Crux is now bottling, and three flavors are available at Newport Market, although already one was sold out. Nonetheless, it was the Insider IPA I was looking for, as a treat to bring to an after-work, porch-sitting chill-out session with two other guys. Served in single pint bottles, these are perfect serving sizes. The label […]
Phil Busse
Phil Busse has done his tour of duty with alt-weeklies, starting in 1992 right after graduation from Middlebury College as the first environmental beat reporter for San Francisco Weekly. After a brief detour through the University of Oregon School of Law, Phil returned to writing as the first Managing Editor for Portland Mercury. In 2006, he started the Media Institute for Social Change in Portland, through which he continues to host a summer program teaching college students to produce documentaries.
Until he was 25 or so, Phil thought that he would be a spy, and took scuba lessons to prepare, and learned to drive a motorcycle and an 18-wheeler. Perhaps, then, it is unsurprising that his favorite holiday is the Fourth of July (he loves blowing stuff up). He feels at home with Joseph Conrad's fictional characters.
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The Legislative Class of 2013
Not the best report card to bring home
The legislative session ended on Monday, and 2013’s class of legislators wasn’t the flashy group in recent history, but in a final sprint toward the finish line, they did manage to release $1 billion for important construction and education projects. Call these their “class gift”—some $600 million in capital projects and various spending for the […]
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We Have Free Tickets to COUNTRY FAIR!!
The shadow of guilt I felt lasted for a number of years. After a brief stint as a casual Dead head, catching shows from Foxboro to Alpine Valley, my music tastes shifted. Even so, for years I carried around a shoe box full of bootlegs (especially fond of Cornell 7/77). Then, one day when cleaning […]
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I Survived!
Hoo-RAY! I survived another Fourth of July. No, seriously. In the 90s, four out of 10 Fourths ended up with trips to the E.R. It has been my favorite, yet a cursed holiday, starting in 1987 when the pyrotecnic in my hometown blew himself up. The bad luck continued four years later when I (accidentally) […]
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Hot and Sweaty
One of the best debut novels in a generation
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell Two years ago, the Pulitzer Prize selection committee reviewed three novels as contenders for its selection—and selected none as its finalist. One inference from this decision is that there were no good novels that year. But that is incorrect. Absolutely wrong. (A more accurate assessment is that the Pulitzer reviewers were […]
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Not Mother’s Motorcycle Rally
. . .Oh, actually it is!
Wellesley College is consistently ranked the No. 1 college in the country, an all-women's school with powerful graduates like Barbara Bush and Hillary Clinton. Perhaps not as well known, but equally influential in the world of two wheels, is Linda Dugeau, Wellesley Class of 1938 and the founder of the Motor Maids. Unlike their West […]
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Hold the Line
Is a middle school the Urban Growth Boundary’s Trojan horse?
On Monday afternoon, as rafters bumped into each other floating down the stretch of river adjacent to the Park & Rec building, a dimly lit conference room inside the building was equally crowded. For the first time in a year, the so-called UGB Remand Task Force was meeting publicly and discussing what, if any, progress […]
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Smash a Bottle of Champagne Across our Bow!
The Source writes an open letter to the Secretary of the Navy
Dear Mr. Ray Mabus – It has been nearly a century since the Navy has named a vessel after our fair state. As you may know, the USS Oregon was a battleship that saw action in the Spanish-American War, but it was decommissioned in 1919. Even landlocked states like Arizona and Wisconsin have fared better […]
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A Lake or River Person?
A Beginner’s Guide to Fly Fishing
I grew up on a lake in Wisconsin. Baths in the morning involved long walks on short piers, and rinsing in the clear, warm water. Afternoons were spent slicing across the still surface on water skis, and evenings watching the sun sizzle as it dropped over the horizon at the far end of Green Lake. […]
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Hugo, We Go, Don’t Let the Pine Go!
Switch to digital film threatens
local movie theater
There is something ironic in this fact that both Facebook and Apple, two of the largest motivators for 21st century technology, moved massive data centers into Prineville and gave a much-needed shot in the arm to the local economy, but the local movie theater, The Pine, a community hub for 75 years, is potentially shutting […]
