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Eudemon: The Gift

A deep chill was in the air as Eudemon left his home and headed east on Locust Street. A full moon shone on him as he walked to Riverside’s Urban Ecology Center. As he walked he stared at the moon as the earth’s shadow crept across its face. In the park telescopes were set up to observe this celestial happening. For a while, the man with the fancy telescope had it pointed at a nebula, which looked like a fuzzy cloud so very far away. Our planet’s shadow crept across the moon until it was an orange orb in the sky. Eudemon felt kind of spacey as he walked back across the river, turning around every now and then to gaze at the moon.

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Local Holiday Events and Shopping

by Tess Reiss and Eryn Moris

Sprinkle some seasonal cheer around by keeping your shopping dollar local. Shop in the neighborhood where you can slow down, walk, bike, bus, or drive only a short distance to your next destination. The Currents‘ Holiday Shopping Guide covers everything from Holiday Fairs and Events, to hidden treasures and old favorites plus services, music, and art. Shop on, dear reader!

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Talking Tires

by Jackie Reid Dettloff

This year I had to be away for most of October and I missed the autumn colors. One of the first things I did after unpacking my suitcase was to head for the woods along the Beerline trail. I love the way we have a patch of forest right in our very backyard. Here in Riverwest, we don’t have to drive to find natural beauty; it is only a short walk away. . . . And then, like a tumor on the landscape, there was a huge heap of discarded tires – at least fifty dirty, scattered rings of ugly rubber. Someone had dumped them alongside the trail between Clarke and Wright Streets.

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Queer Zine Archive Project

by Jennifer Wilson

“Where’s all this going to go when none of us are here to make it available or share it with people?” is a question that Chris Wilde asked himself years ago when he realized that many queer zines were ending up in people’s private collections. “Instead of work being passively collected, why not preserve the work and make it accessible?” This seed of an idea has grown into the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP), brainchild of Wilde and his partner, Milo Miller.

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Irradiation In Our Schools: Part 2

In May, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, despite opposition from parents, teachers, community members, and public interest groups, approved the use of irradiated ground beef for donation to the National School Lunch Program. This fall, officials from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, which heads the Division of School Nutrition Services, joined dozens of other states in declining to purchase irradiated beef for lunch programs in the upcoming school year.