Between the “Make Local Habit” bumper stickers and the new personal I.D.
Keeping it Local
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Keeping it Local
Between the "Make Local Habit" bumper stickers and the new personal I.D.
Posted inFood & Drink
Bring a Bib
Double the BunThere’s nothing like a good Italian delicatessen. With an array of products from the old country and a deli case stuffed with cheese wheels and lengths of salamis of every size, delis serve up atmosphere, neighborhood camaraderie and customer service that’s as alluring as the food.
Rick Adamo and Tom Coleman felt there was a void in Bend’s dining options, specifically a lack of a good Italian delicatessen. Being motivated entrepreneurs, they jumped on the opportunity and Tony’s Delicatessen was born.
Prior to starting Tony’s, Adamo and Coleman shared an office at the Bend Athletic Club and a dream: they wanted to own a restaurant of their own. Adamo was the club’s food and beverage director and Coleman was director of the managerial staff. They calculated that they had 55-plus years of restaurant business experience between them and both grew up in the food industry.
Since opening three months ago, Tony’s grinders have earned a well-deserved reputation as big, messy and delicious. The “Mario’s Meatballs” is a crusty bun loaded with juicy meatballs and Tony’s soon-to-be-famous marinara sauce. “Tony’s Cheese Steak” is a drippy delight of thin strips of lean choice steak grilled with sweet bell peppers and onions stuffed into a hoagie roll and topped with melted provolone. These are the kind of sandwiches that require three or four napkins and are worth every goopy stain.
Posted inFood & Drink
Bring a Bib
Double the BunThere's nothing like a good Italian delicatessen. With an array of products from the old country and a deli case stuffed with cheese wheels and lengths of salamis of every size, delis serve up atmosphere, neighborhood camaraderie and customer service that's as alluring as the food.
Rick Adamo and Tom Coleman felt there was a void in Bend's dining options, specifically a lack of a good Italian delicatessen. Being motivated entrepreneurs, they jumped on the opportunity and Tony's Delicatessen was born.
Prior to starting Tony's, Adamo and Coleman shared an office at the Bend Athletic Club and a dream: they wanted to own a restaurant of their own. Adamo was the club's food and beverage director and Coleman was director of the managerial staff. They calculated that they had 55-plus years of restaurant business experience between them and both grew up in the food industry.
Since opening three months ago, Tony's grinders have earned a well-deserved reputation as big, messy and delicious. The "Mario's Meatballs" is a crusty bun loaded with juicy meatballs and Tony's soon-to-be-famous marinara sauce. "Tony's Cheese Steak" is a drippy delight of thin strips of lean choice steak grilled with sweet bell peppers and onions stuffed into a hoagie roll and topped with melted provolone. These are the kind of sandwiches that require three or four napkins and are worth every goopy stain.
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Out of Town
portland
friday 24
Umphrey's McGee
Indiana's famous anything-goes jam band is known for their exciting concerts and mix of pop-rock, jazz, prog-metal and classical. Touted as the heirs to Phish's throne (which, with the reunion of Phish, now makes UM lowly princes of jam bandom we suppose) and with the June release of Jimmy Stewart 2007, the band is on tour with a slew of new songs to mix in with fan favorites.
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Ray LaMontagne: Gossip in the Grain
Ray LaMontagne:
Gossip in the Grain
Ray LaMontagne got his groove back. His new album, Gossip in The Grain, is by no means breaking new ground, but with soul singers leaning on a wall of horns in the upbeat opener "You are the Best Thing," Ray sets a mood much more akin to his debut Trouble than to the beautiful bleakness of 2006's Till the Sun Turns Black.
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Corner of Political Avenue and Music Street
There are some folks we ardently believe music and politics should be separated by some sort of church-and-state dividing line. These are people who cut their ties with the Dixie Chicks when they went anti-Bush and dumped their Pearl Jam CD collections when Eddie Vedder wrote "Bushleaguer."
But cutting a line between music and politics is tough, seeing as how the relationship originated long before rock and roll. It seems the reality is that the intersection of music and politics is a busy street corner, full of fender benders and jaywalkers - especially in the weeks leading up to a presidential election.
The local music community is jumping right into the intersection of Music Street and Political Avenue on Wednesday the 29th at the Silver Moon with the Bend installment of "Singin' About a Revolution," an event presented by former Bendite Cris Kelly, which is also taking place in Portland and Ashland. Kelly is a musician who plays in the Ashland-based band One Horse Shy and says politics has certainly played a role in his musical career.
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Our Picks for the week of 10/23-10/30
Free Thinkers Ball
thursday 23
Take a break from election season and eat, drink, dance and enjoy music from El Dante with KPOV and "Political Follies" from Around the Bend players. Go to kpov.
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Priority Planning or Pet Project?Investment in community planning effort could be a liability
Can Bend 2030 Save Mirror PondPutting plastic baggies in public parks to deal with doggie land mines is arguably not an idea many people find important right now, but the Bend 2030 project, funded by $340,000 of city money over the last three years, lists it as one of its achievements on its website.
Created by the Bend City Council in 2006 as an effort to craft a long-range vision and planning framework for the community, Bend 2030, according to the organization, included input from 10,000 citizens who defined a vision for Bend's future long-term livability and quality of life. It's already resulted in the reduction of open burning with the expansion of the area's curbside yard waste program and includes action items like increasing the availability of quality childcare in the area, finding a long term solution to Mirror Pond sedimentation, improving access to health care, promoting key business sectors and working to expand public transportation throughout the city. (A detailed list of projects is available at www.Bend2030.org)
But it's also has been called a pet project by opponents who want civic leaders to focus on preserving core services like building inspections and street maintenance at a time when the city budget is falling faster than the Dow Jones. And as voters begin to cast their ballots, Bend 2030 is one of the "issues" that could determine the outcome of the next election, in which a block of so-called progressive councilors faces a slate of challengers funded by the local business community that wants the city to spend less time on city-driven projects like Juniper Ridge and Bend 2030 and more time on promoting economic growth with a limited government, free-market approach. If challengers like Jeff Eager, Kathie Eckman and Tom Greene, all of whom have the support of the powerful Bend Chamber and building and real estate industry lobby (Greene is president of the local board of realtors), it could mean a significant shift in city hall's support of long range planning and economic development projects like Juniper Ridge and Bend 2030 and more time spent removing perceived hurdles to development, like higher development fees.
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Election 2008: State Measures
Measure 54: Yes
Amends Constitution: Does away with a non-enforceable law that requires voters to be 21 years of age to vote in a school board election.
Measure 55: Yes
Amends Constitution: Changes operative date of redistricting plans by allowing affected legislators to finish their terms in their original district.