Many people have probably already seen this video from Michael Franti’s website, but for those of you not in the loop, you’ve got to check this out. After Franti’s show at the Les Schwab Amphitheater on August 5 he recorded this short web-isode for his FrantiV series boasting about how awesome Bend is.
Why we should hire Michael Franti to promote tourism in Bend
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The Latest Bulletin from Tax Hell
Here’s another bit of evidence that Oregon’s tax climate isn’t as toxic to business as conservatives make it out to be: Bend’s G5 Search Marketing announced this week that it’s getting a $15 million infusion of venture capital and plans to more than double its workforce.
The five-year-old company, which designs software to help businesses make their websites more effective in snagging visitors and customers, plans to add 20 employees by the end of the year and as many as 100 more within two years, according to co-founder and CEO Dan Hobin.
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4 Peaks Jamboree Changes Venue AGAIN! Now at original festival location
OK, so I’ve written in the past few weeks about how the 4 Peaks Jamboree, featuring the music of Poor Man’s Whiskey and taking place Saturday, had moved to West Wind Ranch, and then about how that event was canceled and the show would take place at the Domino Room.
WELL, now organizers have moved once again, back to the Rockin A Ranch (19449 Tumalo Reservoir Road), where the shindig was originally to take place.
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Pickathon Video Review
Have you checked out Source staffer Sara Roth’s review of Pickathon in this week’s paper? Well, if you haven’t, you should, so you — like I — can feel incredibly jealous for not having gone to the Portland-area rootsy music fest last weekend.
But your jealously can be assuaged, albeit slightly, by this video review, edited our own by Anne Pick.
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Dismayed Dems Demand: Where's Dudley?
The big question Oregon Democrats have been asking this campaign season is: “Why won’t Chris Dudley play a little one-on-one against John Kitzhaber?”
The former Portland Trail Blazer center who’s now the Republican candidate for governor has filled the airwaves with platitude-laden commercials (a new one was released yesterday) but has ducked opportunities to debate Democratic rival John Kitzhaber. On Tuesday Kitzhaber offered a list of seven events around the state where he’d be willing to debate Dudley.
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Don't Pick On Ronald
“McDonald's Super Sized Signage” (August 4), contains references to “super sized meals” and “oversized portions.”
To set the record straight, we eliminated the “Super Size” option from our menu six years ago (2004) and strive to offer our customers menu choices and variety such as, Premium Grilled Chicken Salads and Sandwiches, Fruit n Yogurt Parfaits and new Real Fruit Smoothies.
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Goats Do Roam: Goat meat and cheeses gathers a following
Goats have a long and storied history in farming cultures. One of the first domesticated animals, goats are still vital to many cultures and cuisines around the world – except for the United States.
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4 Peaks Jamboree Hits Permit Problems: Will now be at the Domino Room
OK, so last week I wrote a post about how the 4 Peaks Jamboree, featuring Poor Man’s Whiskey, was taking place at the West Wind Ranch near Tumalo on Saturday.
So yeah, here’s the deal — the county has decided that the 4 Peaks party, meant to be a fundraiser party of about 150 people to keep the festival going into the future, needs a mass gathering permit in order to proceed.
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Real Estate: Is the Bottom in Sight Yet?
Has the Bend real estate market hit bottom at last? It’s too soon to say, but at least it looks like home prices here have finally reached a realistic level.
IHS Global Insight, which maintains huge databases of all sorts of economic data, reported back in March that as of the end of 2009, real estate in the Bend Metropolitan Statistical Area was overvalued by only 2.
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Back to the '50s…or the '80s: Returning to Brownsville for the 25th anniversary of Stand By Me
On the evening of July 25 as we drove under the iconic green bridge and into downtown Brownsville, Oregon, we were transported onto the set of Stand By Me. Unchanged since filming in 1985, seemingly unchanged since the '50s, I asked Linda McCormick, organizer of the film's 25th anniversary celebration, what attracts fans to her quaint hometown.
“The '50s were a simple time for many people in America and coming to Brownsville is like stepping back in time,” she said.
But the Stand By Me celebration was no ordinary step-back. Sure, the buildings nestled on Main Street retained their almost overly nostalgic Norman Rockwell facades, but Brownsville swelled with tourists from all over the world. Big-city hipsters traded the obligatory glad rags for jeans, Chuck Taylors and white Ts, cigarette pack rolled up in one sleeve. Middle-aged men greased thinning hair into ducktails while teenage boys vied for a spot in the Cobras, Kiefer Sutherland's movie gang, which spent their free time playing mailbox baseball and carving tattoos into each other's arms by way of rusty knife.