This time of year it’s a treat to spend an evening reading a great adventure book. A book full of timeless tales that when can re-read years after a first reading still have some impact.
A Good Read; adventure tales for a long winter night
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Arrrrr! Pirate Rock at the Silver Moon Tonight with Deadly Gallows
We’re all aware of punk rock and surf rock and indie rock and alternative rock, but there’s plenty of other rock genres out there, one of which has recently come to my attention: pirate rock. And yes, the music sounds exactly like the name suggests — lots of angry growls and talks of planks and such.
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Chris Telfer's Magical Pot o' Gold
State Sen. Chris Telfer (R-Bend) continues to insist there are hidden billions that the state could tap into to erase its budget deficit without a tax increase – even though the state Department of Administrative Services says, in effect, that she's full of it.
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Bill Bradbury Brings His Campaign to Bend
Sitting in a wood-and-canvas director's chair at the front of a mostly full room at the Central Oregon Environmental Center last night, former Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury introduced his campaign for governor to Bend.
Wearing a suit with a red shirt and blue tie – prototypical candidate attire – and with the Segueway he uses to get around due to his multiple sclerosis leaning against the front wall, Bradbury spoke to and fielded questions from 60-some members of the Deschutes Democrats.
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Another Bank Heist: Reid vs. Obama, China vs. Detroit, and Mick vs. Capitalism
The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from “Avatar” – a futuristic and fabulous world with no plot and subpar acting but, hey, it looks great – on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly.
Whachusay?
Cracker Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader, said that mayonnaise-loving Americans were ready for someone “light-skinned” speaking to them with “no Negro dialect” during the Presidential race in 2008. Retroactively reported by fellow SPF 95-users Mark Halperin and John Heilemann in their book “Game Change” this non-news is being touted by minority-loving Republicans (with African-American GOP Chairman Michael Steele the face of the attack, of course) to make Reid step down and Obama to at last admit he was kidnapped while doing community service work in Chicago and brainwashed by China – A Manchurian Candidate who won not because George W. Bush was an awful president and challengers John “I'm Not Creepy” McCain/Sarah “Huh?” Palin sub-par, but rather, because he's an eloquent, intelligent, and inspirational light-skinned black man.
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Five Ring Circus: Let the Games Begin
While the big news at NBC Television is the squabble over the Tonight Show time slot between Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno, there's another story at the network that's equally interesting to some. It's the story of how NBC is taking a bath (to the tune of $200 million) on advertising for the upcoming Winter Olympics is Vancouver.
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Film Tonight in Bend: “Beautiful Losers” – A Story of Street Art
The kind and always hip folks at PoetHouse Art are hosting a screening of the acclaimed documentary Beautiful Losers, which tells the story of the evolution of street art in the US.
The film covers graffiti art and other mediums influenced by the punk, hip-hop and anti-establishment movements found in many American cities beginning in the 1980s and continuing today.
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This Is Getting Embarrassing
The anti-Measure 67 forces continue to have a real problem finding a bona fide small business in Oregon that actually would be hurt by it.
In early December they mass-mailed a “personal letter” from Tillamook dairy owner Carol Marie Leuthold expressing fear that M67 would “hurt our farm and the families it supports.
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Video From the Finn Riggins Show Last Night
Boise’s Finn Riggins played McMenamins Old St. Francis School last night here in Bend to a mostly subdued and seated, yet still numerous and attentive crowd.
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Old School: Kayo’s new dinner house plans and Oxford’s 10 Below
10 Below and the Oxford Hotel are set to officially open this week. Located in the lower lobby of the hotel, 10 Below gets its name from the hotel's street address (10 NW Minnesota). The menu ($8-25), by Chef Sam Reed, formerly of Sunriver Resort and The Biltmore in Arizona, is sure to please. Local Bendite Todd Lambert joins Reed as Sous Chef at what is likely to be a new hotspot in Bend. The bar features a high-end selection of liquors. The décor alone is worth the trip. Shiny, white antler looking light fixtures adorn the ceiling; a colorful wall of woven lights blurs the line between function and art; sculptural tree stumps, saplings, and cross-sections pay tribute to the eco-friendly, environmentally-conscious tagline of the Oxford Hotel.