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Shedd
Theatricals
2017
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true art comes from within a person, a con-
sciousness or a voice — all things with a
soul. Digital art requires none of such things
because all you need to create digital art is
a computer, a software program and, of
course, fingers to work the mouse and key-
board. None of which has a soul to speak of.
Real art comes from within, way down
inside a human being. Digital art may be
amusing and/or interesting to look at but,
in essence, it is dead art with no soul. An
electronic manipulation any non-artist can
play with and call herself an “artist.”
Van Gogh, Klimt and Dali are rolling in
their graves!
Yoshi Moro
Eugene
NO TO BIG TIMBER
Seneca Timber claims environmentalists
don’t care about loggers and their families,
strutting out the tired canard of jobs vs. the
environment. Aside from the fact that, if log-
ging corporations cared they wouldn’t keep
automating their logging and milling opera-
tions, we now find out the logging crew cut-
ting the controversial Goose Creek Sale are
from Idaho (Register-Guard, 10/23).
I side with the opinion of Cascadia For-
est Defenders that, in facing disastrous
climate chaos, most trees over a certain
size and age should be left intact, and not
just old growth. Right behind the CDF in
protest of Seneca should be local loggers
— there are plenty of qualified loggers in
Lane County, no need bring Idaho gyppo
loggers unless it’s to pay a cheaper wage.
One thing Oregon could learn from Ida-
ho is regulations on logging corporations,
which are better in Republican-controlled
Idaho than in Democratic Oregon — among
them, stream setback and aerial spraying.
The logging barons aren’t even in the top
20 of the state’s wealth producers, yet the
Forest Service and state politicians, includ-
ing Democrats, are ready to serve their in-
terests. Almost all Forest Service logging
operations work as a loss to U.S. taxpayers.
The reason that the Northwest’s vast
forests are so important to the world’s eco-
logical health is evergreen conifers produce
oxygen and take in carbon dioxide through-
out the seasons, unlike deciduous trees.
Big Timber has been creating ugly,
landslide-prone clearcuts, and they’ve been
on the dole far too long. It’s Oregonians’ re-
sponsibility to stand and say no to those who
threaten our beautiful forested commons.
Scott Fife
Eugene
Singin' In
The Rain
December 15-17
Next at The Shedd
12.22
1.11
1.13
1.19
A Night For Sight 2017
K. Beamer & H. Kapono
Victor Wooten Trio
Woideck: The Latin Side
of Trane, Miles & Monk
1.20 Blues Harmonica Blowout
1.24 Ladysmith Black Mambazo
1.25 David Grisman Quintet
2.1-11 The Jazz Kings: A Pocketful
of Dreams: Bing Crosby
2.3 Corky Siegel’s Chamber Blues
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2.6
2.7
2.10
2.12
2.16
2.17
2.21
2.23
3.1
Chick Corea (2 shows)
Chico Schwall: Uncle Dave
Macon & Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Moombah! The Search
for Pie Town
Chamber Music Amici
Tommy Castro
Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan
Lisa Fischer & Grand Baton
Honey Whiskey Trio
Taj Mahal Trio
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