Single Track Trail Riding Etiquette It seems to me that trail riding etiquette needs to be emphasized, now that single track bikers are out in number. This issue becomes all the more important as the lower trails become seasonally crowded, but the same issues apply to the upper trails. I ride at an intermediate plus […]
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Oregon Adaptive Sports Athletes Race Pole Pedal Paddle
The 40th annual PPP expects 3,000 competitors
The annual Pole, Pedal, Paddle is a part of Bend’s outdoor DNA. Organized by the Mt. Bachelor Sports Education Foundation, this year’s multi-sport event—the 40th annual—will take place on Saturday, May 21. Last year the number of participants was down from previous years because of a lack of snow, resulting in a shortened Nordic event. […]
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Swanky & Sustainable
Bangarang food cart offers mobile elegance in cuisine
There is a certain kind of raw edge and hip vibe that is synonymous with food carts. Bangarang opened its mobile doors the first week of April, created by Dave and Amy Bodi, a husband and wife team joining talents to create a food cart that focuses on locally sourced high end dishes. “For us […]
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Liquid Poetry
Ale Apothecary brings the love to Central Oregon Beer Week
Paul Arney, head chemist at The Ale Apothecary, treats the local movement seriously. Very seriously. “As far as I know, I’m the only brewer in Oregon who can truly say they only use ingredients grown in Oregon,” he said over some beers at his Cellar Joint. This is the barrel aging facility he and fellow […]
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High Desert Museum
Open ’til Dark Dance
Open 'til Dark is a 1930s dance at the High Desert Museum with a live jazz band, dance lessons and tastings from Oregon Spirits Distillers. It's a rare way to pass a Friday evening, with admission just $7 ($3 for members), and a chance to dance and explore the museum and its latest exhibits after […]
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Growing Apart Together
“The Last Five Years” deconstructs a marriage
“The Last Five Years,” at 2nd Street Theater, was written by Jason Robert Brown and premiered in Chicago in 2001, eventually moving Off-Broadway in 2002. That year the show won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics and was nominated for several more awards. Most recently, in 2014, Richard Lagravenese (“P.S. I Love […]
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Magic Realism Grows by Leaps and Bounds
Author! Author! welcomes with Alice Hoffman
The final award-winning literary artist featured in the 2015/16 Author! Author! series is New York Times best-selling author Alice Hoffman, who will speak Thursday, May 26 at Bend High at 7 p.m. The series began in October and included non-fiction, creative fiction, historical fiction and memoir authors, starting with Timothy Egan, 61, a Pulitzer Prize-winning […]
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Rethinking City Council
Though City Council duties, meetings, committees, and hearings require 45 to 55 hours per week to fulfill, Bend City Councilors are considered volunteers, have no administrative support staff and receive no benefits. The archaic notion of an unpaid mayor and city council is not in step with the times within the paradigm of the exponential […]
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Finding the Right Offering Price
Bend is a seller’s market, so buyers often wonder what is an appropriate offer on a home, particularly when competing offers are likely, which is increasingly common nowadays. This past week, the April real estate statistics for Bend were released, and according to the Beacon Report, the median sales price rose to $365,000, with a […]
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‘Money Monster’ a Forgettable Facsimile of the Real Beast
Too little too late in Foster’s new flick
“Money Monster” is many things but subtle isn’t one of them. The film is well-paced, decently acted, deeply cynical and yet, unbelievably dumb, sometimes simultaneously. The script is somewhat timely while also being so specific to a fictional company and financial catastrophe that it doesn’t say quite as much about the real world as one […]
