10 Barrel to Open Brewpub in Portland
Let the Bend brewery takeover begin! 10 Barrel Brewing announced today that they plan to open a new brewpub in the Pearl District in Portland. Read the full press release below.
What the Festival Announces 2014 Lineup
Is the warm weather getting you excited for this summer’s festival circuit? Check out the first What the Festival lineup announced below. What the Festival takes place June 19th-22nd, 2014 on the Wolf Run Ranch in Dufur, Ore.
C-SPAN’s Bend Weekend
This weekend, C-SPAN is going Bend-centric spending two full days covering Central Oregon’s history, development, arts and culture. See the press release below for details of the coverage that will air this weekend. You can watch all the coverage on BendBroadband channel 61 and HD channel 661. The content will also be available online at…
Homeland Security
How much credit should Captain America: The Winter Soldier get for being the first superhero movie to feel like it was written by Edward Snowden? Eh, probably not a ton: By the time its end credits roll, the creepy, real-world issues that the film touches on are neatly wrapped up, and thanks to its gleaming…
Alone but Not Lonely
It isn’t that George Winston doesn’t want a band, he’s just apathetic to the whole idea. The solo pianist, who started playing the organ at the age of 18 (nearly 50 years ago), inspired by jazz stride players of the ’30s like Thomas “Fats” Waller, before moving on to the piano—and, realized that playing with…
Calm Like a Bomb
During the Vietnam war, Laos became the most bombed country in history. Two million tons of bombs were dropped between 1964 and 1973, including 260 million cluster munitions. An estimated 30 percent of that ordinance never detonated, and to this day Laotians are still maimed and killed by the bombs every year. Director Kim Mordaunt…
The Source Suggests 4/3-4/10
Fifteen years ago, Blackalicious recorded “Alphabet Aerobics” and the duo, comprising Gift of Gab and Chief Xcel, cropped up among a crowded field headed by acts like Jurassic 5. They issued a few albums before its members embarked on solo projects and, since then, Gab has extended his reach in the genre by working with…
Righteously Insane
Noah isn’t for everyone, but it’s a perfect movie for those of us who believe obsession is a certain kind of genius. Darren Aronofsky’s obsession? His impossible task? Making sense of the Bible. Noah’s story is simple enough, if you leave out the details, which I imagine many true believers would suggest that you do.…
Out of Town 4/3-4/10
seattle tuesday 8 Walter Kirn Walter Kirn talks about his book “Blood Will Out”—described by author Amy Tan as a “Hitchcockian psychological thriller”—the true story of his long friendship with murderous conman Clark Rockefeller (real name: Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter). As the architect of one of history’s longest cons, “Rockefeller” convinced the world (including Kirn) that…
Film Events 4/3-4/10
While there are no car chases and seemingly the only cinematic event in the last year not starring Matthew McConaughey, this simult-cast is a highly delicious event, bringing a near four-hour performance from one of the best operas in the world by the gold standard of Italian opera to Central Oregon. Sat., April 5, 9:55…
Bubbling Up
As Bend continues to grow its reputation as a beer town, two local women are putting the city on the map for a different kind of brewed beverage: kombucha. When Jamie Danek and Michelle Plantenberg started Kombucha Mama in 2009—just a few years after the 2,000-year-old effervescent fermented tea started to be produced commercially—they brewed…
Demon Barbers of Punk
Somewhere, Stephen Sondheim is kicking himself for not crafting his murderous musical Sweeney Todd as a gothic rock production featuring the Portland death punk band Back Alley Barbers. With a website spattered in blood from straight edged razors, and press shots of the members in an actual barbershop featuring alluring yet deadly grins, the costumed…
One Star So Far
A brewery less than a year old should not be judged on one beer alone. There are tremendous growing pains in any business, let alone one such as brewing beer that relies on food science and microbiology. In that spirit four Rat Hole beers were tasted side by side. This was done to check the…
Down the Rabbit Hole
Portland-based oil painter Mark Rogers is the master of the button-up, dark and disturbed. His images are vivid: a maggot-topped hotdog ready to be devoured by a pupil-less boogieman in a bolo tie and a top hat; swamp monsters preaching to hoodie-clad teens; the universe condensed into a birdhouse presented by a button-eyed ringmaster. He…
M.C. Full Blown Genius
When looking at an original Escher work, hanging on a wall a foot away, it is impossible to oversell it. The shading is so precise and the lines are haltingly delicate, yet so strong and breathlessly assured that being in the same room as those prints is akin to existing in a state of perpetual…
Our Picks 4/3-4/10
thursday 3 Repair Cafe FIXER-UPPER—Turning broken junk into fixed awesomeness is as easy as a trip to Pakit this weekend. Repair Cafe, hosted by who else but the Environmental Center, aims to straight up fix stuff with the philosophy that two heads are better than one when it comes to conservation and repairs. The event…
Fair Notice
“Bend should be a fun place to live,” said city councilmember Victor Chudowsky. He is discussing a brewing storm as the city and county consider whether the decades-old processes for issuing permits to music festivals fits into the area’s lively summer schedule of outdoor events. Over the past several months, several smaller festivals have run…
This American Band
It’s a near riot in a dark, dank junkyard on the first day of the new year 2014, and the last time that Larry and His Flask played a show in Bend. The crowd—a few hundred enthusiastically shoving fans—stomp their boots and spill drinks as the band, a popular folk-punk five-piece, belts out songs; their…
Shark Tank
In last Friday’s edition of the Bulletin, city councilmember Mark Capell did the equivalent of pulling the pin from a grenade and handing to his fellow councilmember. That uncouth “gesture” is part of the brush fire unfolding over Oregon State University’s Cascade campus—in particular, the decision to site the campus in southwest Bend. Over the…
Stuffed Envelopes
WOW! People. You had a lot to say this week. This selection—three times as many letters as we normally publish—represents less than one-fourth the letters and words we were sent. Was it the spring weather that lit a fire under your bums? Could you just no longer bite your tongue? Regardless: We are publishing a…
Do Men and Women Bike Differently?
Two years ago, Sheri Fayal, a transplant from San Diego to Bend, began mountain biking with her husband. Although she struggled on much of the terrain, her passion for the sport gradually began to take hold. Moreover, as much as she enjoyed riding with her husband, she longed to find a group to share her…
Bringing History to Life
My grandfather routinely told me that there are doers, and there are talkers. But sometimes there is that rare person who is both. Although this week, it doesn’t seem so rare, as a handful of events are bringing some of the world’s most exciting adventures indoors and onto the stage from the people who lived…
The many problems caused by free roaming and feral cats
This epistle is the result of friends’ and my personal experiences with observing—often helplessly—domestic and feral cats killing wildlife, sometimes for food, but more often because they are programmed to do so. A genetic study in 2007 concluded that domestic cats are descended from African wildcats, Felix silvestris lybica, which hunted small birds, mammals, reptiles,…
