Mat Kearney Tonight at the Domino Room
Before I left on a glorious, glorious, non-blogging and out-of-the-office vacation, I chatted with Mat Kearney about his musical career and what it’s like to make music for television doctors to make out to. You can read about that here.
Do You Know Dudley? Dems Think You Don't
Democrats have launched a new website, You Don’t Know Dudley.com, attacking GOP gubernatorial candidate Chris Dudley.
LandWatch Goes to the Mattresses Over Resorts
The fight over Deschutes County’s new destination resort rules isn’t finished yet: Central Oregon LandWatch has put the county on notice that it plans to challenge them. LandWatch filed “notices of intent to appeal” Thursday with the state Land Use Board of Appeals, charging that the county’s new rules for determining what lands are eligible…
LandWatch Goes to the Mattresses Over Resorts
The fight over Deschutes County's new destination resort rules isn't finished yet: Central Oregon LandWatch has put the county on notice that it plans to challenge them. LandWatch filed ìnotices of intent to appealî Thursday with the state Land Use Board of Appeals, charging that the county's new rules for determining what lands are eligible…
Eats: paradise is nothing without fancy restaurants
It was a mixed group, a few longtime Bend residents and some more recent arrivals. As the conversation turned to the pluses and minuses of living in our fair city, the longtime residents seemed a bit jaded in their outlook; the newer residents were more of the Bend as paradise-on-earth mindset.
High Country: big views, granite rock and starry nights
Take Yosemite National Park around Tuolumne Meadows and environs, combine it with the best of the mountains of southern Colorado and you have Oregon’s Wallowa Mountains. Yosemite for the granite rock and southern Colorado for the high alpine valleys cut by meandering crystal clear streams.
Dudley Kicks Mannix Measure to the Curb
Kevin Mannix, who lost as a candidate for governor, state attorney general and congressman, has had a more successful career pushing get-tough-on-crime measures. But he’s finding it tough to get traction with this year’s entry – even among some of his fellow Republicans.
Video of The Autonomics from the Hump Day Hash at the Century Center
With such an awesome line up of music Wednesday night, you couldn’t go wrong wherever you ended up. I hit up the Hump Day Hash featuring The Autonomics at the new Century Center, and I’ve got to say seeing the venue, it’s got me pretty stoked for Bend Roots.
What's Your Cinderella Pint? Let our Brewfest bracketology be your drinking guide
Editor's Note: This Friday and Saturday beer drinkers from around Central Oregon and beyond will file into the Les Schwab amphitheater for the chance to sample craft beers from around Oregon and the Western United States as part of the 2010 Bend Brewfest. If you like beer, and we know that you do, this is…
In the Mix: Solid Hawaiian Fare comes to the Old Mill
Bend seems to have a connection with Hawaii. More than a few people I know have traded their surfboards and suntans for snowboards and four seasons (theoretically). But one thing islanders refuse to give up is Hawaiian cuisine and for that we can all be thankful. Hawaiian fare is no-fuss goodness – slow-roasted meats and…
Finding Balance Julia Roberts takes the path to spiritual enlightenment in Eat Pray Love
For the last few months, I have been torn as to whether or not I wanted to read Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love, before watching the movie adaptation. A few of my friends who've read the book dote on the incredible journey Liz takes to find herself. Others say it's filled with too much whining…
Little Bites: Rumor Has It: New brewery and bar, fewer doughnuts and less froyo
The restaurant industry never stays the same, as evidenced by this week's rumor mill. First up is the Old Mill Martini Bar space above Saxons Fine Jewelers, which has been empty since the Martini Bar vacated it two years ago. We've been waiting patiently for another Old Mill bar that's open past 10p.m., and if…
Ride of Your Life: Mountain Bike Oregon is a two-wheeled “Woodstock”
Would anyone pay close to $300 dollars to spend three nights camping at a highway rest area?Twice a summer, for the last four years, more than 300 people from all over the country and as far away as Australia do just that; many of them consider it a bargain. They come for one reason: Mountain…
Bonnie and Clyde: The Musical
Innovation Theatre Works launched its first production in its new space, the Bend Performing Arts Center. Bonnie and Clyde: The Musical, directed by Brad Hills and produced by Chris Rennolds, the founders and artistic directors of Innovation Theatre Works, is a two-person play that takes us to the steamy heart of 1930s Texas as the…
Best Seller
Hardcover Fiction 1. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest Stieg Larsson, Knopf, $27.95 The stunning third and final novel in Larsson’s best-selling Millennium Trilogy. (*11) 2. The Help Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $24.95. This wonderful debut set in the rural South of the 1960s is a February 2009 Indie Next List Great Read. (78)3. Star…
A Mindless Summer Rampage: Crackdown can’t blast through its shortcomings
The same thing happens every day. The sun, rising unseen, illuminates Pacific City with a vague, generic glow. In this unwashed daylight, Pacific City’s buildings, which glower with foreboding imperialism in the darkness, are revealed to be charmless monoliths – a warren of cardboard box offices and oatmeal can towers. An occasional flock of paper…
Kicking Ass and Taking Names: Michael Cera battles the League of Evil Exes in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
“I wanna know Ramona, am I the only one? Tell me. And she said, 'You're not the only one, but you're the best, Bradley.' And now I'm waiting for my ruca.” – Sublime Whenever I think about Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, I can't help but sing the lyrics to Sublime's “Waiting for my Ruca”…
Heard it on the Tee Vee: Mat Kearney is telling stories and none of them have anything to do with Grey's Anatomy
Mat Kearney, the pride of Eugene, Oregon, makes the sort of music that's perfect for doctors to make out to in hospitals. Not real doctors with their stethoscopes and decades of education and sleep-deprived, stress-laden minds, but rather television doctors. You know, the ones with the sort of good looks that make super models want…
Kousefly goes folk First full-length album from local band shows promise
If you judge Kousefly's Down By A Billion by its faux-metal cover art, you might expect late '90s-style rock. And while the local duo that has been gigging regularly around Bend for several years is anything but Godsmack wannabes, it takes several songs before the album realizes its direction.
The Artful Debate Dodgers
As anybody who's watched recent presidential encounters knows, political debates can be a silly business. The candidates stick to the same carefully honed and well-rehearsed talking points no matter what the question is or what their opponent says.
Wednesday Night Music Preview – The Builders and The Butchers, The Autonomics and more
What in the world happened that Wednesday is now the best day for music in Central Oregon? It seems this summer our options for music have been better on Wednesdays than on most Friday and Saturday nights. Here’s a run down of the totally awesome line up in Central Oregon tonight.
Our Picks for 8/18 – 8/26: Sunriver Music Festival, Bend Brew Fest, Budofights, Ink & Metal, Mat Kearney and more
Sunriver Music Festival thursday 19 – saturday 21 Now in it's 33rd season, the Sunriver Music Festival still presents quality classical music in a phenomenal setting. This is the second year the festival conducted concerts in Bend, but this weekend all of the concerts take place at the historic Great Hall at Sunriver Resort. Thursday…
The Cannabis Crossroads: Oregon voters will decide in November whether to bring marijuana sales to Main Street
As of July 1 of this year, 36,380 Oregonians, which is about the equivalent of the entire combined population of Crook and Jefferson counties, had been approved to possess, grow and use marijuana without fear of prosecution. They are members of the state's ever-growing medical marijuana cardholder community. As it turns out, government sanctioned pot…
Crusades, Congressionals and Juggalos: Our mosque problem, farewell to Uncle Ted and Tila Tequila vs. Insane Clown Possee
The author is enjoying the majesty of Tumalo Creek and its fabulous waterfalls, reading about the $71 million water/hydro/death-laser project being “proposed” by the city. Our Christian NationRemember when you went to Pearl Harbor and saw the shrine honoring the Kamikaze pilots of Japan who destroyed our entire fleet in World War II? Me neither.
Only The Beginning
Matt Orr opened Pandora’s Box with his comments about chemicals. The debacle that PGE caused in the Hudson and the federal government’s slow response to the BP oil disaster will be looked on as a minor problem when we see the results of the chemical industry pumping glug into our soils and water every day.
Meeting of Foodie Minds
I just met with Sydney Leonard, the Community Food Systems Coordinator for Wy'East Resource, Conservation and Development. Leonard is spearheading the September 10th Central Oregon Food Summit and had some very interesting insights into the event.
