The Bend Barrio: Say 'Hello' to Nouveau Peruvian-Mexican food at Hola!

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The Bend Barrio: Say 'Hello' to Nouveau Peruvian-Mexican food at Hola!

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Since opening in 2007, Hola! has become a mainstay for consistent Latin cuisine. With a menu that features traditional dishes from Peru & Mexico and an extensive tequila bar, Hola! offers authenticity without overkill, relying on fresh, hand-made dishes and a casual, fun dining experience. From tableside guacamole ($9), to shaker-size margarita portions ($7-10), and two convenient locations serving lunch and dinner, say hello to a seasoned restaurant with staying power.
Visiting the East Side location for lunch, the intoxicating smells of tortilla chips frying and carne asada roasting took me back to the year I spent in the Barrio of Tucson, Arizona. Back then, I lived beside the oldest Mexican restaurant in town, El Charro, where house specialty carne seca was air dried daily in a cage hanging over the roof. The smell of Mexican comfort food is as much of a feature of life in the Barrio as the sweltering heat, and the smell of Hola! reminded me of Tucson.

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The Bend Barrio: Say 'Hello' to Nouveau Peruvian-Mexican food at Hola!

Source Weekly

Since opening in 2007, Hola! has become a mainstay for consistent Latin cuisine. With a menu that features traditional dishes from Peru & Mexico and an extensive tequila bar, Hola! offers authenticity without overkill, relying on fresh, hand-made dishes and a casual, fun dining experience. From tableside guacamole ($9), to shaker-size margarita portions ($7-10), and two convenient locations serving lunch and dinner, say hello to a seasoned restaurant with staying power.
Visiting the East Side location for lunch, the intoxicating smells of tortilla chips frying and carne asada roasting took me back to the year I spent in the Barrio of Tucson, Arizona. Back then, I lived beside the oldest Mexican restaurant in town, El Charro, where house specialty carne seca was air dried daily in a cage hanging over the roof. The smell of Mexican comfort food is as much of a feature of life in the Barrio as the sweltering heat, and the smell of Hola! reminded me of Tucson.

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Teaching the Punks to Dance: The Redwood Plan, with a lively attorney at the helm, bring dance-punk down from Seattle

Mike Bookey

Lesli Wood, her short, asymmetrical hairstyle streaked with fire engine red, is rarely still on stage. She claps, she jumps and, now, with her new band, The Redwood Plan, she dances.
After a decade spent at the helm of Seattle punk act Ms. Led, Wood is now wrapping up her first year with The Redwood Plan, the dance-rock quartet she formed with several other mainstays of the Seattle's rock scene. Her crowds have traded mosh pits for hip-shaking, but the Lesli Wood that earned a reputation as the political rabble-rousing lead singer of Ms. Led still rocks.
She still rocks, that is, when she's on tour, like she'll be this week when she comes to Bend's Players Bar and Grill on Friday, but during most days, Wood, like so many of us, is behind a desk. You see, though her mostly black clothes and aforementioned distinct haircut might not suggest it, Wood is an attorney and has been for the past five years.

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Darwin At COCC

Eric Flowers

As a professional biologist, Jay Bowerman can probably be excused for taking a purely non-political perspective on his latest endeavor, a nearly yearlong series of lectures on Charles Darwin and his landmark work on natural selection and the accompanying theory of evolution. A former president and executive director at the Sunriver Nature Center and Observatory, Bowerman has long been fascinated by the lasting impact of Darwin's theories and the evolving scientific framework, which Bowerman calls “an incredible unifying theory for all the life sciences.” Not unlike the theory of relativity in physics, just about every process in the natural sciences can be traced back to Darwin's pioneering theories.

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Past the Coolers, Up the Stairs: Tew Boots Gallery takes art to the second level

Mike Bookey

Through the Bond Street Market's door, past the buzzing coolers and the bottles of beer and soda they dutifully keep cool, there's a hairpin turn that leads up a staircase lined on one side by a row of ascending paintings, some featuring the increasingly recognizable iconography of emerging Bend artist Alex Reisfar. At the top of the stairs on most days, or at least afternoons and evenings, you'll find Annie Shininger and her Tew Boots Gallery.
On an inversion-dampened afternoon, Shininger is in her second-level gallery looking over the current works on display through her distinctively vintage cat-eyed glasses. My Morning Jacket's “One Big Holiday” emanates from speakers on Shininger's desk, bouncing off the art-covered walls of the cozy albeit small space, as she takes a second to reflect on the current state of Bend's art scene.

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Our Picks for 1/13 – 1/21: Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Thomas Jefferson and more

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Problem Stick, The Dirty Words
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It's a match made in distortion pedal heaven when these two local rock bands join forces to fuzz up your brain at the newly revamped Mountain's Edge. And if the wrecked sounds of Problem Stick don't do it for you, check out front man Morgan P. Salvo's film review of the vampire-o-riffic flick Daybreakers in the film section. 9pm. Mountain's Edge Bar, 61161 S Hwy 97.
Deadly Gallows, Larry and His Flask, Bo Deens
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You just don't hear enough pirate bands these days, do ya? In fact, anywhere outside of the Caribbean (by which we mean the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland) you don't hear pirate tunes at all. Well, Reno's Deadly Gallows are a self-professed band of pirates (or “pirate band”) who will make you want to wear an eye patch. Local acoustic punks Larry and His Flask open the show. $5. 8:30pm. Silver Moon Brewing Co., 24 NW Greenwood Ave.

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Take This Plan And Shove It: DLCD gives Bend's growth plan a formal rejection

Eric Flowers

It's been five plus years in the making and it's apparently going to be at least a few more months – if not years – before the proposed urban growth boundary expansion in Bend is finalized. The city got the formal rejection letter earlier this week from state land use regulators at the Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) whose staff had long voiced skepticism about the scope of Bend's proposed urban expansion. In its 156-page rejection letter, or 'remand' in planning speak, DLCD said that while an expansion of Bend's urban area is merited given the growth patterns (another 40,000 residents are expected in the city over the next 20 years) the current proposal from city staff is simply too big – four square miles too big by DLCD's calculations. In addition to the city's proposed land expansion, DLCD staff also sent the city back to the drawing board for its accompanying facilities plan.

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Behind the Lens: Local teen filmmakers tackle C-SPAN's StudentCam Documentary Contest

Anne Pick

“It's the biggest amount of joblessness anyone's ever seen and it's affecting a lot of people and businesses. Also, Bend is one of the worst towns when it comes to the economy.”
Such sentiments have been tossed around in conversation for a couple years now, but it might come as a surprise to learn that these are the words of a 15-year-old Bend High freshman. Her name is Beth Miller and she is one of the eight middle and high school students gathered at the downtown Bend Boys and Girls Club to begin work on a video project sponsored by C-SPAN.

Posted inOpinion

Destructive Morons

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There are no astrological indications that 2010 is the Year of the Destructive Moron, but here in Oregon this week we made a damn good case for such a declaration. Only a destructive moron would be ripe with sort of Voldemort-like evilness required to leave a pug puppy in a plastic garbage bag on the side of a rural road north of Bend.

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The Same Old “Death Tax” Lies

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The United States enacted the federal estate tax in 1916, and conservatives have been trying to get rid of it ever since. Over the decades they've propagated an astonishing array of half-truths and untruths, such as labeling it “the death tax.” (Rest assured that you can die anywhere in the United States without having to pay a tax to do it.)
Carrying on that long tradition of dissimulation, Congressman Greg Walden sent a letter to constituents at the end of last year explaining why he voted against HR 4154, a bill to permanently set the tax at 2009 levels.
The lies begin in the first paragraph: “Estate tax may sound harmless, but here's what it is: the government taxing, when you pass away, about half of what you've worked in a lifetime to save.”

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