Growing up, Clyde Keller knew he had some big shoes to fill. Keller comes from a strong art background.
As stated in the last self-admittedly awesome installment of this
slender and irregular column, the Left Field department (or at least
half of it) actually watches the Seattle Mariners. Slight correction
here…we aren't necessarily watching the Mariners, exactly, but waiting
for those other eight guys to get off the plate so we can watch Ken
Griffey, Jr. unleash that silky swing that brings us and all the other
kids who grew up in Seattle back to the days of spending warm summer
afternoons protected from the sun by a multi-million-ton concrete
Kingdome ceiling as spilled Rainier beer trickled past our sneakers.
Now
back in Seattle, Griffey is still the bubbly (although more
bubble-butted) guy we once knew, but as of late, he hasn't been too
hot. In fact, he hasn't even been lukewarm. He's been plain shitty at
the plate - at one point last week he'd gone 0 for his last 22. Yikes.
And as of this printing, he was hitting a cool .208, thus dancing a few
strikeouts away from the Mendoza line. He’s hit five dingers thus far,
which isn’t totally bad, but hardly on par with the numbers we
Griffey-ites remember from the glory days.
Tuck and Roll, the lighter side of the Music is Life Show.There's something about large-scale gatherings of local music that gets
us a little giddy. Last month, there was the Source's Seven for Seven
show at the Old Stone that brought together a genre-crossing mix of
bands to the stage for a night of eclectic fun. And it's pleasing to
see the trend continuing as the harder rocking bands join forces this
weekend for the Music is Life Concert.
It wouldn't be a local
collaborative show, of course, if Larry and His Flask wasn't on the
bill, which they are. And we're not complaining about that. We're
delighted, in fact, that the road-hardened "hardcore folkies"
(apparently that is a classification, as the band has previously used
it to describe themselves) but further enthused by the rest of the
loud-leaning acts on the bill.
The proposed panhandling ordinance that's been floating around city hall for the past few months may be torpedoed for good this week. The council was scheduled to meet Wednesday night (after this issue had been printed) to discuss, among other things, the city attorney's research into the legal issues around panhandling. Her report, which was available on the city's website (ci.bend.or.us) prior to the meeting, didn't exactly provide a ringing endorsement of the concept-one of several that have been floated in the past half year or so, including graffiti removal laws and downtown skateboard bans that seem to be targeted at Mayberrifying Bend. But the council may have to draw the line at panhandling, which enjoys near blanket protection based on Oregon's broad free speech laws.
Medford was the most recent city to attempt a panhandling ordinance and got the smackdown from a district court judge. Medford is appealing, but the law is pretty clear, according to city attorney Mary Winters. A city can adopt rules to keep its citizens safe, but it may not enact laws that limit speech, including solicitations for handouts.
While Winters didn't make a recommendation, she cautioned the council strongly against jumping into the fray. "Adoption of even a modified version of the Medford ordinance could lead to costly constitutional challenges that the city could lose," she wrote.
If that's not a flashing red light, we don't know what is.
Several councilors said prior to the meeting that they weren't too keen on a panhandling ordinance, particularly if it could land the city in court.
"My gut feeling is that unless it's legally bombproof, I don't want to touch it with a 10-foot pole," said Councilor Mark Capell.
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As predictably as thunderstorms appear when the weather gets hot, conservatives call for cutting (or eliminating) the minimum wage when the economy gets cold.
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Since the recent closure of Bistro Corlise, my regular dining spot, I was confused as to where to take my wife for a good dinner. Then I found Ariana and their wonderful gnocchi.
And now, for a change of pace from politics and economic gloom, a scandal of a different stripe: Fans of "American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert are charging that the final outcome was rigged by AT&T.
We'd like to bring you some good news about the Central Oregon economy - really, we would - but there just isn't any out there. If it wasn't for bad news we'd have no news at all.
Next slide, please.It's tough to get excited about Power Point presentations. Who would
believe the software that your company's HR departments uses to outline
the new personal day policy and your professor employs to bullet point
the notable events of the Crimean War could possibly lend itself to
anything even mildly entertaining?
Yet this conference room slideshow
software is perhaps the key ingredient for the June 4th Ignite Bend
event at the Tower Theatre. And unlike those HR presentations, the
event should prove to be a big draw. Ignite events have been
flourishing across the country for three years now and the concept
landed in Bend in February when the first-ever Ignite Bend took place.
The
concept is pretty simple: Each presenter has five minutes of stage time
in which they present 20 different automatically rotating 15-second
slides. Once the slideshow starts, it doesn't stop, regardless of the
performance - which range from informative lectures to musical comedy
routines to performance art. At the first Ignite Bend, there was a
presentation on the correlations between poker and life, a defense of
local Christians, a talk on the history of Legos and a song about
getting laid off.
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