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Double Mountain Koslch

A German style beer that the Hood River brewery presents with just a bit of a Northwest spin.
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If you’re looking for a summer beer that will push your palate beyond the safety blanket of the latest IPA, you could do worse than Double Mountain’s Kolsch, a German style beer that the Hood River brewery presents with just a bit of a Northwest spin, adding an extra dose of hops without foregoing the signature yeast-forward presentation that defines these complex beers. Best of all you won’t feel obligated to drink it with a lemon wedge on the rim.

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Wade Beauchamp: Frame Builder Extraordinaire

Beauchamp builds bicycle frames and is the man behind Vulture Cycles, Bend’s preeminent bicycle frame builder.
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In a small shop near the Deschutes River Woods, Wade Beauchamp bends metal to his will. He cuts it, shapes it, grinds it and fuses it together with lightning. He isn’t an alchemist. Beauchamp builds bicycle frames and is the man behind Vulture Cycles, Bend’s preeminent bicycle frame builder. He’s humble, amiable, clever and just a little geeky. He can make almost anything he can dream of out of metal and magic. He’s also, appropriately, completely mad about bicycles.

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The Missing Part of the Gun Violence Equation

Response to the Stand Down or Stand Your Ground article.
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James Williams’ “Stand Down or Stand Your Ground?” (the Source Weekly, 7 June 2012) omits a statistic that fairly screams for inclusion and would provide an absolutely necessary context within which to evaluate the issue.  He states that while there were an average of 12 “justifiable homicides” in Florida during the period 2000 to 2004, there were 35 for the period since 2005, a period about half again as long (for those who might miss the math).  The author readily points out that “there are no statistics on how many, if any, of those incidents might have been unavoidable.”  Fair enough and objectively phrased.  But a statistic that is readily available is how many non-justifiable homicides occurred during the time frames cited.  Is Stand Your Ground working?  Does preemptive action on the part of would-be victims save their lives or those of their companions?

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Of Death, Taxes and Tim Knopp

Tim Knopp gets this week’s Boot along with the estate tax repealers.
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Nothing in life is certain, they say, except death and taxes. Conservatives haven’t found a way to exempt rich people from death yet, but they’re doing their damnedest to make sure they never have to pay taxes.
One of the right-wingers’ favorite targets in this crusade is the estate tax, or “death tax,” as they like to call it. Here in Oregon the current campaign to eliminate the state estate tax is being led by professional ballot initiative promoter Kevin Mannix and his trusty lieutenant, Koch Brothers protégée Tim Knopp, who also is the Republican nominee for the state Senate district including Bend.

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Our Picks For 06/20 – 06/28

This week’s picks we are sure you will enjoy.
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Countryfied: Redmond Music in the Canyon Kick-off
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Redmond’s Music in the Canyon season has some great acts lined up this summer starting with longtime Central Oregon country and cover music band Countryfied. With upcoming performances by Larry and His Flask, Downhill Ryder and the John Shipe Band out of Eugene this Wednesday night series is a great excuse to grab a picnic blanket and spend an evening in the park. Best part? Every show is free. 5:30pm. American Legion Park, 850 SW Rimrock Way and Highland Avenue in Redmond.

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1776 In Concert Takes the Stage at Tower Theatre: Show provides a new spin on an old story

1776 In Concert will be performed at the Tower Theatre next Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
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1776, a Tony-award winning Broadway show about the Founding Fathers, is coming to the Tower Theatre, but there won’t be a single male on the stage.
Instead, this version of the 1969 show features an all-female cast that puts a new spin on an old story, just in time for Independence Day.
“I love to take tried-and-true pieces of theater and stand them on their ear so audiences can experience them as new,” said the show’s director, Kymberli Colbourne. “When you hear the words of John Adams coming from a woman actor, you sit up and take notice. It’s very thought provoking.”

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Wouldn’t It Be Motherly: Brave effectively explores the eternal struggle between mothers and daughters

Emma Thompson voices Queen Elinor in Pixar’s film Brave.
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At first glance, it looked like Pixar was about to do the unthinkable: Brave was going to stick us with another variation on the “Rudolph plot.”
It’s a phenomenon I’ve griped about many times before, this obsession on the part of animation filmmakers with tales of frustrated outcasts who just wanna be accepted for who they are, just like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Hermie the elf. The recent film with which Brave seemed likely to be compared—2010’s How to Train Your Dragon—went down that same road, for all its 3D visual majesty. Now here was a story being promoted as that of a tomboyish young princess rejecting the destiny of demure, ladylike domesticity laid out for her. Was Pixar, after flirting with that notion in the disappointing Cars 2, going to go the full Rudolph on us?

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Float On: The Deschutes for Dummies

Be sure to get out and float the Deschutes this summer along with the many other spots along the river.
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When the weather gets hotter, the river traffic gets heavier. Float from Riverbend Park down to Drake on a hot day and you might feel like you’re shoulder to shoulder with most of the town. Don’t get us wrong, that can be a blast. But if you’re looking to avoid river rush hour, it might be time to find a new spot.
Check out stretches up in Sunriver or down near Tumalo State Park. In Sunriver, you can float from Harpers Bridge to near the Sunriver Marina. Or at Tumalo, put in at the state park and float a stretch with some class I rapids down to near Highway 20.

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