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The Winter Warmer

Cocktailing – warm up with two pairs of pants and a winter cocktail.
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It's the time of year when going out involves more than two pieces of clothing and a pair of flip-flops. Jackets, hats, scarves, gloves, earmuffs, mittens, ear warmers, nose warmers and a myriad of other clutter is strewn about once everyone is gone from the bar and we turn the lights up. And of course, whoever is missing these abandoned items is positive someone stole them, and ninety-nine percent of the time whatever has been lost is really just on the floor getting danced on.
One night, a young man would not give up the notion that someone had certainly hijacked his beloved AC/DC sweatshirt that he shanghaied from his big brother in 1994. He bemoaned that his sweatshirt was his best friend and his identity; and he couldn't believe someone would take it. I too couldn't believe someone would take it, because I'm fairly sure there is not a hot second market for ratty, has-been band sweatshirts. And apparently there's not – as we soon found it right next to where he had been sitting all night.

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Something Special: Off the menu and right on target at Staccato

Off the menu and right on target at Staccato.
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Three things I know to be true: Salad is only as good as its dressing, pasta as good as its sauce, and pizza as good as its dough. Naturally, all this comes down to a restaurant that is as good as its chef.
Staccato at the Fire Hall's Executive Chef James Malone has worked in the restaurant industry all his life; from his beginnings in a family-run bakery and deli in Spokane; to his apprenticeship with the renowned Michel Richard at DC's famed Citronelle. There, Malone set out to challenge himself amongst what he called “the masters of French cuisine – the black belts.”

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Something Special: Off the menu and right on target at Staccato

Off the menu and right on target at Staccato.
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Three things I know to be true: Salad is only as good as its dressing, pasta as good as its sauce, and pizza as good as its dough. Naturally, all this comes down to a restaurant that is as good as its chef.
Staccato at the Fire Hall's Executive Chef James Malone has worked in the restaurant industry all his life; from his beginnings in a family-run bakery and deli in Spokane; to his apprenticeship with the renowned Michel Richard at DC's famed Citronelle. There, Malone set out to challenge himself amongst what he called “the masters of French cuisine – the black belts.”

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Sound Check Goes to Oz

Sound Check goes to Poor Man’s Whiskey’s Dark Side of the Moonshine.
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Sound Check spent much of Saturday night not really looking at Poor Man's Whiskey, but more looking around the band at all the lasers, movies, lights, fog and the brightly colored wigs of our fellow concertgoers who'd packed into a sold-out Domino Room. Oh we saw the band – adorned as the characters of the Wizard of Oz, which included guitarist Eli Jebidiah's gratuitously short Dorothy dress (or not-so-gratuitous, depending on how you feel about the male thigh) – there was just a lot going on.

Posted inOpinion

Election: “Yes” On COCC Bond

Yes on COCC Board
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Voters again have an opportunity to provide much-needed funding to Central Oregon Community College by checking “Yes” on their ballots in next week's election. By doing so, voters will impose a miniscule tax increase on themselves (roughly $2 per month for the average homeowner in Deschutes County) while collectively providing a significant boost to the college, which has seen its enrollment numbers swell recently as unemployed workers and recent high- school grads make the best of the economic slowdown by getting additional education under their belts, that's a base of knowledge that will strengthen our area's workforce as the recession ebbs, positioning Central Oregon for recovery.

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What Happens In Kabul… NFL in denial, Obama vs. Fox, Scientology on trial and more!

NFL in denial, Obama vs. Fox, Scientology on trial and more!
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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 party, surrounded by murderers and ghosts, Palins and Obamas, wondering if it's already 2012 or only Halloween, on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly.
SWINE!
In case you haven't heard, don't go looking for any H1N1 vaccines because they grow it in eggs. Yep, that's right, protection from the “swine flu” is created in chicken eggs – Our nightmares of mutant Wilbur-Henny-Pennys will soon be reality. This shouldn't be a headline, nor should any flu be declared a national emergency (surely another of Obama's Muslim-Socialist attempts to control our lives and take away our guns) with winter approaching. Relax, wash your hands often, and watch “28 Days Later.”

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The Truth About Marriage: Civil rights expert to take on marriage equality in Bend

Civil rights expert to take on marriage equality in Bend.
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I can't put the book down and I can't stop talking about it. Let me share with you one of my favorite quotes from Evan Wolfson's Why Marriage Matters, America, Equality and Gay People's Right to Marry:
“It was so cool,” said Gabriel, thirteen, who served as the ringbearer, after standing in line overnight with his parents. “I always accepted that 'Yeah, they're my moms,' but they were actually getting married. I felt thick inside with happiness. Just thick.”

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A Friendly Local Habit?

Letter of the Week.
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This week's letter comes from Kim G. who reminds us that, even in a recession, customer service seems to be a lost art. Thanks for the letter Kim, you can pick up your winnings, a bag of Strictly Organic coffee, at our office, 704 NW Georgia.

I'm all about “making local habit,” but I have really been put off recently by the way some local businesses don't seem to care a lot about the customers walking through their doors.

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