Water World, Hold the Costner

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Water World, Hold the Costner

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There used to be a bartender in Denver who wore a button that said, “Ask me about water, no ice.” Only the truly daring would venture the question because the answer was a whirlwind of hate and distaste she had for those who didn't just take their water from the tap with some ice cubes in it. I don't share this hatred, but I am always amazed by all of the creative ways people have found to enjoy one of life's simplest pleasures.
A lot can be learned from the person who places a water order.
No ice? You think a lot about hydration and you don't sip your water you inhale it. You will drink at least three full glasses of water in long gulps and the only reason you stop devouring it is because you don't know what's going on in conversation as you've spent most of the evening making trips to the restroom.

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Full-On Party: The happy hour funk (and honky tonk and rock) of The Quick & Easy Boys

Mike Bookey

It's a Friday afternoon in Portland and like so many others of us on this, or any other Friday afternoon, Sean Badders is trying to make it to happy hour in time.
But he's not rushing to grab a cheap beer and some discounted hot wings. Rather, Badders is en route to meet up with the two other members of his band, The Quick & Easy Boys, at the Laurelthirst Public House. This is where for the past year the band could be found about once a month, playing to the sort of crowd that likes to, as Badders puts it, “dance at six o'clock in the afternoon.”
For the past couple years, people have been gladly dancing and drinking along to the sounds of The Quick & Easy Boys in Portland as well as the other cities through which the band has toured. They've become, in a way, the ideal bar band – a three piece rooted in rock and roll that wears its funk and honky tonk influences on its sleeve. Maybe this is what the Hold Steady would sound like if they came up in Oregon and not New York City.

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How I Figured out Larry and His Flask are Getting Huge

Mike Bookey

OK, so I'm pretty damn sure that Larry and his Flask are opening some East Coast shows for Dropkick Murphys.
How do I know this? Here's the story:
Central Oregon's own acoustic Americana-meets-punk band is pretty much always on tour – the exception being their recent stay in town where they've been playing a string of local shows, including a Wednesday night residency down at Mountain's Edge.
So it wasn't a surprise to see that their MySpace page now features a long list of shows as far off as Virginia, keeping the boys on the road well into mid-March. But then I started noticing the venues they were playing: House of Blues (Atlantic City, Dallas and Orlando), Austin's famed Stubb's and a few other high-profile names. These are big rooms – larger than the clubs, bars and living rooms LAHF has made a career out of playing for the past several years.

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Spoon: Transference

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Spoon
Transference
Merge Records

It doesn't take long for lead singer and songwriter Britt Daniel and the rest of this Austin-based outfit to establish on Transference that they're more than capable of picking up where they left off with the outstanding 2007 effort Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. But it's where the band goes from there that really makes Transference shine, not just apart from the rest of the band's catalog, but apart from most of the other indie pop style offerings out there.

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Our Picks for 1/27 – 2/4: John Cruz, Ruins of Ooah, The Quick & Easy Boys and more

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John Cruz
wednesday 27
This Grammy-winning Hawaiian guitarist and songwriter descends on the Silver Moon for a rare Oregon appearance. Cruz is a legend on the islands, but also has a strong following on the mainland that includes folks like Eddie Vedder and Trey Anastasio, the latter of whom he collaborated with to create Trey's solo cut “A Case of Ice and Snow.” $10/adv at bendticket.com, $12/door. 8pm. Silver Moon Brewing Co., 24 NW Greenwood Ave.
Grouch & Eligh, Lucky I Am, Sunspot Jonz, Marv Ellis, Minscape, UNON
thursday 28
This massively huge hip-hop celebration brings five members of the storied California indie rap collective Living Legends and will likely bring out many a healthy chunk of Bend's relatively sizeable hip-hop contingent. And yes, the members of the Legends will be performing together. Also on the bill is Oregon rapper Marv Ellis (known for his multiple performances at the Bendistillery Martini Bar), who will be playing with a full band. You can find some local talent at the show as well with UNON, the collaborative effort between Cloaked Characters and Mosley Wotta. All ages. 8pm. Midtown Ballroom, 51 NW Greenwood Ave. $22/advance, $25/day of show.

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Poor Man's Whiskey Returns to the Domino Room in Bend March 13

The Source Staff

I just got word that Poor Man’s Whiskey, the Bay Area band that’s secured Bend as its home away from home over the past three years, is coming back to the Domino Room on March 13.
The last time the PMW came through town was in October when the band played its “Dark Side of the Moonshine” – an Americana version of the Pink Floyd classic – and sold out the Domino Room, packing it full of lasers and stage lights, and of course a few hundred dancing Bendites.

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Turf Warfare: The City Girds for a Fight Over Growth Plan

Eric Flowers

Anybody who has followed the Bend City Council for any length of time knows that the seven-member body doesn't agree on much. But when state land-use planners flatly rejected the city's proposal to expand Bend's urban area after five years of planning work, public meetings and countless hours of staff time, the city council took exception.
It voted unanimously earlier this month to put the planners back to work immediately crafting an appeal to the state, which the city expects to file by Friday outlining the defense of its ambitious 20-year growth plan that would potentially increase the size of Bend's urban area by almost a third by 2030.
It's a plan that not everyone agrees upon, including, ironically, some of its biggest supporters in the building and development community. It turns out the politics of drawing lines on a map run deep. But as the city prepares for a legal battle with the state over its proposal, some wonder whether the ambitious plan is worth defending, particularly in light of the current economic climate with housing and other economic activity at a virtual standstill.

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Wyden Takes On the Smurfers

The Source Staff

To a chemist, pseudoephedrine is “a sympathomimetic drug of the phenethylamine and amphetamine classes.” To a cold or allergy sufferer, it's the stuff in Sudafed and similar remedies that unstuffs his stuffy nose.
But to somebody who wants to cook up some methamphetamine, pseudoephedrine is a main ingredient. And that's a problem.
Small-scale meth manufacturers are a menace, and not just because they make meth. The meth-making process involves a stew of chemicals – phosphorus, ether, mercury, hidrotic acid – that's potentially explosive and creates a hazard for anybody who goes near it. Cleaning up this toxic gunk after a meth lab is busted costs thousands of dollars.

Posted inOpinion

Friends and Lovers: Prineville welcomes Facebook with open arms and pockets, a Supreme reversal and more!

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The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from President Obama's State of the Union Address, offering hope in the form of hankies to Democrats – on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly.
This Isn't Fake News
Governor Ted Kulongoski didn't bother to show up as Facebook announced last Thursday that it will build its latest data center in Prineville. Seriously, we aren't making this up: The 124-acre site (which Facebook reportedly settled on because of local climate conditions and generous tax breaks from Prineville and the state of Oregon) will soon harvest and house all of our data for resale to compassionate corporations (err, “all Americans” – see below story), and cost an estimated $188 million, with company site spokesman Tom Furlong saying, “We are very excited to be able to put it in Prineville.” Again, this is actually happening – in Prineville! Creating 200 jobs during its year-long construction and employing 35 full-time workers and “dozens more part-time and contract employees” (quoting the press release) afterward, the data center will surely confuse local cowboys and livestock rustlers, yet diversify Prineville's exports/imports from manufacturing then recycling rubber tires. Until Facebook is replaced by another impossibly unprofitable Internet company, and then the data center will be abandoned, much like Bend's big plans for similar business booms, like Juniper Ridge (remember that mess?), La Pine's efforts to corner the Meth market, and Redmond's claim as having the most used car lots on a single road.

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