Our Picks for the Week 8/28-9/3

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Our Picks for the Week 8/28-9/3

Anne Pick

Ween
friday 28
This deliriously odd alternative rock duo that pushes beyond parody. See this week's profile. $33. 6:30pm. Les Schwab Amphitheater, 344 SW Shevlin-Hixon
Dr. Jeremy Michael Cashman
friday 28
Tuscon, Arizona-based trio Jeremy Michael Cashman has been around since 2005, but doesn't play live very often. Because of that they've got to make it good when they do plug in. The band consists of Jeremy Michael Cashman on guitar and vocals, Davey Hendrickson on bass and saxophone and Noah Thomas on moog, theremin and trumpet. Cashman is inspired by love and relationships making for troubling and personal tunes. 8:30pm-2am. Free. Astro Lounge, 147 NW Minnesota Ave.

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Crossing Over: Bend's own Dirty Snowflake Apparel makes clothes for anywhere

The Source Staff

Editor’s Note: For more Fall Style, check out this week’s special issue.
If you're like me, you don't enjoy changing your clothes more than once a day. You want to wake up, shower off if you find it necessary, dress in the outfit you've committed to for that particular day and then bike your way to work. And you don't want to change clothes, even if you want to, for example, hit up the rock climbing gym after work.
Bend's own Dirty Snowflake Apparel has focused on the idea of “crossover clothing” with its newly unveiled line of goods. Douglas Robertson, the former owner of Bluefish Bistro, and his business partner and fiancée, Dara Robson, founded the fledgling company in January of this year. Robertson says the mission of Dirty Snowflake was to combine style with casual clothing – something that's not always easy. For example, your boss probably isn't too thrilled with your Costco sweatpants by now.

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Turn On, Tune In and Try Not to Drop Out: The slow-developing shake up in the local TV market

Daniel Pearson

It's a little after 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 25, and KOHD-TV General Manager Jerry Upham just learned of the news story that would dominate all U.S. media for the next week-or-so – the kind of story the 23-year TV news veteran wishes his station could break to Central Oregon viewers.
“Michael Jackson just died,” Upham said. “It's showing up on the New York Times web site but nowhere else just yet.” He checks the web site of KOHD's main competitor, KTVZ, the long-standing NBC affiliate owned by the News-Press & Gazette Co. of St. Joseph, Mo., to see if the story appeared on its web site yet. It had not. A couple of hours later, KOHD broadcast a man-on-the-street piece in downtown Bend with people's reaction to the news that the King of Pop was dead.

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Cow-free at last: A landmark agreement preserves an Oregon gem

Source Weekly

Deep in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument of southern Oregon lies my favorite wildflower meadow. This summer I need to step carefully, to avoid the lush clumps of Jacob's Ladder blossoms and the delicate columbines, their blooms nodding in the breeze. I breathe in the scents of the wild: the spice of the conifers, the earthy aroma of the wet meadow itself.
And today, for the first time in all my visits, the breeze carries no whiff of cow. Today, the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is virtually cow-free.

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Ponderosa's Sudden Eco-Resort Conversion

Source Weekly

When you give a three-year-old a present and he angrily stamps his feet and says he doesn't want it, then changes his mind five minutes later and demands the gift, it's predictable. But you expect somewhat different behavior from a group of grown-up businessmen.
To fill in the back story: During last winter and spring's legislative debate over a bill to protect the Metolius Basin from destination resort development, legislators offered a sort of “consolation prize” to the two would-be resort developers, Ponderosa Land & Cattle Co. and Dutch Pacific Resources.
Ponderosa, which wanted to build a vast resort including a golf course, was

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Mystery Death Solved: MJ's autopsy report, the recession report, and a call for help

Eric Flowers

MJ Murdered!
Unidentified sources with the LAPD confirmed what we all knew in our hearts, The King of Pop's death was no accident. LA's coroner has reportedly determined that Jackson's death was more than just another junkie accidentally overdosing. And make no mistake, whatever MJ once was, he was by the end of his life a junkie. The LA Times reported this week that Jackson spent the last hours of his life pleading with his personal physician Conrad Murray for his “milk” – Jackson's pet name for the powerful sedative propofol. Jackson had recently gotten hooked on the drug (with the help of Murray) as a sleep aid.

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Their Worst Shot

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There's lots of talk about the opposition to Obama's health care plans, calling it communist, assailing it as an elimination of human freedom. But honestly, where's the problem? Insurance companies have ethics panels that determine if end-of-life procedures are worth the cost.

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Block and Tackle: Latest Madden is a welcome change of pace

Source Weekly

Q: So, Madden, I've got to say that I feel like I've really gotten to know you. You've been around for most of my gaming life. You're a 21-year-old franchise now. Does that mean you're graduating from keggers to legal liquor? Or is Madden 10 just a $60 beer-run to update the team rosters?
A: Football hasn't really changed in the last 21 years, except in the roster. So it's important to have a realistic football game using real-world players. And I think this year that's apparent in more than just statistics. For example, big guys are now actually bigger. They've got bigger heads, more weight. Now when Hefty Mendoza tackles Bucky Underslung – or whatever their names are – it actually looks like a big guy wiping out a little guy.

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