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Nearly 40% of adults had a new year’s resolution going into 2022 — and by February about 36% of those people had already given up. Fewer than one in 10 people are able to maintain their resolution the whole year, and the people who fall off the wagon often blame it on a lack of […]
Looking for a New Year’s Eve party? We’ve got you. Here is a list of what’s happening in Central Oregon to ring in 2023. Make sure to scroll through to check out all the extraordinary parties. Know of an event but don’t see it on this list? Submit events for free to our online calendar, and NYE […]
I don’t think it’s possible to overestimate how influential to pop culture “Napoleon Dynamite” was upon its release in 2004. I was working at a video store at the time and the number of copies I rented to teenagers and proto-hipsters wearing “Vote For Pedro” t-shirts is too many for me to even try to wrap […]
When walking through a gallery, the urge to get too close to the art and touch everything is unbearable. Fancy art galleries and art studios host beautiful work, but it can be intimidating and uncomfortable to walk through. The Underground Book Gallery is breaking the barrier between art and the viewer with its interactive book-themed […]
Locals gathered Dec. 3 at the Downtown Bend Library for the Deschutes Public Library Foundation’s 20th “A Novel Idea” unveiling ceremony, where the 2023 selection was revealed. A Novel Idea is Oregon’s largest annual community reading event, held during the spring in libraries and venues around Deschutes County. For the last 20 years, Novel Idea […]
To any passerby, the needle’s flick and the hook’s soft swing might not look like anything special. But to this group of yarn workers, it’s a meditation—a type of metamorphosis that is only understood by picking up needles and giving it a go. Every Tuesday morning inside Bend coffee shop Spoken Moto, a group of […]
This past month, Bend local Joslyn Bryant challenged herself to go to a different event every single day. She set out a number of rules: one event every day for 30 days, the event must be open to the public, the event must be on some sort of public calendar and no skipping allowed. Bryant […]
About a year and a half ago, then-20-year-olds Brett Williams and Adam Jorgensen had a pickup truck and a rickety old trailer, and the beginnings of a plan. With those assets at their disposal, Williams and Jorgensen started hauling away junk for people who were not able to do so themselves. Over time, the word […]
There’s always a history that’s gestured towards when you’re in the act of self-naming. Or that you take certain aspects of those histories as launching points for your own self-formation,” Raquel Gutierrez says. A cultural landscape encompasses the art, narrative and lifeways of people interacting with the local environment and in turn, being transformed by […]
The upcoming gathering on Nov. 13 won’t be the first time The Belfry in Sisters has staged a rockin’, Joe-inspired “Party for Leonardi.” Since the ’70s, countless music venues throughout the region, as well as Joe Leonardi’s own geodesic dome home, have taken turns showcasing his impressive talent as songwriter, vocalist (think Van Morrison), bass […]
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