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The Best And Worst Of The Local Arts Scene In 1997. By Margaret Regan ONE OF THE best moments in the whole art year took place in its earliest weeks. Liz Lerman's Dance Exchange had come to town in January, and worked intensively with local groups to incorporate them into a professional performance at Centennial Hall. After weeks of rehearsals, old Mexican-American women from El Rio Neighborhood Center, Jewish mothers and children from the Hebrew Academy, gay activists and even Ken Foster, head of UApresents, joined Lerman's troupe onstage for "Still Crossing," a dance about immigration an...

  BARRY, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? You and I have been friends for almost forty years now. We’ve donned hip waders and walked together in the whitewater of your beloved McKenzie River. We’ve walked the woods and hills of the Goldstream Valley. One snowy afternoon, in the crepuscular winter light, as we hiked up the mountain above Cynthia’s and my house, you told me at length about your idea for a sprawling book that would somehow encompass the whole earth with the same intensity and specificity as Arctic Dreams. A few years later, while you were working on that book,