God bless Greta Gerwig, and not just for her own terrific gifts. Greenberg, her first personal and professional collaboration with director Noah Baumbach, proved to be a fantastic match, most notably in how her loopy carbonation as a performer seemed to shake the filmmaker from an increasingly caustic, none-more-bleak path. (I firmly believe Baumbach’s Margot […]
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Farmers’ Market Blooms Again
The Wednesday night market is open now through October
Starting on June 3, Bend’s Wednesday Farmers’ Market once again filled the Brooks Street Alley with a cornucopia of Central Oregon’s agricultural richesse. Running until October 14, Bendites can make the weekly pilgrimage to the promenade of pop-up tents overflowing with richly colored carrots, tomatoes, beets, lettuce, potatoes, peppers, and cucumbers, and take the opportunity […]
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Artist of the Month: Kathy Deggendorfer
Stitching the natural order with her brush
For the painter of nature scenes, travel can be a genuine muse. Sisters’ Kathy Deggendorfer brings scenes of Oregon’s dramatic beauty across the world and finds inspiration. Deggendorfer’s water color designs have been part of the Central Oregon art scene since she moved to Sisters in 1994 from Bend. She grew up in Portland but […]
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Meekoh Evolved
From busking in the breezeway to singing for the President
From singing worship songs with a group of friends from church in Boise, to busking in the breezeway in downtown Bend, to turning down “The Voice” because he didn’t need it, Meekoh has come a long way in his musical career and it’s only just begun. Don’t recognize the name Meekoh? Perhaps the name Michael […]
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The Cobalt Reboot
The restaurant formerly known as Dojo says buh-bye to bro-vibe
When Boken opened some four years ago, it was a welcome addition to downtown dining. Justin Cook, owner of the popular westside sushi house Kanpai, brought high quality and thoughtful Japanese dishes to the restaurant, as well as an impressive flight of top shelf drinks, all rolled into approachable and urbane sophistication. Adjacent to the […]
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Persona Non Grata
City Council votes 5-2 to expand downtown exclusion zone
As the weather heats up, so too does crime. And this summer, the Bend Police Department is hoping to nip bad behavior in the bud with an expansion of the city’s civil exclusion zone. But the move, which would allow police to ban individuals cited or arrested for certain crimes from the downtown area, is […]
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Old Gold
Iris’ life lessons in style
Growing old has never looked as wonderful as it does on Iris Apfel. The 93-year-old is a style icon—so much so that the Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted an exhibition of her personal wardrobe in 2005. A retired textile mogul and interior designer who tweaked the White House for nine different presidents, Apfel’s style is […]
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Who Is This Scott Weiland Guy?
Oh, him!
As with Batman movies and ecstasy, I apparently missed out on the past 20 years of another cultural force, Scott Weiland, who is scheduled to appear in town with his band The Wildabouts at the Century Center, that pavilion space sprawling between GoodLife Brewing and Volcanic Theatre Pub. Oh, sure, I know the name Stone […]
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Serving Time, Serving Truth
“Orange is the New Black” author Piper Kerman speaks in Bend
After graduating with a theater degree from an elite women’s college in the early 1990s, Piper Kerman was looking for excitement. She found it in a girlfriend who took her to exotic locales across the globe—and just happened to smuggle drugs. When Kerman’s relatively minor role in those illicit transactions caught up with her a […]
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Reinventing The Bicycle Wheel
Knight Composites combines enthusiasm and technology for a new wheel design
“We’re in this because we love cycling, because we have faith in the people we work with and a passion for innovation,” responds Bend resident Beverly Lucas when asked why she wanted to start Knight Composites, a world-class cycle wheel company in an industry already saturated with cycling companies producing products and components. That enthusiasm […]
