MONDAY 16 It’s official: the 16-month engagement between Liam “Not Chris” Hemsworth and former Disney princess/current twerking enthusiast Miley Cyrus is KAPUTSVILLE. Various media outlets are reporting their various theories for the split including Chris being mortified by Miley’s weird twerking performance at the VMAs, and Miley being mortified by Chris’ penis, which would reportedly […]
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Horner’s Win is More than a Race Result
On Sunday, Bend’s Chris Horner, 41, won the Vuelta a España, a three-week-long bike race through the mountains and valleys of Spain. In doing so, he became not only the oldest rider to win the Vuelta (local papers there dubbed him El Abuelo, or the grandfather), but also the oldest rider to win a grand […]
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One Day at a Time
MONDAY 9 Ready for another week of terrible people doing terrible things? Welcome to One Day at a Time! In our shocking, shocking, SHOCKING first story, it seems acquitted murderer George Zimmerman (he of Trayvon Martin fame) is not exactly going to win the “Hubby of the Year Award.” His wife, Shellie Zimmerman, called 9-1-1 […]
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Not So Fast, NSA
Three weeks ago, declassified materials revealed that in 2011 a federal judge had admonished the National Security Agency for its spying practices, a far-reaching endeavor that involved collecting tens of thousands of domestic emails without a warrant. The NSA, the judge said, was also guilty of repeatedly misleading the court about its practices. This revelation […]
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One Day At A Time
MONDAY 2 Get some eye wash ready—because what follows is a headline that could blind you for life: “Kris Jenner Has a Sex Tape.” Yeeeeaughhh! Our eyes! OUR EYES! (Splash, splash.) Unfortunately, it’s true: In a teaser for an upcoming episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians—which only a true, self-loathing masochist would ever watch—the […]
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One Day at a Time
MONDAY 26 It’s a new week…ready to twerk it? As briefly reported in last week’s edition, overcompensating ex-Disney princess Miley Cyrus twerked up a storm at last night’s MTV Video Music Awards during a performance with Robin Thicke and his grotesque song “Blurred Lines.” During the eye-popping routine, Cyrus handily stripped down to a nude-colored […]
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Giving Shelter to All
Imagine the following scenario: A woman is looking for a new place to live. Her partner has been physically and verbally abusing her for months and knows her current home isn’t safe. She’s scared how her partner might react to her departure, and embarrassed by the situation she’s found herself in—a sadly common scenario when […]
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Easy Changes Make a Big Difference
Sure, the elbow-in-the-ribs assessment is that there are two seasons in Bend—winter, and road repair; a “joke” nearly as irksome as being asked whether you’re the one who ordered all the hot weather. Yet, as summer winds down, we recently sat around our editorial conference room and assessed what has changed from May until now. […]
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One Day at a Time
MONDAY 19 As you know, any day that starts with personal hardship for Chris Brown is a good day indeed. And it’s an even better day when an entire country turns against him! CBC News reports that the abusive d-bag singer has been dropped as the headliner for the Energy Rush festival (that plays in […]
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It’s How You Said It
Yes, we understand the ticket sales are necessary to support concert costs and pay bands like Michael Franti and upcoming MGMT (Aug. 31). But no, we don’t think the closure of the open lawn space at the Old Mill to freeloaders, who for the past decade have picnicked and lounged on the lawns there while […]
