Balloon tires, wide comfortable saddles, cool paint jobs-what’s not to like about contemporary cruiser bikes that have become popular get-around-Bend vehicles during the warm months. Given the fact that most of our fair city is relatively flat, it’s ideally suited for cruising.
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Best of Central Oregon
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Bend Roots Revival: A Complete Schedule
A full schedule for the weekend-long festival.
The Bend Roots Revival, taking place between the Victorian Café and Parrilla Grill (14th St and Galveston Ave.) all weekend got under last night with a show by Grateful Dead tribute act Rising Tide and bluegrass from Back from the Dead.
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Telfer Gets a Failing Grade From OLCV
Central Oregon’s first-term legislators emerged on the opposite end of the spectrum on environmental issues, according to the legislative scorecard released this week by the environmental policy watchdog group Oregon League of Conservation Voters (OLCV). The non-profit has been tracking the votes of individual legislators on environmental policy issues for more than three decades and compiling the information into post-session scorecards for voters.
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Dr. K's Radical Prescription for Health Care
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John Kitzhaber, The Man Who Would Be Governor Again, had some right-on-the-money things to say about health care reform last week at the Columbia Forum in Astoria. The gist of his message: We need to create a new and better system, not just prop up the failed old one.
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Cats Out of Control: Time for a Sensible Policy
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The weather might not show it, but the birds know it: Autumn is here, and they’re heading south along the Pacific Flyway, the main migratory route along the West Coast.
The Pacific Flyway runs right over Central Oregon, and the autumn and spring migrations bring entertaining and colorful tourists to my bird feeders – white-crowned sparrows, red-eyed towhees, evening grosbeaks, rufous hummingbirds and more.
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Video from Deer Tick at McMenamins last night
If you happened to be wondering how many people will willingly cram themselves into a relatively small room to see a free show by one of the most buzzed-about bands in all of indie rock, last night’s Deer Tick show at McMenamins gave you the answer—a hell of a lot.
By the time the Rhode Island Americana-influenced rock band hit the stage at about 7:15pm, the Father Luke’s Room at McMenamins Old St.
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A Tarnished Treasure?
It’s one of life’s great truisms. Something very unique is cherished by a few, becomes a cult classic, and then, as more people find out about it, becomes more of a classic trashed.
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Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home… The truth on Lady Beetles
The truth on Lady Beetles
Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home
Your house is on fire and your children are gone
All except one, and that's Little Anne
For she has crept under the warming pan.
In Medieval England, farmers would set fire to old hop vines after the harvest in order to clear the fields for the next planting.
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Zappa Plays Zappa coming to town… and Deer Tick plays tonight
Zappa Plays Zappa is coming to town and Deer Tick plays tonight.
I’ll admit that I’m not a Frank Zappa enthusiast, but I’m aware of a bucketful of folks here in Bend that worship at the alter of perhaps the only man to have earned the title of “rock and roll composer.” And they’re in luck because there’s some Zappa music coming to town.
