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| Letter of the Week | ADVERTISE IN THE BULLETIN
Letter of the Week
This week’s top letter comes from Jim Anderson, the sage of Sisters, who laments the proliferation of litter from free shoppers circulated by our local daily to pump up its circulation numbers. T ...read more>> |
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| Upfront | One Good Oil Spill Deserves Another
Order in the Court!
Baby rapers, oil spillers and gang-bangers be heartened! Gitmo be gone, but the new and utterly bought and sold Supreme Court handed down decisions that will impact us for decades – Much like the Pre ...read more>> |
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| The Boot | Gordon Smith and the Cascade Festival
The US Senate is often called the world’s most exclusive club. Sen. Gordon Smith belongs to an even more elite club – the Society of Republican Senators from West Coast States. It’s so exclusive that Smith is the only me ...read more>> |
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| Music | If It Weren't for the Stones
It was the summer of 1969 and there was a party goin’ on backstage at Ravinia, the outdoor concert venue 30 miles north of Chicago. The classical music squares running the joint, they’d never seen anything like ...read more>> |
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Jumpsuits, Sideburns and $1,000 costumes
Danny Vernon prefers to be called an Elvis “tribute artist,” rather than an “Elvis impersonator.” He’s clearly aware of the connotation that accompanies the word “impersonator” and is pretty serious about what ...read more>> |
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Let Freedom Ring -- in your ears
As tends to be the practice of this publication on the eve of any party-intensive holiday, we would like to take this opportunity to bully you into following our recommendations for a good time. In the past, we ...read more>> |
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| Sound Check | Whiskey, Wednesday and Alice Cooper
Whiskey was the drink of choice last Wednesday at the Midtown
Ballroom. Yes, this is still very much a beer town, but the harder
stuff came out to greet a pair of Southern-flavored acts in Drive-By
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| Dining | Be a Guest at your own Party
When talking to Lisa Glickman about her new endeavor, she draws a distinct line between her work and that of a personal chef. Personal chefs, she says, are geared toward daily food preparation or small family e ...read more>> |
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| Film | Horsing Around in Mongolia
As Kazakstan’s first entry into the Academy Awards (2008 nominee for Best Foreign Language Film), the epic historical drama, Mongol, will enthrall horse devotees, history aficionados (who can argue afterwards a ...read more>> |
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Dead or Alive
You are going to have to set aside common sense to enjoy this movie. It’ll be no fun if you question the logistics of Wanted, with its dopey dialogue and ridiculous plot. Better to sit back and enjoy the ride w ...read more>> |
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| Game On | Guitar Hero to Go!
With a popular franchise like Guitar Hero it was only a matter of time
before game makers took a stab at crossing over to another platform.
Well, game developer Vicarious Visions has answered the call with a
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| Left Field | Pigeons vs. Soccer
HEY, IT COULD HAVE BEEN
BUD COLLINS…
Apparently the only thing dropping from Wimbledon faster than Americans and top-seeds are the pigeons.
Championship
officials last week hired an assassin to take out pigeons who ...read more>> |
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| Letters to the Editor | FACTS DON’T SUPPORT THE ID CASE
Scott Weber (Letters 6-18) always attempts to present something as science but without scientific evidence! His recent letter (Source Jun.19) pans evolution and supports Intelligent Design (ID). His fi ...read more>> |
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OUTDOORS CATS ARE A PLAGUE
It is time that people in Bend wake up. I live by the Old Mill District and I have had almost no songbirds around this year.
I live by the canal, yet I have not seen any gold finch. My chickadees that ...read more>> |
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A DIFFERENT KIND OF ROAD RAGE
The Bend PD and The Bulletin should both get The Boot by perpetuating the myth that cyclists “cause the majority of the problems.” The PD gets it for making a sweeping generalization that is contrary t ...read more>> |
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A DIFFERENT BUD TAKEOVER
Belgian brewer InBev makes a bid to buy Anheuser-Busch for $46 billion. That’s a $46 billion company that was once banned in America for producing a product that a bunch of puritanical religious fanati ...read more>> |
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NO SHORTAGE OF LAZY JOURNALISTS
Greetings. And arghh.
Your perpetuation (deliberate word choice ... hint hint) of this morning’s “Oregon Man’s Invention: Commute Generates Electricity” in the Bend Bulletin is yet ...read more>> |
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KEEP ON PEDDLING GOOD COPY
Hi Eric & Staff
I enjoyed your article (tSW 6-19). You guys did a great job. Thank you so much for writing about my bicycle trip. I will send you update from Ecuador and South America.
Thank you, ...read more>> |
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