Rocking the Tower, June 10.While we all sit waiting for some big news about the summer live music schedule here in Bend, there was a shimmer of light this week as it was announced that Brandi Carlile was booked for the Tower Theatre on June 10.
The Brits - some of them, anyway - have their panties in a bunch over a comparison between their tight little island and Oregon.
Bend cops have busted the owners of a Galveston Avenue restaurant for selling meth, and neighbors are shocked - shocked! - that such a thing could have happened on the Westside.
What started out as a way for some friends in the snowboard industry to share stories photos and inappropriate content, has morphed itself into an internet TV show on Volcom's "Stone Your TV."
The underground website collaborates content from film makers, riders, and other bromosexuals with nothing better to do and puts it on the internet so they can publicly ridicule each other.
Does Bend, aka "the Paradise of the Cascades," really get 300 sunny days a year? Not according to the weather experts.
Portland made the front page of the New York Times today, but Oregon's metropolis probably would just as soon have passed up the honor.
Bend has picked up another one of those "Best Of" honors: This time, it's being touted as "America's Top Mountain Biking Town" in Mountain Bike Action magazine.
After a couple of years watching merchants come and go, Bend Downtowners Association Executive Director Chuck Arnold has come up with a term to describe people who jump into the local commerce game with more inspiration than perspiration: recreation retailers.
These are the folks who open up personalized dog sweater shops and stores that sell 100 kinds of balsamic vinegar and nothing else.
And no matter what the economic climate around them, these shopkeepers come and go as regularly as the spring rains in Central Oregon.
But this year things are different, vacancy is on the rise in downtown and recreational retailers aren't the only ones sinking in Central Oregon's stagnating economy. As the recession drags on and unemployment continues to climb, some of the area's better established retailers are throwing in the towel after watching their sales plunge over the past year.
It took a long time getting there, but Bend's Badlands area has finally achieved federal wilderness status.
The organizers of the 4 Peaks Music Festival said that they were using the Spring Fling tour with Poor Man’s Whiskey and Blue Turtle Seduction as a method of gauging the level of interest folks had in the festival before making plans for any sort of summer event. Well, The Blender hasn’t heard how the Eugene and Portland editions of the tour went off, but the Old Stone Church here in Bend was packed full as two of Bend’s favorite rootsy jam bands got people in festival mode – even if snow was falling outside.
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