How High Can a Dead Cat Bounce?
The top story in The Bulletin's business section this morning trumpeted the news that single-family home sales in March were up sharply over the previous month.
Rockin’ Out for Novick
Jeff Merkley has racked up some impressive endorsements in his race for the Oregon Democratic Senate nomination - a governor and a former governor, a passel of mayors, state senators and state representatives, and a slew of labor organizations. But when it comes to the music scene, his rival Steve Novick leaves him in the…
KTVZ Gaffe Cont.
For those who missed the 10pm news on KTVZ last night, you weren't alone. News Manager and Anchor Lee Anderson was conspicuously absent from last night's broadcast along with his co-anchor Molly Hendrickson.
Jenna Makes the Bend Bar Scene (Briefly)
What does a president's daughter from Texas do when she's in Bend and gets a yen for some liquid refreshment and a fellow Texan to talk with?
Clinton’s “Lie” Was Mostly True
Remember that "tall tale" the Clintons were telling about Trina Bachtel, an expectant mother in Ohio who reportedly died because she didn't have $100 to pay for medical care? Turns out the tale wasn't as tall as it appeared.
KTVZ’s idle gaffe
One of our staffers was watching American Idol (for research purposes) last night on the local Fox affiliate when the screen went blank on his set as the show ran over into the time slot designated for the nightly news cast, which is beamed over from sister station KTVZ (both stations are owned by the…
ODOT’s Astounding Arrogance
It's hard to believe that an agency as "upstanding" as ODOT would hire a spokesman who is more arrogant than Peter Murphy. But then again, the person who is your spokesman is your mouthpiece, so it stands to reason that Mr. Murphy's comment that Sen. Ben Westlund is "just another person" is also how ODOT…
Road to Nowhere: Former ODOT employee says failing roads got a free pass
You don't have to be an engineer to see that many of Central Oregon's highways are falling apart. The roads are scarred with wheel ruts and littered with potholes and haphazard patch jobs. Exhibit number one being the Bend Parkway. Conventional wisdom tells us that Oregon's practice of allowing studded tires on its roadways is…
An Actor for All Epics: Film icon passes, the danger of blogging
A couple of cowboysHe was Moses, Ben-Hur, Michelangelo, El Cid, Andrew Jackson and John the Baptist, not to mention about a hundred other less-well-known historic and fictional figures. But on the screen, Charlton Heston was always Charlton Heston. Born Charlton Carter in Evanston, IL in 1923, Heston began his acting career on the stage and…
Confessions of an Addicted M &J Open Mic’er: Under the influence of the underground
The open mic: where stage fright goes to die.It's one of the only places in the world where you can wash your laundry while toasting fine tequila over a game of pool as you tap your feet to the strumming rhythms of a singer/songwriter's acoustic guitar. The M&J Tavern is a proud host of a…
Bumble On: Why we need bumblebees
the buzz on bees isn’t goodOK, people, listen up! Bees are our friends! Especially bumblebees. Got that? Without those big, scary-looking black and yellow (some orange) buzzers, almost every flowering plant in Central Oregon would have trouble making seeds for new plants. Yes, soil, water and sunlight are what it takes to keep plants going,…
Spring Has Sprung: Catching up on a delayed spring season
It's time to ride againYour worst fears have been realized as I'm back to guest author this column for two weeks while regular columnist Kevin Grove is in Vietnam on business. What kind of business I don't know. Let's leave it at that. Trail Talk One of the best things to happened this past winter…
Rainbow Six Vegas 2: Shootin’ em up Sin City style
What happens in vegas stays in vegasHigh Rollers, Straight Shooters The original "Rainbow Six: Vegas" is one of the best shooters to come out on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. A streamlining of the "Rainbow Six" style and a tighter and more contemporary game play engine made this a successful game. This also…
Ancient Gore: The Ruins plays the horror genre just right
It wouldn’t be horror flick without the obligatory hot chicks.Yep, The Ruins gets ruined, taking a huge turn for the worse-for the characters, not the audience. I actually let it bypass my "despise-o-meter" entirely. It starts off in a formulaic manner: the four main vacationing characters (med student, geek-girl, slut, surfer-dude) are all white, yuppified…
Paradise Gained and Lost: Welcome to (high tech) Fantasy Island
Little Miss Sunshine goes tropical.Feeling the need to escape the desperate last gasp of winter, I decided to go to the one movie with the word "island" in its title. The film Nim's Island sets sail in the Pacific, stowing away somewhere near the Cook Islands in a tree house resembling a high tech version…
Whiskey 101: You don’t know Jack
inside JD’s house. As a Southerner with Irish roots, I've always had a particular fondness for whiskey. In my neck of the woods, whiskey soothes the gums of teething babies. My family's cough syrup consisted of whiskey and honey, in roughly equal parts. By the time I was seven, I had developed an appreciation for…
Whiskey 101: You don’t know Jack
inside JD’s house. As a Southerner with Irish roots, I’ve always had a particular fondness for whiskey. In my neck of the woods, whiskey soothes the gums of teething babies. My family’s cough syrup consisted of whiskey and honey, in roughly equal parts. By the time I was seven, I had developed an appreciation for…
Brick Solid: Brickhouse adds to Redmond’s culinary bloom
Hangin’ in the half shell at BrickhouseTastefully appointed in brick, dark wood and oversized oils, Redmond’s Brickhouse Steak and Raw Bar is located downtown on historic Sixth Street and has the urban-meets-rustic aesthetic that is perennially popular in Bend restaurants.
On my first trip, I sampled just the happy hour menu as I heard it…
Brick Solid: Brickhouse adds to Redmond’s culinary bloom
Hangin’ in the half shell at BrickhouseTastefully appointed in brick, dark wood and oversized oils, Redmond’s Brickhouse Steak and Raw Bar is located downtown on historic Sixth Street and has the urban-meets-rustic aesthetic that is perennially popular in Bend restaurants.
On my first trip, I sampled just the happy hour menu as I heard it…
4 Peaks Gets Bigger, Better; Modest Mouse Re-Announced
4 peaks 2008: more people, more tents, more acres, more bands, more tie dye.OK, so we got an inch or so of snow in this, the second week of April, but with the mercury finally climbing, it's high time you to start planning your summer outdoor music schedule. The 4 Peaks Music Festival announced…
Movie Star to Throwback Pop Star
She & Him Volume One Merge Records Volume One is the debut album and collaboration of indie film favorite Zooey Deschanel (Almost Famous, Elf) and guitar-folk musician M. Ward. The pair met while collaborating on a cover of Richard and Linda Thompson's "When I Get to the Border" for the soundtrack of the film The…
Old Timey Delight: The Wiyos are so dang crackerjack, ya see!
What did you expect? A color photo?Perhaps the most fitting way to describe the Wiyos, a trio of Brooklyn old-time music specialists, is as follows: "Hey there, mac. These wild boys of the Wiyos, are real crackerjack wiz kids, ya see. They play the swing and the jive and the rest of it like a…
A Bluer Shade of Grass: Yonder Mountain String Band returns to again smash misconceptions
Listen to enough bluegrass and you’ll be Living in a Band down by the River.The first time I saw Yonder Mountain String Band was at Portland's Roseland Theater in 1999. They were opening for Leftover Salmon in a room that seemed much too large for their acoustic instruments, and I remember the band's infectious enthusiasm…
The Park Tobacco Ban
In the beginning smokers lit up everywhere and filled the air that other people had to breathe with smoke, and that was bad. And it came to pass that anti-tobacco organizations began pushing for bans on smoking in enclosed public spaces like offices and stores and restaurants, and such bans were enacted, and that was…
Saddle Up, Bend
Saddle Up, Bend
Recently an article about how to save money in Bend during the summer months caught my eye. Another bike rider was hit pretty hard by the craigslist rants and raves, as is typical from those overly large humans out there who drive their SUVs. All the person was saying to…
Out in the Cold
I just wanted to respond to your "WTF" article in your most recent (edition). Northwest and Pine Marten will be closing on the 20th. However the important part that you left out of your story is that the mountain will remain open until its "traditional closure" operating out of Sunrise Lodge and running the Sunrise…
The Spandex Menace
I'm so tired of road bikers. They holler "Share the road," but when they ride in their little packs the last thing they care about is sharing. You bikers ride six or seven deep across the middle of the road, completely blocking traffic. We are forced to swerve into on coming traffic to avoid you.…
