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.
The Banana and the Monkey Man – seen around town.Solidifying our place as Bicycle Town U.S.A. has taken some work. We
have miles and miles of trails, locally grown road-riding talent of the
highest order as well as a massive number of bike commuters and cycling
shops. But now we can add another notch in our bicycling belt in the
birth of the Bend Bicycle Film Festival.
Similar in format to the
always popular Powderhound Review, the event is a catch all of sorts
for all films relating to bicycling. Given our community's penchant for
two wheelers, there was hardly a shortage of submissions. One of the
festival's organizers, Bill Warburton, says that they received 24
submissions and hope to get somewhere between 15 and 20 of those films
into the hour and a half slated for local programming.
A
fundraiser for the Central Oregon Trail Alliance and the Bend Cycling
Club, the Bend Bicycle Film Festival covers the wide variety of cycling
mediums, including a piece on unicycling as well as footage from last
year's Cyclocross championships.
Mirrors, Water and Bodies.Reinventing one's self is tough. Just ask Michael Vick.
But for a
band, it's not always that hard. There're myriad acts that have
disappeared for a bit, then returned, sometimes triumphantly, sometimes
not, with a new look and sound. Radiohead, of course, did it. And so
did Fleetwood Mac back in the day.
For Water & Bodies, the
reinvention is a little more complex than simply rolling out a new
mission statement. The Portland band, two members of which are Bend
natives, is essentially the same lineup as the indie and slightly emo
rock band Kaddisfly, who maintained a steady and loyal following for
much of the past decade. But after bassist Kile Brewster left the band
over the winter, the remaining four members decided to put the
Kaddisfly name and sound to bed. And thus was Water & Bodies born.
David Jacobs-Strain
thursday 28
We'll tell you one more time to
see one of the blues world's brightest young stars while you have the
chance. Sure, he comes around a couple times a year, but that's not an
excuse to miss him, ever. 8pm. $7. Silver Moon Brewing Co. 24 NW
Greenwood Ave.
Ian Tyson and Corb Lund
thursday 28
You'd
probably know a lot more about Ian Tyson than you currently do if you
were Canadian. This rodeo rider turned songwriter is the author of the
hit song "Four Strong Winds" which was later recorded by both Neil
Young and Johnny Cash. Now 75 years old, Tyson is still busy touring
and laying down records. This time around he's on the road with fellow
Canadian country star Corb Lund. 7pm. $45 or $40. Tower Theatre, 835 NW
Wall St.
Having a hard time understanding the Republican position on Oregon's economic problems? It's easy once you grasp the basic principles of Republicanomics.
Is waterboarding "torture"? One right-wing radio host in Chicago insisted it isn't, and was willing to back up his stand by getting waterboarded himself - with hilarious results.
Feeling stressed by the Great Recession? You've got reason to be. According to a new map put together by The Associated Press, Central Oregon is one of the most stressed-out places in the country.
You have the hat, and the t-shirt and the fake New England accent.
Congratulations. You're a phony baloney Boston Red Sox fan and Left
Field probably scowled at you last weekend up in Seattle where we set
up camp for the weekend series against the Mariners.
Now, let's
get one thing straight: Red Sox fans are endlessly better than Yankees
fans. And, Red Sox fans have a sort of blue-collar, beer-drinking
folksiness about them that's easy to like. But it's the bandwagon Red
Sox fans that bought a cap when Johnny Damon and Manny Ramirez (now a
Yankee and a drug user, respectively) led the magical team of 2004 to
victory and now deem it necessary to root against their home team every
time the Red Sox come to town.
By Left Field's estimate, about
one in four Safeco Field seats were occupied by Red Sox fans - who
gladly chanted "Let's go Red Sox" ad nausea, which in a visiting
ballpark is the equivalent to walking over to your neighbor's home for
the express purpose of taking a paint-peeling dump. There are some
things you just don't do away from home.
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