Pitbull to Play Show in Kodiak, AK?
In a fabulous use of the Internet and a total mockery of the social media skills of Walmart executives, a campaign has been launched to bring Pitbull to Kodiak, Alaska. Read on fellow hater, read on.
Down The Rabbit Hole: Newly minted music event What The Festival creates a wonderland of dancing fun
You know that conversation when a friend tells you that he or she just had an amazing weekend at an event you hadn’t even heard of? And though you may feign recognition and play that you didn’t go because of your own big important plans, you still end up feeling like an eight-year-old kid, kicking…
Better Than Your Town: This week Bend’s best are on the hunt hardware
Bend’s elite cyclists are poised to capture some of the most prized titles in cycling over the course of the next week—or coming weeks if we’re talking about Chris Horner. From multi-day endurance slogs, to short and sweet gravity events, to the Tour de France, we have mountain bikers and road racers fighting for glory…
Tour De France – Stage 3
Well I’m 4 for 4 calling stage wins in this years tour! How long can I keep this up! Today is was Peter Sagan putting in a very impressive uphill sprint to take his second stage win in three days in his first ever tour. The 22 year old from Slovakia continues to stamp his…
Tuesday Staff Pick: Vampirates at Horned Hand
In the mood for some ferocious sound to kick off your holiday? Check out the Vampirates tonight at the Horned Hand. This loud, angry, hardcore punk band from Reno, Nevada will kick your ass, shatter your eardrums and make you mosh.
Tour De France Stage 2
Cav needs no train.
Saturday Night Fever: Staff Recs for Tonight
Harden your heart Hawaiian style then go check out some serious ass kickin’ and call it good. Quarterflash plays Maragas Winery in Terrebonne at 4pm.
Downtown Jackalope Open Tonight
Third Street stalwart Jackalope Grill makes its official grand opening tonight with doors opening at 5. Chef owner Timothy Garling said the staff has had several days to get acquainted with the new location and is ready to throw open the doors to the general public.
The Grand Depart is tomorrow!
That’s right, the 2012 Tour De France starts tomorrow in Liège, Belgium. It’s wide open this year and despite the fact there is over 100k of time trialing, it’s going to be an exciting race!
We can be fairly sure most of the contenders this year are not doping, right? Do we really care?…
No Sun, No Problem. Bachelor is Back for an Encore
It didn’t necessarily feel like summer this morning at Mt. Bachelor, with the winds buffeting skiers and snowboarders and the sun largely hiding behind a wall of clouds.
Face eater had only weed in system
Be careful- weed makes you really hungry. Maybe even hungry enough to eat someone’s face.
Friday Night Staff Picks
Hillbilly swing, hard driving rock or roots rock reggae? Friday nights live music line-up has a little something for everyone. Three Times Bad belts out bent blues, drunk country, anti-folk and hillbilly swing at the Horned Hand.
Bend Residents Slapped with Hefty Enviro Fine
A pair of Bend residents was handed a stiff fine by the state Department of Environmental Quality for allegedly failing to properly address a leaking sewage treatment system at their property in Waldport. Kathy Louise Trudel and Karin Marie Denman were fined more than $105,000 for failing to fix a leaking septic system at their…
Old Bella Cucina Building Update
All that tearing down of trees and backhoeing of concrete at the old Bella Cucina building on the corner of Franklin Avenue and Third Street is prep work for turning the location into the new home of Central Oregon Audiology.
The hearing clinic’s Bend office is currently located near the hospital at 2698 NE Courtney…
Rural Counties Get Timber Payment Lifeline
Hard hit rural counties will have another year of federal support for roads, law enforcement and other services that were on the chopping block this year after a last minute deal today extended the Secure Rural Schools program and more than $340 million in funding for rural America. In Oregon, dozens of counties were bracing…
Best Of Ballot Is Here!
After much technical hand wringing, we are pleased to announce that this year’s Best of Central Oregon ballot is up and live. Just click here, follow the instructions and start submitting your votes.
Health Care Reforms Legal, SC rules today
The controversial health care reforms developed by the Obama Administration and passed by Congress last year are legal, the Supreme Court ruled today. The reforms mean insurance companies may no longer deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions and that children may remain on their parents health care plans until they are 26, among many other…
Bobby Bare Jr. at McMenamins Tonight: Don’t miss this!
As small as the Bend music community is, we are very lucky to get so many phenomenal musical acts playing in our little scene. Many of these artists come through Central Oregon as a part of the Great Northwest Music Tour hosted by McMenamins.
Deschutes Brewery 24th Birthday Party Tonight
Deschutes will celebrate its bday with a party in the alley near the downtown pub tonight. There’s gonna be bbq, music, specials on beers and a generally festive atmosphere.
Bend Community Center Celebrates 10 Years
Two years ago I walked into the Bend Community Center, which is about to celebrate its 10th anniversary, on a Sunday morning to drop off leftover food from a Brooks Resources barbeque. I unloaded all the food and started to leave, but something stopped me.
Bend Parks Board’s Mirror Pond Play
Last week the Bend Parks Board wisely put the breaks on a plan to include a Mirror Pond management study in a proposed November bond request that includes a number of attractive projects, including the completion of the Bend River Trail through some key property acquisitions, the reconstruction of the perilous Colorado Avenue spillway and…
Total Recall: Losing an election was just the beginning for the embattled Lake County D.A.
By his own account Mark Webber is a lot of things. He’s an entrepreneur, a volunteer, a pilot, a musician and a community organizer. One thing Webber says that he is not is a drunk driver, even if his record says otherwise. It’s this belief that’s led Webber on a crusade of sorts against the…
Bend City Council Four-Pack: Drink up the wonk
We’re skipping our regularly scheduled segment on how the council voted at its last meeting to bring you four little chunks of city news. Junk on downtown sidewalks! City plays Santa Claus on a midsummer’s night! Read on. City Council Election Heating Up (And It’s Only June!) The race for open Bend City Council positions…
Our Picks For 06/28-07/04
The Nature of Words’ Bookplate Auction and Reception thursday 28 This is your first chance to hear about this fall’s Nature of Words conference lineup! Or just hobnob with all a bunch of smart writer-types at this benefit for the organization. The evening includes a live literature-themed auction, readings by NOW students and live music.…
And Then There Was One: Broken Down Guitars emerge victorious as Last Band Standing champs
Resolute till the end, eclectic rock band Broken Down Guitars outlasted 27 other bands over nine weeks of competition, and secured enough votes in the final round to claim the title of “Last Band Standing” as well as $12,000 in prizes. BDG bested three other semifinalists, including All You All, Jacuzzi and Greyside, last Thursday…
Tweeps Who Love Music: Follow these Twitter accounts and increase your music IQ
The micro-blogging of Twitter is typically a conduit to a vast universe of information. That is definitely true of these music industry-related accounts. They provide much more than just 140 characters of commentary—they provide insight that is often elusive or just plain overlooked by mainstream media. @BackstageRider: This gal founded a website of the same…
Hopeless Jack and the Handsome Devil Work It: The sins aren’t deadly, but they sure are fun
Don’t let the dirty punk rock dandy/pierced/tattooed look fool you. Hopeless Jack and the Handsome Devil are serious about making it. This Saturday night they’ll help christen the new Crux Fermentation Project at the brewery’s grand opening along with the Kentucky Longrifles and Boxcar Stringband. We’re focusing on these guys, who’ve been playing together since…
The Way We Move: Langhorne Slim Ramseur Records
When folk singer Langhorne Slim’s new album The Way We Move, starts spinning—figuratively, for you digitally-minded folks—there isn’t much you can do to keep from reflecting on your day, your week or let’s face it… even your entire life. On The Way We Move, Slim returns with an album more focused on the theme of…
Camp Sherman Dining Delivers: Kokanee combines creative and local like never before
It was a sunny Friday afternoon when we rolled into Camp Sherman for what we hoped would be a 24-hour escape centered around a leisurely dinner at the Kokanee Café and a quiet night in a cabin next to the Metolius River. We didn’t have time to make a full weekend of the trip but…
Sample Platter: A snapshot of our recently reviewed restaurants
Elevation at Cascade Culinary Institute (COCC) In addition to regular culinary courses, the curriculum at the culinary institute includes hands-on front-and back-of-the-house training for students at Elevation. It’s a chance for students to experience firsthand what it’s like to work every position within a full-service restaurant. Profits from the restaurant cover the food and administration…
Double Mountain Koslch
If you’re looking for a summer beer that will push your palate beyond the safety blanket of the latest IPA, you could do worse than Double Mountain’s Kolsch, a German style beer that the Hood River brewery presents with just a bit of a Northwest spin, adding an extra dose of hops without foregoing the…
Wade Beauchamp: Frame Builder Extraordinaire
In a small shop near the Deschutes River Woods, Wade Beauchamp bends metal to his will. He cuts it, shapes it, grinds it and fuses it together with lightning. He isn’t an alchemist. Beauchamp builds bicycle frames and is the man behind Vulture Cycles, Bend’s preeminent bicycle frame builder. He’s humble, amiable, clever and just…
The Ultimate Black Box: Volcanic Theatre PUB kicks off with a party
Derek Sitter loves his family, excellent movies, fine microbrews and theater so powerful you have to wash off when you get home. “I’m not going to stop until I’m under your skin,” says Sitter. As early as 1995, his dream was to produce fringepub theater in an environment where the actors surrounded you, manifesting their…
All-Star Break: Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom is a masterwork
Wes Anderson doesn’t care if anyone likes his films. I think if the world stopped paying to see them, he would continue to make them, with his own money and show them to friends when they came over for dinner. He’s an auteur and one of the handful alive today like Paul Thomas Anderson, Jim…
The South Shall Rise Again: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter mixes history and fantasy. Fails miserably
The craziest thing about this movie is the film doesn’t live up to the campiness conveyed by the title. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is so deadly serious that it should be ashamed of itself. It’s as if The History Channel morphed into a bad action movie with the now standard Matrix-like effects. Sure there’s blood…
America Loves Things
Hoooo-RAH! The greatest holiday of the year—Fourth of July—is right around the corner, and I’m happier than a dingo with a fat Australian baby in his mouth. I love Fourth of July because it contains all my favorite things: Explosives, binge eating, binge drinking, and binge porking. And it has absolutely nothing to do with…
Going Walkabout: The Chewaucan River is a gem in Oregon’s Outback country
It’s easy to miss the Fisher King’s fly shop in the postage stamp-sized town of Paisley just beyond Summer Lake. The small shop is tucked into the corner of a self-storage business on the side of Highway 31 in the heart of the Oregon Outback. In fact, I blew right past it on my way…
The Wonderous Vole: The amazing world of the modest rodent
Look at him. He doesn’t look like much, does he? Just a tiny short-tailed mammal about the size of your thumb, of no significance; a mere tidbit to a coyote, and only a tasty snack for a badger. Great Horned Owls gobble ’em up by the bushel-basket, and a Red-tailed Hawk will wait until almost…
Real Life Cannonball Run Driver Cited Twice in Same Day by Oregon Police
A New York driver was stopped twice on Tuesday by state troopers in two different counties for speeding during an Cannonball Run-style rally race that spanned at least three states. Police said they were tipped off by law enforcement from Idaho and Nevada that participants in the Bullrun Rally would be traveling through the state…
