Braille, who is featured in this week’s issue of the Source, sent over a mix compiled by friend and Lightheaded co-member Ohmega Watts. If you’re a hip-hop fan trying to get into the holiday spirit, take a listen to this compilation.
It’s a Hip-Hop Christmas
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Getting It Right — Far Right — in the GOP
Oregon is moving to the left. The Democrats hold both houses of the Legislature, a Republican presidential candidate hasn't carried the state since 1984, the Republican Party hasn't elected a governor since that same year, and according to the Oregon Secretary of State's office, Democrats turned out at a higher percentage than Republicans this year for the first time in history.
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Hip-Hop Do Gooder: Portland rapper Braille on faith, violence, and James Brown
Braille: read him with your ears.Braille, the Portland-based rapper, is playing in Bend on Saturday night and the show is only his third appearance in town. One of the two other times was when he opened for James Brown at the Les Schwab Amphitheater. That's right…that James Brown, as in The Godfather or Soul, "Sex Machine", sequined cape James Brown.
The clean-mouthed hip-hop artist was picked by Brown's management to open shows for the Godfather between 2005 and 2006 in equal part for his positive (and f-bomb lacking) tunes and also his high-grade musical talent, both of which were thought to bode well with Brown's diverse and generation-spanning crowd. As Braille (real name Bryan Winchester) says, "You know, you don't want to be saying, 'Get your f'in hands in the air' when you've got somebody's grandma out in the crowd."
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The Bulletin’s Stupid Pet Trick
Tired of all that depressing local business news? You won't have to read it in The Bulletin anymore, at least on Mondays.
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Theater-apalooza – Holiday Edition: Bend community theater, from Dickens to “Gunsmoke”
The Around the Bend players bring you some old timey Christmas shows.While the weather outside has yet to be frightful (although 62 degrees
in December is kind of scary), inside Bend's local theaters the holiday
season is underway and definitely delightful. Area theaters and
production companies have pulled out all the stops to ensure that
Bendites have the most Holly Jolly Christmas play lineup yet. While
Bend Theatre for Young People, Innovations Theater Works and one of the
Tower Theatre productions have already wrapped (see sidebar), there's
still plenty more to see. So even if it's 75 degrees outside next week
and Bachelor reopens its Frisbee golf course, you can still get into
the festive seasonal spirit thanks to Bend's diligent theater stewards.
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WEEKEND WARRIOR 12/5-12/6
Friday Night 12/5
Marv Ellis, Acoustic Minds at the Downtown Bendistillery Martini Bar
Ellis dishes out super jazzy and world-inspired hip-hop numbers accompanied by his innovative lyrical style. The Portland MC has played shows across the country, as well as in Europe, and this experience is evidenced in his live show, which tonight features Brooks B.
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Bend Homes STILL “Extremely Overvalued”
Although the real estate boom is now only a nostalgic memory, Bend remains one of the most overvalued housing markets in the country.
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A Third Term for Kitzhaber?
It's looking increasingly unlikely that John Kitzhaber will get a job in Barack Obama's Cabinet, but now speculation is growing that he might take another shot at the governorship.
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The Natural Foods Game Gets Ugly
One doesn't normally associate the natural foods industry with the kind of brutal business tactics one expects in, say, the software industry or the financial sector. But there's a real rough-and-tumble going on now between Whole Foods and its tiny competitor, New Seasons Markets.
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Thanks (for nothing) giving
Left Field had just stepped out of the shower and was in the middle
of stirring up a Pepto-Bismol and 7-Up cocktail (we like to call it a
"Kansas City Mimosa") to both shake off a Thanksgiving Eve hangover as
well as prep the stomach for the near-fatal amount of holiday foods it
would be encountering later in the afternoon when we sat down for some
Thanksgiving day football. But when we turned on the tube, only about
half an hour after the posted kickoff of the Lions/Titans game in
Detroit, the game was pretty much over.
The Titans jumped out to
a 28-0 lead in the first quarter and it was clear that the miraculously
inept Lions would have no chance of tightening the game. As thus we
flip channels through parades, feel-good Lifetime channel movies and
the Weather Channel, all of which were more entertaining than the game
happening in Detroit.