It's looking increasingly unlikely that John Kitzhaber will get a job in Barack Obama's Cabinet, but now speculation is growing that he might take another shot at the governorship.
One doesn't normally associate the natural foods industry with the kind of brutal business tactics one expects in, say, the software industry or the financial sector. But there's a real rough-and-tumble going on now between Whole Foods and its tiny competitor, New Seasons Markets.
Left Field had just stepped out of the shower and was in the middle
of stirring up a Pepto-Bismol and 7-Up cocktail (we like to call it a
"Kansas City Mimosa") to both shake off a Thanksgiving Eve hangover as
well as prep the stomach for the near-fatal amount of holiday foods it
would be encountering later in the afternoon when we sat down for some
Thanksgiving day football. But when we turned on the tube, only about
half an hour after the posted kickoff of the Lions/Titans game in
Detroit, the game was pretty much over.
The Titans jumped out to
a 28-0 lead in the first quarter and it was clear that the miraculously
inept Lions would have no chance of tightening the game. As thus we
flip channels through parades, feel-good Lifetime channel movies and
the Weather Channel, all of which were more entertaining than the game
happening in Detroit.
As promised, here’s some video of Hillstomp at the Domino Room on Saturday night. Sorry for the shaky camera work, but all of the dancing hooligans you’ll see on in the video kept bumping into me.
Empty Space Orchestra: Pre-snow shovel jam.Not trying to brag or boast (or eat French toast), but Sound Check's prediction for what was to go down last Saturday night was pretty much dead on. Yup, nailed it!
As forecasted on the Our Picks page last week, we said that folks would start up the night at the Silver Moon for the gutted version of Larry and His Flask, and so they did. Music fans rocked the moon as the increasingly wacky yet acoustic members of LAHF tossed their bodies around the room. The band then offered up praise for Hillstomp, the Portland gritty blues duo playing across the street at the Domino Room and instructed its fans to head over to that show as they wrapped up their own set.
Relax, Mr. Tisdel. You've earned it.Editor's Note: This profile was originally slated to run in our Local
Heroes issue, but was inadvertently omitted. Better late than never, eh?
The
fact that Sisters has about 10 times as much musical energy as a
typical American town of its size is not an accident. While some of
this is due in part to the vein of creativity that seems to run through
the center of the cowboy town, a good deal of recognition also should
be handed to Brad Tisdel.
GROUCH: OUT TO STEAL YOUR CHRISTMAS.At the rate that hip-hop shows - both indie acts as well as
bling-and-boast rappers-are stomping through town as of late, it seems
we need a whole space dedicated to hip-hop music in this paper. While
we don't exactly have real estate reserved for that purpose quite yet,
we will give you a de facto column with this update on the Grouch and
Eligh show coming up at the Domino Room on Monday night.
New band, new hat, same duct-taped guitar.The last time I formally interviewed Leif James, it was a strangely
warm spring day in 2007. The article was about James' career as a
street performer and the quick rise to local notoriety of his then
band, Poor Bastard's Romance. After the interview he propped up in the
breezeway connecting Wall and Brooks streets and began strumming for
some extra beer money.
Last week, on the day after Thanksgiving, it
was a different Leif James sitting at a café table lining Bond Street.
First off, James is now married with his first child on the way.
Secondly, his Poor Bastard Romance days are long behind him, the band
having broken up in 2007, and now he's either playing his acoustic rock
songs solo or as a locally grown act he's dubbed Leif James and the
Struggle. And there's no longer any strumming for beer money.
Leif James & The Struggle
wednesday 3
We profile the new
reinvention of Leif James in the Sound section. Read that, then
immediately head to the Moon to see him and the Struggle rip it up with
an all-out acoustic rock show. 8pm. Silver Moon Brewing Co. 24 NW
Greenwood Ave.
DJ Barisone
thursday 4
Yeah, we've
spilled a lot of ink about DJ Barisone over the last year, but our
prolificacy of writing on this man is worth it - he throws some of the
best (if not the best) parties in town whenever he's behind the wheels.
So, spend your Thursday with Barisone for some worldly jams and healthy
amounts of funkalicious party music. 10pm. Bendistillery Martini Bar,
850 NW Brooks St.
On Saturday night, Empty Space Orchestra pretty much destroyed the Domino Room stage (not literally) with a freakishly tight set before Portland' Hillstomp further decimated said stage with their own killer set. Here's video of Empty Space at its best.
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