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It's almost as if they were coached by Steve Albini. On their latest record, Chicago indie rock band Shipping News channels its best Shellac: bleating out lyrics Albini-style on “The Delicate,” bringing melody and discord together on “(Morays or) Demons.”
Party on Thanksgiving
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It's Thanksgiving and you're free to eat and drink as much as you'd like. It's your right as an American. But after the food has settled and the family has gone to bed, head down to the Madhappy Lounge and dance off each and every one of those 5,700 calories you ingested. And if you want to bring the family, that's also your right as an American. Isn't this a great country? 10pm. Madhappy Lounge, 850 NW Brooks St.
At first glance, it looks like a great way to counter climate change – convert a greenhouse-gas-spewing coal power plant to a clean, modern facility fueled by plant matter. But the devil, as always, is in the details.
The Boardman power plant – Oregon’s only coal-fired power plant – sits amid farmland in the eastern part of the state, near the scenic Columbia River Gorge. Since 1980, it’s provided juice for 250,000 consumers. More recently, it’s been charged with violating the Clean Air Act, and is about to get slapped with yet more stringent state and federal pollution rules. Bringing the aging plant into full compliance would be prohibitively expensive, so Portland General Electric is considering either installing minimal pollution controls and then closing it in five to 10 years, or converting it to renewable power.
The laws of probability say that, given enough time, if something is possible, no matter how improbable, it eventually will happen. A flipped coin someday will land on its edge. A million monkeys banging on a million computer keyboards someday will produce Shakespeare's King Lear. And the Oregon Liquor Control Commission someday will get something right.
The last wildly improbable event occurred last week, when the OLCC forbade the sale of the notorious Four Loko and six other alcohol-heavy, caffeine-spiked drinks.
It's been a busy week over at Bank of the Cascades, which raised a much needed $177 million in private capital to keep the bank afloat in the face of regulatory sanctions. The injection headed off months of speculation that federal officials would move to shutter the once high-flying local institution that hemorrhaged hundreds of millions of dollars during the real estate bust. Over the past two years, BOTC has reported more than $200 million in losses as it continued to write down its portfolio, albeit more slowly over the past few months as the economy has begun to stabilize and the Bend real estate market slows its free fall.
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That's the number of inches that Mt. Bachelor was reporting as a base on Tuesday afternoon just a few hours before opening day of the 2010-2011 season.
The following are some observations to the House Ethics Committee about the censure of Representative Charles Rangel, Democrat, Harlem, N.Y.
House Ethics Committee….oxymoron.
Y’all must be right proud of your courageous decision to censure Democrat Charles Rangel from Harlem for his outrageous disrespect for the laws and ethics of the House of Ill Repute.
While many citizens remain angry over the $4 million that Bend wasted on their defunct UGB expansion plan, and the $5 million that they squandered on the Bulletin property without first doing their homework, the city actually has much larger problems with their failed development at Juniper Ridge (JR).
Bend's City Council has steadfastly maintained that numerous benefits would accrue to Central Oregon for nearly a decade at JR including 12,000 new jobs and $200,000,000 in profits from land sales, but absolutely none have materialized and the situation worsens every day.
The author is reporting from rehab, watching a literal squawk box, some annoying bimbo making the beautiful state of Alaska look ugly.
When we're forced to choose between molestation and strangers seeing our privates via X-ray, the terrorists have won. Hand Al Qaeda a trophy, bring back the troops, ground the drones and shutter the Pentagon. Republican fear mongering under the Bush-Cheney junta and overreaction, surrendering our rights to rent-a-cops renamed TSA security, has led to a revolt by the public, pilots and airline employees. Don't screen my sack and keep your fingers out of my carry-on!
“Son, why are you always going around dancing and playing patty-cake with everybody? Don’t you have a kingdom to save?”
“I am saving the kingdom, dad. But unlike when you did it back in Fable II, this time it’s a revolution – against my brother, your son, whom you made king, I might add. In order to overthrow him, I’m going to need good relationships with as many people as possible.”
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