By Phil Busse WebCyclery is an anomaly. It began in 1997, during the nascent days of online shopping. Amazon was only four years old and other (no longer existent) companies like 800.com were booming with the then-novel idea that everything could be sold online—even something as fitted and individualized as shoes or bikes or skis. […]
By Erin Rook Tucked away down a winding path just off Third Street, Cosmic Depot looks like the home of the friendly neighborhood witch. A black cat named “Shadow” roams between the butterfly-bedazzled shrubbery and the bright yellow house speckled with purple stars. Inside, the shop is bursting at the seams with all manner of […]
For Dan McLung, it’s always been about the music and the freedom that comes with working for himself. The musician, who plays bass with the Moon Mountain Ramblers, has been self-employed since he was 23. “I suppose I’m unhirable,” McLung, now 62, jokes. A Bend resident since 1984, he originally opened the Piano Shoppe, playing […]
By Brianna Brey The displays at North Soles are stocked, brimming with quality merchandise for the holiday season. Brown and black matte leather boots, dozens of shapes, sizes and a rainbow of colors of handbags, impeccably soft cashmere scarves and handmade baby Alpaca, Peruvian gloves. When Margaux Kellenberg-Hought started North Soles, a shoe and handbag […]
By Brianna Brey According to an article published in the New York Times last week, the Consumer Electronics Association estimates that shipments of new turntables in the United States will have grown by 5 percent this year, totaling about 84,000. This is good news for Keith Schuman, owner of Recycle Music, a shop at the […]
Would you believe me if I told you now is a Golden Era of toys? Would you? Or, would you guffaw and point at an 8-year old kid hunched over an iPad, slinging angry red birds at stacks of pigs, and sputter and tell me how those gadgets drain hours of social time, and launch […]
At Target, the florescent lights are buzzing over the women’s clothing department. It smells like starched polyester; a hint of popcorn wafts in from the nearby snack shop. Racks and racks of jackets, jeans and dresses line up in waves of colors and sizes: tween graphic T-shirts sporting Mickey Mouse silhouettes; bright blue skinny jeans […]
Did you know that so-called craft brew sales only account for six percent of total beer sales in the United States? That is a mere drop in the ocean of Budweiser, Coors and PBR! The idea that only one out of every 16 beer drinkers picks up a 10 Barrel or a Deschutes brew is […]
People don’t fit into tidy little boxes. Take Bend’s Kimberley Loveless, a mom who, along with her husband, Dan, recently opened an independent coffee shop on the east side of town. The café, Bend Coffee Connection, specializes in all things local, from the coffee beans to the baked goods. “Taste the local difference,” a window […]
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