BRING Recycling BEST SPOT FOR OUTDOOR DRINKING 1. North Bank 2. The Horsehead 3. High St. Café BEST LOCAL CLOTHING SHOP 1. Sweet Potato Pie 2. Deluxe 3. Eugene Jeans BEST ADULT ENTERTAINMENT 1. Silver Dollar Club 2. John Henry’s Broadway Revue 3. Castle Super Store Smith Family Bookstore BEST PUBLIC MAKE-OUT SPOT 1. Skinner Butte 2. Hendricks Park 3. Spencer Butte The moon is full, and a controversial American flag waves overhead. The lights below twinkle gently as the city melts into a horizon interrupted by the dark shape of an opposing butte. The windows are steaming rapidly as you attempt to dislodge the emergency brake from your shoulder blade with- out unlocking lips with your lover. Suddenly, a light shines through the window … oh God, no! Please don’t take me naked to my parents! Oh wait, I’m 31. The light goes out. “Go home, lovebirds. The park’s closed.” es: supporting local agriculture, touring farms, meeting your farmer and eating cool-colored cauliflower! BEST INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE BEST BIKE/OUTDOOR STORE 1. Paul’s Bicycle Way of Life 2. REI 3. Collins Cycle Shop Paul Nicholson views his business like a bicycle wheel: What goes around comes around. He hires friendly bike- lovers who, in turn, are good to cus- tomers who, in turn, learn to love Paul’s. This is, after all, Paul’s Bicycle Way of Life — a philosophy more than a business. So it’s no surprise when Nicholson starts getting deep on us. “I’ve always been a great devotee of Aristotle’s Nicomachaean Ethics,” he said. “What Aristotle said, essentially, was that ethics were driven by self-interest. The truth of the matter is that I’ve tried to treat my customers and employees in the best manner possible, and I’ve been feeling the reciprocal side of that. I’ve been trying to make sure what goes around is good.” Gee, and we’d thought Paul’s won because of its cool bikes. 3. Hey Bayles! Farm Mmmmm. We like pooling money with others in our community to support locally grown organic agriculture. And we love Wednesdays in the summer, when bee-yoo-ti-ful fruits ‘n’ veggies arrive at our CSA pickup sites. Yeah, we said sites, plural. Maybe Horton Road Organics, with a 21-week CSA program, offers more herbs, or Winter Green Farm, with a 19-week summer and five- week late harvest CSA, puts more onions in its box. And what with the different varieties of tomatoes, eggplants, pep- pers, kale, broccoli, potatoes, garlic … we are CSA junkies. Special CSA bonus- BEST LOCAL GROCERY STORE 1. Market of Choice 2. Sundance Natural Foods 3. The Kiva BEST LOCAL RECORD/CD STORE 1. House of Records 2. CD World 3. CD/Game Exchange Rain or shine, the House of Records is always there to welcome you into its cozy, musty bosom. If you think you’re hip enough, you can talk shop with the staff or start prepping yourself by just getting lost in the stacks. Making it through the rock LPs can take an after- noon. Tack on another hour or so to flip through the 7”s, and you’ve made it from lunch to dinner. You may want to save the hip hop, country, jazz and other sections for another day. House of Records BEST LOCAL RECORD/CD STORE BEST INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE 1. Smith Family Bookstore 2. Tsunami Books 3. Mother Kali’s Books Dillon Turner BEST BARISTA BEST CSA (Community-Supported Agriculture) FARM 1. Tie: Horton Road Organics Winter Green Farm 2. FOOD for Lane County Youth Farm OCTOBER 26, 2006 21
