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The Non-Bar Guide to Being Single in Corvallis: Papa’s Pizza and a Fear of Tango
Last fall my friend asked me to join her young family and friends for their Friday night gathering at Papa’a Pizza Parlor. Weighing my options, I scrapped my usual Friday night routine of after work yoga followed by beer drinking with my married neighbors. Around seven I headed over to Papa’s, well known among Corvallis ...
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Sick Town’s Sk8 Crazy Nights Proves a Raucous Season Closer
On Saturday, December 8th, Corvallis’ roller derby league, the Sick Town Derby Dames, closed out their season with a grudge match against the Dropkick Donnas (the B team of one of the country’s top ranking leagues, the Oly Rollers of Olympia, WA). Sick Town’s S*M*A*S*H Unit went against the Dropkick Donnas in January of this ...
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Too White to Get It
The recent Oregon ban on high school sports team mascots, such as the “Braves” and “Chiefs,” is causing a lot of uproar. While Native American activists are calling the teams’ names racist, opponents are demanding we retain them. But their argument doesn’t seem to hold up against scrutiny. So far the argument to keep these ...
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Sick Town Derby Dames March Radness recap
It was a packed house at the Linn County Fairgrounds last Saturday night as The Sick Town Derby Dames kicked off their league season with a rousing intrasquad battle between The Punks “Sick Pistols” taking on The Preps “Country Club Crushers.”