Culture Features

I apologize from the get-go. I wrote something like this message in one of my earlier columns, but I promise, from the bottom of my heart, to take you on a much different journey this time. This is our eleventh month living in beautiful Bend, Oregon. A lot has happened during our time here…and a […]

Back in 2013, local artist and owner of Bright Place Gallery Stuart Breidenstein came up with an idea: Make art accessible and affordable… and help artists sell it. A lot of it. That idea became the 20-Dollar Art Show, where locals could pick up art—and a lot of it. Artists who didn’t always have the […]

Since Bend is such a relatively young city, some might not realize just how much of the past still lies within the walls and waterways centered around downtown. From the shores of the Deschutes River to the O’Kane Building in the heart of the city, ghost stories are silently waiting to be discovered. Mother and […]

Kate Bowler in her book “No Cure for Being Human” says, “Everybody pretends you die only once. But that’s not true. You can die a thousand possible futures in the course of a … life.” I so get that, don’t you? As we live, who hasn’t had to die to the loss of loved ones, […]