MONDAY 7 France is currently under siege from a scourge far worse than the great Parisian herpes outbreak of 1987. That’s right, preggo Kim Kardashian and her bamboozled baby-daddy Kanye West are in Paris. Today the loathsome pair were spotted spending oodles of francs at fancy-pantsy boutiques and dining at the uber-posh L’Avenue restaurant. Before […]
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Enough of the Fury Over Sound
Century Center held its last show on New Year's Eve, causing critics of the city’s new noise ordinance to shake their heads and bemoan the law as draconian and the reason for the center’s closure. Really, it’s time to move on. It's often said that a good compromise leaves all parties equally dissatisfied. By that […]
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The Week in Review
MONDAY 31 Let’s end 2012 with the absolute worst news ever reported in the history of the universe EVER. Kim Kardashian is pregnant with Kanye West’s baby! Shocking millions around the globe who’d naturally assumed that a human could never successfully mate with a reptilian gargoyle, Kanye broke the terrible news to 5,000 New Jersey […]
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Wildness Mirrors Community's Deepest Values, Not a Pond
Mirror Pond is a vanishing mirage. The body of water adored as an icon of Bend—its crystalline surface reflecting pine trees and snow-capped mountains—exists only on the city's stylized logo. The logo romanticizes a shallow, man-made puddle off Drake Park, a deepening heap of mud over which a clogged crook of the Deschutes River spreads […]
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The week in review
LAST WEEK, DEARS, we listed the candidates for The Absolute Worst Person in the World for 2012 Ever—and they included everyone from faves like Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen to Kim Kardashian and Rush Limbaugh. But when it came time to pick the Absolute Worst Person in the World for 2012? Sadly, it wasn’t even […]
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Let's Make Sandy Hook the Fulcrum of Historic Change
The NRA wields astonishing influence on public opinion and election outcomes. It uses incessant propaganda to make the asinine seem reasonable—insisting, for example, that bona fide sportsmen need rapid-fire rifles to bag rabbits. It even defends the liberty of disturbed individuals with violent histories to obtain weapons of mass murder with nothing but twitching greenbacks […]
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It’s time again to fill our martini glass with the cheapest gin imaginable and release our nominations for The Absolute Worst Person in the World for 2012 Ever! Last year it was malodorous gargoyle Kim Kardashian—who will top the list in 2012? Here are your top nine nominees… with the absolute worst person in the […]
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The Week in Review
MONDAY 10 Serial criminal Lindsay Lohan strikes again! (Though this may be the one instance where she won’t be carted off to the pokey.) As you certainly know and have gagged about, Lindsay Lohan is totes OBSESSED with admittedly hunky Max George of boy band The Wanted. She’s been following the band around, and has […]
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Preserve the cultural tax credit
Dec. 1 marked the 10-year anniversary of Oregon's cultural tax credit, an extraordinarily effective incentive to contribute to the cultural life of the state's people and visitors. Because the credit, in effect, empowers Oregon arts patrons to earmark some of their tax dollars for the arts and cultural preservation, it predictably comes under fire when […]
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Swooshed
Nike is planning to expand, and Gov. John Kitzhaber wants Oregon to benefit. He has called a special session of the Legislature on Friday. He’s hoping lawmakers will consider authorizing him to freeze the way the state assesses corporate taxes for the footwear giant if it creates the big job numbers its leaders says it […]
