With winter arriving this month, or maybe this week, but ski season still a few weeks away, you finally have an excuse not to do anything outside on your Sunday mornings. Rather, you have all the reason in the world to spend the day watching football. But we all know that football at home is about one-eighth as exciting as viewing games in the company of other fans, some of whom wear jerseys from far off locales and cheer loudly for teams like the Detroit Lions. Several bars and restaurants around town open up early on Sundays, offering you special menus and discounted drinks as they screen every NFL game on the schedule. Here's a sampling of some that are little off the beaten pigskin path where you can get flapjacks and bacon with your first downs.
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Little Bites: In Case You Missed It: A recap of some of our recent restaurant reviews
Common Table
If you've heard about Common Table, you know that it's much more than a restaurant. Run by Zack Hancock, a young, charismatic former schoolteacher and ordained Presbyterian minister and Bob Pearson, a member of the First Presbyterian Church, CT is structured slightly differently than your run-of-the-mill café. Proceeds benefit those who can't afford to eat at Common Table by funding $10 coupons that are donated to folks in need throughout the community. In addition, Mondays are pay-as-you-go, with a selection of soups available for a suggested donation.
Ben Folds/ Nick Hornby: Lonely Avenue
Nonesuch Records
I really couldn't feel more mixed about an album, a singer and a writer. Lonely Avenue is rooted in a cool concept: singer/piano man Ben Folds takes the words of Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy) and makes them into songs. Easy enough, right? Well, no. Not at all.
Our Picks for 11/10-11/18 Out in the Silence, Pray for Snow, and lots more!
Out in the Silence
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This documentary, which focuses on gay rights and equality in small-town America, arrives for two screenings in Redmond and Bend at an especially apt time, considering all the news surrounding issues of teen bullying. The film is directed by Joe Wilson, who returns to his hometown after an announcement of his marriage to another man was put in the local paper, and looks at the lives of several LGBTQ people in the small Pennsylvania town. Redmond: 3pm, Redmond Public Library, 827 SW Deschutes Ave. Second screening at the Hitchcock Auditorium, COCC from 6-9pm. 3pm-5pm Redmond Public Library, 827 SW Deschutes Ave.
The Secret Hotel Tax Deal
If you, or we, owed the City of Bend a couple of thousand dollars in taxes and told the city, “Okay, how about if we pay half of it and forget the rest?” the response probably would be something along the lines of: “Are you SERIOUS?!?”
A Word About Radioactive Rabbits
Rabbits are pretty innocent, not exactly straddling spider or rattlesnake territory when it comes to the terror factor. But the Hanford nuclear reservation took one rabbit and turned it into a radioactive death machine.
Time For GOP to Back Up The Tough Talk
“The American people” here, “The American people” there, “conversation with the American people,” etc…These kinds of utterances have been made by scores of politicians oven the decades and with the recent turn of the midterm elections, they seem to be back to daily use. And yet, for all the considerations for the “American people,” very little substance is ever revealed to us Americans.
Bring the UGB Back to Earth
To all Bend City Council Members,
As a homeowner in the city of Bend I am very thankful that the [Land Conservation Development Commission] was watching out for our best interest with respect to this ridiculous UGB plan.
ODFW Fishing Report for the Week of Oct. 25
CROOKED RIVER BELOW BOWMAN DAM: redband trout and mountain whitefish. Fishing has been great! Flows should remain consistent around 75 cfs throughout the winter resulting in consistent fishing. A sample of redband trout and mountain whitefish are tagged with a numbered floy tag protruding from the back. Anglers who catch a trout or whitefish with a floy tag are encouraged to release the fish after recording the tag number, fish length and location caught. Anglers can send the information to ODFW at (541) 447-5111 ext. 24 or michael.r.harrington@state.or.us.
“Meet the New Boss – Same as the Old Boss”
The author is reporting that 3 in 4 Americans think things are “going badly” in our country. What a shock after this upbeat election.

