The Bend Fire Department reports that they are responding to a brush fire in Shevlin Park. The public is being urged to stay away. Here’s the latest from Battalion Chief Dave Howe: There is a brush fire. ¼ acre in size and growing, burning just downstream from Aspen Hall in Shevlin Park. The fire is […]
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Land Use Board upholds OSU-Cascades decisions, appeal likely
OSU-Cascades has cleared another legal hurdle, allowing the university to move forward with construction on its new 10-acre campus on Bend’s west side. That is, unless and until the opposition group Truth in Site sets another one on the track. The Land Use Board of Appeals ruled Monday to uphold the previous decisions of Bend […]
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PSA: Eat Free Donuts on National Donut Day
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming with this important message: It’s National Donut Day. Now, we know all these days are often marketing ploys to promote a product—in this case, deep fried dough with frosting, filling, sprinkles, and other delicious accompaniments. But we are nothing if not hungry. And on this particular day, at least […]
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Friday Mixtape: ’90s-Palooza
By Josh Gross Stone Temple Pilots’ frontman Scott Weiland was just in Bend with his new group, The Wildabouts. And, Smash Mouth is coming to Oregon. Mafuggin’ Smash Mouth. And why not? It’s not like they could have anything else to do? But it makes sense. Between the rampant lumbersexuality, that new Kurt Cobain documentary […]
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Poll Shows Majority Support for OSU-Cascades Expansion
A clear majority of Bend residents surveyed support OSU-Cascades’ planned westside campus, according to a poll released today by community coalition “Now for Bend,” which supports the expansion. The poll, which surveyed 300 Bend residents in April, was conducted by GS Strategy Group with a 5 percent margin of error. It found that 59 percent […]
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Friday Mixtape: Unplugged Songs
By Josh Gross I recently watched the HBO documentary on Kurt Cobain, Montage of Heck. It’s a well-made film, offering a noisy, impressionistic window into the head of a complicated artist. But one of the things it points out is how important Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged album was, as it showed their songs had reach beyond just […]
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2015 Sisters Folk Festival Lineup: PRESS RELEASE
Press Release 2015 Sisters Folk Festival Lineup Announced Sisters, OR ~ The Sisters Folk Festival announces the artist lineup for the annual Festival, September 11-13, 2015. This is the 20th anniversary celebration of the region’s most well-respected acoustic music festival. Produced in beautiful Sisters, Oregon, where “All the Town’s a Stage,” Festival passes are $120 […]
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INTERVIEW: Orange is the New Black’s Piper Kerman talks prison reform—and who she’d want to bunk with
Tonight, Piper Kerman, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison—now a popular Netflix original series entering its third season—speaks in Bend tonight as part of the Deschutes Public Library Foundation’s Author! Author! series. I chatted with Kerman for a profile in this week’s […]
