The building set back from a parking lot adjacent to Bond Street, behind a chain link fence, is unassuming. A door painted brick red opens into a basement level ciderblock building painted white. What had been a maintenance building for the school district has since been converted into a labyrinth of office cubicles and recording […]
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Don’t Take My Man to Oregon
Jessica Hernandez and The Deltas return to the High Desert
“I collect vinyl, my fiancé does, my dad does. I took after my dad for the collecting vinyl thing. I grew up with it and I thought it was a pretty crucial thing to have,” says sultry rock and roll singer Jessica Hernandez. “I’m always trying to stay in the vinyl game.” Last fall, Jessica […]
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Spreading its Wings
Crow’s Feet Commons regains plaza, expands into former gallery
Last August, fans of Crow’s Feet Commons were up in arms when the City declined to renew the bike/ski shop and café’s lease on a portion of the Mirror Pond Plaza in front of its building. But this summer, the City is singing a different tune. A new lease, effective June 5, grants an extension […]
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West of Eden
Slow West and the possibilities of the western
In the final frames of Slow West, the camera pauses over the bodies of all the characters that have died. In quick, static shots, the audience is reminded of every corpse—those of major characters and incidental figures alike—that contributed to the movie’s body count. That tally is substantial: Slow West is a story of guns […]
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Pickett’s Charge Storms On
A veteran mountain bike race stays young
Twenty-one years ago, Bill Clinton was midway into his first term, the first blog was launched, the global temperature was a few degrees cooler, and mountain biking was still a relatively new sport. The equipment was crude, little better than big boy dirt bikes. A few prototypes had shocks, and disc brakes were only for […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Someone’s in the Kitchen with an iPhone
FoodFu app brings cooking competitions home
A couple years ago, Lisa Sipe and her husband Jim were looking for a way to entertain family visiting for Christmas. “Everyone loves cooking,” she explains. “So we played something similar to ‘Chopped.’” In the popular Food Network show, contestants are presented with a basket of seemingly incompatible ingredients and tasked with transforming them. A […]
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Mean Streets
Cyclists say Bend’s roads are not bike-friendly
on a recent Friday, Jim Slothower was riding his bike from Bend to Redmond for a family dinner. The experienced cyclist says he was making good time, about 25 miles-per-hour along Obsidian Road, when an approaching car turned left directly in front of him. “I swerved to right to avoid head-on [collision] but went down […]
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New Beginnings in Craft
Craft Kitchen & Brewery kicks off a summer of openings
It’s a time of highly-anticipated debuts in Central Oregon’s craft scene. The new version of the Ale Trail Atlas (and App) is out. Atlas Cider Company’s new and quite large taproom and production facility in the Old Mill will have its grand-opening party on Friday night (see page 45). White Water Taphouse, a 30-line taproom […]
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They Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touched Me
Rocky Horror time warps Bend back to 1975
I’ve been a member of The Rocky Horror Picture Show fan club since 1988. I was eight years old when I found the VHS at a video store in Paradise, California, with those big, inviting lips beckoning me to take them home and discover what weird and possibly sensuous pleasures they had to share. All […]
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Still Kicking—and Running and Throwing
Oregon Senior Games bring 600 competitors to race, run, shot put, and pickleball
Florence Latter took up running later in life, much later, at the age of 79. Now 91, Latter will return to the Bend Senior Games to defend her titles in the 50 and 100 meter dash. “I don’t really do much running,” she admitted. “But, prior to the games I try to get in shape […]
