Shakey Graves “Dearly Departed” Video
Did you catch Shakey Graves and Esmé Patterson at this year’s Sisters Folk Festival? Check out the totally awesome and totally morbid video for their duet, “Dearly Departed,” off Shakey Grave’s October release And the War Came, a record that we expect to end up on ALL of the top albums of 2014 lists. It’s a breakup ghost…
Idaho Distributors Question 10 Barrel Brewpub License in Boise
More consequences of the 10 Barrel buy out by Anheuser-Busch… The Idaho Statesman is reporting a challenge to 10 Barrel’s Idaho brewpub license by the Idaho Beer and Wine Distributors Association. If the state declares 10 Barrel no longer a small brewery (defined as producing under 30,000 barrels of beer per year), the brewpub in downtown Boise…
Tell Us How You Really Feel: Troy Field
Troy Field, the sometimes sports field near the downtown Bend library, is officially on the market. Declared surplus property by its current owners, the Bend-La Pine School District, the large rectangular patch of grass is one of the few undeveloped properties in downtown Bend. The public entities who got first dibs on making a bid…
TONIGHT’s Live Music: Everyone is Dirty and Problem Stick
Brusque grunge-pop recorded in an anonymous California basement, Everyone is Dirty is fronted by the charismatic Sivan Gur-Arieh on vocals and violin, a welcome addition to the terrific grime-rock. The burrowing and billowing blowback guitar riffs paired with the sweet stings of Gur-Arieh and driving simplistic percussion is a new twist on a ’90s classic.…
Rebel Alliance
Mockingjay Park I is The Empire Strikes Back of The Hunger Games, which is to say that things don’t look good for anyone. Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss finds herself in the cone-shaped underground city of District 13, where the seemingly trustworthy but definitely shifty President Alma Coin (Julianne Moore, whose truly bizarre colored contacts distract from…
Whatever, Mom
There’s no such thing as a perfect mother. And as one of the flawed, I know how uncomfortable it can be to own up to those “Oh my god, she did/said what?” childrearing bloopers. Which is why I’d like to commend a few brave mamas for recently agreeing to… well, get pretty damn personal with…
How to Steel Your Record Collection
Ryan Devlin is a record bandit, though not a malicious one. All of his admitted record thievery happened when he was a kid, discovering musical tastes from his parents’ and others’ dusty record bins. “I took Joe Jackson Look Sharp when I was in forth or fifth grade and was learning how to play bass…
Daughters of the Sound of the Beast
Drummer Clementine, founding member of the female Led Zeppelin tribute band Zepparella, discovered something magical when she first was exposed to the groundbreaking music of Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham. It has remained mystical to her since that first time she heard Plant’s signature howling vocals and the cascading drums…
Gift Guide: The Adventurer
There is an irony that shopping for those guys and gals in your life who are the biggest adventurers doesn’t require traveling much distance. Along a few-block stretch on Century Drive, there are three prime stops to completely equip a Sir Edmund Hillary expedition—or, to do even better. From high-tech compasses to high-end safety gear,…
Out of Town 12/10-12/18
portland thursday 11- sunday 14 Walking With Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular To transport the show from one city to the next requires 27 semi-trucks—which seems like something out of King Kong, and shouldn’t be surprising because they are moving 20 species of full-sized dinosaurs while, not quite alive, are as close as a caveman ever…
Source Suggests 12/10-12/18
Everyone is Dirty Brusque grunge-pop recorded in an anonymous California basement, Everyone is Dirty is fronted by the charismatic Sivan Gur-Arieh on vocals and violin, a welcome addition to the terrific grime-rock. The burrowing and billowing blowback guitar riffs paired with the sweet stings of Gur-Arieh and driving simplistic percussion is a new twist on…
Calendar Shopping Guide
Although we were wishing for 12 months of Bend firefighters, in a pinch these calendars will keep you delighted for 2015. Underwater Puppies Both in full size and mini (because they are puppies, after all), the Underwater Puppies calendar has the look of Nirvana’s Nevermind album; adorable and funny! Although every picture is essentially the…
Gift Guide: The Hiker
You don’t have to be a hardcore athlete to enjoy the great outdoors. For those who tread more gently upon the earth, there is no shortage of creative and adventurous gift ideas. Whether you’re shopping for a fair-weather outdoorsperson or 24/7/365 “outside kid,” these gifts will aid in their exploration and recreation. While the more…
Beers To Stay Warm With
It took almost two months of back-and-forth text messages, but GoodLife finally named its winter ale, a special beer for the second annual Central Oregon Winter Beer Festival, a smooth ale with cinnamon and nutmeg undertones. “It just finally came to me,” says Steve Denio about the name they finally landed on: Yukon Cornelius, so…
Gift Guide: The Socialite
Movers and shakers are on everyone’s gift list. The person you can never quite track down because they are just so darn busy! They are always pumping up the next big event and spending every night out on the town. Here are some gift suggestions for your event-loving fashionista/night owl. Being out on the town…
Winter Just Got A Bit More Sour
After nearly a year and a half, de Garde Brewing is finally beginning to distribute bottles to Bend on a regular basis. If this doesn’t mean anything to you, prepare to be soured on their beer…in a deliciously good way. Run by the husband-and-wife team of Trevor Rogers and Linsey Hamacher, de Garde launched last…
Let it Flow
For the past year and a half, the now $30-$34 million Bridge Creek pipeline project has lain in wait, its completion stalled by persistent legal challenges. But last Friday, a federal judge turned the tap back on, permitting the project to move forward. “I was pleased but not surprised,” says Councilor Victor Chudowsky. “The most…
‘Tis The Season To Shop Local
It is a tale of two craft fairs, and a true holiday tale of joining forces together, and with a moral that would make Jimmy Stewart’s heart swell two times its size, Central Oregon Locavore and The Old Ironworks are joining forces to promote their same-day local, holiday craft and food events. The two events…
Cool Gift Ideas
Harvard researchers recently “discovered” that 20 minutes outside can wake you up just as much as one cup of coffee. I’m not exactly sure how this study was conducted: Was it as simple as the control group being fed black coffee, and the other group being asked to walk briskly around the campus commons? Then…
Happily Never After?
What’s the big deal about fairy tales? In recent years the onslaught of princesses, wicked witches and big bad wolves in pop culture has overwhelmed TV and book markets, stacking up other-worldly entertainment to audiences of all ages. With serial television offerings like “Once Upon A Time,” “Grimm,” and “Sleepy Hollow,” joining countless film releases…
Humble, but Hearty
When Josh Dirksen first started the Dirksen Derby, it wasn’t intended to be a world-class event; it really was just meant to be a low-key community gathering, something to raise some funds for Tyler Eklund, who sustained a spinal chord injury while snowboarding. But over the past eight years, the two-day event has boomed—attracting top…
Our Picks 12/10-12/18
thursday 11 Zepparella ROCK—Robert Plant’s new album, Lullaby and…The Ceaseless Roar, is considered by critics a step away from his incendiary work with Led Zeppelin. However, despite his change of pace many fans won’t ever let the II, III, IV era die, including the ladies of Zepparella, a female tribute to the legacy of the…
Go Here 12/11-12/17
Given how much Bend loves both snow and dogs, it should come as no surprise that one does not have to travel to the great white north to experience the thrill of sled dog rides in person. Turns out you need only travel as far as Sunrise Lodge at the base of Mt. Bachelor to…
Sex, Drugs, and Rocks
“The last thing we need is a bunch of ill-prepared people who aren’t thinking clearly and are trying to find themselves,” huffed Donna Saufley, a former board member of the Pacific Crest Trail Association, to the New York Times in 2013. She was talking to Christopher Solomon, whose story “The Call of the Wild on…
Killing Wildlife for Family Fun. . .
When I was a kid, “growin’ up on the farm” in Connecticut, my uncles and I had a Thanksgiving tradition of going waterfowl hunting early that morning. When we had our limit in Black Ducks—the East Coast equivalent of our Mallards— we’d return home mid-afternoon, clean our ducks and prepare them for my grandmother and…
Film Events 12/10-12/18
The Metropolitan Opera: Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg While Regal has been playing the Met’s operas for several years now, they have never assaulted the senses so thoroughly with an opera so unyeildingly long. Die Meistersinger is listed on Fandango as six hours long, even though most versions of the show run around four and a…
A Time to Move On
Last week, after three hours of debate, City Council gave a resounding 5-2 vote to confirm Casey Roats as a new member of the incoming governing body. During the final months of the campaign, his qualifications had been questioned because it was unclear whether he was a resident under the meaning of the City Charter.…
Security Breach
“I have only one fear in doing all of this,” Edward Snowden told journalist Glenn Greenwald in a hotel room in Hong Kong in June of 2013. “That people will see these documents and shrug, that they’ll say, ‘We assumed this was happening and don’t care.’ The only thing I’m worried about is that I’ll…
Letters 12/2-12/9
CITY COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP AND THE UNASKED QUESTIONS Once again Doug Knight shows leadership and gumption (as does our beloved mayor) in the debate over qualifications to be on City Council. That debate should not have occurred at all. The good citizens of Bend should have considered the financial implications of having someone who is in…
Beers To Stay Warm With
It took almost two months of back-and-forth text messages, but GoodLife finally named its winter ale, a special beer for the second annual Central Oregon Winter Beer Festival, a smooth ale with cinnamon and nutmeg undertones. “It just finally came to me,” says Steve Denio about the name they finally landed on: Yukon Cornelius, so…
Beers To Stay Warm With
It took almost two months of back-and-forth text messages, but GoodLife finally named its winter ale, a special beer for the second annual Central Oregon Winter Beer Festival, a smooth ale with cinnamon and nutmeg undertones. “It just finally came to me,” says Steve Denio about the name they finally landed on: Yukon Cornelius, so…
The Samurai Sword Produces Some Great Food
What do The Food Network’s reality TV show, “The Great Food Truck Race,” a beat-up bus in an abandoned field near Cashmere, Washington, and a samurai without a master have in common? The answer: Ronin, a Japanese Food Truck located between Skjersaas and the westside Dutch Bros. on Century Drive. For the past several years,…
