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Tour de France: Tart's French fusion fare finds a welcome and waiting audience

Amy BelasenJuly 21, 2010January 4, 2023

When 28 closed this spring, I shared the sentiments of friends who'd felt broken up with and betrayed. How could one of the best spots to grab a martini and a flatbread pizza be sold out from under a group of loyal patrons? Left to find another hip night spot, I was in a daze.
Fitting in someplace else proved difficult. Astro has martinis but the atmosphere is different. 900 Wall has a slightly older crowd and Amalia's seems to cater to a younger crowd. It felt like an effort for me to fit in elsewhere and a series from Blockbuster with a bag of popcorn began to seem more my speed. Just as I was about to give in to another season of United States of Tara, Tart Bistro announced their opening in the old 28 location. Instantly intrigued, I waited for what couldn't have come soon enough (and really did emerge as if overnight), the opening of Tart, with its promise of a French-based, globally inspired eatery and libation destination.
Decidedly different from 28 while still catering to a similar late night drinking and dining crowd, Tart Bistro picks up where 28 left off. Corey Donovan and Amy Christensen are the husband-and-wife team behind the latest fusion spot in Bend – this one of French countryside and Pacific Northwest cuisine. The décor is fun, the servers are friendly. The centerpiece of 28, the beautiful custom bar, remained intact – a welcome home for me after a month in limbo. I breathed a sigh of relief and hoped the food would be good. After a hit-and-miss lunch, a recent dinner won me over with food, atmosphere and service.

Opinion

Floyd Landis? Really?

Source WeeklyJuly 21, 2010April 7, 2024

In looking at the preview coverage of the now-underway Cascade Cycling Classic, we saw the name Floyd Landis listed among the competitors. This couldn't be that Floyd Landis, the guy who was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France win after he was found to have been doping? Yup, it certainly is and he's riding solo without a team.

Culture

Coming Home: First-time author Sarahlee Lawrence travels the world and finds a new life… on her parents' farm

Sara RothJuly 21, 2010June 22, 2025

“I'd never grown a vegetable before. I didn't even eat a green vegetable until I was 18,” says Sarahlee Lawrence while petting her snow peas and lettuces in her thriving greenhouse at Rainshadow Organics, the vegetable farm she started last year in Terrebonne.

Outside

Above It All: High Elevation riding is wide open

Source WeeklyJuly 21, 2010July 20, 2024

During the hottest time of the year in Central Oregon some people would rather find activities that don't involve breathing a lot of dust while dodging mosquitoes. For the dedicated mountain biker these are trivial concerns but for others the call of the Coast or the lakes is too great to resist. That's OK. There are still trails with less of a dust problem and/or fewer mosquitoes, if you know where to go.
It goes without saying the mosquito count in the Cascade Lakes area is “strong”. One crew leader recently reported on a scale of 1-10 the mosquitoes were an “11.” Again the relationship to water here is key. Places like Cultus Lake, Waldo Lake and Lava Lake are notorious for bugs – the best thing is to keep moving or avoid those areas until later in the year.

Outside

Working With a Surplus : Nature's creatures will survive… or at least most of them will

Jim AndersonJuly 21, 2010January 4, 2023

The photo above that Dick Tipton shot of the Osprey getting hammered by a Western Kingbird is the epitome of what lengths small birds go to in order to protect their home and family from larger birds, whether the threat is real or not.
There is no way anyone could convince the energetic kingbird that the osprey means no harm. To a small bird with an open nest – such as kingbirds use – larger birds mean trouble as they carry off nestlings and eat them.

Outside

How We Roll: Going through the gears of Central Oregon's cycling scene

Michelle MercerJuly 21, 2010October 28, 2023

July in Central Oregon has cyclists of all affinities putting rubber to pavement and dirt. While I shuddered to see the well-meaning father pulling his toddler up Skyliners Road in a bike trailer a few days ago, mostly I am giddy to see so many people riding bikes of all kinds for so many reasons. True bike love.

Culture

A Good Night's Sleep:The Dark Knight director is back to break the run of bad summer movies with Inception

Holly Grigg-SpallJuly 21, 2010January 4, 2023

One of my personal problems with Facebook is that I have a lot of other reviewers as friends, meaning that when they see a movie long before its release, they often can't help but make their opinion known. One such friend, Ali Catterall, wrote of Inception: “It. Is. Awful. (I will, of course, be one of perhaps three critics offering this verdict. The rest of the lazy sheep can bleat all they like about its perceived triumphs.” And as I normally find myself agreeing with him – most recently about the rubbish-ness of Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland for example – I was readied to not like Christopher Nolan's follow-up to 2008's smash hit, The Dark Knight.
Sometimes when everyone says a movie is good, it's because it actually is, but experience tells us that blockbusters are rarely as exciting as their trailers suggest. The cause-effect graph states the more money spent, the more rubbish the story will be. Summer blockbusters also set a particular challenge for the reviewer, as essentially no one cares whether you like them or not, most will go regardless – unlike with a small independent film that you can potentially introduce to vast numbers, it would otherwise pass by.

Culture

My Rejected Mad Men Script

Source WeeklyJuly 21, 2010April 28, 2024

GUYS! I must confess I'm purrrrr-ty disappointed in the creators of Mad Men right now. Not that I dislike the show… in fact, the boner alert in my pants reached orange (the most boner-ific color) after learning the season premiere of Mad Men debuts this week (AMC, Sun July 25, 10 pm). In fact, my boner is so inflated, I have to wear cargo shorts for the morbidly obese just so I can go outside! (Unfortunately, that still doesn't stop my boner from accidentally smashing shop windows whenever I happen to turn around.)
So why am I so disappointed in Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner? Because for reasons too mind-boggling to comprehend, Weiner has REJECTED my script for a season four episode! I KNOW, RIGHT?

Food & Drink

Adam Schell, Chef/Author, Hosts Cooking Classes at Allyson’s Kitchen

The Source StaffJuly 21, 2010August 16, 2023

The author of Tomato Rhapsody, Adam Schell, who happens to also be local and a chef, will be teaching a cooking series beginning July 21 at Allyson’s Kitchen in the Old Mill. In the first of weekly lessons, Adam will teach participants how to make some of the meals/recipes found in his book.

Culture

All Roar and No Score: As in real life, this Tiger is less than perfect

Source WeeklyJuly 21, 2010January 4, 2023

I'm not Mario. I need to make my shots seriously stronger if I want to send the ball sailing over the sand dunes and water ponds that look like they were salvaged from an overhaul of Everquest. In order to strengthen my swings, improve my putt and increase all of those other golf statistics, I need to spend experience points. But those same experience points also unlock the clothes that I wear. I must chose between spending experience points on better golf skills or a new pair of shoes. In the world of Tiger Woods, it's not easy to be both well dressed and a good golfer.
Mario, that little tricky marionette, always has kid-friendly button pushing and timing games to rely on in his easy-access sports franchises. (He hasn't yet proven that he's mastered motion-sensitive golf for the Wii.) Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 makes every swing a tense moment of immobile precision. The left thumbstick controls the golf club's swing backwards and forwards, and in that meager half inch of motion every deviation to the left or right is deducted from the overall power and accuracy of the swing.

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