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Waiting for Godot Success Critical: Innovation Theater Works may have to shut doors if they can’t fill the seats

Theater Works is facing the possibility of closure depending on the total amount of money made for the upcoming shows Waiting for Godot.

Source WeeklyApril 11, 2012April 12, 2025

The set of Waiting for Godot is comprised of one dead tree, an expressionistic desert background and a floor covered in burlap. It's a stark scene, and feels slightly menacing, a lot like the language in Irish writer Samuel Beckett's seminal work.
It's also a lot like the financial situation of Innovation Theater Works. The nonprofit theater company, which got started in Bend in 2008, is in dire straights. If this play does not net enough cash, ITW's Artistic Director Brad Hills said it will be curtains for Innovation. (See sidebar).

Opinion

On the First Street Park Tree Cutting

An opinion about the trees taken down in the First Street Rapids Park Trail.

Source WeeklyApril 4, 2012May 4, 2023

Next to the plant description sign for the ponderosa pine trees is a newly cut stump on the First Street Rapids Park Trail. About 27 trees of varying sizes were cut down on March 30.

Opinion

Musical Interpretation is a Drag

An Ooinion of the 1776 musical performed at the Tower Theatre.

Source WeeklyApril 4, 2012June 18, 2024

Did you see where they are performing “1776” musical about founding fathers in drag by an all female cast from our area at the Tower Theatre.
Wonder if we (the men) could perform 17 versions of Rosie O'Donnell's multiple personality and make it a musical.

Opinion

A Stain on Our Name

Response to picking up your dog’s waste.

Source WeeklyApril 4, 2012January 4, 2023

As a dog owner who picks up her dogs' poop, I cringe whenever I read a letter complaining (justifiably) about dog poop left where it was originally deposited. I am old enough to remember when nobody thought twice about littering.

Food & Drink

Little Bites: Cuisine Crawl: Highlights from the kick-off crawl, more pizza and tacos on the move

The Foodie Crawl had a spectacular outcome with plenty of delicious food served.

Source WeeklyApril 4, 2012September 9, 2024

Sunday night, April 1, a landmark event took place that I believe will set the bar for culinary events in the future in Bend. With 12 chefs at 11 locations, offering 16 different dishes, The Foodie Crawl was a spectacular success.
The event's participants wound their way through the westside, Old Mill and downtown and quickly developed a camaraderie marked by a common love of food.
As a former chef at Tart, I enjoyed seeing the dishes developed by chefs from some of the town's best restaurants. Trattoria Sbandati hit on all cylinders with their perfectly textured “Polpette” and paired Tuscan Sangiovese. Victorian Café wowed with Mini Sage Duck Benedicts and a blood orange mimosa. Jen's Garden, which set up shop at Ginger's Kitchen, offered a wonderful “Yucatanwich” paired with a Prosecco mimosa.

Culture

Get Thee Back to the Workhouse

Locals are free to rent a space in The Workhouse and provides a comfortable working and spacial environment.

Source WeeklyApril 4, 2012November 28, 2023

In these economic times sometimes things can feel a little dire. However, all over the country people are looking for, and sometimes finding, the pewter lining. Right here in Bend a pair of local artists working on a new formula that is designed to deconstruct artistic and economic limitations with a bold new experiment in commercial art, design and production, fittingly dubbed The Workhouse.
Rooted in grass roots solutions, combining community, creativity, resourcefulness, and hard work to help redefine “the good life”. Belying the origins of its name, The Workhouse, love child of Stuart Breidenstein and Cari Dolyniuk, defines this union of elements.

Outside

Trail Blazing: Early spring conditions abound on area trails

Conditions of the trails surrounding Central Oregon are continuously changing in the spring weather.

Source WeeklyApril 4, 2012January 4, 2023

They go from town. Pedaling down the shoulder, they ride side-by-side because traffic is minimal and the cars that do pass have bikes on top. The woman is local, but the two men are from out of town. She takes a left toward the trailhead and they follow, passing a parking lot half filled with dirty Subarus and Toyota pickups. A 1984 VW Westfalia the color of burnt toast sits off in one corner with the sliding door open, giving the riders a quick glimpse of goose-bumped skin as someone shimmies out of their shorts.

Opinion

Spring Cleanup Special: Out with the Old Poop, in with the New

Scoop delivers the Straight Poop from Bend, Ore.

Source WeeklyMarch 28, 2012January 25, 2023

Monday, March 19
Bringing the crazy: Gunman attacks Jewish school in Toulouse, France, killing rabbi and three children .

Opinion

Check Your Gas Facts

Source WeeklyMarch 28, 2012November 7, 2024

Why are the gasoline prices so high? Is it the lack of crude? – nope. Is it the lack of refinery capacity? – nope.

Opinion

This Is No Drop in the Beer Barrel

The Deschutes Brewery announced that it is buying a billion gallons of water per year to help stream flows in the Deschutes.

Source WeeklyMarch 21, 2012January 11, 2023

Bend has become famous for two things: beer and the Deschutes River. So it's fitting that Bend's biggest brewery – which also takes its own name from the river – has decided to make a significant contribution to the river's health.
Last week the Deschutes Brewery and the Deschutes River Conservancy, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting and improving the river, announced that the brewery is buying a billion gallons of water a year to improve stream flows in the Middle Deschutes.
This doesn't mean the brewery is going to buy trillions of bottles of Evian and pour them into the Deschutes. Instead it will donate $25,000 a year to buy irrigation water rights from landowners who no longer need them.

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