Pecan-Crusted “Fried” Chicken
This week marks the end of what we call “Birthday Month” in my family. We celebrate five birthdays in the month of March! It’s kind of nuts but we try to have fun with it and I try to make special foods or bake favorite cakes for each person. Some years I do better than…
LISTEN: Sexology with Dr. Jane Guyn 🎧
Dr. Jane Guyn is a world-renowned sex and relationship coach who received a PhD in Human Sexuality. She works with couples and individuals locally and all over the world. Although her work focuses on issues related to intimacy and sex, she also works with people who have fears and/or abuse issues related to sex, as…
Horoscope Week of March 23, 2023
ARIES (March 21-April 19): If we were to choose one person to illustrate the symbolic power of astrology, it might be Aries financier and investment banker J. P. Morgan (1837–1913). His astrological chart strongly suggested he would be one of the richest people of his era. The sun, Mercury, Pluto, and Venus were in Aries…
Letters to the Editor 03/23/2023
Guest Opinion: Let’s Stop Blaming Survivors Once and For All As the Executive Director at Saving Grace, I am routinely asked about our domestic violence and sexual assault services, other nonprofits in the area, my thoughts on policy that impacts survivors and abusers, and sometimes, “What did you think about that TV show?” or “Is…
Oregon Senate Bill Would Allow Reusable Food Containers at Restaurants
A bill that would allow Oregonians to bring their own reusable food containers to restaurants and food service establishments is one step closer to becoming a reality. Senate Bill 545 passed the Oregon Senate March 15. It’s now under consideration by the House Climate, Energy and Environment committee. SB 545 would direct the Oregon Health Authority…
The Pandemic Emergency Ends in May. Then What?
After three difficult years that shifted our lives, the Biden administration will declare an end to the pandemic emergency on May 11. What will this mean for Americans? The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID is not dead, but mutating to new strains. It killed more than 1 million Americans between 2020 and 2022, although masks…
Airport Parking Alternatives Are Coming. You’ll Just Have to Wait a While.
Officials at the Redmond airport raised prices on daily parking five years ago. Now, they want to do it again, raising the daily fee from $15 to $24 per day. It’s the same price someone would pay to park daily at Portland International Airport, they pointed out – even though we all know that the…
Seekqua: Sharing Gear and Sharing Outdoor Passion
Growing up in Salem, Michael Boles wasn’t the stereotypical “Bend kid” who was on bikes, skis and kayaks before learning to walk. He got into snowboarding late in high school and wanted to explore his adventurous spirit in college, at Oregon State University-Cascades. In 2016, his freshman year, Boles and his dorm hallmates created a…
Dinosaurs, Ghostfaces and Cocaine Bears, Oh My!
We’re almost a full three months into the year and, correct me if I’m wrong, but we haven’t had a single exceptional film so far. There have been some good ones and bad ones and a million forgettable ones, but nothing great. Isn’t there usually at least one great movie by this point in the…
Mushroom Boom Looms
This week, the column takes a break from covering cannabis to look at psilocybin, aka “magic mushrooms,” Oregon’s other legalized intoxicant and plant medicine. (Yes, it’s technically a fungus.) There are similarities between the two: Both have a storied, 1,000-year-plus history of use for both recreation and healing, remain in many circles demonized as dangerous…
HomeGrown Music Festival + 4/20 Celebration
Twelve local bands, 12 local solo artists, one local stage. High Desert Music Collective founder Scott McClelland connects the dots between reefer’s favorite holiday and a neighborhood music festival as director of the Third Annual HomeGrown Music Festival. Solely highlighting local music, the festival takes place on Thursday, April 20 as well as Friday, April…
El Plan de Emergencia ante la Pandemia termina en mayo. ¿Y ahora qué?
Después de tres años difíciles que cambiaron nuestras vidas, la administración del presidente Biden anunciará el fin del plan de emergencia ante la pandemia el día 11 de mayo. ¿Qué significará esto para los estadounidenses? A medida que el virus se esparció por áreas de trabajo e instituciones concurridas en 2020, los gobiernos locales cerraron…
Chat Me Up
Us older folks are known for relying on our children or their children’s children to work out computer and cell phone issues, to teach us how to use the remote, to program this and download that, to interface smart watches with smart phones (thank you, Dick Tracy). With some notable exceptions, and I am decidedly…
Title and Escrow 101
If you have ever bought or sold real estate in the state of Oregon, chances are extremely high that you used a title or escrow company. An escrow or title company is a neutral third party that acts as the facilitator of a real estate transaction and usually issues a title insurance policy when the…
Haven Brings Old World Tradition to Baking
It started as a side project experiment five years ago. Elijah Myers and his wife Antonia got into baking through the restaurant industry and discovered they both love to bake…so much so, that in 2018 they decided to see what happened if they sold some of their baked goods at the Northwest Crossing Farmers Market…
From the Crux of Bend to the Southeast of Portland
Crux is opening its first satellite pub in Portland later this summer, as Andre Meunier of The Oregonian reported Feb. 28. I used that breaking news as an excuse to sit down with Crux’s marketing director, Jason Randles, to learn more about one Bend brewery’s—make that three Bend breweries’—obvious response to the Portlandification of Bend…
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Leave No Man Behind ▶ [With Video]
On Sept. 12, 1944, the combined United States Pacific Fleet and Third Fleet started bombarding the Imperial Japanese Army on the tiny island of Peleliu, one of the 300 islands that make up the Republic of Palau about 1,000 miles east of the Philippines. U.S. Navy Aviation Ordinanceman First Class Anthony Di Petta, 24, was…
Women Shredding the Parks
On Saturday and Sunday, people who identify as female are invited to learn some fresh tips, rip some new tricks and soak up the freestyle fun with two snowboard slopestyle athletes, Jade Thurgood and Zoe Kelapos. The Women’s Progression Sessions multi-day programming at Mt. Bachelor will unite female athletes and create a space for women…
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11 Years of The Workhouse ▶ [With Video]
This weekend, The Workhouse celebrates its 11th year of cultivating a welcoming, sustainable, creative, collaborative space for makers and buyers. Everyone is invited to the party this Saturday. With local art, sales, live music, pop-ups, creative cocktails and more, attendees will be able to show their love and enjoy the night. The open studios will…
Case Dismissed for Oregon Public Defenders?
On March 15 the executive director of Public Defender of Marion County, Shannon Williams, asked to withdraw from a case at the Marion County Circuit Court, saying the public defense agency had too many cases to adequately represent their clients, breaching the American Bar Association’s ethical standards. “When a public defender says to a judge,…
