Family Ties Riff Rankled

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Family Ties Riff Rankled

Source Weekly

The “In Their Own Words” quips about the personal lives of the actors in the show Family Ties failed in its attempts at humor. It crossed the lines into the insipid and insulting.
Meredith Baxter – Birney: “prefers girls. What an episode that could have been.” Perhaps some humor could have been found in this statement had it not been published in a newspaper which avoids sexual orientation stereotypes.
Justine Bateman: “played a prostitute on her brother's show.” She is an actor playing a character on “Arrested Development,” an intelligent comedy and was paid for doing so. Where is the punch line?

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Beating the Vegas Odds

The Source Staff

Bend led the nation in declining home prices in the third quarter of 2009, besting (if that’s the right word) even Las Vegas, according to the IHS Global Insight index.
Oregonian real estate blogger Ryan Frank writes that IHS’s latest “House Prices in America” report shows home prices in Bend dropping 5.

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Mississippi, Here We Come

The Source Staff

An Oregon State University economist has come out with a report pretty much demolishing the conservative propaganda that Oregon is Tax Hell and two measures on the January ballot will make it much worse.
William Jaeger compared tax rates in Oregon with those of other states over a period of 17 years and found that, as a percentage of personal income, the nationwide average state tax rate has remained a fairly steady 6.

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Skate Or Die: Catch a RIDE with Tony Hawk

Source Weekly

I'm writing this in a sweat – the cool kind of sweatthat comes from several hours of physical activity in the rancid heat of southern California's L.A. River – which despite its name is really a meandering aqueduct of ridges, ditches, basins and bowls. It'san ideal environment for skateboarding, and Tony Hawk RIDE uses it as an early racetrack. Like all the cities and skateparks in the game, it has its secrets and sweet spots. I've been skating through its tangle of asphalt for the past few hours trying to find the best route through the racetrack, and it's making me sweat.

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The Beautiful Game: The Damned United takes us back to the days before Beckham

Holly Grigg-Spall

The Damned United is the well-told true story of the rapid rise and crashing fall of Brian Clough, English soccer manager, whose disastrous 44-day stint with top team Leeds United was mythologized by novelist David Peace in his 2006 book of the same title. For many, this one man's life may at first seem a rather small slice of 1970s history, but director Tom Hooper and actor Michael Sheen combine forces to present an expertly executed and involving tale of ambition, ego and self-destruction that has far-reaching appeal. This was a time before David Beckham, when footballers were idolized but a long way from becoming brands, when a player commanded a salary of only $500 a week.

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