On a recent Friday, I watched nearly two dozen peewee football players form tight huddles, each on opposite ends of a green Astroturf field inside one of the two Cascade Indoor Sports buildings. In a fit of giggles, the offensive team, in yellow pennies, unleashed an unorthodox trick play that can best be described as […]
“Same great beer, same sh**ty location,” chimes a choir of (partially bleeped) patrons at the end of Silver Moon’s new radio ad. Oh, Silver Moon: You are too hard on yourselves. With a tap list full of award-winning standards, seasonal selections and even a barrel-aged treat or two, the beer is better than it has […]
With minimal snow and the Dirksen Derby course still up, Bend’s Kirt Voreis and Carson Storch took to the hill for a studded-tire smack down. Local photographer and videographer Pete Alport was on hand to shoot.Way to make hay, fellas.
Get it together, L.A. A 13-member citizen report released on Wednesday says the city of angles is suffering from “a crisis of leadership and direction,” and cites traffic and poverty as two of the biggest issues. The council was convened by city council president, Herb Wesson. Syria (starts) to stand down. On Tuesday, Syria, a […]
Stranded Antarctic explorers, saved! Today, a Chinese helicopter plucked all 52 passengers from a Russian boat that has been trapped by ice near Antarctica since Dec. 24. Goodbye, Mayor Bloomberg! Hello, Mayor de Blasio. Yesterday, New Yorkers welcomed new mayor Bill de Blasio during his inauguration speech. President Clinton swore in the progressive new Mayor […]
Platypus Pub Though the name is familiar—Platypus is a basement pub famous for serving hard-to-find beers—the Third Street bar has gone beyond pouring and recently entered the brewing arena with outstanding results. See the exceptional (and tongue twisterly named) Haste Ye’ Back Scottish Wee Heavy (8.5% ABV) for proof of their brewing prowess. “We’re selling […]
Ashley Chally thinks the next Kristi Yamaguchi or Mario Lemieux could come from Bend. It makes sense. Already, Central Oregon is the high-desert home to a healthy collection of the country’s strongest athletes—from runners, to snowboarders, rock climbers, cyclists (road, mountain and cyclocross), nordic skiers and whitewater kayakers. And with an ice rink befitting the […]
Extreme skiing pioneer Shane McConkey, who died skiing in 2009, must have been one of the most filmed athletes of all time. Since boyhood, McConkey, an affable daredevil, was obsessed with taking calculated risks—most of which were captured on camera. Using carefully selected clips, the directors of McConkey expertly match old footage with current interviews […]
Mt. Bachelor’s trails will be two years old when the races come to town. Visit Bend is doing a good job with the bike-race-hosting thing. It was just announced that our city would be the site of the USA Cycling 2015 and 2016 cross-country and enduro national championship mountain bike races. What’s most interesting about […]
During a special meeting on Friday, the Bend City Council, ostensibly, voted in favor of the environment when they pledged to limit drains on Bridge Creek, the city’s main water supply source. The small Tumalo Creek tributary remains at the center of a discussion about how to improve flows in the watershed, particularly in the […]
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