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What a pathetic choice the Redmond School Board made last Wednesday evening.
These are incredibly challenging times with increasing unemployment in Central Oregon, and the decision the school board made is outrageous.
Dylan Howe is eating what appears to be a peanut butter and jelly
sandwich at a table in a cramped Northwest Crossing coffee shop while
talking about his band, We Are Brontosaurus. In a few minutes, the
power trio's guitarist will also dig into a stick of string cheese - a
staple of any sack lunch - as he attempts to fit a meal into a life
that includes playing in one of Bend's most intriguing rock bands,
ultimate Frisbee practice, and being a junior in high school.
Across
the table from Dylan, the band's lead singer, Owen Quon, speaks acutely
about Bend's youth music scene in a soft yet deep voice that is a mere
whisper in comparison to the rampaging vocals he unleashes on the
band's indie rock recordings.
"It's amazing to see that the
music scene in Bend is starting to grow, especially in the youth music
scene there's a lot of kids starting to play in bands," says Quon, the
son of Mark and Linda Quon, who together play around town as The Quons.
Jim Anderson's latest article addresses an extremely important issue that more people need to be aware of, and overall I agree with him (despite my being an avid cat lover and him obviously having issues with them; hence the 10 pound bell comment). But regarding his statement of locking cats up being the "only way to protect birds and wildlife from furry feline hit squads" just isn't true.
The Source Fiction
Issue Reading Party
thursday 9
We thought
we'd say one more time, because we can, that we're having a reading
featuring all of the writers featured in our fiction issue. All five
writers will be in attendance and reading from their published pieces
and more. 7pm Thursday, Apr 9. Between the Covers, 645 NW Delaware Ave.
Northwest Hoop Gathering
friday-sunday, 10-12
According
to local hoop guru Mollie "Hoopdazzle" Hogan, Bend has become a hotspot
for this gyrating sport/artform, which is illustrated by this massive
gathering of hoopers from around the world. Hoopers of all ability
levels are welcome to attend this event that includes big names in
hooping like Hoopgirl, Hoopalicious, Spiral and Baxter. According to
Hogan, "This is equivalent to having Lance Armstrong teach a cycling
class during the Cascade Cycling Classic, or having Mick Jagger teach a
guitar class." Tickets available at hoopdazzle.com or at
northwesthoopgathering.com. Summit High School, 2855 NW Clearwater Dr.
The weather in Bend last Memorial Day wasn't ideal for being outdoors in any capacity. Actually, that's an understatement. Save a freak snowstorm, there wasn't much that could have made the weather worse than it was - cold temperatures, gusting winds, and downpours followed by a lingering drizzle erased any memory of the week prior, which saw record highs in our region.
But still, downpours and all, there was plenty of life to be found down at the Les Schwab Amphitheater where promoters had siphoned off some of the high-profile headliners of the Sasquatch Festival going down at Washington's Gorge Amphitheater to create a de facto three-day festival here in Bend.The lineup included a string of shows that included names like Michael Franti and Spearhead, Built to Spill, the Decemberists, Death Cab for Cutie and Modest Mouse.
Sasquatch is taking place once again over the Memorial Day weekend, but we won't benefit from any Sasquatch run off here in Bend this time around. Promoters say that the options for bands playing Sasquatch either weren't a good fit for the Amphitheater or didn't make sense economically to produce. But they insist that the summer LSA lineup will remain strong in a time when our local music landscape-known throughout the region for the prolific amount of high-profile shows we attract despite our sub-100,000 population - seems to be in a state of flux. So far the only shows announced for the LSA are pop-country stars Sugarland (who cancelled their 2007 Bend appearance due to illness) in late July and an early September Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal gig on September 5. Monqui, however, says that two other shows have been booked and another booking - which would bring the total summer number of concerts to five - is in the works.
In response to the article in I Love Television, "Escape From Eden of the Chimps," whomever wrote this article really needs to get a few things straight before actually opening your mouth and writing these thoughts down. To begin with, if you are going to reference an animal, get the species correct! It is ridiculous to begin reading something about "monkeys" when you are in fact referring to the great ape, chimpanzee.
Apparently the way to make the fourth sequel is to take out "The" from the title and cast all the main actors from the 2001 original. But this movie is such a predictable hunk o' cheese that I can only hope that the video game is more fun. Neither the plot nor the dialogue graduates beyond the 8th grade. The opening sequence is impressive with its over-the-top oil truck hijacking. But after that initial wallop, the movie fizzles out.
The story again teams up Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) with Brian O'Connor (Paul Walker) to bust a heroin dealer and seek revenge for the killing of Letty (Michelle Rodriguez). After that it's very simply good guys vs. bad guys… period. The plot holes open faster than pop up windows on a porn site. Around three quarters of the way through the film, F&F actually stops making any sense at all. The dialogue is so clichéd that it was down right laughable. There are some exchanges reminiscent of Tonto talking to the Lone Ranger. "This bad." "Go here." "Why for?" "Take tunnel." I half expected Vin to say, "Crash site tell heap big story." After O'Connor demolishes around 15 cars, a police chief actually utters this tired old line, "You had better have one good goddamned explanation for this." And a henchman warns, "When GPS calls you follow." Vroom!
Oh my god, and he left the toilet seat up, too!The unemployment picture may need to get a little worse before most of us would resort to cleaning up blood and organ tissue from crime scenes for a paycheck. Although I think we're getting there.
Sunshine Cleaning is a film about a pair of sisters who try to turn their lives around by making a killing, so to speak, from cleaning up after suicides, homicides and other bloody happenings. It's the kind of movie that one would think is inspired by recent economic chaos - if not for the fact that the film was made more than a year ago, and screened at Sundance in January 2008.
It would be extremely efficient if the bar was like a coffee shop and there was one line where people ordered and one place where they picked up. No one would ever get missed, everyone would wait the exact same amount of time for a drink, and nobody would ever wait for change or a credit card slip.
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