Super duper gross. Just look at it.
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Oregon Drug Bust of the Week: Meth is Gross
Don’t put two pounds of meth in your guitar case.
Bent
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The Traveling Camera: The Crossbill
A photo of a crossbill bird, caught in a rare moment of stillness.
Birds have a strange sense of humor. They always pose for you when they know you have a cappuccino in your hand and the camera far away.
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4 Peaks Music Festival Returns for 2011
The 4 Peaks Music Festival returns to Bend this summer.
I just got word from festival organizers that the 4 Peaks Music Festival will be going down once again in 2011.
The two-day event is slated for July 15-16 at the Rockin A Ranch in Tumalo, the site of the 2007 and 2008 editions of the festival.
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Video from Last Night’s Show: Damien Jurado and Viva Voce
Viva Voce, Damien Jurado and Loch Lomond rock the PDXchange Program.
The PDXchange Program continues to bring an incredible string of Portland bands over to the Tower Theatre, as evidenced by last night’s show featuring Viva Voce, Damien Jurado and Loch Lomond.
Sadly, I missed Loch Lomond’s set due to, well, a college basketball obligation, but got there for all of Damien Jurado’s depressing yet brilliant folk songs.
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Viva Voce, Loch Lomond, Damien Jurado Tonight in Bend
The PDXchange Program brings Viva Voce, Loch Lomond and Damien Jurado to the Tower tonight.
The more I look at the lineup for tonight’s show at the Tower Theatre, the more I’m thinking that this is probably one of the coolest triple bills I’ve seen in Bend for a long, long while.
This PDXchange Program show still has some tickets available at at only $20 for all three bands — not too shabby.
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Bill Warburton chosen to coach US Team at Winter Tri World Champs
Local skiing and biking coach, Bill Warburton was just chosen to go to Finland to support the US Team at the Winter Triathlon World Champs in Jamijarvi. Bill is known in Bend as the Cycling Program Director and Nordic Coach for the Bend Endurance Academy.
A Winter Triathlon combines running with skate skiing and mountain biking on snow. Bill will help the US team with ski waxing and coaching. Last year, USA team member Rebecca Dussault won the 2010 Winter Triathlon World Championship individual title in Eidsvoll, Norway. The USA Women’s team also won the Team Relay in 2010.
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Sasquatch Plan B
Missed out on a Sasquatch ticket? No Worries, You can still catch many of the same bands at other PacNW venues.
What’s that you’re lamenting? You didn’t get a ticket to Sasquatch before the festival sold out? Well, if you can stop sobbing long enough to read this, I’ve got a “band”-aid that you can apply to your wounds. (Pun intended).
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Excellent Americana Tonight With Truth and Salvage Co.
Americana wizards Truth and Salvage Co play in Bend tonight.
Sunday night stuff tends to slip through the cracks of the Picks page, and I have to admit I missed this show in this week’s paper, but you should take a look at Truth and Salvage’s show at the Silver Moon tonight.
The Los Angeles-based band hits Bend in the middle of a West Coast swing and should pick up your Sunday blues with their Americana and country mix.
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Free WiFi: A good idea gone wrong?
Yes the wifi is free, but please don’t spend all day in my favorite coffee shop.
Back in that bygone era of less than a decade ago, many who lived in major metro areas would drive around with their laptops on and when they encountered a hot spot, park and get online. It was great sport.
Today, we get free WiFi everywhere, big city or small. It's been a boon to the wired.
Now it's becoming, at least for some of us, a huge pain.
How so? One problem is that coffee houses that offer free WiFi draw freeloaders who make a minimal purchase and then become squatters taking up the shop's table and couch space for hours at a time.
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Merkley Proposes Tapping Oil Reserves
Oregon’s freshman democratic senator, Jeff Merkley, joined five of his colleagues, including California Senator Barbara Boxer, in a call to President Obama to release a small portion of the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserves to combat near-record high oil prices that climbed to nearly $100 per barrel this week in the face of the Libyan crisis. Merkley and his counterparts suggested that proceeds from any sale be put toward the development of electric cars and the federal government’s goal of getting one million such vehicles on the road by 2015.