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You’d think that there would be a post-New Year lull in the events happening around town this weekend, but that’s hardly the case. There’s actually a crap ton of stuff to do.
Bend lost another restaurant/wine tasting room this week when winemaker Doug Maragas decided to close up the little Taverna on Colorado Ave. and consolidate all operations in Culver, where the Maragas Winery (rhymes with “asparagus”) and vineyard is located.
The city has released a three-page summary of a controversial disciplinary action that drew the ire of the Bend Bulletin’s editorial page. The summary was released today as part of an ongoing tug of war between the paper and the city over an investigation involving a public works employee who was accused of providing preferential treatment to a vendor that won a city water contract.
I had a blast of a time chatting with Vancouver-area one-man rock band Tony Smiley for the feature we ran this week about his insane mastery of the loop pedals and am still wondering how the hell he makes the sounds he does.
Tonight, Smiley plays a free show (and it’s all ages, kids) at McMenamins Old St.
The nearly six-year-old Bend brewery, 10 Barrel, is planning on opening a brewpub in Boise, Idaho as early as this summer.
The Galveston Ave.
With little desire to indulge in the feeding frenzy that is the holiday season, I decided to head south to climb. Often I think about my life and feel half crazy for what I do.
Seems like it was just yesterday I was proclaiming Anais Mitchell’s album Hadestown, the best album of 2010 (and believe me.
Soccer fans rejoice. The Portland Timbers will be kicking it in Bend later this month as part of a statewide “meet the fans” promotion.
If you tell Siri you've been raped, she wouldn't tell you to go to a hospital, or to the police. If you tell Siri you want some Viagra, she knows where you could get it.
Tech and feminist blogs recently erupted with a startling story: Siri, the iPhone 4 app that responds to voice queries with preprogrammed or search-engine-based replies, refused to direct its users to abortion clinics. Not only that: Apple's Siri seems programmed to respond to sexual or sex-related questions almost invariably as if the user were a certain kind of cisgender man.
If you tell Siri you've been raped, she wouldn't tell you to go to a hospital, or to the police; if you tell Siri you want some Viagra, she knows where you could get it. If you tell Siri you want “a blow job,” she looks up escorts for you; if you tell her that you “want your pussy eaten,” she’ll direct you to pet stores. (Also, she knows the word “dick,” but not the word “clitoris.”)
We’ve only just received our first real winter storm of the season, but some the folks at MBSEF are already looking forward to the end of the season and the annual Pole, Pedal, Paddle, Central Oregon’s signature multisport race. Event promoter MBSEF unveiled this year’s official logo that will emblazon marketing materials and competitors’ ubiquitous commemorative T-shirts.
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