Bend City Council Approves Six Affordable Housing Projects
Bend City Council unanimously approved six housing projects funded by income from the affordable housing fee. The fee ordinance, approved in June 2006, prioritizes projects that support the goals identified in the five year Consolidated Plan, which includes addressing the needs of low and moderate income Bendites. The projects include: Bethlehem Inn Rehabilitation of Plumbing…
Anheuser-Busch Acquires 10 Barrel Brewing
Anheuser-Busch InBev, the largest beer manufacturer in the world, announced today that it will purchase Bend craft brewery 10 Barrel Brewing. It’s the company’s second craft brewery purchase this year, following the February sale of New York’s Blue Point Brewing. 10 Barrel, which expects to sell 40,000 barrels of beer this year, found itself in…
And the winners are…
Barring a shift in the late number, here are your results for the Nov. 2014 election. For more details on the election, and the implications of the results, check out our print issue—online and on stands later today. CANDIDATES BEND CITY COUNCILOR 5: NATHAN BODDIE (55 percent) BEND CITY COUNCILOR 6: CASEY ROATES (45 percent)…
RIP Election Ads—Candidates
Today’s the day—your last chance to catch your favorite political ads! Which will you miss and which are you happy to see go? Below, check out a sampling of candidate ads available online, and sound off in the comments. Next up: ballot measure ads. John Kitzhaber for Governor Dennis Richardson for Governor Jeff Merkley for…
Get Out the Vote and Party On
Tuesday is Election Day (aka, if you haven’t turned in your ballot yet, get on it!). Local candidates will be hosting shindigs to celebrate their campaigns and (if they’re lucky) and victories. Here’s where you can find your favorite candidates. Where will you watch the election results? (We’ll update the list as we hear back from…
Thrillist’s Small Beer Cities to be Celebrated List Includes Bend
Bend gets more best of beer attention, this time from Thrillist.com, a food and drink reviewing website. Read the full list of “Small Beer Cities” recognized here including Ashville, NC, Burlington, VT, and Hood River, OR. Here’s what the review had to say about Bend: Bend, OR Bend’s a laid-back Central Oregon city that’s long…
TGIF Weekend Lineup: 10/31-11/3
What to do this weekend #inBend… IT’S HALLOWEEN! Meaning there are tons of events, parties, races and debaucherous costume contests happening all around town on Friday and Saturday including the annual Deschutes Brewery Cross Crusade and warehouse after party! Click here for our picks for Halloween events. Beyond the holiday, there is some great live music this…
Voting in Bend? Don’t Make These Mistakes if You Want Your Ballot Counted
Are you a voter? Do you want your vote to count? Here are a few (rather important) things you might not know about turning in your ballot. DO NOT send it in the mail if you have not already. Despite what you might hear from the State Elections Office, a ballot send from within Bend…
Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine Pairs Bend Brew with Halloween Candies
By now, you’re probably seen articles boasting wine and candy pairings for the Halloween season cross your newsfeed. Which is fine, if you’re into that sort of thing. But if you prefer to match your malt balls with malted grains, beer pairings are where its at. Craft Beer and Brewing magazine has risen to the…
Film Events 10/29-11/6
Bubba Ho-Tep Two rest home residents who believe themselves to be Elvis Presley and former president John F. Kennedy, face down an ancient Egyptian mummy who is feeding on their elderly compatriots. Midnight cult classics don’t get much weirder than Bubba Ho-Tep, the 2002 film staring the square-jawed hero of Evil Dead, Bruce Campbell. Fri.,…
Our Picks 10/29-11/6
thursday 30 Vision 15 Economic Forecast PRESENTATION—How will global events impact the local economy in Bend? Tim Duy, professor of practice at University of Oregon, and Mark Kralj, principal at Ferguson Wellman Capital Management, will present an economic forecast at a Bend Chamber-sponsored breakfast. Leave with a full belly and plenty of fodder for water…
The Manliest Men
Peter Heller, best-selling author of “The Dog Stars,” wowed Bend audiences last year when he visited the community as part of The Deschutes County Public Library’s “Novel Idea” program. His sophomore novel, “The Painter,” offers yet another moving narrative, and one that is sure to appeal to the outdoorsy, artistic, life-on-the-fringes reader, a demographic which…
Meet the Artist
An imaginative illustrator and 3D artist, deeply inspired by fantasy, Tim Jones received a BFA in Illustration from the New Hampshire Institute of Art and immediately packed up his bags and moved to Bend with the hopes of becoming a part of a developing art scene. Some of his signature characters are robotic cyborgs and…
The Story Behind Your Pint
“Bend Beer: A History of Brewing in Central Oregon” is not a travel guide. Which is good—you can already learn about our 26 breweries from a million other sources. Instead, what Jon Abernathy has written is a free-wheeling overview of the region’s history, with the emphasis placed squarely on beer. Published by the History Press…
Election 2014 Endorsement Cheat Sheet
BEND CITY COUNCILOR 5: NATHAN BODDIE We are looking for councilors who we believe will better represent community values when they make decisions. BEND CITY COUNCILOR 6: LISA SEALES Overall we believe that Seales will fill the leadership and moderator gap that departing Jodie Barram leaves. CITY COUNCILOR 7: BARB CAMPBELL City council needs more…
Future Fears
Masks of elected officials are a Halloween staple. Why? Because politicians can be scary. But like super powered-mutants, they have the ability to either wreak havoc on, or help to save, the future. We talked to city staff and councilors to find out what keeps them awake at night, why they’re worried, and what they’ll…
To Reside, or Not to Reside
A City Council race that started on high ground, talking about livability and affordable housing issues, has in its last weeks become overshadowed by questions surrounding the residency qualifications of candidate Casey Roats. That shadow grew longer last week when the candidate’s attorney, Neil Bryant, responded to calls for Roats to withdraw by attempting to…
A new bakery, another inch on the waistline
The front room to Foxtail Bakeshop, a new bakery adjacent to The Lot, is tidy and looks as if Wes Anderson had designed the space to its very country-style detail: A turquoise chest of drawers serves as a front counter, three skinny chairs huddle in the corner and cookies wait in glass jars next to…
Follow the Money
As the saying goes, “Money talks.” But what do the campaign contributions from local political action committees (PACs) to Bend City Council candidates have to say? We tracked down the biggest contributors to the local races and asked them how they decide which candidates to support, and how that reflects their members’ political priorities. Locally,…
Pee Wee Politics
“I know you are, but what am I?” That refrain has been used to great effect by countless first-graders and adopted as a tagline by Pee Wee Herman, a mocking, juvenile response to an accusation meant to deflect and frustrate the accuser. It is also the unfortunate tone taken last week in response to accusations…
Letters 10/21-10/28
IN REPLY TO “BEND RANKS SECOND IN THE NATION FOR PEOPLE OF A CERTAIN POLITICAL BENT” (10/20) I think anyone who lives here long sees the truth. We’re not centrist, we’re actually just so polarized that when a second-tier lifestyle website does some second-tier stats analysis on us, we APPEAR to be right in the…
PDX Meets Bend in Cyclocross Series Stop
Cross Crusade, hosted by Portland-based River City Bicycles, returns for a fourth year to Bend this weekend for two days of cyclocross with hundreds of competitors and the spectrum of costumes—preferably without capes (um, spokes, chains, loose clothing—bad idea). Most bikes are legal in this event—mountain bikes, ‘cross, cruisers, unicycles, etc.—but the course clearly favors…
Go Here! 10/30-11/5
Lace ’em up because like the fall leaves, the hiking season is peaking. Whether it’s an out-and-back walkabout or a hill climb, there is still time to put in miles on trails before winter officially sets in. We’ve compiled a short list of go-to fall hikes where you can still leave the skis at home…for…
Source Suggests 10/29-11/6
Halloween at Volcanic Local music reigns at this diverse Halloween extravaganza, featuring everything from rocking protests songs, to hip-hop to sludge rock. Bend’s hip-hop royalty Mosley Wotta will be joined by nightmarish and industrial electro-metal band Warm Gadget, cello-looper Third Seven, and Jesse Marshall of Larry and His Flask and friends performing an acoustic rock…
Out of Town 10/29-11/6
portland friday 31 The Black Keys Blues music, costumes. Need we say more? One of the biggest revivalist successes in the indie-world and on the Top-40 charts in the last five years has been Ohio duo The Black Keys. Influenced by blues greats from Junior Kimbrough to Howlin’ Wolf and Robert Johnson, the band recently…
The Odyssey of McDougall
Scott McDougall’s road dog lifestyle as a peripatetic one-man band has inspired much of his songwriting. His folk tunes are about long rides, towns passing by in the glow of golden leaves lining the highways, forgotten cities and tired travelers—quintessential roving songs. Tales of his long, verbose journeys are always characterized through the lens of…
’90s Guys Redman and Method Man
Two of the most iconic and innovative hip-hop artists of the last two decades, Method Man and Redman got their start with Wu-Tang Clan and Def Squad respectively in the golden age of East Coast versus West Coast hip-hop. After teaming up in the mid-’90s they have produced two full-length albums as a team, been…
