Sauteed Green Beans with Bacon Bits & Bleu Cheese
Growing up in the South we always had a big garden in the summer: corn, potatoes, peas, onions, tomatoes, peppers and lots of green beans! One of my daily chores once the green beans came on was to pick the beans. This required stooping over or squatting down to pull the beans off the low…
Vote Yes on Measure 9-148 in Deschutes County
Make County Commissioner seats and elections non-partisan As of Sept. 1, Deschutes County had 154,729 registered voters. Of those, 44,448 were registered Republicans, 47,614 registered as Democrats and 9,031 registered with the Independent party. And the largest share of voters? The non-affiliated voters, making up 50,845 of the voters in Deschutes County. With Oregon’s major parties…
Take a Tiki Escape in the Old Mill District
It was November 1934 that Victor Jules Bergeron, Jr. opened a small bar and restaurant in Oakland, California which became Trader Vic’s, which eventually became a famous worldwide chain of Polynesian-themed establishments. Bergeron himself was one of two people who claimed to have invented the Mai Tai cocktail. The other was Donn Beach of the…
Saving a Bend Sanctuary
Dear Readers, there is a move afoot to destroy a unique—and meaningful—little natural area in downtown Bend, and make it into a parking lot, for crying out loud! Worrell Wayside, a county park set aside nearly 25 years ago, “preserved and protected for public use,” sets on an outcropping of relatively recent volcanic rocks from…
Treating Trauma After Tragedy
On Aug. 28 Donald Surrett Jr. and Glenn Bennet were shot and killed by a gunman in a Bend Safeway, and two others sustained non-life-threatening injuries during the attack. The initial harm done by the shooter was followed by a collective trauma felt by many in the Bend community. Shoppers who were present and people…
Thank You, Bill
Bill Powers has long been the face of the Storytellers Open Mic series at The Commons, a weekly affair on Tuesday nights that added even more magic to the often-buzzing Brooks Alley. But after more than five years of running things, Powers announced on Facebook that he would officially be stepping down from his role…
Gung Ho for Bob Weir & Wolf Brothers
At 74, Bob Weir is still discovering himself and where he can take his music. Perhaps that is why he has assembled two distinct groups to keep the songs and spirit of the Grateful Dead alive after all of these years. Dead & Company was formed in 2015 alongside other Grateful Dead members Bill Kreutzmann…
Butcher Counter Opens at Rancher Butcher Chef
The Grove in Northwest Crossing in Bend already has a number of new and unique food offerings—and since early August, that has included the new Rancher Butcher Chef, a combo of family-style steakhouse and meat counter. RBC partners with local ranchers to offer items for sale, but it also has a “home ranch,” 7-Mile Creek…
Bend Gets SuperDeluxe #4
A Portland-based burger operation has opened a new location in Bend. SuperDeluxe is an “old-school burger drive-thru” with three locations in the Portland metro area. This month, Bend became the site for its fourth location, with the new restaurant now open along NE Third Street. SuperDeluxe is known for its pasture-raised beef burgers, cage-free chicken sandwiches,…
Seared Scallops with Bourbon Sauce and Pickled Celery
Way back at the very beginning of the pandemic shutdown in the spring of 2020, I was hosting a local television segment on food and dining out. I would go around to area restaurants and farms, interviewing chefs and growers, all the while sampling their fresh harvests and delicious dishes. When restaurants were forced to…
If You Like It, Listen
In spite of their young age, these teenagers are filled with emotion, talent and the drive to be better at music. They each produce and release music, along with playing gigs around Central Oregon. Their music styles range from pop to folk, singer-songwriter, rap and old-school rock. Each of them thinks music is for everyone;…
May the Source Be With You
So many nerdy things are happening in the realm of TV and podcasts that, dare I say, it’s an exciting time to be alive for dorks like me. I’ve already expressed my love of comics and superhero movies plenty of times across these pages, but now my lifelong obsession with fantasy is finally paying off.…
Natural Selection Proving Grounds
GO HERE Those familiar with the nuances of freeride mountain biking will see a competition like none other Sunday at the Natural Selection Tour Proving Grounds competition near Prineville. Most who are unfamiliar with the freeride associate it with Red Bull Rampage: a course sitting in a remote desert with jumps carved into cliffs in…
Crisis Shows Us Who Our Leaders Are
Between climate-change calamities, coronavirus and ongoing gun violence like the case we saw in Bend last week, we are in a world where we confront crisis on the regular. Perhaps, in the before-times, before we faced down a global pandemic, it was more palatable to see our elected leaders misstep or remain absent when a…
Understanding Intimacy: Trying to Help
Dear Dr. Jane, My wife has some severe hangups about touching herself, me touching her, and generally anything that isn’t traditional intercourse. Unsurprisingly, she’s never had an orgasm. We talked about it one night last week in our tent when we were camping at Elk Lake. For the first time in our relationship, she told…
Letters to the Editor 09/08/2022
Amphitheater Did you ever live next door to a thoughtless neighbor? One who wouldn’t turn his music down late at night. The guy, let’s call him Hayden, blasts his stereo so loud that you can’t shut it out. As the evening progresses, he tends to turn it up louder. Close the windows, close the door,…
The Latest in Cannabis News
The expansion of Medical and Adult Use cannabis programs across the U.S. has led to—brace yourself—more cannabis use. It’s also led to more studies about cannabis use, including how it impacts the users, and what effects the growing use is having on other commodities. Here’s an overview of some recent research findings. Cannabis isn’t making…
Preventing Tragedy
The Aug. 28 shooting at a Bend Safeway was the 528th mass shooting in the United States in 2022, according to data website MassShootingTracker, which defines any incident of four or more people shot to its list of attacks. The list, as of press time on Sept. 5, is at 544 — an average of…
Horoscope Week of September 08, 2022
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s impossible to be perfect. It’s neither healthy nor productive to obsess on perfectionism. You know these things. You understand you can’t afford to get bogged down in overthinking and overreaching and overpolishing. And when you are at your best, you sublimate such manic urges. You transform them into the elegant…
Well To Do
There are 17,000 private wells in Deschutes County serving nearly 35,000 people, but as Central Oregon faces its worst drought on record, wells have been drying up. A declining snowpack, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, and more piping and lining of irrigation canals, speculated by Oregon Water Resource Department officials, have contributed to depleted…
Short Term Rentals
Over the last decade, the rise of short-term rentals has grown tremendously. Now, when traveling for work or vacation, one has options of where to stay beyond the classic hotel. Short-term rentals allow homeowners to rent out a room or the entire property for a term under 29 days (defines short term). It is also…
Smoked Out
Smoke is expected to create “unhealthy” air quality in Bend by Sept. 7, largely due to the Cedar Creek Fire about 25 miles west of La Pine. Air quality is defined as unhealthy once pollutants are potent enough to impact the health of the general public. Satellite images of the Cedar Creek Fire show smoke…
Tiznada de humo
Se prevé que para el 7 de septiembre el humo genere una calidad de aire “no saludable” en Bend, en gran parte debido al incendio de Cedar Creek que se encuentra a unas 2.5 millas al oeste de La Pine. La calidad del aire es considerada no saludable una vez que los contaminantes son lo…
Pozo por hacer
Existen 17,000 pozos privados en el municipio de Deschutes que abastecen a casi 35,000 personas, pero mientras el Centro de Oregon enfrenta la peor sequía registrada, los pozos se han estado secando. Un declive en la nieve acumulada, según un análisis del Servicio Geológico de los Estados Unidos, y más tuberías y revestimiento de canales…
