Plenty of celebrities have their own fan sites on the Web, but damn few have their own ANTI-fan sites. And now Bill Sizemore has joined that distinguished company.
Locked in a tight race with Jeff Merkley, Gordon Smith made a gutsy - and risky - move yesterday in voting for the $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill in the Senate.
As promised, here are the videos featured in the "You Get Tubed" story from this week’s special film issue.
Step into the barn at the Outback Music Festival.There's a good chance you already packed up all your summer music
festival gear…the folding chairs, the tent, the bug spray and even the
sequined cape and matching mask. You sealed all of these away for next
summer, when you'll reemerge from your winter cocoon come Memorial Day
Weekend just in time to head up to Sasquatch.
But head out to the
garage and start digging because the people who brought you the Coyote
Festival earlier this summer have made it their mission to extend
summer at least one more weekend for the Outback Music Festival. Held
in the same Summer Lake (near Paisley, Ore.) location of the Coyote
Fest, this event is slated to kick off on Friday and run until Sunday.
Organizers say the ticket fee covers your camping as well as access to
the hot springs located on site - not a bad deal at all, especially
when it means an extra week of summer (or at least summer mentality).
And Your mother said you’d never go anywhere without cleaning your room.After 12 minutes of conversation broken up by three dropped calls, I
realize that I've learned almost nothing remarkable about Omaha's
latest Saddle Creek Records phenom, Neva Dinova. Lead singer Jake
Bellows has jokingly (hopefully) claimed that the band puts ruffies
into the drinks of its naysayers and also asserted that he isn't all
that concerned with keeping up with new music before our communication
breakdown. Oh, and he's also stopped in mid sentence to chat to his
band mates about a moto-cross race track that the guys are driving past
somewhere outside of Tulsa.
The connection drops again and Bellows
calls back, this time on a different phone with much clearer reception
and with a strikingly different demeanor. He jumps immediately into
discussion about his folky, slightly alt-country sound that the band
has dubbed as "rural textures" and the fact that now, after 15 years in
existence, Neva Dinova has a well received record out on one of rock
music's more esteemed labels. Bellows suddenly isn't the asshole I'd
pegged him as.
"We never sit down and say 'let's make a song
that's influenced by this certain thing," Bellow says of his band's
tough-to-categorize take on indie folk rock.
Gordon Smith likes to describe himself as a uniter, not a divider, but his campaign is running an ad aimed at antagonizing rural Oregonians against those durn pinko elitists in Portland.
Last weekend saw a good chunk of the Westside occupied by local musicians and local music devotees for the Bend Roots Revival. Here’s some photos and video from that fest.
The Shire, the ill-fated, Tolkien-themed housing development on Bend's southeast side, has become a national symbol of the follies of the real estate bubble. Latest evidence: a mention in Harper's Index, the venerable monthly's compilation of interesting and quirky statistics.
The Eye found a surprise when we opened up our copy of The Bulletin on Sunday - an insert containing a DVD of a documentary called "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West."
The first big debate is over, the early reviews are in, and - predictably - both sides are saying they're happy with the way their guy did.
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