Everyone Loves Kale Chips
0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false Not long ago, I asked my editor, Erin, what she thought about kale. Her reply was that it was the only thing in her CSA box that she doesn’t cook.
Contract Fire Fighter in Critical Condition After Crash
Ten contract firefighters were hospitalized after their van collided with an oncoming truck outside Prineville early Tuesday morning while they were in en route to the Briley Mountain wildfire near John Day. Nine of the ten firefighters who work with Salem-based Lava River Forestry were transported to nearby hospitals and released, a tenth Marcelino Cuesta…
Doubling Down: Back to Back CD Release Parties at McMenamins
Hilst & CoffeyThe Lonely Garage SessionsJuly 11 7pm @ McMenaminsString duo Hilst & Coffey return with the release of The Lonely Garage Sessions. The irony in the title is that the new album feels like an old friend and who could ever be lonely with a friend around? (The album’s name is actually the result…
Developing- Popular Clear 101.7 Radio Personalities Are Leaving The Station
Through posts on Facebook pages Friday and today, local favorite radio personalities Doug and Dori Donoho announced that they would be leaving Combined Communicaiton radio station Clear 101.7.
Get Your Summerfest Listener Appreciation Concert Tix Today At Noon!
While all of Summerfest is free (and that includes the music), Friday and Saturday feature “Listener Appreciation” concerts put on by Lite 95.1 and KQAK 105.
Tour De France – Stage 9
Today’s time trail produced some expected results and some big surprises as well. The GC battle took shape this weekend in the mountains, and today’s ITT confirmed the strength of Team Sky and it’s leader, Bradley Wiggins.
Madras Pick Me Up: Break up your Portland drive at Great Earth Natural Foods
It’s hot, we’re both tired and we still have 2-plus hours of driving left. While the Madras taco options are plentiful, caffeine and snack spots have been scarce.
Tour De France – Stage 7
Wow, what a great races today! Now that we are done with the hectic first week of the tour we can get down to the real GC battle! Chris Froome won the first summit finish of this tour, and that is no small matter. It may be that Bradley Wiggins’ (picked by many to win…
Three Hours Left to Vote for Best of Central Oregon!
We’re closing the voting for Best of Central Oregon 2012 in just three hours! Who do you love? Get on our website and tell them! Vote here.
Viral Vid Prompts NYC to Fix Step Within Hours
Here’s the story: Dean Peterson, New York City resident, notices that a step at his subway station is screwed up. And instead of uselessly complaining, like a whole bunch of Bend gadflies that I will not name in this email but know who they are, this guy made a clever little video.
What’s Happening?
Lots of choices for entertainment tonight. In addition to First Friday Art Walk the Vampirates and Larry and His Flask play a free show in Redmond at the American Legion Park.
Fava Bean and Garlic Shoot Succotash
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Free Album Download: New Mixtape From Childish Gambino
Summer is just heating up in Bend and now your mp3 player can keep pace by loading it with the new (and free) hip-hop album Royalty from Donald Glover– aka Childish Gambino. Ripe with collaborations that feature such unlikely names as Blake Griffin and Tina Fey, Royalty also receives helping hands from RZA, Ghostface Killah,…
Nature of Words Fall Author Line-up Announced
The Nature of Words announced its fall writing conference lineup at last week’s BOOKPLATE Auction and Reception, an annual fundraiser for the organization that brought in strong returns for the group this year, said NOW staff. Nature of Words is a literary nonprofit based in Bend, which puts on a multi-day writing conference every fall,…
Why We Remember
For the fifth year on Memorial Day, community members volunteered their time to read the name, age and hometown of every soldier killed in Afghanistan since 2001 and Iraq since 2003. This year it took 13 hours, 15 minutes to complete the reading (8:30 a.m.–9:45 p.m.). I find we always have a positive response when…
Transcending Anger
Anger stems from the perception of some kind of imbalance. Much of the anger represented by a fair share of media outlets seems to focus on reactive situations of a “knee jerk” modality. Such situations exhibit the primitive side of human nature. The primitive side of human nature is only one side of the human…
Judicial Restraint and Unrestrained Dishonesty
Conservatives talk a good game about “judicial restraint” when it suits their purposes. But last week John Roberts, the conservative chief justice of the US Supreme Court, actually practiced it. Roberts cast the deciding fifth vote to declare that the Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare,” is constitutional. He held that Congress didn’t have the power…
Rock Bottom Bonanza: Frenzied buyers are driving up prices fast
My first indication this was not the busted up real estate market of recent years happened in May on the corner of 10th Street and Portland Avenue, near the epicenter of the 2006/2007 boom. I was ready to make an offer on a dump of a house. But because it was in that great location,…
Our Picks For 07/05-07/12
Junior Olympic Track and Field Championships thursday 5 – sunday 8 What better way to prep for the London Games than to watch some of our local Olympic hopefuls square off in events like the long jump, decathlon, pole vault and, hopefully, the hammer throw. It all goes down at Summit Field where some 1,500…
No whining: Just swirls, sips and dining
Bend winos take note: there is now one more place to swirl, sip and savor in the heart of downtown Bend. On the east side of Wall Street right next door to Joolz, newly opened Bend D’Vine offers tasty tapas, classic wine-inspired small plates, and over 28 wines by the glass. It’s one of the…
Little Bites: Whirlwind of New Options: New restaurant action in every corner of the city
Crux Fermentation Project Holds Grand Opening Bend’s newest brewery opened Saturday night, June 30, to a crowd of 1,500 or so locals and tourists who helped christen the brewery, munched some barbecue and slipped their own private momento into a time capsule box at the brewery. Those intending to savor the fruits of former Deschutes…
First Last Friday: Galveston Avenue new hip spot for drinks, food, music and art
Between the smell of freshly baked cupcakes from Ida’s and the salty bacon scent from Crazy Delicious, there aren’t too many streets in Bend that will tempt your palate or your wallet more than Galveston Avenue. Last Friday was no exception, as the street hosted the first Galveston Street Project, an event that business owners…
Spider Bites: The Amazing Spider-man can’t erase memory of how much better its story could be told.
I’m sure there will be people who argue that The Amazing Spider-man should be evaluated on its own merits, as a work separate from the legacy of Sam Raimi’s Spider-man films over the last decade. And I respectfully ask—after I catch my breath from the hysterical laughter—“You’re joking, right?” Leave aside for a moment the…
Watch Him As He Goes: The Best and Worst of Super Heroes
As the Spiderman franchise reboots and comes wall-crawling back into our lives, it seems like a good time to look back at some of the highlights and lowlights of comic over the last 35 years. I’m specifically focusing on the super hero movies based on comic books, or else this would just be 500 words…
The Veronica Mars Hangover Cure
Surprise! I’m hung over again. Luckily, I have a surefire three-pronged cure that fixes my hangover every time: 1) Pork belly. And lots of it. 2) Rough sex. And lots of it. And 3) six hours splayed upon the couch in my underpants watching Veronica Mars reruns. Naturally pounds of pork belly and rough sex…
Tour De France – Stage 5
The Gorilla won his second stage in as many days, winning a rather uneventful long day of racing in northern France.
Yesterday, Greipel’s win had a little asterisk next to it due to a late crash taking out world champion Mark Canvandish.
New Stills From The Hobbit
Happy 4th of July, everyone. What better way to celebrate our independence than checking out some images from Peter Jackson’s upcoming two-part adaptation of J.
Pono Farm Ribeye Meets the Grill
To celebrate the recent start of my food blog, CulinarilyMinded.com, my family and I decided to eat especially well.
Boswell’s Picks: A local’s Tour perspective
Bend phenom Ian Boswell, a professional road racer for Trek-Livestrong (a feeder team for RadioShack-Nissan, one of the world’s top teams) provided us with his Tour De France predictions. Read on for the inside line on who to watch and where to put your money.
