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5th Annual R ELATIONSHIP C HECK - UP Center for Family Therapy is offering a FREE one-hour private therapy consultation . CALENDAR The Center for Family Therapy is an affordable counseling agency staffed with graduate intern counselors from the Marriage and Family Therapy program at the College of Education, University of Oregon. Wednesday, February 14th from 12-8pm • Find out what therapy is all about • Couples, families & individuals invited • Identify strengths, needs, areas for growth and change Walk-ins welcome! For information or to make an appointment, call Come Celebrate Your Relationships! (541) 346-3296 Lincoln City makes the case for silly promotional stunts at its “Paint the Town Red” festivities on Saturday. See On the Road listings Eugene PeaceWorks weekly meet- ing, 5:15pm, Growers’ Market Upstairs. 343-8548. FREE. Intercambio: Conversation circles / Círculos de Conversacíon, adults and teens practice English and Spanish, with Hora de Diversíon: “Latin American Games,” for grades 1-6, 6:30pm, Downtown Library. 682-5450. FREE. KIDS/FAMILIES Valentine making, 3:30pm, Library. FREE. Springfield LITERARY ARTS Explorations Book Group: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, 7pm, Barnes & Noble. FREE. MUSIC UO Chamber Choir & Schubert Chamber Orchestra, 8pm, Beall Hall, UO. $7, $5 stu., sr. Erin McKeown, Eleni Mandell, 8pm, WOW Hall. $10 adv., $12 dos. ON THE AIR “Alternative Radio” discusses Noam Chomsky’s South American Rising, 6:30pm, KLCC 89.7 FM. “The Jefferson Exchange” discuss- es envisioning Shakespeare’s play for a modern audience w/Libby Appel, 9am & 9pm, KRVM 1280 AM. OUTDOORS/RECREATION OP Rock Climbing Clinic, 4pm today & Feb. 15, Student Rec Center, UO. 346-4365. $10 (shoes, harness, belay FREE to rent). SPIRITUAL 4 Agreements Wisdom Circle, 7:30pm, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church. 461-1977. FREE. 14 WEDNESDAY Sunrise 7:13am; Sunset 5:41pm Av High 51; Av Low 35 BENEFIT “Something Extra Special” Valentine’s, benefit for Planned Parenthood, feat. DJs Layla & Moonvoid, Luminessah belly dancers, Allure burlesque troupe, 9:30pm, Taboo, 23 W. 6th Ave. 21+ show. $5. FILM Ethnic Studies Film Series: My Migrant Soul by Yasmine Kabir, 6pm, 240A McKenzie, UO. 346- 1768. FREE. Success program, 4pm, Women’s Center, Bldg. 1, LCC. FREE. GATHERINGS Relationship Check-up, private consultations for couples, families, individuals, noon- 8pm, UO Center for Family Therapy, 720 E. 13th Ave. 346-3296. FREE. Wine tasting: “Big Red: Bold Wines,” 5pm, WineStyles. 434-9463. $5. Eugene Symphony guest artist Sir James Galway offers community clinic, 4pm, Beall Hall, UO. FREE. Eugene Macintosh Users Group meeting, 6:30pm, Vet’s Memorial Bldg. FREE. “Save Our Snow & Global Cooling Tour” w/Alison Gannett, 7pm, Lawrence Hall, UO. $3, FREE UO stu. Cajun/Zydeco dance, 7pm, World Café. FREE. MUSIC Don Edwards, 7:30pm, the Shedd. $18.50-$26.50. Joshua Radin, Schuyler Fisk, 6pm, John Henry’s. 21+ show. $8 adv., $10 dos. The Waybacks, 9pm, Sam Bond’s. 21+ show. $12. ON THE AIR “The Jefferson Exchange” discusses preventing heart disease w/Dr. Ted Dodge, 9am & 9pm, KRVM 1280 AM. THEATER The Vagina Monologues, 7pm today & Feb. 16, EMU, UO. $7, $5 UO stu. 15 THURSDAY Sunrise 7:12am; Sunset 5:43pm Av High 51; Av Low 35 BENEFIT Willamette H.S. Speech & Debate Silent Auction & Student Speech-Off, 6pm, Cozmic Pizza. Don. DANCE Dance 2007 Faculty Concert, 8pm today, tomorrow and Feb. 17, Dougherty Dance Theater, UO. $10, $5 stu., sr. FILM Korean Film Series: Oldboy by Chan-wook Park, 7pm, Int’l Resource Center, EMU, UO. 346- 1521. FREE. GATHERINGS 20th Anniversary of Transitions to Camera Obscura makes the case for $389 Anthropologie dresses at the Wonder Ballroom in PDX Wednesday Knot Tying clinic (Level I), 5:30pm, OP Barn, UO. 346-4365. FREE. Dialogues on Nonviolence presents “Force vs. Violence,” 7pm, First Congregational Church. 484-0923. FREE. Peg Morton, Trudy Maloney & Dorothy Mack present their “Report from Fort Benning,” 7pm, EMU, UO. 485-8633. FREE. Bridging the Gap support group, 7pm, Willamette Christian Center. FREE. Forestland Dwellers/Oregon Toxic Alliance town hall meeting, 7pm, Triangle Lake Grange, Blachly. FREE. Snow Camping 101 clinic, 7pm, REI. FREE. LITERARY ARTS “Readin’ in the Rain” Discussion: Providence of a Sparrow, 2pm, Sheldon Library. FREE. Jack Hart discusses his book A Writer’s Coach: An Editor’s Guide to Words That Work, 7pm, Borders Books. FREE. Jesus Sepulveda & Paul Dresman read their poetry (in English & Spanish), 7pm, Tsunami Books. FREE. Maxine Scates reads her poetry, 8pm, Knight Library Browsing Room, UO. FREE. MUSIC Emerald City Jazz Kings presents “Swingin’ on a Star: Bing Crosby & Paramount,” 7:30pm today; 2pm Feb. 18, the Shedd. $22- $30. Eugene Symphony presents “Sir James Galway Plays Mozart,” 8pm, Hult Center. www.eugenesympho- ny.org Neko Case, Eric Bachmann, 8pm, McDonald Theatre. $20. Ida Viper, 9:30pm, Cozmic Pizza. $2-$5. Frank Zappa tribute night w/Ike Willis, 9pm, Sam Bond’s. 21+ show. $12. ON THE AIR “The Jefferson Exchange” discusses television weather forecasting w/Scott Lewis, 9am & 9pm, KRVM 1280 AM. “New Dimensions” discusses The Female Brain w/Louann Brizendine, 6:30pm, KLCC 89.7 FM. THEATER I Shot My Rich Aunt, 7:30pm today, tomorrow, Feb. 17 and Feb. 22-24, Springfield High School auditorium. 517-9028. $5. Hedwig and the Angry Inch contin- ues. See Friday. House and Garden continues. See Thursday, Feb. 8. Othello continues. See Thursday, Feb. 8. The Big Knife continues. See Thursday, Feb. 8. CORVALLIS EVENTS THURSDAY, FEB. 8 “The Issue of the ‘Colonial’ in Taiwan’s History,” a lecture by Douglas Fix, 4pm, Rm. 208, MU, OSU. FREE. 22 FEBRUARY 8, 2007