Local filmmaker Chris Kas just finished work on his short film, "Good News" and wouldn't you know it if the Source Weekly played a starring role. Well, actually one of our boxes was the star, not us.
We’re in a movie, kind of…
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End of the Gravy Train for Sizemore?
Carla Axtman of BlueOregon says she has reliable information that perennial anti-tax crusader and racketeer Bill Sizemore has lost the support of his two sugar-daddies.
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What Guy? Oh, That 1 Guy: Mike Silverman and the tale of the Magic Pipe
One hell of a magic pipe.Mike Silverman has an odd sense of humor.
"I came up with the name in 1994. It was a joke or a dare, and it just
stuck. It still makes me laugh. It kinda shaped the direction of my
whole career," Silverman says of his onstage moniker, That 1 Guy.
Silverman is an irreverent wordsmith, creating seemingly nonsensical
songs that blend spoken word styling with funky/heavy metal bass lines.
Imagine Shel Silverstein hanging out with Primus and Parliment and
discussing, among other things, cheese and weasels. Now imagine that
bass line coming from a crazy-looking piece of roundabout art. The
one-man band has been a traveling sideshow oddity for upwards of ten
years now, and is making an appearance at the Silver Moon on February
12.
The Magic Pipe, as his instrument is so lovingly referred to, was hand
built by Silverman himself and is part bass, part sampler, and all
unbelievable.
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All Aboard for Baker City, Maybe, But Not Bend
There's some serious talk about bringing passenger rail service back to Baker City, but will Bend ever see the return of passenger trains? That seems about as probable as finding Amelia Earhart alive.
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Winners Announced: Source/FFE Video Contest
So, two weeks and some 215 votes later we're proud to announce the winners of the first-ever Source Weekly/Far From Earth Films Music Video contest.
Anastacia took top honors with the song "Grains of Sand.
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Battle of the Metolius: Senator, LCDC Chief Clash
A Republican state senator from Central Oregon and the head of the state Land Conservation and Development Commission traded shots over Gov. Ted Kulongoski's plan to protect the Metolius Basin, with the senator charging that public hearings on the plan are just for show and the LCDC chief saying he's got it wrong.
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COBA and COAR’s Fuzzy Numbers
Times are tough all over, and they're even tougher in Central Oregon than in a lot of other places. So we don't blame Bend realtors and builders for being scared.
We don't even blame them for trying to use these tough times to push their own agenda. But when they do it with bogus statistics and misleading rhetoric, that's a different story.
The Bend Metro Park and Recreation District is taking a look at the formula it uses to calculate Systems Development Charges, or SDCs, which are fees levied on new home construction to pay for things like roads, sewers and (in this case) parks. It's a routine move; state law, and local ordinance, requires the district to do it periodically.
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Cuffed and Stuffed Larry and His Flask gets railroaded in Ashland, Al Qaeda update, and the Palin
Not a LAHFing Matter
Breaking the law!Central Oregon seems to love Larry and His Flask, but the same can't be said for the Southern Oregon University campus security team, which sent the wheels of chaos in motion, resulting in three members of the punk-turned-rampaging-Americana act to jail for the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend.
As the band's multi-instrumentalist Dallin Bulkley tells it, the trouble started when bassist Jeshua Marshall was approached by a pair of SOU campus security guards who told him he was banned from the campus. This was news to Marshall and the rest of LAHF, who were in town on Saturday, Jan. 17 on tour opening a show for Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band and had never been told that they were not welcome on the campus where they've played previously.
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Beyond (the) Sagebrush: Darin Furry’s new book gives a look at Central Oregon
Part of the Fort Rock Basin "Beyond Sagebrush" talks about. There's a new pocket-sized paperback on the market that's fun to read,
contains good information, and should be a companion for anyone going
out to enjoy the dry side of Oregon, Darin Furry's Beyond Sagebrush.
I
like it because it gives everyone a quick glimpse of what we're looking
at and why. Even a trained geologist will enjoy Furry's way of
supplying information about our volcanoes and diverse landforms. As a
naturalist, I enjoyed my first read, and I know it will be a great tool
for others looking to see the big picture on the dry side of the
Cascades. Unfortunately, the author didn't give us an index, but his
appendix supplies directions to places he talks about.
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Gramlich Headed Off to Portland
Ex-City Councilor Peter Gramlich is leaving Bend for greener - and more progressive - pastures in Portland.