Movie Review: The Hobbit: An Unsurprising, Unexciting Journey
What began with a promising glimmer quickly descended into a madhouse of excessive CGI, “tastes like chicken” humor,...
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January Science Pub: Water, Electronics, and Energy
Science Pub Corvallis returns on Monday, Jan. 14 at its usual time and place with “Water, Electronics, and...
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65th Annual Celebrate Corvallis: Food, Fun, Awards!
Each year the Corvallis Chamber of Commerce, which enjoyed its 100th anniversary in 2012, hosts its Celebrate Corvallis...
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Is Corvallis’ Downtown Healthy? City Club Finds Out
What makes a city’s downtown district successful—is it plentiful local businesses, a bustling mall, or wide open green...
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Space Update: Asteroid Mining, Trips to Mars, Brain Damage, and Annoying Tourists
The silhouette against the backdrop of the afternoon sun seems at first familiar, yet something is not quite...
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Culture Fail: Dear Hobby Lobby, Learn Science. Thanks, Women
On November 29th, Hobby Lobby CEO David Green released a letter explaining the company’s decision to challenge the...
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Corvallis Culinary Week: $10 Plates, 9 Restaurants, All Week Long
Corvallis’ fifth annual Culinary Week is coming up! From Sunday, Jan. 20 to Saturday, Jan. 26, stop by...
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Picks of the Week!
Hua Xia Orchestra and the Shaolin Temple Kung Fu Team, January 17th, 7:30 p.m. The School of Arts...
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’89 Dynasty: New Corvallis Band Rocks Interzone and Sub Zero
Corvallis, meet ’89 Dynasty—I know you’ll get along swimmingly. Four-piece band ‘89 Dynasty, fusing punk, metal, emo, and...
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New Issue: January 10th, 2013
In this issue of the Corvallis Advocate… Did You Know You Lived in Corvallisorus? Corvallis Culinary Week: $10...
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Did You Know You Lived in Corvallisorus?
While the beaver may be our town’s totem animal, the mailing system identifies us as belonging to the...
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A Corvallis Advocate Haiku
I love the winter And not just because the cold Freezes the zombies. by Mica Habarad...
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Jacob Young’s Sci Fi Reboot: Performance-Based Fiction Brings Robots, Myth Animals to Life
With his debut novel There is a Place in the Throat that has No Voice, 8:0:8, Portland author...
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The Clock is Ticking for the Corvallis Library: ‘Complete the Block’ and Complete Our Library
Local donors and the Library Foundation have pledged over $470,000 to “Complete the Block.” The block in question...
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New Issue: January 3rd, 2013
In this week’s Corvallis Advocate… Sacrificing Privacy for Convenience: Smartphones, Facebook… Pacemakers? The Wanderlust Circus: Spectacular Antics in...
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OSU Pioneers Wearable Microchips For Applications in Medicine, Communication, and More
Last year was huge for wearable and implantable medical devices. Researchers here in Corvallis and around the world...
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Culture Fail: Exceptional Leaders… Why Do We Care Who They Sleep With??
“Oh, how the mighty have fallen.” We’ve probably all relished saying those words at one time in our...
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Authors Who Call Corvallis Home: Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Young Adult… From Mountaineering to Sci Fi and More
Corvallis has no shortage of resident authors—not to mention well-published ones. Here are a few recently published books...
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