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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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Spending to Support
When eating food can be an act of support and civil pride, heck yes, count me as an activist! All day today (Thursday) eating at several establishments around Bend earns money for Basic Right Oregon, the organization that is managing the ballot initiative for same-sex marriage (look for a more complete article in the upcoming […]
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Movies You Could Eat!
Not your popcorn’s average film
Minnie Driver has hovered at the edges of fame, never quite an A-lister and only rarely earning the dubious distinction of a movie star with enough power to grace the tabloid covers. She did win a few awards for a British TV series (“The Deep”) recently, but really, why even talk about recent projects? Had […]
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Heroes and Villains
Erik Larson’s books capture history’s shadows
Erik Larson wrote one of my—and my mom’s—favorite books of the 21st century. Written in 2003, Devil in the White City is actually about the close of the 19th century, a compelling (true) story about the creativity and civic power that was plowed into rebuilding Chicago for the 1893 World Fair after a massive fire […]
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Righty-O, Old Sport!
Pop your collar and mingle outside with the bourgeoisie
Tennis Surprisingly, the least cost-prohibitive preppy sport is tennis. Yes, so middle-class. But really, Andre Agassi dreams can start with minimal cash outlay: a pair of running shoes, three tennis balls (which cost less than a downtown martini), and a $19.95 tennis racquet from Fred Meyer-or, better, shop locally at The Racquet Shoppe (542 NW […]
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The Case of the Purloined Watermelons
Yesterday I walked into the office, for some unknown reason I declared it “watermelon day.” Earlier, I had purchased a watermelon and when you are the editor for a newspaper sometimes you feel like you have the power to declare things – like “this is the best movie of the year,” or “you should vote […]
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Go Beavers!
It is hard to be a Cinderella team if you don’t claw your way back!After a disappoint start to the NCAA Championships (i.e,. they lost their first game), Oregon State Beaver’s clobbered Louisville (11-4) and now (on Wednesday) play Indiana. Stay tuned! Keep those bats warm, Beavers.
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Worst Wedding Toast EVER
I just spent the weekend in Maine at a very elegant wedding. Every toast was well crafted and simultaneously heartfelt. Of course, though, we had to share our “worst toasts” stories. My story about my friend’s grandfather (drunkeningly) confess an affair usually wins, but this time it was blown out of the water.Some Boston friends […]
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Sipping is for Suckers
2nd Annual Mixology takes over Minnesota Ave.
The Second Annual Mixology event will blockade three blocks of Minnesota Avenue, filling the street with booths from a few dozen distilleries and providing three fully staffed bars with some of the sharpest bartenders in the region. But this is not Mardi Gras (leave the beads at home, hussie); a satellite to Bite of Bend, […]
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Batter, Batter, Swing!
Art of Fielding sails over the literary fences
When we first meet Henry Skrimshander, one of the charming-but-flawed characters in Chad Harbach’s debut novel, The Art of Fielding, he is a scrawny hayseed. A talented shortstop in South Dakota, Henry, like most teenage athletes, dreams about playing in the major leagues. It seems, however, as if Henry is more destined for the blue-collar […]
