The Shedd Institute
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José Hernández’s
Mariachi Sol de México
Sat, March 12
Lourdez Sánchez, PC
Mike & Christine Hogan
Concert Sponsor
Mariachi Summit Sponsor
CHOCOLATE CRUNCH
No chocolate? There are many reasons
to fear climate change, but this winter my
love of chocolate has grown. Now I hear
that there is a growing challenge to cacao
trees that provide the flavor I love most! I
just read the following report:
The danger to chocolate comes from an
increase in evapotranspiration, especially
since the higher temperatures projected
for West Africa by 2050 are unlikely to
be accompanied by an increase in rainfall,
according to business-as-usual carbon
dioxide emissions scenarios. In other
words, as higher temperatures squeeze
more water out of soil and plants, it’s
unlikely that rainfall will increase enough
to offset the moisture loss.
Some of the research highlighted by
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change 2014 report includes a 2013 study
headed by Peter Läderach, who authored a
2011 paper giving a pretty dire forecast for
cacao cultivation.
Maybe we could make a difference if
we all send chocolate to our legislators?
Ruth Duemler
Eugene
CIVIL DISCOURSE
I experienced a very disturbing wake-
up call at the Ani DiFranco concert at
the McDonald Theatre March 2 and hope
that people might put some thought into
respecting opinions, even if they go against
your own. This includes Ani and the staff
at the theater, who kicked my partner and
me out of the show about 40 minutes into
it.
In many concerts I’ve attended there is
usually some discourse between the artist
and audience, and I never saw anyone
being punished for engaging in it. At Ani’s
show, she chimed in early and made a
remark about people needing to vote for
either Hillary or Bernie in the election.
My partner simply shouted out, “Don’t
vote.” Ani replied, “What?” The response
was, “When you vote, you’re voting for
empire.” She responded, “Oh, so we just
give in?” My one-word response was
“revolution.” And she broke back into a
song.
In less than five minutes theater staff
told us we had to leave, and their excuse
was three people sitting next to me were
upset. We stood up and were escorted out,
being physically pushed. Is this really the
kind of society we should accept? Less
than one minute of civil discourse and
you’re out?
Mindy Stone
Mapleton
The MTTA Revue - Winter 2016
HAMMERSTEIN!
I’ll Take
Romance
Sun March 13 - Half Past Four & Half Past Eight
THE RIGHT TO KNOW
It appears there are some confused
signature gatherers out there. For the
record, under current law, no one can look
up who you voted for in any government
election.
If someone seems confused about the
petition they are asking you to sign, ask for
clarification. According to Oregon law, “It
is against the law for circulators to ... make
false statements to any person who signs
the petition or requests information about
it.” See sos.oregon.gov/elections.
You can also ask to read the text of the
petition you are being asked to sign. You
always have a right to know what you are
signing. I encourage everyone to exercise
that right.
Karen Moore
Eugene
DEFINING MONOPOLY
Keaton Miller, Ph.D.’s explanation
of a monopoly in the March 3 letters is
interesting, but — Black’s Law Dictionary
disagrees (“A privilege…vested in one
or more persons”) as do all of the other
dictionaries I looked at. You might
also take a read of “Putting the legal
profession’s monopoly on the practice of
law in a global context” by Laurel S. Terry.
And his comment that the NFL
is a monopoly was explained a little
differently in Wikipedia: “Professional
Keb’ Mo’
Tue, March 15
Coming up next
at The Shedd…
3.23 Lyle Lovett &
Robert E. Keen (Hult Ctr)
3.31 Loudon Wainwright III
4.1 Karla Bonoff
4.2 Moombah! Don’t Worry…
4.3 Davina & The Vagabonds
4.8 Makana
4.9 Söndörgo
4.12 The Jazz Ambassadors
4.13 Chuck Redd
4.15-17 Siri Vik: Do I Move You?
The Music of Nina Simone
4.21-24 The Jazz Kings
Sentimental Journey
4.27 Carl Woideck: Jazz Meets
Lennon & McCartney
4.28 Johnny Clegg
5.3 Trio Brasileiro
5.4 Chico Schwall’s American
Roots: Hillbilly Blues
5.5 Hyman & Christopher
5.12 Poncho Sanchez
5.13 Vignola & Raniolo
5.17 BeasuSoleil a. M. Doucet
5.19-22 Shirley Andress: Fever
Remembering Peggy Lee
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