I’ve lived in Bend for a long time and seen some amazing restaurants come and go, some of which whose absence I still miss on the daily. One of those places I still miss is the Taco Stand in Old Bend off Hill Street. In college, that was one of the few places I could […]
An Old Bend Rebirth
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Chicago
James Pankow may be known as a founding member and resident trombone player/arranger/songwriter in Chicago, but for a gaggle of grandkids living on the West Coast, he’s Papa. It’s a respite he recently enjoyed before bouncing back into his aforementioned musical role as Chicago returns for its 58th year as a unit. Averaging between 80 […]
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LISTEN: Bend Don’t Break: Brian August 🎧
In this episode of Bend Don’t Break, Brian K. August shares his journey to becoming the new Executive Director of the Tower Theatre Foundation. With more than twenty years of leadership experience across nonprofits, private enterprise, and global initiatives, Brian brings a thoughtful approach to strategic growth, operational excellence, and community impact. His work with […]
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Abe Capanna’s Neighborhood Restaurant
Abe Capanna’s Detroit Pan Pizza now has a brick-and-mortar restaurant in NE Bend across from St. Charles Health System. Its food truck has been a staple at Crosscut-Warming Hut No.5 in southwest Bend. The new location on NE Cushing Drive features daily pizza slices starting at $4 including cheese, pepperoni and a rotating daily special […]
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Letters to the Editor
Re: New Leadership steps into the Tower’s Spotlight (Aug. 06) The Tower has long been a community asset that has forgotten it’s a community asset. Far too many people running the place kept it very stale. Almost exclusionary. With only plays and events the old guard approves of. It’s a travesty the theatre is not […]
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NAR Settlement Update
Many expected the National Association of Realtors (NAR) settlement to be a seismic event for the real estate industry, but a year after the rule changes went into effect, the market has remained remarkably stable. Contrary to predictions of widespread disruption, the core mechanics of buying and selling homes have largely gone on as before. […]
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A Foundation for Success
After 25 years of operating from borrowed and rented spaces, Heart of Oregon Corps is finally building a home of its own. It will break ground Sept. 10 on what will become Central Oregon’s first dedicated youth workforce development campus, says a recent press release. This will mark a major milestone for the organization’s 25-year […]
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Rod DeGeorge
A typical Rod DeGeorge concert set list is a trip: a blend of classic blues-rock guitar virtuosity — paying tribute to some of the greatest guitar gods in history — and nuanced textures of classical, fusion and world music. The stage is familiar territory for DeGeorge, who has spent more than three decades touring, recording, […]
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Naked Guns and Being Alone Together
If you want to go to the movies and watch a double feature so insanely polar opposite from each other that it factory resets your brain, then look no further than the mind-melting combination of “The Naked Gun” and “Together.” One is a gruesome, body-horror deconstruction of toxic relationships and codependency and the other is […]
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Volunteers Keep Wilderness Trails Passable
One of the nonprofit groups that is helping the Deschutes and Willamette National Forests out with trail work and signage repair is Friends of the Central Cascades Wilderness. Based in Bend, FCCW works with the USFS to protect and preserve the wilderness character of four wilderness areas in the Deschutes and Willamette National Forests. In […]