It's About the Beer: Boneyard Beer has broken the mold of Bend's beer culture

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It's About the Beer: Boneyard Beer has broken the mold of Bend's beer culture

Mike Bookey

If Tony Lawrence needed a sign that his new brewery, Boneyard Beer, was going to make it, he got that the moment he checked out the backside of the warehouse in which he and his partners set up shop. When he looked in the alley behind the out-of-the-way building nestled between the Bend Parkway and Hill Street, he found hop vines snaking all over the back wall, extending over to a nearby telephone poll and reaching almost 20 feet above ground. The building where he'd be brewing beer, competing in one of the most crowded and respected markets in the country, was literally covered in hops.
“If there was a sign, that was it,” says the bearded Lawrence, standing next to the building, wearing a seasoned Trail Blazers jersey, bearing Brian Grant's number 44, and looking up at the telephone poll. This fall, he says they'll harvest the cones from the vines and brew a fresh-hop beer.

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You'll still find snow, but dust rules the day

Source Weekly

High and Dry. It is difficult to imagine that after the number of days of hot weather we've had recently there can still be snow blocking any trails, but it's true. The Metolius-Windigo trail is still blocked by snow and a few remaining downed trees that are due for cutting soon. Snow can also be found on the Kwohl Butte trail (off the South side of Mt. Bachelor) and on some parts of the 370 Road, which provides access to the Broken Top trails in the Three Sisters Wilderness area.
That said, trail clearing is progressing nicely. This is why we live in and visit Bend – the sheer volume of available single track for exploring. By mid-August, we will have access to almost 500 miles of trails within a one-hour radius of Bend. One COTA volunteer actually measured 272 miles of continuous single track accessible right from the edge of town!

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Homeboys: Horner and Decker – Bend's best at their best

Bob Woodward

A rerun of Thursday's stage of the Tour de France was on the television behind the bar as people settled onto their barstools at Three Creek Brewing in Sisters. Sipping a beer, one patron commented that it might have been neat if Lance Armstrong at least won a stage to finish his career.
The guy next to me replied, pointing at the television set, “Yea, but hey, Lance's teammate, our local guy, is doing really well.”

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Funny Ha Ha: Up close and personal with the comedienne Joan Rivers in A Piece of Work

Holly Grigg-Spall

An article in the British Guardian newspaper recently claimed “U.S. celebrities use reality cinema to fight power of gossip bloggers,” noting that the release of the documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work will be closely followed by films focused on Carrie Fisher and Billy Joel. In the world of journalism three is, they say, a trend, but this new genre of moviemaking would be better evidenced if Lindsey Lohan or Mel Gibson were to open their doors to a camera crew.
The reality format is fascinating, and feeds human curiosity in a far healthier way than the grocery store tabloid route. In A Piece of Work, Rivers sets a high standard, doling out thought-provoking insights and self-analysis with such plain honesty that it is, at times, grueling to watch. She displays her relationship with her daughter, the enduring impact of the suicide of her husband over twenty years ago and her daily round of neuroses. Yet this whole person is much more interesting than anything we can create, more intriguing than her media persona. It’s easy to see how frustrating it would be dealing with decades of over-simplified and lazy public opinion that berates you for being angry, outspoken, female and old.

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Shark Attacks: Overrated!

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For many people, this week is a lot like Christmas – unless you're Jewish, in which case it's a lot like that unpronounceable holiday you people celebrate. It's national “Shark Week” on the Discovery Channel (starting August 1) – a whopping seven days of documentaries devoted to sharks and the chunks they take out of your ass.
Now, me? I say sharks are OVERRATED. I mean, c'mon! What do sharks actually do other than amputate ass cheeks? NOT MUCH. Plus! The Discovery Channel has been hosting “Shark Week” since 1987 – the same year my mom first discovered a pube in my diaper. Isn't it time to let some other animal have a chance? Like, how about “Monkeys on Roller Skates Week”? They're adorable and hilarious, and if you stick a banana between your cheeks, I bet they'd happily bite your ass off. Or “Crocodiles on Meth Week.” You squirt some meth up in a croc's grill and laugh and laugh and laugh while they furiously clean your kitchen and reorganize your spice rack.

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An Open Letter to Weird Al

Mike Bookey

Dear Alfred “Weird Al” Yankovic,
You are playing at the Deschutes County Fair this weekend. I saw this on your website – you know, the one with all the bright colors and wacky photos of you confusedly looking at the camera as if to say, “Hey, what's goin' on here?” Speaking of photos, remember when you had a moustache, glasses and looked like a guy who owned a windowless van? I liked those photos more than I like the updated ones in which you look more like the inordinately tall woman who taught me piano lessons.
Anyway, thanks for making our fair one of the many fairs at which you're playing family friendly music and/or making people laugh. You've made me laugh over the years and I thought “Smells Like Nirvana” was really cool when I was in fourth grade and hadn't started listening to actual Nirvana music yet. When I heard the real song a year later, it sure sounded depressing. That Kurt Cobain was not funny at all. Also, how about UHF, that was a crazy movie, man. By the way, where can I get a VHS copy of that?

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Salt in the Wound: Generic action thriller's only saving grace is Jolie's toughness

Morgan P Salvo

Angelina Jolie kicks ass! Angelina Jolie chucks hand grenades! Angelina Jolie doesn't adopt any kids or grimace with Brad Pitt! There you go; that's essentially what happens in Salt.
Apparently Tom Cruise dropped out of the project and the filmmakers rewrote this Salt thing for Jolie. Too bad, when a movie is this awful you sort of expect someone like Cruise to be in it. It used to be that when a plot was so luridly far-fetched it was a bad thing, but now we've been subjected to so much pedestrian crap that expectations have shifted. Opening up the potential floodgates with a PG-13 rating, mainstream filmmakers churn this stuff out and people unquestioningly accept it.

Posted inFood & Drink

The Bagel Stop Remix: Breakin' records at Rockin' Daves Bagel Bistro

Amy Belasen

You know how when you're looking at a car to buy, say a Honda or a Subaru, you'll suddenly notice how many people have that same car out on the road? I always find that a little curious. A similar experience led to this week's review. My friend Dave said he was coming into town, a Crazy Dave's ginger beer appeared in my fridge, my sister named her rescued cat David and I accidentally stepped on my favorite Dave Matthews CD. So perhaps it was foreshadowing or slightly serendipitous that I was assigned to review Rockin' Daves Bagel Bistro, owned by not one, but two Daves: Dave Flier and David Cohen.
Most of us know the story – Bagel Stop on Greenwood, owned by Flier and Cohen, burned down. That was last September, four days before their two-year anniversary. The outpouring of support from local businesses was immediate and genuine as restaurant owners rushed over in sweatpants asking how they could lend a hand. Flier describes the intense sense of belonging that he discovered in the wake of the fire, “I never knew what community was until this happened. To me, this is the best part of Bend.”

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