Phil Busse has done his tour of duty with alt-weeklies, starting in 1992 right after graduation from Middlebury College as the first environmental beat reporter for San Francisco Weekly. After a brief detour through the University of Oregon School of Law, Phil returned to writing as the first Managing Editor for Portland Mercury. In 2006, he started the Media Institute for Social Change in Portland, through which he continues to host a summer program teaching college students to produce documentaries.
Until he was 25 or so, Phil thought that he would be a spy, and took scuba lessons to prepare, and learned to drive a motorcycle and an 18-wheeler. Perhaps, then, it is unsurprising that his favorite holiday is the Fourth of July (he loves blowing stuff up). He feels at home with Joseph Conrad's fictional characters.
In spite of what seems like obvious campaign violations, as of press time, no one has filed a complaint with the Secretary of State Election Division about apparent fouls by incumbent District Attorney Patrick Flaherty—including the person most affected by them, his opponent John Hummel. “I’m not saying I want him to get away with […]
Published in 1946, Dr. Benjamin Spock’s Baby and Child Care was second only to the Bible for overall sales for the subsequent 52 years, until 1998 when sales began to slip, coinciding with the advent of the Internet and, soon after, apps. Dr. Spock was the first pediatrician to popularize psychoanalysis for children, and to […]
Portland, OR — Oregon Senator Ron Wyden today announced that the federal agency that regulates the sale of alcohol has agreed to rescind an order than would have blocked the sale of wine growlers in Oregon. In a letter to members of the Oregon delegation the administrator of the federal Alcohol, Tobacco Tax and Trade […]
It is not even yet 10 on a Wednesday morning, but already Zydeco is busy. Steve and Cheri Helt, the husband-wife restaurant owners, have been across the street filming a spot on a local TV show about the upcoming Foodie Crawl, and now they are rushing for another media interview. The back kitchen is busy, […]
Charles Precourt has had a front row seat to much of the history of the second half of the Twentieth Century. First, as a top notch Air Force pilot stationed near the Berlin Wall, at the dividing line between the two super powers. And then, in the ’90s, as an astronaut commanding the Space Shuttle […]
It is already difficult enough to navigate over the steep topography and around hairpin turns. Add in maneuvering through an alphabet soup of federal, state, county and city agencies, and the feat that is biking in Central Oregon is even more impressive: For example, to connect trails throughout the region, like the popular Phil’s Trail, […]
Peter Bowers is the high-energy and disarmingly friendly owner of The Patient Angler, a popular fly fishing shop along Bend’s Third St. The store is tidy and small, barely the length of a standard river fishing boat. But within the small space is both a wealth of knowledge and enough fishing flies to reel in […]
The word “holistic” is thrown around a lot these days. It is a grown-up way to say that the dots are all connected; or, to use another playroom analogy, that all the puzzle parts fit together. This concept—or, more appropriately, this goal—plays out in very obvious ways in our parks and Central Oregon’s recreation pursuits, […]
In the ’70s, riding dirt bikes was an informal sport, jumping Huffy bikes off mounds in backyards and tearing Schwinn Sting-Rays through hiking paths (certainly a precursor to mountain biking for thousands of kids). But even though the sport had formally arrived in America in 1969, when a group of teenagers in West LA started […]
My grandfather routinely told me that there are doers, and there are talkers. But sometimes there is that rare person who is both. Although this week, it doesn’t seem so rare, as a handful of events are bringing some of the world’s most exciting adventures indoors and onto the stage from the people who lived […]
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