From Kari Chisholm on the BlueOregon blog comes word that KGW-TV in Portland has launched a nightly half-hour program called "Decision 2008" that's entirely devoted to this year's election contests.
Although details are sketchy, Willamette Week is reporting that Gordon Smith's frozen food plant near Pendleton has been employing illegal immigrants for years.
Those Camels like it loud.The above photo is actually the cover art for Global Noize's
self-titled debut CD, if you can believe that. It's hardly the stuff of
multi-thousand-dollar photo shoots or commissioned artistic renderings
that are often found on CD covers. It's just two dudes standing next to
a couple of camels with some stacks of records and a few speakers
photoshopped in for extra pizzazz.
But those two dudes are Jason
Miles, the illustrious jazz keyboardist also known for his producing
career, and the dude on the right is none other than DJ Logic, the
expert turntablist known for his collaborations with a myriad of
musicians of varying genres. As for the camels, they remain
unidentified.
The photo was taken when Miles and Logic were in
Morocco prior to the birth of the world music project known as Global
Noize and the all-star band that then sprouted. If you ask Logic, he
says the image has some weight to it.
Forget the Madonna headset, David Allan Coe is a badass.Wayne Newcome now leads the local rock band Problem Stick but 25 years
ago he was driving a delivery truck in San Francisco and hating nearly
every song he heard on the radio. It was around this time that he
bought the 45 single of David Allan Coe's "Willie, Waylon and Me." Now,
a quarter of a century later, Newcome and Problem Stick take the stage
in an opening slot for Coe's Midtown Ballroom performance.
"When all
those stupid hair bands came out, I couldn't stand all that shit. So I
started listening to country music and that's when I bought my first
David Allan Coe 45," Newcome says.
Pity poor Joel and Ethan Coen. You make a masterpiece or two, and people start expecting it from you every time out.
Let's face it: Part of being a great artist in any field is the burden of high expectations. If you're Bob Dylan, and you produce an album that's merely good stuff by any other standard, the pundits will be lined up to shrug, "Meh, it's no Blonde on Blonde."
And in contemporary cinema, that's what you face if you're the Coens. Jon Favreau funnels Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man performance into a halfway competent comic-book movie, and he's the second coming of Steven Spielberg. Burn After Reading, on the other hand … well, it's no No Country for Old Men. Over 23 years of filmmaking, the Coens' worst movies-The Ladykillers, Intolerable Cruelty-have been better than anything 90 percent of filmmakers will ever make. Discovery-or its cousin, the comeback-makes so much more interesting a story than sustained quality.
Yet here the brothers are again, turning out another goofy, predictably unpredictable caper about people in over their heads. It all begins with Osborne Cox (John Malkovich), a hot-tempered CIA analyst whose demotion inspires his resignation, and plans for a tell-all memoir. But the notes for Cox's book wind up on the same disk as financial information for his wife Katie's (Tilda Swinton) planned divorce proceedings, which all inadvertently winds up in the hands of two D.C.-area fitness center employees. For Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand), the information could be the key to paying for the cosmetic surgery she longs for; and for her co-worker Chad (Brad Pitt) … well, it's something cool to do.
How many PBR tall boys does it take to satiate a few hundred Person People fans? We're afraid that his question falls straight into the owl with the Tootsie Pop arena of unsolved queries.
You see, when Person People launched into a loud-as-all-bejeezus set in the Parrilla Grill parking lot on Friday night to benefit the Divison Street Skatepark Project, the PBR was flowing like, well PBR.
Oregonian blogger Jeff Mapes had an interesting encounter at the Republican National Convention last week with Rick Berman, the Washington lobbyist behind those TV ads accusing Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Jeff Merkley of wanting to take away workers' right to a secret ballot.
Gordon Smith skipped the Republican National Convention in St. Paul this week, saying he needed to hit the campaign trail in Oregon. But he seems to have spent most of the week holed up at home in Pendleton.
The Central Oregon real estate market passed a milestone in August, but it's not one to brag about: Notices of default (NODs) surpassed home sales in Deschutes County.
Republican state treasurer candidate Allen Alley has found another "scandal" to attack his opponent Ben Westlund with, but this one looks even less credible than the 11-year-old "sex scandal" Alley tried to revive in late July.
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