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
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