The Northwest’s premiere multi-day music festival, Sasquatch!, has announced that it will release a limited amount of four-day festival passes this Friday. The 11th annual Sasquatch! music festival will take place Memorial Day weekend, May 25- 28.
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Bulletin Reorganization Plan Seeks Interest Rate Reduction
The Bulletin is asking its largest creditor to accept an interest rate that is less than half of what it is entitled to under a reorganization plan that the newspaper filed with a federal bankruptcy court this week.
According to the paper’s 30-plus page reorganization plan, Western Communications would pay off its $18 million loan to Bank of America over 30 years at a rate of 4.
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Mt. Bachelor to Open on Wednesday
Mt. Bachelor announces that it will open in time for Thanksgiving.
As we mentioned yesterday, Mt. Bachelor ski resort has been keeping a close eye on the weather to see if they can open — as they typically do — in time of the Thanksgiving weekend.
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The Image of the Occupy Movement
A shot of a young woman pepper sprayed by police in Portland has gone viral.
With the velocity at which this photo is making its way around the web this morning, there’s a good chance you’ve already seen it. And if you haven’t, well, you need to, because this shot of a young woman being pepper sprayed by police yesterday in Portland is likely going to be one of the most iconic images of the Occupy Wall Street Movement.
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Twilight Fans: It’s Almost Midnight
What your in for if you decide to go see breaking dawn at midnight tonight.
Get ready, because tonight is the midnight release for Part 1 of Twilight Breaking Dawn.
You wont find me there, but you can bet to find hundreds of screaming prepubescent girls camped out for this movie.
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Steven Blaylock’s Bizarre Statement
At his sentencing, convicted murderer Steven Blaylock explained why he dumped his wife’s body in a river.
The story of Steven Blaylock, the man convicted recently of killing his wife last year and then dumping her body in the North Santiam River, got even weirder today during his sentencing hearing.
Blaylock was ultimately sentenced by county circuit Judge Michael Adler to life in prison and is not eligible for parole for 25 years.
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Want to See High on Fire for Free?
Win free tickets to see metal rockers High on Fire on Saturday night.
Do you like metal? And do you like metal complete with insanely technical guitar work and angry, guttural vocals from some true masters of this medium? How about seeing this sort of music for free?
Well, then if you know what’s good for you, you’ll enter to win tickets to Saturday night’s High on Fire show at the Domino Room.
All you have to do is head over to our Facebook page, like us, and then leave a comment on the post about this giveaway about, well, anything, and we’ll put you in the running.
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Like Thanksgiving but Not Meat and Cheese? Free Vegan Dinner Tonight
Enjoy a vegan potluck tonight, with all the holiday trimmings.
That’s right veg-heads. Free Thanksgiving dinner, which starts at 6pm tonight at the Environmental Center (16 NW Kansas).
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Empty Space Orchestra Announces December Residency
ESO announces a four-week residency at the Silver Moon.
Like they did last January, local rock and roll geniuses Empty Space Orchestra will be taking over the Silver Moon Brewing Co. every Saturday night for an entire month.
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Take a Number: As school board waffles, critics say magnet school admission policy is biased
Magnet schools are a tough ticket in Bend.
Chevy Pham is exhausted.
The stay-at-home mother of three stays on the move all day, shuttles kids to and fro, helps with homework, cooks meals, works around the house, volunteers in the community and tries to find a moment to connect with her husband who works full time.
Because time is precious and energy is finite, Pham didn't investigate why, back in 2007, her kindergartener wasn't selected from a pool of applicants, all of whom were vying for the few remaining spots at Amity Creek, a popular downtown magnet school.
In Bend, there are four magnet schools that serve elementary students, three of which are located west of 3rd Street. To determine who can attend the popular schools, the district uses a hybrid attendance policy that combines traditional neighborhood school boundaries and an at-large lottery system open to everyone in the district. Recently, though, that system has come under fire from parents like Pham and Amity's own principal who believe it serves to enhance, rather than mitigate, the district's existing economic segregation, limiting educational options for students.