Now that the summer tourist season has passed, we head into what the tourism people like to call the “shoulder season”. That’s shoulder, apparently, as in the link between the big summer and winter arms of tourism.
Stupid Tricks Season Winds Down
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Fighting the Socialist Menace of 1961
Our local daily newspaper offers a great editorial rant this morning about an impending socialist menace, warning ominously of “the specter of a vast and sprawling federal bureaucracy [that] is too horrible to contemplate.”
Is the editorial attacking liberal health care reform ideas like single-payer or the “public option”? Nope – it's attacking federal aid to education, and it came from the paper's archives of 1961.
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A Fall Folkie Favorite
There’s something comforting knowing that every year on the second weekend in September the Sisters Folk Festival (SFF) will take place. SFF is more than a music festival for many regulars.
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A Fall Flokie Favorite
There’s something comforting knowing that every year on the second weekend in September the Sisters Folk Festival (SFF) will take place. SFF is more than a music festival for many regulars.
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Mild-Mannered Merkley Turns Into a Tiger on Health Care
A freshman senator is expected to defer to his seniors, make no waves, and rise to address the chamber only on such controversial topics as the virtues of motherhood and the flag.
But not Oregon's Jeff Merkley, who came across as a bit of a Milquetoast during his campaigns but has become one of the Senate's firebrands on the subject of health care reform.
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A Sports Icon Fondly Remembered
Years ago when I aspired to become a professional tennis player, I worked at a Colorado resort hotel’s tennis facility. My job included cleaning the place, gathering balls for the pro during his lessons, playing with resort guests who needed a partner and stringing rackets.
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Go see “Cabaret” immediately
The entire Source staff headed to the Tower Theatre last night for the opening night performance of Cat Call Productions’ performance of Cabaret. All I can say, is go see this musical.
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A Sports Icon Fondly Remembered
Years ago when I aspired to become a professional tennis player, I worked at a Colorado resort hotel’s tennis facility. My job included cleaning the place, gathering balls for the pro during his lessons, playing with resort guests who needed a partner and stringing rackets.
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The Kitzhaber Bandwagon Gets More Crowded
Barring something totally unexpected, it looks more and more like John Kitzhaber will be the once and future governor of Oregon.
At a press conference yesterday the former two-term Democratic governor announced he's picked up a slew of endorsements from prominent state Democrats, including Treasury Secretary Ben Westlund, Superintendent of Public Instruction Susan Castillo and Attorney General John Kroger as well as 17 of the 54 Democratic state legislators, including Bend's Judy Steigler.
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Out of the Pigeonhole: The big year and big sound of Deer Tick
It's noon on a Monday and John Joseph McCaully III, riding in a bus somewhere between Colorado and Washington says, “We're basically trying not to die.”
The tour bus carrying the 24-year-old McCaully and the rest of his band, Deer Tick, has some sort of exhaust leak, or so says McCaully, who seems hardly worried about any real harm, or so it seems, given that they continue to drive. For a guy who's been on tour almost continuously for the past five years, vehicular malfunctions like this are probably old hat. The fact that his Americana-tinged rock band's latest record, Born on Flag Day, has escalated the Providence, R.I. quartet into the national media and onto many a summer festival stages, might also be a reason he's not too worried. Things seem to be going his way, so who cares about a little exhaust inhalation?