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Our Picks for 05/09 – 05/17

The weeks picks and popular events you’re sure to enjoy.
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The 44’s
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The traditional, raw sound of this Los Angeles-based blues band will transport you back to a smoky Chicago tavern circa 1950. Their music is packed with the sort of guitar solos and harmonica riffs that you'd expect from a band that plays vintage instruments.

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Going It Alone: The Single Mom

The Source interviews local mom, Kristie Zinniker about her life in the past and present.
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Name: Kristie Zinniker, 22, and Courtland, 2
Town: Redmond, Oregon
Job: Retention Representative at T-Mobile, which means she works with the tough customers.
We met with Kristie and Courtland at the Source offices in Bend to talk about what life is like as a single mother, how she makes it work and her advice for other single moms.
the Source Weekly: So do you have a busy day in town today?
KZ: No, just a busy morning – my Explorer broke down yesterday. My bearings and my differential seized. So, I had to pay a lot to get that fixed.

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Bend Moms for Moms: The online encyclopedia and social networking site for Bend moms

Bend Moms for Moms is a website where mothers can connect and discuss their everyday lives while taking care of a family.
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Bend Moms for Moms is a free social network with more than 750 active members/users connecting and discussing the joys and grievances of motherhood in a very local and relevant context.
Launched in September 2010 by local mother Sarah Daily, Bend Moms for Moms provides a safe and supportive forum for mothers to discuss everything from play dates to potty training, prenatal fitness, learning disabilities, practicing patience, doctor and school recommendations, and free things to do with kids in Bend.

Posted inOpinion

He Hates to Burst Your Bubble

Opinion on the local breweries.
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I want to address a topic of vital interest to all civilized residents of this area: microbreweries. More precisely, their products. During my peak beer drinking years, (roughly 1958-2000) I lived through the Dark Ages of American brew.
Ronnie Ray Gun once called this nation “A shining city on the hill.” In beer drinking terms it could have been called “The dull gray sump hole of mediocrity” also known as Budweiser, Miller, Coors, Schlitz, Blatz, Hamm’s etc. – not to mention the “lite” versions of these palate-insulting swills.

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Boot Thyself Source Staff

Opinion on giving The Source The Boot.
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The Source Weekly should be giving itself The Boot for its lack of research and for misleading its readers in the April 26, 2012 The Boot.
The Source bestowed this honor on the Bend City Council for its consideration of renewing the deferral of payment of SDCs by developers. The paper wrote, “What it will do is deprive the city of money it can ill afford to pass up – money that could be used to fill potholes, improve sewer and water systems, hire police and firefighters and pay for a hundred other things that help make the city a good place to live.”

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Bellying Up to the Koch Trough

Tim Knopp gets the Boot this week.
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Take a close look at almost any far-right-wing organization in this country and you'll probably find that the Koch brothers have their fingers in it.
The Koch brothers, Charles and David, trace their family fortune and ideological pedigree back to their father, Fred C. Koch, a John Bircher from Texas who went around in the '60s raving about the imminent Communist takeover of America. David Koch ran for president in 1980 as Libertarian on a platform that called for, among other things, abolishing Social Security and public schools.

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Pumping Money Into the Leaky Tire

The SDC’s idea gets last weeks Boot.
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You have to give the City of Bend credit for trying to come up with a way to jump-start this town's economy. The only problem is it keeps coming up with the same idea over and over again.
Almost four years ago, after the real estate bubble had popped and folks here had finally figured out it wasn't going to re-inflate any time soon, the city council had the bright idea of letting developers defer payment of SDCs, or systems development charges – fees paid to (partially) cover the cost of road improvements, sewers and other things made necessary when somebody put up a new housing subdivision or shopping mall. Instead of having to pay SDCs up front, the new policy allowed developers to wait nine months or until they applied for an occupancy permit, whichever came first.

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Get your election on!: Our endorsements go down smooth

Prepare yourself for this year’s ballots and let us guide you along the way.
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Here's what you need to do. Sit yourself down with your ballot, smack down your best shot glass and prepare to sample what we're offering up in the 2012 Cinco De Mayo Election Guide. From the top shelf to the it's-gonna-hurt-in-the-morning, here's our best bets for the 2012 primary election. Ole!
Chris Telfer for State Senate
This race is one of the most interesting around here in recent times, and your vote will be about more than which of these two candidates you prefer, but also what brand of politics we should be practicing in this country.

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Our Picks for 05/03-05/09

This weeks picks and events you’re sure to enjoy including a list of places to visit on Cinco de Mayo.
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KPOV Simulcast of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
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What's that? You forgot to go to New Orleans this weekend and see the Jazz and Heritage Festival this week? Don't sweat it – KPOV has you covered. Tune in to 88.

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Interstellar Groove: Mickey Hart goes extraterrestrial with his new band

Micket Hart, known for his way with texture in music, will perform Monday, May 7th at the Tower Theatre.
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In 1977, NASA sent music into outer space aboard the Voyager Spacecraft. Now it's coming back, in a way, thanks to Mickey Hart. Next Monday, Hart will bring his cosmic sounds and the Mickey Hart Band, to the Tower Theatre in support of Mysterium Tremendum, his first studio album in five years and follow up to 2007's Grammy-winning Global Drum Project.
For many Bend deadheads, the stars are aligning for this performance, which happens to fall on the 35th anniversary of the Grateful Dead's seminal performance at Cornell University in New York. The “5/7/77 Cornell” concert is regularly included in any, “best Grateful Dead show” discussion.

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