Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie is not easy theater. The play forces its audience members to step into a family life so intimate and revealing that it can shed light on our own situations we might not be comfortable examining. It is easy to draw comparisons to one’s own familial relationships and either find ourselves […]
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Not Quite a Wash-Out
Rain and local controversy threaten national cyclocross races
Cyclocross is a messy sport, one in which riders seem to thrive on dust and dirt, and when it rains, mud and slop. But there is apparently a limit to just how messy a race can be. Last week, the annual Cyclocross National Championships were scheduled to be held in Zilker City Park in Austin, […]
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The Dolce & Gabbana-logues
Love, Loss and What I Wore opens at 2nd Street
Love, Loss and What I Wore is a gutsy proposition of a play. It focuses exclusively on stories of women, some hilarious, some bittersweet and heartbreaking, all told through the outfits and accessories they wore at the time. It is simply staged, with images of some of the dresses projected around the cast of five […]
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Dying to DIY
Kent Ueland of The Terrible Buttons takes on solo songwriting
Last year wasn’t a good one for Kent Ueland. But as 2015 emerges, so does his first ever solo record—and perhaps that will make some artistic sense of the wasteland of the previous year. The former songwriter and bandleader of Spokane-staple The Terrible Buttons presents, Do it Yourself, which consists of songs based on what […]
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Class is in Session
Freshman Rep. Knute Buehler says he’s ready to work
In preparation for his first term in Salem as the representative for Oregon’s House District 54, Knute Buehler found an apartment to stay in for the six-month legislative session, attended orientation meetings, and has made new friends. “I feel like I’m going to college again,” the freshman representative says over coffee and an ocean roll. […]
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A Missing Food Cart
Unique to Bend, Korean food is a great addition
Three bites into the Bibimbap from Num-Nums Food Cart, and I had already declared it one of the best food carts in town. Relatively new, Num-Nums opened two months ago, on Armistice Day, November 11—and adds an important, previously missing piece to the food scene in Bend: Korean food. As we pulled into the small […]
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One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Outfit
Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show turns five
The rules are simple for Bend’s Rubbish Renewed Fashion Show, a trash-to-treasure design contest and benefit for Rimrock Expeditionary Alternative Learning Middle School (REALMS): use garbage. Using repurposed materials, students, alongside amateur and professional designers, are asked to create runway quality outfits in the style of “Project Runway’s” unconventional materials challenges. Entries are labeled Trash-fashion […]
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Gotta Try ‘Em All
Don’t leave Bend’s food carts out in the cold
Bend’s food cart scene was on the rise in 2014. Case in point: Former food cart turned brick-and-motor restaurant Spork and Bend’s first food cart pod, The Lot, were both positively reviewed in a little newspaper known as The New York Times. Throughout the city, dozens of carts scattered around town (granted mostly on the […]
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Don’t Look So Woebegone
Members of Larry and His Flask return with new side project
What’s an underemployed musician to do when—after 10-years, five full-length albums, and hundreds of thousands of miles driving every direction on every highway in the US, Canada and Europe—he and his band decide to take a yearlong break? Guitarist and vocalist of Larry and His Flask, Ian Cook, and the rest of the band are […]
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The Forest for the Trees
Sen. Wyden talks natural resources at year’s first town hall
If the questions fielded by Sen. Ron Wyden last Friday are any indication, Central Oregonians are concerned about the environment and the economy, and how to strike a balance between what appear to be competing interests. In his first town hall of 2015, the Democratic senator spoke to a standing room-only crowd of about 200 […]
