There's really no point in complaining or even commenting about the weather in Central Oregon. It's just to predictably unpredictable.
The Spring Stud Storm
Posted inOpinion
You Keep A Knockin'
Dear Mr. Conger,
Please stop knocking on doors. You agitate my dogs when you do so. Surprisingly, some of us like to sleep in on the weekends. Please stop using paper door hangers to promote yourself. You talk about wanting a “Green revolution” for Oregon yet you are wasting paper products on doorknobs to promote yourself (interestingly enough, they are not printed on recycled paper.) Are you riding your bicycle around town while you promote yourself or are you being shuttled around in a gas-powered vehicle? If so, is it a hybrid or electrical vehicle? I would guess you're an SUV man.
Posted inNews
Free Beer!
Okay, so maybe that’s a little misleading. But Tyler and the gang over at Silver Moon are discounting pints of Bandlands Bitter this afternoon as part of ONDA’s Badlands Bash at the pub.
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Number One Reason to Have Kids: So you can make them recreate “Scarface”
No, I’m not serious. Well, not that serious.
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Short Takes: Alley, Sizemore and the Redmond’s Road to Nowhere
Republican Allen Alley, running for governor of Oregon, is attacking the way things are done in .
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Final Four: A victory for fans outside of New Yawk
Easily the best thing about this year's Final Four is the absence of a New Yawk team, or some other big East Coast metro college team, and all the attendant hype that they invariably get from Dickie V and all the talking head experts on ESPN who refer to the game being played as “basketbawl”. Thankfully we won't hear a lot of: ” Hey, I love Jimmy B and da Cuse and he'll have the big ones taking it to the rack and the small ones hoisting up trifectas,” blither.
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Video of Norman and The Dimes From Saturday Night’s Portland Indie Invasion
On Saturday night in the newly refurbished Old Stone Church, some of the most honestly awesome rock music I’ve heard in Bend in quite some time was being played. Sure, this was the Portland Indie Invasion, which our paper sponsored, but that’s not weighing into my opinion.
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Pinback Returning to Bend July 8
Things just keep looking better and better for the summer music scene here in Bend — and doubly so now that it’s been announced that progressive popsters Pinback are playing the Domino Room on July 8.
The band played a sold-out show at the Domino in February of 2007, but haven’t been back since.
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Teamwork: On Becoming a Pilot Butte Greenwave Hoops Fan
After close to 40 years of participating in, writing about and photographing individual self-propelled sports, I recently developed a passion for a team sport. Not any team sport.
Posted inCulture
Playing God: Latest God of War serves up the gore gleefully
It's almost impossible for any God of War-type game to distinguish itself – even God of War III. The first game's formula, featuring hordes of enemies and weapons swinging in all directions, has been copied so much (and sometimes so well) that it has pushed the designers of God of War III to try a change of scale rather than style. Now, Kratos – the angry mortal hero on a mission to destroy the gods – is lost in ever-larger environments, to the point that he often becomes a dot in the landscape.
In the background, the peaks of Mount Olympus and the cliffs of the Underworld glow like dioramas lit with colored Christmas lights. In these settings, Kratos resembles a plastic figurine, clinging to walls like he had been glued on and sometimes even hovering slightly above the ground as though he were being held by an invisible hand.
