Next week we’re devoting the ENTIRE ISSUE! to Molly Ringwald! To get us all in the spirit of Molly, we’ll be posting our favorite clips all week from the Brat Pack movies of the 80s. Here in all its glory: The lunch scene from The Breakfast Club Do you have a favorite moment from one […]
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Those Little Shrimps in the Bend La Pine School District
Bend-LaPine Schools has jumped on the local bandwagon, claiming to provide 40 percent of its food from Oregon-sourced ingredients. Latest item on the menu? Seafood from Oregon waters. The pilot program is called Boat to School and provides Central Oregon kids with a taste of the sea in the High Desert, according to the <a […]
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Give Us Your Molly Ringwald Moments—We’ll Give You Tickets!
Our lady of perpetual teen angst. Remember that moment in Pretty In Pink when Molly Ringwald’s sitting there in her social studies class and those Barbie-like popular girls ask where she got her clothes? And then Molly tries to get the Barbie girls out of their punishment, but they say they would actually be happy […]
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Eat Up
Operalicious feeds an aria-starved Bend
Since the closure of the nonprofit volunteer-run Obsidian Opera Company five years ago, Bend has been in an opera lull. Fear not Opera-fanatics, Operalicious, in partnership with The Rotary Club of Bend and End Polio Now, are bringing back a fun-infused sampler platter of favorite mini-opera bites on Saturday. For free! “The big concept behind […]
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River Right
Kayakers take on one of Bend’s best runs
Boaters in Bend are used to having both flat and great Class 4+ water within a 20-minute traveling radius year-round. But it is only a few select months of the year when anything in between is ready for action. And the best stretch of Class 2+ in town: The Riverhouse Run. This weekend (organizers hope) […]
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PSU Creates “The Business of Craft Brewing” program
This could be your beer! Still think you can sneak another brewery in before Bend’s beer bubble bursts? Might want to take a quick timeout for a new certificate program at Portland State University—it’s the state’s latest acknowledgement that beer industry is here to stay. “No place in the US has the concentration of quality, […]
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Pumped
Single White Liberal Female Buys Gun
The first person I ever knew to be shot with a gun was Sean Clapper. We were 14. According to the story, he was at Justin Ball’s house after school when Justin accidentally shot him in the spine with a handgun, paralyzing him. He did finally walk again, but only with great difficulty and likely […]
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How Does Your Bracket Compare to the Pres’?
March Madness kicks off tonight and President Barack Obama is picking Indiana to win the whole thing. If you haven’t filled out your bracket, yet, get on it! The Ducks, who just won the Pac-12 after eeking out a victory over UCLA last Saturday, are in the tourney. Despite their solid Pac-12 performance, the team […]
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Dave Chappelle Making a Comeback? (please say yes, please say yes)
After an “awkward” end to his comedy show, it looks like Dave Chappelle may be making a comeback. We certainly hope so. In case you need help remembering why we all like this guy, here’s an hour of Chappelle making us want to hang out with him forever. Warning: For mature audiences and note that […]
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The Year of the Woman
12 months of back-to-back victories
Women still make less than men for the same work. And there’s still a full-scale assault on our reproductive rights going on out there. But from politics to women’s health to fighting on the frontlines, the last year has been a series of wins for women on just about every front. Here’s a snapshot of […]