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WINNERS 1. Forget Goldschmidt & Co. and the 400 other graying community leaders who attended last week's Central City Summit. The brightest stars of the event were students from Franklin High. Teacher Steve Farris got three of his poli-sci classes to conduct their own assessment of central Portland. His students came up with priorities far more specific than those produced by their elders. 2. One of Portland's most eclectic bookstores got a plug in this week's New Yorker. As the magazine reported, an underground publishing group, Train Bridge Recluse, has been stealthily releasing J.D. Salinger's uncollected work, but the publication has been almost impossible to find until recently, when several copies appeared at Reading Frenzy at 921 SW Oak St. 3. After all these years, Black Sabbath is still managing to generate some shockwaves. On Nov. 14 The Oregonian issued an apology for a Black Sabbath ad that had appeared in the previous day's A&E section. The offending item, a full-page ad for the band's "Reunion of the Century" tour, included the phrases "NO BULLSH*T" and "The music speaks for itself. What the F*** more do you need?" A smaller ad was back last week, without the offending asterisks.
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LOSERS 1. Major-league baseball advocates got an unexpected brush back at the Central City Summit. Mayor Vera Katz kicked off the confab with a reference to bringing an MLB franchise to Portland, but speaker Ray Suarez of NPR went to great lengths to dis "stadium-mania" in his keynote address. 2. Oregon's medical-marijuana users will continue to fly blind. Last week the National Institute of Health once again refused to sponsor human medical trials on cannabis. Although voters in Oregon and five other states have approved the use of pot as medicine, the feds have allowed only one study on the effects of the substance. 3. Talk about baptism by fire: New Just Out publisher Marty Davis had to use her first editorial to apologize to readers for a recent controversy. According to the article, the gay newspaper's Nov. 7 anniversary celebration was marred by the performance of comedian Scott Capurro, whom Davis said was "crude and offensive."
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Willamette Week | originally
published December 9,
1998