It's the end of the line for Brainstorm NW: The editor of the 12-year-old conservative Republican magazine has disclosed that the February issue will be its last.
Lets face it we're all getting strapped for cash. Still there's nothing worse than a long day in the mountains and coming home to a house sans food, piecing together some farce of a meal from a packet of ramen a week old hot dog and a carrot.
Since last Friday, both local TV news outlets have been carrying the story of Bend Police Capt. Kevin Sawyer being put on administrative leave while he and his wife, a well-known local realtor, are under investigation by the FBI. But, curiously, there's been nary a word about it yet in Bend's Only Daily Newspaper.
Some days The Eye wonders whether the members of The Bulletin's editorial board bother to read their own paper. Today is one of those days.
The Blender raved a bit about music festivals earlier this week, but we didn't touch on the state of our own outdoor music and camping fest: the 4 Peaks Music Festival. Word just came through today that 4 Peaks is planning a mini Oregon tour with two of the festival's stalwarts, Poor Man's Whiskey and Blue Turtle Seduction.
Jody Denton's showplace downtown restaurant, Merenda, has folded, but it's being reborn as "900 Wall." Can it survive in its new incarnation?
We’ve finally been graced with a little snow fall in the mountains. The high pressure system that sat over our area for a month has dispersed and now we have some storm systems lined up across the North Pacific.
Newsweek magazine has a piece this week lauding Nigel Jaquiss, the investigative reporter for Willamette Week who broke the sex scandal story about Portland Mayor Sam Adams - and also raking The Oregonian over the coals for dropping the ball on this and other tough stories.
A few members of the Blender crew were out at the Summit Stage and Saloon last night to catch Tweak Bird and Kandi Coated. Alas, it was dark and not optimal video taping conditions, but you can get a taste of the sound purveyed by Tweak Bird – a quirkily heavy duo consisting of two brothers based in Los Angeles.
On the last Friday afternoon of January - which happens to be an unusually warm one - about a dozen folks are lined up at the bar and scattered around the tables of the M&J Tavern on Greenwood. The scene probably would have been the same a year ago. Sports highlights flash across the flat-screen television mounted above the bar as peanuts are consumed steadily and the shells tossed freely to the concrete floor. But what's absent is the smoky haze that once hung around the ceiling of the Greenwood Avenue tavern.
It's been a month since Oregon, like more than 20 states before it,
extended a ban on workplace smoking to include previously exempt
establishments like bars and bowling alleys. The measure, which was
passed by the Oregon Legislature more than a year and a half ago but
just took effect on January 1, is a step forward for Oregon's tobacco
control reputation, but public health and anti-tobacco organizations
say the state has a long way to go.
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