Before I left on a glorious, glorious, non-blogging and out-of-the-office vacation, I chatted with Mat Kearney about his musical career and what it’s like to make music for television doctors to make out to. You can read about that here.
Mat Kearney Tonight at the Domino Room
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Do You Know Dudley? Dems Think You Don't
Democrats have launched a new website, You Don’t Know Dudley.com, attacking GOP gubernatorial candidate Chris Dudley.
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LandWatch Goes to the Mattresses Over Resorts
The fight over Deschutes County’s new destination resort rules isn’t finished yet: Central Oregon LandWatch has put the county on notice that it plans to challenge them.
LandWatch filed “notices of intent to appeal” Thursday with the state Land Use Board of Appeals, charging that the county’s new rules for determining what lands are eligible for resorts “actually increase the development potential in the county.
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LandWatch Goes to the Mattresses Over Resorts
The fight over Deschutes County's new destination resort rules isn't finished yet: Central Oregon LandWatch has put the county on notice that it plans to challenge them.
LandWatch filed ìnotices of intent to appealî Thursday with the state Land Use Board of Appeals, charging that the county's new rules for determining what lands are eligible for resorts ìactually increase the development potential in the county.
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Eats: paradise is nothing without fancy restaurants
It was a mixed group, a few longtime Bend residents and some more recent arrivals. As the conversation turned to the pluses and minuses of living in our fair city, the longtime residents seemed a bit jaded in their outlook; the newer residents were more of the Bend as paradise-on-earth mindset.
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High Country: big views, granite rock and starry nights
Take Yosemite National Park around Tuolumne Meadows and environs, combine it with the best of the mountains of southern Colorado and you have Oregon’s Wallowa Mountains. Yosemite for the granite rock and southern Colorado for the high alpine valleys cut by meandering crystal clear streams.
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Dudley Kicks Mannix Measure to the Curb
Kevin Mannix, who lost as a candidate for governor, state attorney general and congressman, has had a more successful career pushing get-tough-on-crime measures. But he’s finding it tough to get traction with this year’s entry – even among some of his fellow Republicans.
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Video of The Autonomics from the Hump Day Hash at the Century Center
With such an awesome line up of music Wednesday night, you couldn’t go wrong wherever you ended up. I hit up the Hump Day Hash featuring The Autonomics at the new Century Center, and I’ve got to say seeing the venue, it’s got me pretty stoked for Bend Roots.
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What's Your Cinderella Pint? Let our Brewfest bracketology be your drinking guide
Editor's Note: This Friday and Saturday beer drinkers from around Central Oregon and beyond will file into the Les Schwab amphitheater for the chance to sample craft beers from around Oregon and the Western United States as part of the 2010 Bend Brewfest. If you like beer, and we know that you do, this is simply The Place To Be this weekend as the hop-ified liquid goodness flows from the taps. In recognition of this great gathering of fermented malts, we're offering a different kind of guide to the event. In a nod to March Madness, we've developed our own bracketology methodology for you to rate and compare the two dozen breweries on hand. The match-ups are beyond arbitrary (they're in alphabetical order). So drink up and have fun filling out your brackets. We're all winners when beer is the game.
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In the Mix: Solid Hawaiian Fare comes to the Old Mill
Bend seems to have a connection with Hawaii. More than a few people I know have traded their surfboards and suntans for snowboards and four seasons (theoretically). But one thing islanders refuse to give up is Hawaiian cuisine and for that we can all be thankful. Hawaiian fare is no-fuss goodness – slow-roasted meats and fish prepared in Asian and Pacific Island styles, melding the Hawaiian population's various cultures. And Bendites are lucky enough to have not one, but two, authentic Hawaiian joints, Aloha Café and Big Island Kona Mix Plate, the latter of which recently relocated from a less than convenient 3rd Street location to a prime spot next to the Regal Cinema in the Old Mill, formerly occupied by Quiznos subs.
The new Kona Mix Plate is about half the size of the old store, but the location makes up for the lack of space. I recently visited Kona Mix Plate for lunch and the place was bustling with moviegoers and shoppers hankering for some island fare.