Although you might not realize it here in Bend this week with these mid-spring temperatures we've been experiencing, summer is still a ways off. But that didn't keep us from getting all hyped up about the summer music festival circuit this week.
Festival News: Good and not so good
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Another (Long) Shot at Cabinet for Kitzhaber?
Mere hours after Tom Daschle announced that he was withdrawing from consideration to become President Obama's secretary of Health and Human Services, the name of John Kitzhaber was being tossed around again.
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Tre Bizarre
Volcom's Blizzard Bizarre, part rock tour part shred trip, is rolling through Bend tomorrow night. The group has been working their way up north shredding by day and rocking by night courtesy of Tweak Bird and Kandi Coded.
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We’re in a movie, kind of…
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.
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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.