Miss Tess isn’t a traveling schoolteacher with a nasty class of disobedient students, the Talk Backs. Rather, the Brooklyn, NY, musician is a smooth-singing troubadour, influenced by only the best blues and country-western virtuosos. Her most recent album, The Love I Have For You, is a tribute of sorts to those formative musicians featuring six […]
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I’ve Never…Gone Sailing
Harnessing the wind with the Hobie sailing kayak
As a child, I didn’t spend much time on boats. In fact, if you don’t count rides at Disneyland (e.g. Pirates of the Caribbean—before Johnny Depp made it sexy), I have been on a boat maybe five times in my entire life. Few enough, at least, that each experience can be prefaced by, “That one […]
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May You Never Have Scurvy Again
Laughing Planet opens in Bend
It’s about time Bend got a Laughing Planet. The Portland-based healthful food chain, beloved by Portlanders and Eugenians (is that right? Eugeners, Ducks?), for its long list of nutritious nourishing options, affordable price point and goofy vibe. All those merits seem like perfect additions to our active, creative, food-loving culture. For the uninitiated, Laughing Planet […]
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Romancing the Train
Quasar Wut-Wut score Buster Keaton’s The General
The most expensive scene in silent film history belongs to Buster Keaton’s The General, the highly acclaimed locomotive obsessed caper about a man and his beloved train (and his fiancé, or whatever) at the breakout of the Civil War. The scene involved a single-take of 500 horse-mounted extras from the Oregon National Guard, a dummy […]
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What Goes Up
Mt Bachelor Downhill Bike Park gives you your dessert without having to eat your spinach!
When asked if it is cheating to have a chair lift carry your bike (and you) to the top of Mt Bachelor, and then just let gravity do the work, Mike Shannon, manager for Bend Cyclery, laughs. “Not at all,” he says. “There is still a lot of cardo and physical workout that comes along […]
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Heal the World
Nahko and Medicine for the People attempt to make it a better place
“Hoka Hey,” a Sioux battle cry loosely meaning, “Today is a good day to die,” is the motto that Nahko and the Medicine People live and play music by. They call it their own prayer of intention to take direct action and perhaps make today a better day to live. The band’s globally and politically […]
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Beyond the Garden
Taking plant-based burgers to the next level
Vegetarian burgers, while still deemed oxymoronic by the meat-loving masses, have come a long way since the patties first found their way to commercial markets about two decades ago, when what had previously been “hippie food” sidestepped into the mainstream. And yet, most sit-down burger joints have just one version (if any) available, and only […]
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Public Transit’s Uphill Climb
COIC rolls out transit education efforts
Since Oregon State University announced its plans to plot a new campus on Bend’s westside, there has been murmuring (sometimes more) about how the addition of hundreds of new students will clog the thruways stretching across town. That discussion falls at the forefront of a larger issue: the paltry offering of public transportation in Central […]
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Whatcha Doing, Candidate?
Tony DeBone sees Bend as a brand ambassador for county’s entrepreneurial climate
With a background in high-tech industries, Deschutes County Commissioner Tony DeBone thinks of himself as the “tech guy commissioner.” To that end, he hopes to use his experience and connections to bring technology jobs of all sorts to the county—bio tech, high tech renewables, large-scale manufacturing, you name it. When he’s not busy with his […]
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The Balcony is Open
Life Itself is a beautiful ride
Roger Ebert made me want to be a film critic because he loved movies as much as I did. More even. Every time he sat down to watch a film, he wanted it to be incredible. That optimism was infectious, and even as his career moved into an internet era where film criticism is too […]
