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Powered by Women: Chicks with Picks

Chicks with Picks proves girls can rock, too.
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A glance at Central Oregon's local music landscape might give you the impression that men dominate the scene. Well, if you think that, you're kind of sexist. Sorry, but it's true.
In fact, there is plenty of female musical prowess to be found in the greater Bend area and now there's a full night of music to feature this talent. This show, dubbed “Chicks With Picks,” is a benefit for Saving Grace, the local non-profit that provides services for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence, and features a diverse musical scope of the female talent we have here.

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Our Picks for 11/25 – 12/3: Toys for Tots, Hillstomp, Chicks with Picks and more

What to do in Central Oregon the week of 11/25-12/3.
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Toys for Tots featuring Ruckus
friday – saturday 27 & 28
Local rock band Ruckus is playing this two-night engagement at the Riverhouse to benefit the Toys for Tots program. They're asking you to bring new and unwrapped toys or canned food to the shows that you can deposit before rocking out to one of Central Oregon's longtime local bar bands. 9pm. Crossings Lounge at the Riverhouse. 3075 N. Highway 97. 389-3111
Hillstomp, Larry and His Flask
friday 27
For the second year running, Portland's Hillstomp is coming to town to help you shake off the Thanksgiving gravy hangover with what we guarantee to be a raucous show. Hillstomp, as many locals know, combines north Mississippi style blues with a punk rock ethos that they deliver care of wicked slide guitar, junkyard drums and CB-radio-style vocals, and Bendites tend to freak out for these guys. Opening the show is Central Oregon's own Larry and His Flask, home for the holiday before venturing out on yet another West Coast Tour. 9pm doors, 9:30pm show. $8. All ages, bar w/ID. Domino Room, 51 NW Greenwood Ave.

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The Bulletin Uncovers a Hidden Menace

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We believe Bend's Only Daily Newspaper deserves appropriate recognition for alerting our community to an insidious threat to our children: advocacy groups using the public school classrooms to push their dangerous, radical agendas.
Specifically, The Bulletin's editorial page last Friday revealed that representatives from The Environmental Center (you know, that hippie hangout on Kansas Avenue) “have visited Bend-La Pine classrooms on more than 40 occasions to give so-called EarthSmart presentations.”
And just what are these so-called EarthSmart presentations?

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Leonard's Flight Suit Moment

Portland City Commissioner Randy Leonard dons a fire suit and scrambling onto the roof of the still-burning building to “assess” the situation.
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Most news savvy Oregonians saw the recent dramatic footage of the Marysville school fire that featured flames leaping out of the top of the school building. What most people didn't see is Portland City Commissioner Randy Leonard donning a fire suit and scrambling onto the roof of the still-burning building to “assess” the situation.

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Got Us By the Sachs: Turkey with Bernie, spilt milk and Gov. Sanford's black book

Turkey with Bernie, spilt milk and Gov. Sanford's black book.
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The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from a couch in New York in a tryptophan haze, hopeful of a long nap and no more food for at least a week, on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly.

How's this for an apology? “There's also people who feel – and are right – that there's some meaningful things where we may have – not may have, certainly our industry is responsible for things. And we're a leader in our industry, and we participated in things that were clearly wrong, and we have reasons to regret and apologize for.” Gee, thanks! I feel better, don't you? Those were the words of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, speaking at a New York forum for corporate board members this week. Blankfein made $73.2 million last year and recently said bankers are doing “God's work.” Good thing God wanted Goldman Sachs to take $12.9 billion in bailout funds only months ago (then report a nearly $3 billion profit) after selling $40 billion in risky bonds without telling investors it was also betting on a housing market collapse. Good upstanding Americans, capitalists and philanthropists: While apologizing for using us like a fluffer on a porn shoot, Blankfein announced a $500 million program for small business, which is 2.5 percent of the $20-plus billion in estimated bonuses Goldman Sachs will pay its felons/employees this year.

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The Lethal Method

Letter to the editor
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The proposal by the city of Bend is ludicrous! They propose to use the lethal method to cut down on the number of Canadian geese in the parks. Come on people of Bend, Oregon, USA, stand up and protect the geese! Nomenclature is being used to try to disguise the truth: “lethal method” equals execution, killing and murder of wildlife. What kind of precedent does this set for our city, our future and our children?
Wildlife a problem? Kill it!
Don't like the smell of the skunk prowling by your house? Kill it! Don't like the blue jays making their racket? Kill them! Don't like all those deer eating your flowers? Kill them! Don't like those squirrels eating your nuts? Kill them!
The Canadian goose is a game animal, hunters purchase hunting licenses and hunt them in their hunting season, and our bountiful city of Bend wants the right to kill them for no other reason than poop? Ludicrous, and at the heart of it, illegal!

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Hey Mister DeeJay: DJ Hero grinds but never grooves

DJ Hero grinds but never grooves.
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I don't think of DJs as being particularly heroic. Recently, the best-known examples – DJ AM and Samantha Ronson – have been famous for OD-ing and dating Lindsay Lohan respectively – acts that require a certain fortitude, to be sure, but are hardly heroic.
I understand the heroism of guitarists. Guitar Hero gets me standing up in my living room, rocking my hips and scowling at my fingers while I play a plastic “guitar.” Whenever I screw up, the music sounds like crap. And when I'm rocking, I'm synced with the music in a physically interdependent way – like dancing, but in my case more coordinated.

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Our Picks for 11/18 – 11/26: Moon Mountain Ramblers, Too Slim and the Taildraggers, The Ascetic Junkies, GWAR, Renegade Rollergirls

What to do in Central Oregon 11/18 – 11/26.
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Moon Mountain Ramblers
friday 20
It seems that most recent Moon Mountain Ramlers shows are connected with some sort of holiday extravaganza… their Labor Day weekend festival, the recent Halloween Hoedown, and of course their New Year's Eve show next month. But sometimes it's nice to just see a normal Ramblers show in a normal packed bar. Not too much to ask, right? $7. 9pm. Silver Moon Brewing Co., 24 NW Greenwood Ave.
Too Slim and the Taildraggers
friday 20
This Seattle-based rock quartet is fronted by Tim “Too Slim” Langford and offers a tear-down-the-house mix of blues, rock, country and much more. Check out the band's new record, Free Your Mind. $13/adv, $15/door. 8pm. The Annex, 51 NW Greenwood Ave.

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Jeff Merkley's Cozy Silicon Valley Party

National Innovation Conference attendees listen to panel discussions whose participants included senators as well as executives from high-powered firms such as Microsoft and assorted venture capitalists.
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It was just an intimate, friendly little gathering on the Google campus in Silicon Valley.
The host was the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. The star attraction was Joel Benenson, President Obama's pollster. Also featured were seven Democratic senators, including Oregon's own Jeff Merkley.
It was billed as a “National Innovation Conference.” Attendees at the two-day event got to listen to panel discussions whose participants included the senators as well as executives from high-powered firms such as Microsoft and assorted venture capitalists.

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