Lovers of great music rejoice: The Shins and Beck are playing at Les Schwab Amphitheater over Memorial Day weekend. Awesome news.
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New Spidey Trailer Shakes Up Blockbuster Race
The summer of super heroes is fast approaching. In major cities across the globe, lucky fans of the web-slinging teenager were recently treated to a six-minute preview of Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man.
Mt. Hood Climber Found Dead, Two Days After Local Guide Leads Group to Summit
This morning, authorities found the body of a climber who went missing on Mt. Hood early Monday morning.
Typhoon! closes after BOLI charges filed
Typhoon!, the Portland-based Thai food chain closed its Bend restaurant this weekend, along with four other Oregon locations and one restaurant in Redmond, Wash.
Bo, the bar also located in the Franklin Crossing building, closed, as well.
Like Smearing Honey On a Baby
Today the morning sun crawled through my window and sat quietly on the floor of my apartment while I got dressed. As I left for work, I imagined it sauntering over the coffee table and up the wall only to loiter between shadows on the bookshelf for hours.
Eat Meatballs, Help a WWII Vet
Finally the two things American’s love more than anything else: Spaghetti and World War II vets.
Okay, maybe the first one is up for debate, but Bendites have a great opportunity to send some of the surviving members of the greatest generation to Washington, D.
The Goddess Speaks: Alkon on Love, Life and Sex
You’re been reading her sage-like advice for years in the dead-tree edition. Now hear Advice Goddess Amy Alkon dish on life and love via the interwebs with her weekly on-line radio show.
Creator of Soul Train Dead at 75: We’ll miss you, Don
“The hippest trip in America!”
Such was Don Cornelius’ tag line on the hit musical showcase, Soul Train, a program he created, hosted and produced.
In 1970, Cornelius figured that there needed to be a black answer to “American Bandstand.
2012 Sasquatch Lineup!
It’s finally here! The 11th edition of the famous Sasquatch Music Festival has arrived! In my opinion the lineup is a damn good one.
The Bard in Bend: Shakespeare at Winterfest
Winterfest is fast approaching and this year the five day event includes a one-man show on Wednesday entitled, “Shakespeare on the Rocks: Good Will.”
Grant Turner, the star of the show, is the artistic director of the Northwest Classical Theatre Company and will present an intimate look at the bard’s life from his birth in 1564 to his death in 1616—a pretty cool way to learn from an expert what we all should have learned in eighth grade.

