Do we want to be led down that same path that we seem to go each and every election year? We are bombarded by the media telling us whom the right candidate is for our best interests. I believe it is time for us as a community to stop and really think about the best candidate that would look out for our interests and not the party line's interests. Judy Stiegler has proven time and again that the only vote that she knows how to cast is a “YEA” vote when it comes to raising the taxes on her constituents. It is clear that we cannot afford another term of Steigler economics.
Kozak Is The Man For 54
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Built to Spill Coming to Bend
For the past couple of months, whenever I’ve checked the Random Presents website, I’ve been bummed to see that indie rock heroes Built to Spill were playing in Ashland in November, but not in Bend. But guess what happened when I checked the site today?
Yup, I saw that Built to Spill is, indeed, playing in Bend on November 11 at the Domino Room.
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Midwest Invasion: Atmosphere brings all their friends to Bend
Atmosphere, the indie hip-hop super group coming to Midtown on Tuesday, is one of those groups whose fans are just as cool as they are. More of a College Radio Top 10 chart topper than Top 40, Atmosphere is about as introspective as hip-hop can be without getting all emo. That hipster girl who you've seen studying race and pop culture at Thump? She's an Atmosphere fan. So is her professor, probably.
The group, which includes frontman Slug, producer Ant, Erick Anderson on keys and Nate Collis on guitar, has been making waves on the underground rap scene since 1994 and is a major reason you should head to Midtown on Tuesday. Their new album, a double EP titled To All My Friends, Blood Makes the Blade Holy, will only be for sale digitally on iTunes and Amazon, with CDs sold exclusively during the tour and through Fifth Element (fifthelementonline.com).
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Folk Fest 2010: back in the groove in Sisters
A year ago the annual Sisters Folk Festival (SFF) appeared to veer off mission in its pursuit of a younger audience (the current audience average age has to be in the late fifties) booking indie music bands and one group that sounded like they'd be more at home playing a frat party at OSU than at a folk festival.
Of course, there were some great folk singing staples mixed in and plenty of not overly amped music, but the trend to new music grated and didn't bode well for the venerable festival.
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Chelm-on-the-Deschutes Revisited: The Curb Ramp Fiasco
The humor writer Sholem Aleichem set many of his funny tales in Chelm, an Eastern European village whose inhabitants, according to folklore, were all complete idiots.
For instance, here’s a Chelm joke:
Two men from Chelm got jobs on a construction site.
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A Troubling Rise in Oregon Suicides
Oregon is ahead of the nation in at least one category, but it isn’t anything to rejoice over: The state’s suicide rate is more than one-third higher than the national rate, according to a report released yesterday by Oregon Public Health.
The report, titled ”Suicides in Oregon: Trends and Risk Factors,” found that in the period from 2000 to 2006 the suicide rate in Oregon was 15.
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Marz On The Move?
Bend's restaurant scene, particularly downtown, has seen more than its fair share of turnover in the past few years. Thankfully where restaurants have disappeared others have been quick to take their places – at least in most instances.
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Marz On The Move?
Bend's restaurant scene, particularly downtown, has seen more than it's fair share of turnover in the past few years. Thankfully where restaurants have disappeared others have been quick to take their places – at least in most instances.
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No Longer A Player
We’ve heard whispers for several weeks and, while we still haven’t gotten official confirmation from the current owners, it appears that Players Bar and Grill is ending its long run as a destination for fans of live metal, rock, hip hop. Players is apparently putting on its final shows over the next few weeks, winding down its live music by the end of the month as the new ownership takes the reins at the hard drinking and hard rocking nightclub, according to one local bandleader who has been working with the club recently.
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Dudley Ducks Labor Day Debate
It’s an American tradition for political candidates to show up at Labor Day picnics, and John Kitzhaber and Chris Dudley both upheld the tradition – but in different cities.
Republican Dudley put in an appearance at a picnic in Bend sponsored by the Central Oregon Labor Council.