Life & Time wants to lead the fast food revolution
Imagine a fast food restaurant that serves healthy, real food, and you have Life & Time. According to its owners, the company promises high quality, organic ingredients, food made from scratch and meat products that are organic and humanely raised. They also want to show customers that a burger can be a healthy choice with…
Sheriff Nelson Endorses Pro-Measure 105 Statement
On Aug. 27, 15 Oregon sheriffs from mostly rural counties—including Deschutes County Sheriff Shane Nelson—endorsed a statement from Clatsop County Sheriff Thomas J. Bergin, asking voters to repeal Oregon’s “illegal-immigrant” sanctuary statute. Ballot Measure 105 would “repeal the state law, Oregon Revised Statute 181A.820, which forbids state agencies, including law enforcement, from using state resources…
Letters to the Editor
Please help stop BP&R new rule to allow drones in our Parks!!!! 7.5 Drones and other remote-controlled devices are permitted, except as prohibited by the Executive Director or a Designee, to the extent that they do not endanger the comfort, health, peace, or safety of others or cause harm to District property. Such devices shall…
Dream Playlist
For Bend’s indie rock lovers, this weekend will go down as one of the best of the summer, thanks to back-to-back performances from alternative rock titans Portugal. The Man Friday night at the Les Schwab Amphitheater and Cold War Kids Saturday night at Oregon Spirit Distillers. In prep for the big weekend, I accumulated a…
Trailhead Liquor Opens
A brand-new liquor store, Trailhead Liquor, is now open at the north end of Bend in Robal Road Village. Owner Angela James Chisum said, “I’ve wanted my own store since my first retail job at 16. Shortly after my friend Allison Cogan took over South Bend Liquor with great success, the OLCC announced retail expansion so…
Back to the Blues
Jonny Lang says his current album, “Signs,” is an example of just letting an album be what it wanted to be musically. “I don’t know what will come next,” Lang said in a recent phone interview. “But yeah, this one was just the record that felt right in this season of my life.” “Signs” is the…
The Little Woody Cheat Sheet
Labor Day is here, and with it comes cooler weather, football on TV, and (in the case of Bend) the end of heavy traffic. Since 2009, it’s also meant hanging out and drinking big, bold, barrel-aged beers like a rock star. The Little Woody is celebrating its 10th year this Friday and Saturday, in the…
Blokable Homes
Many people seem to be fascinated with tiny homes—and lately it seems there have been many tiny home spinoffs and new developments. Prefabricated homes appear to hold promise as a partial solution for the affordable housing shortage. Oregon and Washington appear to be leading the trend in this type of housing unit that’s a little…
Bouyed Up by Volunteers
For those of us who have been looking at the Three Sisters and what’s left of the year-round snow on the slopes, it’s pretty scary. Several of the historical snow fields are gone, melted by long periods of intense heat. Yes, there’s still plenty of water under the Three Sisters, but it’s being sucked out…
Having It Small
I met somebody online, and we have a real connection, but he is agoraphobic and hasn’t really left his bedroom for 10 years. I have a job and a life, so it’s hard to keep up with his barrage of messages. However, it seems unfair to bail on dating him just because he has this…
A New Home for Joe’s Garage?
Joe Palmeri may not necessarily be a household name in Bend, but many people know who he is. Palmeri has run Joe’s Garage at the Westside Shell station in Bend for 33 years — but that station may be closed before the end of the year. “I’ve spent half my life here. Exactly, to the…
Book Talk
Jarold Ramsey is already a well-known figure around these parts, having grown up on his family’s Central Oregon ranch before becoming an award-winning essayist, author, poet, playwright and authority on American Indian literature. Ramsey, who lives in Madras, is also professor emeritus of English at the University of Rochester and earned the Charles Erskine Scott…
Bend vs. Redmond
The cities of Bend and Redmond have finished their applications for the House Bill 4079 Pilot Program this August—putting the two cities in competition to be the city that gets to test out the new program. Passed in 2016, the pilot program aims to boost affordable housing by allowing two cities in the state to…
Cuban Kitchen is Legit
Hidden inside a strip mall on Century Drive is Cuban Kitchen—and by hidden, I mean you can’t see it from the street. If the bright red signs weren’t out it would be easy to miss, tucked between Cascade Cleaners and Lush Salon. Cuban Kitchen is open Tuesday through Friday for lunch and Saturdays for dinner.…
Waiting on Urban Renewal
In May, Brooks Resources purchased the Murray & Holt property at 181 NE Franklin Ave., located in the Bend Central District—an area the City of Bend has identified as a potential new urban renewal area to create infill and redevelopment opportunities. The Bend urban renewal agency, BURA, began work on that new urban renewal area…
Intuitive Eating
Disordered eating was a struggle Brittney Sullivan faced for several years, including during training for her health coach certification. Societally, this is by design. “The diet industry generates $66 billion a year, and 97 percent of dieters gain everything back within one to three years,” says Sullivan. Self-described as “orthorexic,” Sullivan’s past obsession and…
In our outdoors community, a call to action around harassment and assault
We live in an outdoor mecca that draws thousands of visitors and fans each year—one where the allure of pushing one’s limits in cycling, climbing, running, skiing, snowboarding and other outdoor sports plays large. Inside that community lives a certain type of exceptionalism, in which many people tend to think themselves better, more evolved, more…
Psych Trip
A friend just got a delivery of bottled psilocybin, in the hopes of microdosing his way out of anxiety and poor sleep. Another friend’s been microdosing LSD for years. “Participatory journalist” Michael Pollan’s book, “How to Change your Mind” was the subject of a recent cover story in The New York Times Magazine. And a…
Fall into the Fall Garden
Before you know it, fall will be upon us in Central Oregon once again: the season when the leaves start to change, the soil starts to freeze and the frosty mornings are forgotten by the beat of the midday sun. How do you transition your garden from the summer heat to the fluctuating fall temperatures?…
Streaming Killed the Video Star
Bend is famous for so many different and random things; not just our majestic lakes, snow-capped mountains or miles of trails, and not even limited to our beer, coffee and…a lot more beer. We’re now newly famous for having the last Blockbuster Video in the country, nay, the entire world! Something you could find three…
Flight of the Butterfly
We know Hollywood is basically bankrupt when it comes to genuinely original ideas and telling a story that hasn’t already proven to turn a profit…even a minor one. Every year critics and audiences alike complain about the staggering number of remakes, reboots, sequels, re-imaginings, rebootquels and se-boots. But here they are anyway. Entertain us. I’ll…
Cannalyzed: “Dispensaries Attract Crime”
It’s time for the second installment of our new series, “Prohibitionist Arguments Cannalyzed,” in which I examine arguments made by cannabis prohibitionists, refute them with facts and opinions, and am rewarded by angry emails and comments from aforementioned prohibitionists telling me what a stupid, useless, stoner I am. Serenity, now! Argument: Dispensaries attract crime to…
Twin Bridges Loop
Bike riders come from near and far to ride bicycles in Central Oregon, and although the suspension-needy flock to the ever-growing maze of mountain bike singletrack, those who desire the smooth roll of paved roadways also come to the region to play. Nominated by locals and sponsored by Oregon State Parks, Central Oregon hosts three…
You Are Not Helpless
In the past 30 years, Bend has had several large wildland fires which either threatened or destroyed multiple homes. The 1990 Awbrey Hall Fire razed 22 houses and damaged several others, while the 1996 Skeleton Fire consumed 30 structures. Although one can imagine a massive wall of fire raging through a subdivision, the reality is…
Gung Ho For Shows: Sisters Folk Festival
Sisters Folk Festival is right around the corner—and the skies are (knock on wood) smoke free. The festival, as many will remember, was canceled last year due to smoke from forest fires. Revered by Central Oregonians and visitors from across the Pacific Northwest, SFF operates something like a film festival—scattering performances among 11 small venues…
Free Will Astrology—Week of August 29
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran loved the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. “Without Bach, God would be a complete second-rate figure,” he testified, adding, “Bach’s music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded as a complete failure.” I invite you to emulate Cioran’s passionate clarity, Virgo.…
