Evacuations Happening for Cedar Creek Fire
The 18,000+ acre Cedar Creek Fire near Waldo Lake is prompting evacuations in a number of areas along the Cascade Lakes Highway in Central Oregon Wednesday. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office released this evacuation notice as of 4pm Wednesday. Evacuations now in place: Level 3 – GO NOW People in these areas should leave immediately:…
Beer Issue: Hot Taps – The Cellar
Walking into The Cellar in downtown Bend always brings a nostalgia for winter. The cozy basement location is an English-style pub that literally feels like putting on a cozy sweater when you walk inside to escape the blistering cold after a long ski day. Maybe it’s because I’m longing for winter after having five weeks…
Beer Issue: Hot Taps – Brother Jon’s Alehouse
For the beer lover visiting Bend for the first time, the natural place to go first would be to the Deschutes Pub, located on Bond Street in the heart of downtown. First brewery in Bend, check. But for those who have sampled Deschutes’ favorites (and perhaps a seasonal or two) and want to try a…
Beer Issue: Hot Taps – Crosscut Warming Hut
Last week at the Kansas City airport I said goodbye to one of the things I love most in the world. No, not my newborn nephew, my folks or my childhood friends; I said goodbye to Boulevard Wheat — the bestselling craft beer in the Midwest that’s not presently sold anywhere in Bend. One last…
Víctimas y el tirador de la balacera en Safeway indentificados
De acuerdo con el portavoz de la policía, Sheila Miller, el domingo, 28 de agosto, Glenn Bennet de ochenta y cuatro años y Donald Ray Surrett Jr de 66 años, fueron asesinados a tiros por Ethan Miller, de 20 años, en el Safeway localizado en la carretera 20. De acuerdo a la policía, los primeros…
What’s the Deal with ADUs?
ADUs, or accessory dwelling units, are a hot topic in Bend real estate. And for good reason. As of January of this year 702 ADU permits have been approved in the City of Bend since 2001. Some 516 of those permits have been approved in just the past five years. With increased interest in ADUs…
AWAKENING OUR INNER HERO: Choose Joy, Regardless
Joy must transcend our day-to-day lives. It is a choice. Maybe the most important choice we ever make. The son of a friend of ours was recently killed. Shot down in public. Life cannot get much worse for a parent. Pause for a moment, please. These words are infinitely more than words. They are lifetimes…
Garden Delight: Basil Carbonara
My children have an arrangement with an area farmer. After the weekly farmers market, he supplies them with surplus produce, which they sell at a roadside stand in front of our house. They split the proceeds 50/50, with the farmer getting half, and the boys dividing the other. What’s in it for me, you ask?…
Central Oregon’s Breweries
This is the Beer Issue. This section is called Craft. So in honor of those two things, we’re laying out the breweries that call Central Oregon home. There’s lots on the list since we last made one, so even if you’re a local, there’s a high likelihood you’ll find one that you haven’t yet visited.…
An Artists’ Shop Reopens in Warm Springs
An estimated 250 to 300 people on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation are artists—and with the grand reopening of an art shop on the reservation, those artists will have another place to share and sell their works. Tananawit, the nonprofit organization aimed at supporting Warm Springs artists, will hold a grand reopening of its art…
Beer Issue: Is Wine the Next Hot Thing in Beer?
In Eugene, brewmaster Matt Van Wyk along with brothers Brian and Doug Coombs are the composers behind Alesong Brewing and Blending. They create a wide range of barrel-matured beers from earthy saisons to viscous imperial stouts and, increasingly, vinous, wild ales that are music to sour beer lovers’ ears. Among Alesong’s six-years-running slate of nine…
Letters to the Editor 09/01/2022
RE: Water at Home Feature, 8/25 All these residential and commercial water users rely on groundwater (wells). As the surface water dries up, water companies will increasingly rely on groundwater mitigation credits to turn their surface water rights into ground water rights. They have trashed the river and now they will trash the aquifer. Please…
Cedar Creek Fire 12% Contained
Over 1,000 people are working to reduce the Cedar Creek Fire a month after it ignited on harsh terrain three miles west of Waldo Lake in the Willamette National Forest. Within a week it burned over 3,000 acres and as of Aug. 30 it reached 7,821 acres. The fire’s currently 12% contained, and helicopters are…
Reno Air Races… in Church!
Ya’ just never know how the mind of a 94-year-old naturalist/writer is going to work at 11 o’clock Sunday morning in church. There I was sitting in the pew, listening to a beautiful newly married young woman talking about her conversion, when suddenly I saw a 1936 GB R-1 air racer waving in the air…
Central Oregon Adventure Van Expo
Thought van life was taking over Central Oregon? Well, it hasn’t even gotten started. Van lifers will infiltrate the grounds at the Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center this weekend for a festival celebrating all of the van dwellers out there. The Adventure Van Expo is a family-friendly gathering of folks and their overland adventure…
An Existential Fairy Tale
Here’s the thing about movies: they don’t have to be perfect. Very few of them are. And just because a movie has a bad performance, an uneven script or some aspect that isn’t as good as the next doesn’t mean the film is a failure—especially when that film has the ambition and the talent behind…
Source Material
When worlds collide in music the stakes are high. You have multiple fan bases involved, which means more people to please. Sometimes your sounds or styles don’t mix. That’s why choosing collaborators is an important and risky task. This month two gigantic names of pop music pulled together for a successful and exciting rework: Sir…
In the Wake of the Safeway Shooting, We Know How This Is Going to Go
Although we are afraid to confront it, we have all become familiar with gun violence in our public spaces. And, if we are honest, we know how the conversation around this violence will proceed. The faction of Americans tired of the violence, the death, the senseless trauma will call, now, in the wake of a…
