Little Bites: Thanksgiving Dinner is Served! Restaurants that will cook for you on Thursday
While many of us are going to be slaving over stoves, stuffing, brining or the always fun deep-frying our butterball turkeys this Thursday, there are options for those who don’t feel like sticking their hands in the cavity of a 20-pound bird or cutting up the neck to stew some gravy. For all of you…
Goodbye Goomba's, Hello Bond Street Bar and Grill
The restaurant casualties continue in downtown where longtime operator Peggy Falcaro announced on Monday that she has sold Giuseppe’s after a 20-plus-year run on Bond Street. Longtime locals remember Giuseppe’s as one of the places to enjoy a good meal and a glass of wine before the boom.
Sara Miles Speaks at Common Table
This Wednesday, Sara Miles will be speaking at Common Table during a $50/seat fundraiser. This is kind of a big deal.
Terrorist Threat Gets Too Close for Comfort
The threat of terrorism came home to Oregon Friday as the FBI foiled an alleged plot to detonate a huge bomb next to Portland’s Pioneer Square during the annual holiday tree-lighting festivities. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a 19-year-old sometime engineering student at Oregon State University, allegedly intended to blow up a van packed with explosives while…
Spinning the Census Numbers to the Right
The right-wing Oregon Catalyst site quotes a study by the right-wing Americans for Tax Reform organization supposedly proving – surprise, surprise! – that right-wing economic policies promote growth and prosperity. The ATR compared states that will gain congressional seats through reapportionment as the result of the 2010 census with those that will lose seats and…
The Man Behind the Mountain
No photo attached. That is how he would have wanted it. For years, the Mt. Bachelor ski patrol's annual team photo featured a mysterious figure in the back row. He would turn his head as the camera clicked or he would wear a ski mask. But it's hard to hide when you are the biggest,…
For Some, a Very Happy Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving, Americans still have much to be thankful for. Well, some of them do, anyway.
Hey There, Winter Locavores: Year-round CSA delivers local foods to Central Oregon
Ten years ago, the closest Central Oregonians could get to buying local, organic food in the winter was to drive three hours to greenhouses in the valley. Even just a year ago, locavores who lived for their summertime weekly CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) bounties were stuck buying veggies and meats from aisles under fluorescent lights.
Back To Earth: The new Marz Bistro struggles to find its footing
It's tough not to have high expectations for a venture that combines an old favorite – in this case, Marz Bistro – with a prominent chef and restaurateur – Gavin McMichael of The Blacksmith and Bourbon Street. Marz, the 2008 winner of The Source Weekly's Restaurant of the Year, recently sold to McMichael and re-opened…
Who You Callin' Junior? Bend's junior 'crossers rock state championships
As Colin Dunlap and his parents watched racers slide down icy hillsides and endure sub-freezing temperatures during last year's Cyclocross Nationals in Bend, he could tell his dad was unimpressed. “He wasn't that into it,” says Dunlap, who was a high-school freshman at the time. Colin himself wasn't too sure about the sport, either.
Sorry, Blazer Fans: An open letter from Greg Oden's knee
Last week, the Blazers announced that Greg Oden would undergo yet another microfracture surgery in an attempt to repair his left knee – the same knee that kept him out for most of last season – and will miss the remainder of the 2010-2011 campaign. With frustrated fans beginning to make Sam Bowie comparisons and…
The Cool School: Cada Casa redefines learning through sincere interest and passion
After finishing his undergraduate degree, 26-year-old Tymon Emch took time off to study for the MCAT and work and volunteer at a hospital. He hoped the latter experience would move him a step closer to his goal of becoming a pediatrician. During that year after college, it occurred to Emch that medicine might not be…
Turkey Talk
The author is reporting from a couch, awaiting pie. As large fowl are slaughtered like Iraqis and our individual rights under the last Republican leadership, then devoured like Obama's credibility for daring to clean-up their mess, let's take a look at the ugly stuffing that makes this week so tasty.
Hey There, Winter Locavores: Year-round CSA delivers local foods to Central Oregon
Ten years ago, the closest Central Oregonians could get to buying local organic food in the winter was to drive three hours to greenhouses in the valley. Even just a year ago, locavores who lived for their summertime weekly CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) bounties were stuck buying veggies and meats from aisles under fluorescent lights.
All Good Things: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest rounds out the Millennium Series
It seems that several literature-to-film series are coming to an end and, finally, looming questions will be answered. This week both the final Harry Potter (or at least the first half) opened in theaters as well as the more adult The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. Whereas fans of the Harry Potter series have…
The Worst Two Hours: The Next Three Days is a chore to endure
The Next Three days is an exercise in patience and tolerance. This meandering flick tells its story with painfully slow and uneventful scenes. I don't mind a slow-paced movie but it, at the very least, must be engaging. This wannabe-angst-ridden think fest just blows it. The official synopsis goes like this: John and Lara Brennan…
Wanted: One Sidekick
I'm through using Craigslist, you guys! However, I'll admit that Craigslist works just fine if you're trying to sell a lawnmower but secretly want to be sodomized and hacked apart by an escaped serial killer. I'm sorry to break the news, but people on Craigslist are just too freaky!
Under Siege: Sniping the undead in the latest Call of Duty
There are lots of ways to approach the latest Call of Duty. I choose the option marked “Zombies.” “Zombies” is a stand-alone game mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops that showcases the series' shooting mechanics to fine effect. It is part of Call of Duty – built right into the game. I skipped over…
How Not To Light Your House On Fire This Thanksgiving
Recently, we’ve been contemplating how not to light our house on fire this Thanksgiving. Luckily, Good Morning America decided to start a grease fire and demonstrate how to put it out properly.
Still Wearing White: The Parson Redheads picked Oregon over LA, and have no regrets
Bands are supposed to move to Los Angeles to make it big. Or else New York, specifically Brooklyn these days. For the past 50 years (and maybe longer), bands from across the country have packed up and headed to one corner of the country or the other in the hopes that the magnificent flying rock…
Shipping News: One Less Heartless to Fear
It's almost as if they were coached by Steve Albini. On their latest record, Chicago indie rock band Shipping News channels its best Shellac: bleating out lyrics Albini-style on “The Delicate,” bringing melody and discord together on “(Morays or) Demons.”
Our Picks for 11/24-12/2: Empty Space Orchestra, Holiday Tree Lighting, and lots more!
Party on Thanksgiving thursday 25 It's Thanksgiving and you're free to eat and drink as much as you'd like. It's your right as an American. But after the food has settled and the family has gone to bed, head down to the Madhappy Lounge and dance off each and every one of those 5,700 calories…
Burning Green: Two Oregon projects highlight the promise and perils of biomass power plants
At first glance, it looks like a great way to counter climate change – convert a greenhouse-gas-spewing coal power plant to a clean, modern facility fueled by plant matter. But the devil, as always, is in the details. The Boardman power plant – Oregon’s only coal-fired power plant – sits amid farmland in the eastern…
Snow Removal: The city of Bend sends a mixed message
OK, so we all know that the City of Bend has an obscure ordinance that says we citizens should clear our sidewalks within 24 hours of a major snow dump. Fine, I can live with that, and have for the past 33 winters, and I suspect that no one has ever been fined for not…
The OLCC Gets One Right
The laws of probability say that, given enough time, if something is possible, no matter how improbable, it eventually will happen. A flipped coin someday will land on its edge. A million monkeys banging on a million computer keyboards someday will produce Shakespeare's King Lear. And the Oregon Liquor Control Commission someday will get something…
Taking Stock at BOTC, Recounting the Council Race, And A Turkey Snowpocalypse
It's been a busy week over at Bank of the Cascades, which raised a much needed $177 million in private capital to keep the bank afloat in the face of regulatory sanctions. The injection headed off months of speculation that federal officials would move to shutter the once high-flying local institution that hemorrhaged hundreds of…
This Week’s Number
43 That's the number of inches that Mt. Bachelor was reporting as a base on Tuesday afternoon just a few hours before opening day of the 2010-2011 season.
The Righteous Rangel Witch Hunt
The following are some observations to the House Ethics Committee about the censure of Representative Charles Rangel, Democrat, Harlem, N.Y. House Ethics Committee….oxymoron. Y’all must be right proud of your courageous decision to censure Democrat Charles Rangel from Harlem for his outrageous disrespect for the laws and ethics of the House of Ill Repute.
Enjoy a Pre-Thanksgiving Feast with Texas Hippie Coalition
Wondering what you should do on this cold, cold Thanksgiving Eve? Well, you could go to a bar and enjoy an impromptu reunion of someone else’s high school, or you can head to the Domino Room tonight for a raucous show from the Texas Hippie Coalition. The band, the geographical origins of which need no…
Admit Defeat, Bend: It's time for a time out at Juniper Ridge
While many citizens remain angry over the $4 million that Bend wasted on their defunct UGB expansion plan, and the $5 million that they squandered on the Bulletin property without first doing their homework, the city actually has much larger problems with their failed development at Juniper Ridge (JR). Bend's City Council has steadfastly maintained…
