Ex-City Councilor Peter Gramlich is leaving Bend for greener - and more progressive - pastures in Portland.
It's the Super Bowl this weekend, and while we can't
predict what will happen in the game - who knows, maybe the officials
will throw another championship to the Steelers (yes, Left Field is
still bitter about the Seahawks getting screwed in '06) - but we can
foresee a few events that will absolutely happen at your Super Bowl
Party.
1) Someone will bring a six-pack of Coors Light and one of your beer snob friends will lambaste them for it.
2)
One of your friends will spend the first quarter feeling out which team
the majority of partygoers are backing and spend the rest of the game
arbitrarily rooting on the opposite squad. Violence will ensue.
3) You will eat chili, Velveeta or a combination of the two.
4)
No less than four partygoers will find themselves horribly drunk by the
end of the game and have the worst Monday of their lives.
Nature boys. Tweak Bird looks like hippie freakers and sound like a jet engine, a
strange combination of traits that is only the edge of the weirdness
emitted by this pair of Los Angeles-based brothers. With a helping hand
from producers Dale Crover (Melvins) and Toshi Kasai (Big Business),
Caleb and Ashton Bird released a quirky steamroller of an EP dubbed
Reservations in September that showcases the duo's ability to produce
an F'in S-load of sound with only drums and guitar.
David Bowers is celebrating the release of the David Bowers Colony's
first full-length album on Saturday night. Two days later he turns 44
years old.
"For me that's halfway dead, because, ya know, if I made it to 88 that would be pretty sweet," Bowers says.
He
could pass for younger with just a few wispy gray hairs around his
temples and a bone curled through his left ear lobe (a style he says is
inspired in part by the Decemberists' Chris Funk, an acquaintance from
Bowers' Eugene days) but seems comfortable with his age, as well as his
status in the local music scene.
Hester Prynne
thursday 29
And you didn't think you'd ever need
the knowledge you gleaned from reading The Scarlet Letter in 9th
grade…This Kansas-based death metal band is stopping off in town along
with And Hell Followed With, Whisteria Cottage, American Me, Knuckle
Sandwich and Give Nothing. Check out the bargain price on this one…very
nice. 7:30pm. $10. Midtown Music Hall. All Ages.
Meissner Sno Park Fundraiser
friday 30
Do
you like skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, mountain biking or just plain
chilling up at Meissner? Well then get yourself to this fundraiser to
help keep the park up and running. This event includes dinner,
entertainment, prizes and the delicate sounds of Bend's own Sweet
Harlots. 5:30pm. Aspen Hall at Shevlin Park, 18920 Shevlin Park Rd.
$10. $5 children under 12.
Rack up another serious head-on crash for Highway 97 - not a fatal one this time, fortunately, but one that easily could have been.
The Brand Insight Blog, published by BN Branding, a Bend marketing consulting firm, offers some unconventional wisdom about why Jody Denton's once-red-hot Bend restaurants, Merenda and Deep, cooled off and went under.
If The Bulletin plays the story on its front page, it must be official: Bend is broke.
According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calculations, the unemployment rate in Bend is 9.9%. But what is it really?
The Tower's new number one, Ray Solley.After scouring the nation, just as they said they would, the Tower's
board of directors have settled on an executive director to replace Eli
Ashley in the form of Ray Solley, who comes to Bend from the Los
Angeles-area city of Torrance. Solley has been at the helm of the
Torrance Cultural Arts Center Foundation and also had a long career in
the television industry.
But he didn't merely work in television,
he was one of the creators of arguably the greatest
amateur-athlete-against-pro-athlete-all-spandex programs of all time:
American Gladiators. We're talking the original version, not the
recently cancelled revamped edition on NBC hosted by a bloated Hulk
Hogan and including at least one gladiator who howled like a wild
animal. That's right - the jewel of Bend's downtown and the center of
all things sophisticated in Bend is now under the supervision of the
man who gave us American Gladiators.
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