Eating High on the Hog: BBQ Season has finally arrived

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Eating High on the Hog: BBQ Season has finally arrived

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at $3 a pound, you can’t go wrong with pork. Summer means barbeque. To some people, barbeque includes anything cooked on a grill. To me, barbeque means pulled pork. Blame it on my Southern upbringing. I was raised in a state with more pigs than people. My first job was in a barbeque restaurant that smoked pork shoulders by the dozen. A pig-pickin’ was an acceptable meal at a high-end wedding.
My preference is for Lexington-style barbeque, which is slathered in a vinegar-based “dip” and piled high on a Wonder-style bun, or in a tray, with a roughly equal amount of cole slaw, and some hush puppies on the side. If authentic, it will be washed down with a tall glass of sweet iced tea.
Procuring my particular brand of barbeque has proven challenging in Bend (no offense to Baldy’s, whose food I love). So my husband bought a smoker a few years ago, and we started making our own.

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Eating High on the Hog: BBQ Season has finally arrived

Intern

at $3 a pound, you can’t go wrong with pork. Summer means barbeque. To some people, barbeque includes anything cooked on a grill. To me, barbeque means pulled pork. Blame it on my Southern upbringing. I was raised in a state with more pigs than people. My first job was in a barbeque restaurant that smoked pork shoulders by the dozen. A pig-pickin' was an acceptable meal at a high-end wedding.
My preference is for Lexington-style barbeque, which is slathered in a vinegar-based "dip" and piled high on a Wonder-style bun, or in a tray, with a roughly equal amount of cole slaw, and some hush puppies on the side. If authentic, it will be washed down with a tall glass of sweet iced tea.
Procuring my particular brand of barbeque has proven challenging in Bend (no offense to Baldy's, whose food I love). So my husband bought a smoker a few years ago, and we started making our own.

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Sound Check: Staying Dry at the Schwab

Mike Bookey

Friday - Michael Franti & Spearhead, Built To Spill
The drizzle had nearly subsided when Built To Spill took the stage, signaling the official beginning of the Memorial Day weekend bonanza at the Les Schwab Amphitheater. As BTS ripped their indie jam rock through the low-hanging clouds, a late arriving crowd, Sound Check included, wondered how it can remain dry for more than a month and then rain on the Friday before Memorial Day.
The sun never came out, but Franti and company did their best to make it feel warm by bursting out of the gates with the band's patented hip-hop/reggae/rock crossover feel that had a beanie-and-rain-jacket crowd pogo sticking up and down upon the towering Franti's instructions ("I wanna see you jump" - he must have said it 10 times). There was some talk of reform and making a difference in this world, as one would expect from Franti, but for the most part, it was pure funky dance party and Sound Check hasn't seen Bendites get down like that in a very long while, if ever.

Far and away, the highlight of the night was when Franti bounded
across the stage as the crowd joined him in a silly but fun version of
King Harvest's "Dancing in the Moonlight." And no, the moon never did
come out - all weekend. - Mike Bookey
Saturday - Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Mates of State
Coming into the amphitheater, the rain was either coming or going
and that constant rain limbo seemed to set the tone for Death Cab For
Cutie's set. Having never seen the Decemberists before, Sound Check was
blown away by front man Colin Meloy's stage presence, and soon believed
that the Portland band’s albums do not do them proper justice.
 

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Lords of the Weird: Bombadil prefers to do things their own way

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probably didn’t hang out with the lacrosse team. If anyone went to the trouble of reading all the Lord of the Rings books, and just not watching the movies, then you may remember the mysterious and endearing character of Tom Bombadil, who was slighted in the film versions.
If you're into bands that play everything from simple guitar-driven lyrical lullabies to raucous marching band ballads, then the North Carolina-based four-piece band, who goes by the same name as this mythical creature, just might be for you.
The band plays at McMenamins Old St. Francis School on June 4 as part of the Great Northwest Music Tour and will also visit six other McMenamins locations in Oregon and Washington as part of the tour.
The two Bombadils do share the same name by chance, the folk-rock band and Duke University graduates-consisting of Daniel Michalak, Bryan Rahija, Stuart Robinson and James Phillips-chose to take the surname of Tom for the band because of the similarities between the two.

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Dead Ahead: Donna Jean and the Tricksters extend the branches of the Grateful Dead family tree

Mike Bookey

This band is not playing at your church this sunday. Honest. You can try to avoid the Grateful Dead. You can attempt to bury your tie-dyes and ticket stubs in the closet and scrape those dancing bears off the back of your Volkswagen. But you can never quite get away from the influence of the Dead, even 40 plus years since the band's inception and almost 15 since its end. There's a slew of factors contributing to the lasting power of the band's influence, but none as impacting as the fact that most of the band is not only still alive, but still playing music - and not just music, Grateful Dead music.
This is why a band like Donna Jean and the Tricksters, although new to the scene, will find success. The band also put out a remarkably fresh-sounding self-titled record - that helps.
As the more adept Dead-o-philes, probably already deduced by now. This band is made up primarily of the Dead's longtime vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux and the Zen Tricksters - a New York-based jam band that's been around since before anyone referred to such acts as "jam bands."

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Our Picks for the Week of 5/29-6/4

The Source Staff

The Confederats, Hands on Throat, No Cash Value
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We want the punk, gotta have that punk! If you go to one punk show this week, make it this one. PDX's Confederats finally make it back over and rock out like Ringo: with some help from their friends (HoT and No Cash Value). A good dose of punk might do you some good, so get in a slam dance and call us in the morning. 8pm. Players Bar & Grill, 25 SW Century Dr.

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One More Shot: Scoring hundreds of points with the Central Oregon Hotshots

Mike Bookey

Some of the 200 or so people scattered throughout the stands at Mountain View High School’s gymnasium are gathering their belongings and tossing jackets over their shoulders as the clock on the scoreboard runs down, the digits in the hundredths of a second box fluttering by indiscernibly. The Central Oregon Hotshots are leading the West Coast High Flyers 136-128 and Arthur Lewis, Jr. – by far the shortest player on the court – is dribbling near half court and looks like he’ll run out the clock. Some High Flyers have already wandered to their bench, accepting the eight-point loss.
Lewis then bounds toward the basket (1) where two of his teammates are waiting. At first it appears as if they’re going to block their own teammate’s shot. But then Lewis flings his body at the two lumbering players who grab him around the ribs from each side and hoist him up to the basket. Lewis slams the ball, hangs on the rim for a delicate moment then descends to the floor and it’s hard to tell if the cheers or the laughs from the crowd are more audible.
With that, welcome to the International Basketball League.

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Sen. Ron Wyden

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The word "unique" is the most overworked adjective in the advertising copywriter's lexicon, but in the case of Bend's Badlands area, it's justified.
The rugged 30,000-acre expanse just 20 miles northeast of town holds a combination of geological features, archaeological sites, wildlife and vegetation - including rare wildflowers and junipers that were growing before Columbus landed - that would be almost impossible to find anywhere else.
For more than a decade, the Oregon Natural Desert Association (ONDA) and other conservation groups have been trying to get the Badlands protected as wilderness by the federal government, but their efforts have been stymied in Congress. On Tuesday, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden announced that he's going to take another shot at it.
At a press conference sponsored by ONDA, Wyden said his wilderness bill will include the portion of the Badlands designated by the Bureau of Land Management as a Wilderness Study Area (WSA) plus several hundred additional acres. Creating the Oregon Badlands Wilderness, Wyden said, "will tell the world that Central Oregon is a place with an unbelievable menu of recreation, where you can ski in the morning on one side of town and enjoy the solitude of high desert wilderness in the afternoon on the other."

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The Triumph of Martketing: Senator Wide Stance update, city gets a new leader, more…

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Change…your slogan
Recently, House of Representatives Republican leader John Boehner said that the GOP does not plan to alter the campaign slogan it recently unveiled, despite the fact that the party's slogan: "Change you deserve," is actually used to market Effexor, an anti-depressant drug.
"I think it's working out just fine," Boehner told Reuters.
It still remains unknown if the bright GOP mind that came up with this phrase plucked it from his or her medicine cabinet, but apparently the party is going to stick it out, despite the widespread humiliation that resulted from the slogan. But if that was the case, it's good that the slogan's author didn't reach for the Viagra and produce something like: Viva Republicans (If election results hurt the party for more than four years, call a doctor).

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The Shakeup at the Mountain

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The team just had a lousy season. The fans are grumbling. Season ticket sales are down. What do you do?
The standard response if you're running a football team is to fire the coach. That's pretty much what Powdr Corp., which runs the Mt. Bachelor ski resort, did last week by firing General Manager Matt Janney plus three other members of the resort's top management.Things haven't been going smoothly at the mountain since Powdr took over. Complaints about lift breakdowns, inadequate grooming, poor food, early closures and high prices have multiplied. To some extent, these may be just the predictable gripes from locals who are angry because "their mountain" has been taken over by "outsiders" from Utah. But people who spend a lot of time skiing and snowboarding at Bachelor say there's considerable substance to them.
In the 2007-'08 season other ski resorts in Oregon broke all records for attendance, but Bachelor's ticket sales actually dropped 7%, in spite of one of the best snow years in history and aggressive marketing. Shortly after the disappointing numbers came out, Powdr announced it was firing Janney and the others.

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