On Saturday night, Empty Space Orchestra pretty much destroyed the Domino Room stage (not literally) with a freakishly tight set before Portland' Hillstomp further decimated said stage with their own killer set. Here's video of Empty Space at its best.
Empty Space Orchestra Video
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Sizemore Fulfills His Destiny
File under "This Had to Happen Someday": Right-wing ballot measure crusader Bill Sizemore is in jail.
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Highway 97 Deaths: We Need The Wall
How many more people are going to have to die before ODOT installs a Jersey wall on Highway 97 between Bend and Redmond?
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Taking a Rosy View of Black Friday
Black Friday was a pretty good day for local retailers, at least if you believe the story on the front page of this morning's Bulletin.
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Random Wanderings Through Jersey
The Eye wandered East to our New Jersey birthplace to spend Thanksgiving with relatives and came back with a few random observations:
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Blues, Buckets, Repeat: Making sense of Bend’s love for Hillstomp
Prepare to be stomped…again.You can overstay your welcome here in Bend. And I'm not talking about
your ski bum cousin who slept on your couch for three months last
winter. Rather, I'm referring to out-of-town bands that reappear in
town over and over, eventually losing their appeal after that new band
smell wears off. We've seen it with reggae bands from Eugene and jam
bands from the Bay area.
But there are a few bands that we don't mind
letting lounge around the figurative couch that is our music scene.
Perfect example: Portland's gritty blues rock duo Hillstomp. By this
publication's count, the band's show at the Domino Room on Saturday is
its fourth appearance in the last year. One might expect the numbers to
dwindle with each show, but that isn't the case - these guys are
gathering larger crowds each time they cross over the Cascades.
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Turncoat Joe Gave $5,000 to Gordo
It was no secret that Joe Lieberman supported John McCain. But it came as a surprise Wednesday when campaign finance reports revealed that he also gave money to Gordon Smith.
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Another Present for Bend Developers
The Bend Urban Area Planning Commission is wrapping up a little early Christmas present for the local builder/developer lobby.
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The BCS Revolt
The snowball that is coaches and other big-wigs calling for a Division I college football playoff is getting bigger by the week, and the Big 12 Conference this season is making a case for a playoff all by itself.
This after a weekend that saw then No.
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CBC is coming! Christmas means one thing: Time to count some birds
Cal Elshoff of Bend and Mt. Chickadee of the forest looking each other in the eye. Before you go any further, pick up your indelible pen and mark the
dates of December 14 through January 5, 2009 and write "CBC." Those are
the dates for the 109th Christmas Bird Count, from which
ornithologists, biologists, land managers, habitat scientists and
millions of birders throughout the country glean data and great fun
regarding birds. Can't beat that, no matter what.
During this time,
tens of thousands of volunteers throughout the New World of the
Americas – North, South and points in-between – will take part in a
family birding tradition that has no end of joy and scientific value.