Line em up, knock em downAs Obama sweeps the country with hope and transformation, might there also be change in what is perhaps the most obnoxious way that girls garner attention at the bar-the girl-on-girl make out session? Yes, we have all seen it. Some drunk girl notices that no men have lavished any attention on her so she grabs her best friend by the face and forces her tongue down the back of her throat. Her friend (no stranger to the game) sloppily kisses back never failing to run her hands through her friends hair and to let out some sort of "I-once-watched-a-porno" moan.
The Tramp Stamp: A shot for the lowest common denominator
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The Tramp Stamp: A shot for the lowest common denominator
Line em up, knock em downAs Obama sweeps the country with hope and transformation, might there also be change in what is perhaps the most obnoxious way that girls garner attention at the bar-the girl-on-girl make out session? Yes, we have all seen it. Some drunk girl notices that no men have lavished any attention on her so she grabs her best friend by the face and forces her tongue down the back of her throat. Her friend (no stranger to the game) sloppily kisses back never failing to run her hands through her friends hair and to let out some sort of “I-once-watched-a-porno” moan.
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The Raw Deal: Kanpai makes fish dreams come true
Fresh. fantastic.It isn't often that a restaurant succeeds in striking the perfect balance between deference to the traditions of its cuisine, the creativity of its chefs and the concerns of its audience, but Kanpai Sushi and Sake Bar has done it. It's fine dining for every day that manages to be both intimate and festive. That's probably why it feels appropriate for virtually all occasions and moods. You're as likely to see a patron in ski pants grabbing a bite on his way down from the mountain as a quiet couple celebrating their anniversary over candlelight and sake. From the inside out, Kanpai offers a near flawless sushi dining experience-whatever you're looking to get out of it.
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The Raw Deal: Kanpai makes fish dreams come true
Fresh. fantastic.It isn’t often that a restaurant succeeds in striking the perfect balance between deference to the traditions of its cuisine, the creativity of its chefs and the concerns of its audience, but Kanpai Sushi and Sake Bar has done it. It’s fine dining for every day that manages to be both intimate and festive. That’s probably why it feels appropriate for virtually all occasions and moods. You’re as likely to see a patron in ski pants grabbing a bite on his way down from the mountain as a quiet couple celebrating their anniversary over candlelight and sake. From the inside out, Kanpai offers a near flawless sushi dining experience-whatever you’re looking to get out of it.
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An Artist’s Touch: Holly Hutton is a mother, artist & advocate
Next stop: Burning Man
Holly Hutton relied on government assistance like food stamps and daycare subsidies when she became a broke single mom, long ago.
“It made me aware of what that was like, how people treated you. Some people cared. Some people treated me like a number,” she said.
Things are different for Hutton now. She spends her days on the other side of the social services table as the deputy director of NeighborImpact, an organization that helps the impoverished. Her own experiences sharpened her sensitivity to those seeking help. She constantly reminds staff to prioritize the people, to not get distracted by the paperwork.
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Vote Yes to Protect Our Water
According to the law of gravity, what goes up must come down. According to the law of sewage, what goes down will keep going down unless something stops it.
That, in the most elementary form, is what the controversy over southern Deschutes County septic systems is all about.
There are something like 6,400 homes in the LaPine/Sunriver area that are not hooked into any sewer system. Those homes rely on septic systems - basically tanks in the ground that hold the noxious gunk until it can be pumped out. Some of those tanks - nobody is sure how many - leak.
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We’re Not Gonna Take It!: Handouts, handups, and ham handedness
Not afraid of a handoutA small, stoic and stupid number of Republican Governors are saying they won't accept funds from the newly passed economic stimulus bill. Seriously, the residents of Idaho, Alaska, Texas, Louisiana and South Carolina won't receive a cut of President Obama's $800 billion plan, if their elected leaders have their way. Why? Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is questioning $1 billion funding for the national census and $50 million for the arts, saying it's "not apparent to me why they had to be in the stimulus package." Maybe so — Perhaps to accurately count the number of people in Louisiana and New Orleans (which each of us now own at least nine square/sinking inches of, after evacuating and rebuilding post-Hurricane Katrina). Republicans hate accurate tallies, and the arts - we all know that - and it must be added that South Carolina is already a welfare state, receiving around $1.30 for every $1 it sends to Washington.
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How Green Was My Golf Course
"Drop in groundwater perplexes scientists," reads the headline on the top story in today's edition of Bend's Only Daily Newspaper.
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Division Street Skate Park
On Friday night The Poet House hosted an art auction to raise money for the construction of the Division Street Skate Park.
The donation only event was a silent auction for skate decks painted, heat transferred, screen-printed, photo emulsified and developed, and a myriad of other mixed media art.
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Studio Tested, Mother Approved: The real Tyler Fortier stands up, and for a good cause
Thinking of his next album…alreadyPam Fortier didn't have to search too extensively to find musical
talent for the benefit she was putting together for her non-profit
organization that provides advocates for abused and neglected children.
In fact, she didn't have to look past her own family tree to book her
son, Tyler Fortier, a Eugene-based singer songwriter who at 23 has
already solidified a reputation as a tenacious recording studio hound.
"He'd
actually mentioned that [CASA] should do a music event and that's kind
of what planted the seed in my mind," Pam says. She adds that it wasn't
hard to convince Tyler to fill a spot on a bill that also includes
local musicians Doug Michaels (who helped arrange the show) and Bo
Reynolds. The show is a benefit for CASA (Court Appointed Special
Advocate) of Central Oregon, the non-profit organization of which Pam
is the executive director.