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Presidential Preferences
This month, the president slashed about 2 million acres from two national monuments in Utah. Now he and his administration are turning their eyes northwest, toward Oregon and the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Democrats and Republicans, conservationists and extractors fell into predictable shouting matches at the prospect of a shrinking Cascade-Siskiyou. Meanwhile, the question of how…
NYE 2018: Events in Central Oregon
Looking for something to do this New Year’s Eve? If you’re staying in Central Oregon to ring in the new year, this roundup is for you. *updated Dec. 29, 2017 Music & Dancing Bend Velvet’s best party of the year is almost here! DJ’s Byrne & LAShawn get the floor bouncing at 10PM. Lots of…
See What Aunt Gertrude Drew?!
My artist friends and I often hear from our patrons and admirers things like, “Oh, I’m not creative at all,” or “I wish I was artistic.” The truth is, as artists we spend years developing our crafts and skills. These are hard-earned qualities, ones to which we devote a lot of time in order to…
Pianos Aplenty
Laz Glickman Laz Glickman found his love for jazz at a young age. The 17-year-old pianist’s father, Marshall Glickman, is the executive producer of the Mt. Bachelor Riverhouse Jazz series. “My dad brought me into a jazz club in Boston when I was about five,” Glickman says. “It turned out the guy playing in there…
Less Waste, More Joy
Stuff You Can Reuse Stuff You Can Recycle Stuff You Have to Trash It’s estimated that between each Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, more than 1 million tons of additional waste is generated EACH WEEK nationwide. And that doesn’t even take into account all the waste and resources used upstream, around the world, to create…
Investing in Affordable Housing for Workers
In Bend, like in many other areas, employers are having trouble recruiting employees due to the high cost of housing. I’ve heard many stories of Central Oregon employers not being able to hire workers because the prospects decline their job offers once they try looking for a place to live. We’re not talking about low…
Picks of the Week: Dec 20-27
Thursday 12/21 “Depth Perception” screening FILM— What do you get when pro snowboarder Travis Rice and his gang of daredevils venture into the Canadian wilderness with a few fancy cameras? Rice’s latest film features beautiful backcountry boarding that’ll make anyone jealous. Enter the raffle for a Travis Rice HP snowboard! Proceeds benefit Protect Our Winters.…
Source Spotlight: David Rosen
David Rosen is a local attorney in the Lawyer in the Library Program.
Get Your Relatives Out of the House
Family in town? We can’t guarantee this will completely prevent them from hogging your wifi and eating all your food, but here are our selections for where to take them. Thursday 12/21A Festivus for the Rest of Us FESTIVUS— It’s a Festivus miracle! Brown Owl is teaming up with Monkless Belgian Ales to throw a…
Letters to the Editor: Readers React with Outrage to the Gay Rodeo and the New GOP Tax Plan
In Response to, “Candid Cowboys: New exhibit brings the gay rodeo to Central Oregon.” (12/13) Related UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT—As a gay man, I find the mere idea of a “gay rodeo” more than sad. Have we learned so little from our own long history of oppression? Rodeo is an inherently-cruel macho exercise in DOMINATION.…
The Beer Giants of Ashland
To visitors, the town of Ashland, Ore., about 15 miles north of the California border along Interstate 5, is known for majestic mountains, quaint old architecture and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Anyone who forgets about the beer scene down there, however, is missing out—because in this little town nestled among the mountains, two breweries have…
Natural World: I got him, Dad, and he bites too!
Around 40 years ago my first son, Dean, was born to parents deeply involved in the nature of the world. His sweet mom was a high school biology teacher who kept a pet opossum, “Dartmouth,” to whom she fed canned dog food from a fork, and a father who slept in eagle nests and played…
Big Times for Little Big Man
On Dec. 6, Aaron Beaty was one of several bystanders to arrive on the scene of a two-car crash on Highway 97 near Sunriver. Approaching one of the vehicles, Beaty saw a small dog and a man, both badly hurt. “The dog was straddling the door, two legs on one side and two legs on…
The End of A Free & Open Internet?
“You could make the analogy that Internet bandwidth is like water,” begins Dan Alberghetti, an associate professor at Central Oregon Community College. “Should only the people that pay more get strong flowing water and the rest of the people just a trickle to merely wet their lips? Or maybe there should be different classes of…
Investing in fire services saves lives
OPINION On Dec. 20, as this issue begins to hit stands, the Bend City Council will consider adopting a resolution that would renew the five-year operating levy for Fire and Emergency Medical Services. The resolution, if the council approves it, will put the issue on the May 2018 ballot. The current levy, approved in 2014…
Return of the Space Wizards
Audiences are going to hate “The Last Jedi” because of “The Force Awakens.” Even though “TFA” gave us interesting new characters including Rey, Finn, Kylo and Poe, it was still designed specifically (and expertly) around capturing an audience’s nostalgia. The story for “TFA” was so similar to “A New Hope” that it almost plays as…
Advice Goddess: “How Long Does it Take to “Get Over Someone?”
I’m a married lesbian in my 50s. I blew up my happy marriage by having an affair with somebody I didn’t love and wasn’t even that attracted to. Now my wife, whom I love very much, is divorcing me. Why did I cheat on her? I don’t understand my own behavior. —Lost There are those…
May the Source be with you: Binging in America
Welcome back, everyone! It’s time to dive back in to all things bingeable. In Pod We Trust: “Pod Save America” has been on a roll since its inception in January. Its levelheaded, yet blisteringly hilarious look at the current occupants of the White House is just enough to keep the most panicked progressive sane. Four…
Free Will Astrology: Dec 21-28
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 2018, one of your primary missions will be to practice what you preach; to walk your talk; to be ambitious and masterful in all the ways a soulful human can and should be ambitious and masterful. Live up to your hype in the coming months, Capricorn! Do what you have…
At the Emerald Cup, the industry brings its sparkle
“You wanna hit this?” “This” was a super sizer bomber: a blunt-sized joint with a line of rosin running through, turbo charged with the addition of some kief. I stared through the thick haze of smoke and thought about the question for an uncharacteristically long period. It wasn’t that I was too high, rather that…
Do It For Your Mother
Picture in your mind a Norman Rockwell painting. If you’ve ever pondered the #MAGA movement and wondered when, exactly, America was so “great,” this could be an approximation. (True only in artistic form, but approximate nonetheless.) Don’t ponder our slave-owning past. Push away thoughts of imperialism or Manifest Destiny. Just picture, if you will, the…
Stone Cold Tunes
Odds are, over the last several years, you’ve seen the indie rock goodness performed by one of Portland’s favorite bands, The Helio Sequence. The band has made it a tradition over the last three years to perform outdoors at The Commons, as part of the Downtown Apres Ski Bash series. “It’s almost like a tradition…
