Our Picks for the Week 7/30-8/6

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Our Picks for the Week 7/30-8/6

Mike Bookey

Hackensaw
Boys
thursday 30
The last time these
pickin' and grinnin' fools (and we mean "fools" in the kindest way possible)
came through town, it was a bluegrass-fueled night of fun. This time, the
Charlottesville, Virginia-based band is paying us a visit on their way over to
Pickathon in Portland. 9pm. $8. Silver Moon Brewing Co. 24 NW Greenwood Ave.

72-Hour
Shoot Out

thursday 30
Hmm, what can you do
with three days? If you said, "Make a movie" you're probably already a
contestant in BendFilm's 72-Hour Shoot Out. This contest gives contestants only
72 hours to write, film and edit their films while competing against fellow
local moviemakers. Check out this event where you can see the final products in
McMenamins always-cozy theater. 6pm Thursday, Jul 30. McMenamins Old St.
Francis Theater, 700 NW Bond St. $3.

Empty Space
Orchestra
friday 31
You may have seen Empty
Space a few times in the past month, but now is your chance to see some ESO in
the "friscalating dusklight" at the Show Us Your Spokes concert series. 6:30pm.
Parrilla Grill, 635 NW 14th St. $3.

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Booted From Gardens, Moonscapes, and Lava Rock Love: Mick McMenaminuses takes the COBA Tour of Homes

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Husband and wife team Guild and Gould went big in old town with a classically inspired super-du(per) plex.People don't like home invasions. And those opening their doors for
the famed COBA Tour of Homes annual event last weekend can now relax.
The streams of curious couples, bargain shoppers and transients like
myself have slunk back to our abodes, heads full of ideas yet wallets
still light
So when assigned to cover this event, I decided to
start where I live, Awbrey Butte, my chic locale for the past few
weeks. Mind you, I don't actually live on the Butte, rather in a '79
Ford RV named Harrietta Ambages, and the notion of "home" is a parking
space with shade, an electrical outlet and the occasional shower.
Stoking
Harrietta and rounding another street that goes nowhere but up. I
finally found a "High Desert Garden." The single-story home is standard
Bend but the garden is utter United Nations with each part echoing a
different country-Mexico, Greece, North Korea (an unfertile plot with a
single statue).
I didn't get the garden's builder/owner/seller's name because we were interrupted by, "Where's your ticket?"
"Ticket?"

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Crater Lake Faces Chopper Invasion

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The sound of a helicopter has never been described as soothing.
The noise output of a helicopter at a distance of 100 feet has been calculated
at 105 decibels-five decibels higher than a jackhammer. 

Fortunately, Leading Edge Aviation-the Bend company that wants to
start offering helicopter tours above Crater Lake National Park-doesn't propose
buzzing the lake at 100 feet; it says its choppers will fly no lower than 1,000
feet.

But the whumpa-whumpa-whumpa of churning rotor blades, whether at 100
feet or 1,000, is not a sound that belongs at Crater Lake, Oregon's only
national park and a place where people go to see natural beauty and experience
(relative) peace and quiet.

Even at 1,000 feet or more, as anybody who's heard one of the Air
Link helicopters zoom overhead can attest, the sound of a helicopter is
impossible to ignore. Travis Warthen, a vice president for Leading Edge, told
The Oregonian that an RV or (in winter) a snowmobile driving along the rim road
would be louder than one of his 650-hp Bell helicopters. Maybe so, but that
seems like a weak excuse to add another element to the noise mix.

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Driven to Distraction: Cambridge cops, Shaq snubbed at White House, Justice for Jacko and more!

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The
author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as
America. He is reporting from a ditch outside your home, thanking streaming
video, you, Stu and the High Desert Animal Hospital that Season One is done, on
assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly.

The Curious Case of the Professor and Police
"You boorish Paddy! Egress my domicile or shall I berate
you further?" That's my take on what Henry Louis Gates Jr. said to Cambridge
cops last week. First it was Jacko "dying" and now a Harvard professor getting
arrested for disorderly conduct (charges were dropped within two days).Which
African-American will Obama turn to next in order to distract us from the
health care boondoggle (which no longer includes the words "universal" or
"single-payer")? This curious case-the arrest and health care initiative-only
gets more interesting: The 911 tapes have been released, contradicting
arresting officer Sgt. James Crowley's report that caller Lucia Whalen
mentioned "black" men entering the house and that he spoke with her at the
scene. She didn't, on both counts. Sure Gates probably berated the officers
eloquently after being found in his own home with ID and, yes, Gates is an
insufferable intellectual who feigns interest in common folks' problems on PBS.
But he was the wrong guy to arrest.Boston is hardly a beacon of racial harmony,
pity the next non-Harvard professor found snooping around Cambridge. Makes you
really appreciate living in Central Oregon, don't it? Our cops are pretty cool,
and the only minorities to be found are obese people visiting from Houston. One
final note: To repair race relations, Obama has invited both Sgt. Crowley and
Professor Gates for beer at the White House. How they will laugh and laugh!

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Modern Day Slavery

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The Reagan, Clinton and Bush regimes extinguished the
rights of American workers to make a decent living by the imposition of
policies that have resurrected slavery by the outsourcing of most of the good
paying jobs here. Example: The American textile industry outsourced to Mexico
and $2-a-day workers.

Posted inOpinion

Modern Day Slavery

Intern

The Reagan, Clinton and Bush regimes extinguished the
rights of American workers to make a decent living by the imposition of
policies that have resurrected slavery by the outsourcing of most of the good
paying jobs here. Example: The American textile industry outsourced to Mexico
and $2-a-day workers.

Posted inOpinion

Downtowners Didn’t Get A Fair Shake

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Editor's
Note: The article referenced in the following column was not an editorial, but
a recent opinion piece penned by Source
columnist Bruce Miller and represented his opinion, not those of the newspaper.
The Source  has not taken a
position about downtown loitering and panhandling. The Source has
and always will be a major supporter of local, independent businesses and a
vital downtown core.

What does The
Source have against downtown merchants?
I'm writing
in reaction to your latest negative editorial about downtown Bend merchants.
Recently, you derided our complaints about panhandlers downtown, now you've
done the same regarding our problems with "kids." Why are you even writing
about merchant complaints when you deem the complaints so unworthy? Could it be
because you feel you have to stand up for absolutely anything you call
"alternative," even when alternative means hurtful, disrespectful, threatening
or even criminal?

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