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Our Picks for the Week of 3/25 – 4/2

Freestyle Fiasco 9

friday 27
Benevolent local musical guru MC
Mystic is joined by DJ Wicked to host the ninth installment of this
all-out lyrical battle. There should be an explosion of rhymes blasting
from the mouths of our talented local rhymesters, all of it coming
right off the top of their domes. All ages, beer garden for 21+. $5.
Domino Room, 51 NW Greenwood Ave.
C.P.C.
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This
band very well might be Bend's best-kept secret. Although they fly
largely under the radar, C.P.C. (Concave Perception Chamber) provides
one of the craziest sonic presentations to be found here in town. Often
psychedelic but always wound around a skillful core, CPC blasts out
everything from prog rock to mathematically precise instrumentals.
Players Bar & Grill 25 SW Century Dr.

Posted inNews

4 Peaks Spring Fling Video

The organizers of the 4 Peaks Music Festival said that they were using the Spring Fling tour with Poor Man’s Whiskey and Blue Turtle Seduction as a method of gauging the level of interest folks had in the festival before making plans for any sort of summer event. Well, The Blender hasn’t heard how the Eugene and Portland editions of the tour went off, but the Old Stone Church here in Bend was packed full as two of Bend’s favorite rootsy jam bands got people in festival mode – even if snow was falling outside.

Posted inMusic

Pushing Through: Steve Kimock revs up his Crazy Engine

Nice barn!One way to describe Steve Kimock's career is that he became well known
for being unknown. Why? Well, once upon a time, Jerry Garcia called
Kimock his favorite unknown guitarist, and, as you'd expect, Kimock
became exponentially less "unknown" soon thereafter.

Kimock isn't exactly a household name even today. Rather, he's sort of
a musician's musician - a guitarist whose skills are as admirable as
the music he produces. He's also the sort of musician who is often
brought up whenever the always-contentious Rolling Stone's Greatest
Guitarists of All Time debate of 2003 is reprised. And after years of
playing in an array of bands, many of which are branches of the
Grateful Dead family tree (Heart of Gold Band, Phil Lesh and Friends,
Rat Dog and others), the past decade has seen Kimock achieve a senior
statesman status within the jam rock world. And now, he is taking his
new ensemble, Steve Kimock Crazy Engine, out on the road this spring,
playing what the guitarist implies is good times music for what some
people might consider bad times.

Posted inNews

A Drop In The Bucket: Critics say state water laws won’t protect Metolius if resorts proceed

The Metolius goes rushing by.Whether the Metolius basin is a place where you admire spring wildflowers, attempt to catch elusive bull trout, run or ski trails through old-growth ponderosa stands, kayak the river or set up a tent at its banks, most people can agree that there is just something undeniably special about the area.
"You don't find many places like this left in the world," said Jeff Perin, owner of The Fly Fishers Place in Sisters. He calls the Metolius his homewaters, located about 20 minutes away from the shop. And he is smitten.

Posted inOpinion

Concealing Oregon’s Concealed Weapon Permits

Oregon's open public records law was a fine idea when it was enacted in 1973. Over the ensuing 35 years, though, special interests have carved out so many exceptions that the law now has more holes in it than Bernie Madoff's account books.

And as if that isn't bad enough, the state legislature wants to carve another one.
State Rep. Kim Thatcher (R-Keizer) and other lawmakers are backing HB 2727, a bill that would make all records pertaining to concealed weapons permits exempt from the open records requirements. The ostensible reason for it, Thatcher said, is to protect the holders of such permits from "stalkers, identity thieves and people who could otherwise do them harm."

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