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Huffing and Puffing

Citizen group’s challenge to OSU-Cascades a bit too quick on the litigious trigger
Dave Cantor

Becky Johnson, vice president of Oregon State University-Cascades, says she wants to be a good neighbor. As the lead proponent for the university’s expansion to a full-service, four-year college, that sentiment has placed her on the frontline with neighbors. And, since last April, the university has convened a board of community members the school calls […]

Posted inOutside

Do Men and Women Bike Differently?

Bend’s Bella Cyclists turn 10
Sarah Helen More

Two years ago, Sheri Fayal, a transplant from San Diego to Bend, began mountain biking with her husband. Although she struggled on much of the terrain, her passion for the sport gradually began to take hold. Moreover, as much as she enjoyed riding with her husband, she longed to find a group to share her […]

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Calm Like a Bomb

The Rocket fires on all cylinders
Avatar photo Jared Rasic

During the Vietnam war, Laos became the most bombed country in history. Two million tons of bombs were dropped between 1964 and 1973, including 260 million cluster munitions. An estimated 30 percent of that ordinance never detonated, and to this day Laotians are still maimed and killed by the bombs every year. Director Kim Mordaunt […]

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Righteously Insane

Darren Aronofsky’s Noah is a big, beautiful manic episode
Vince Mancini

Noah isn’t for everyone, but it’s a perfect movie for those of us who believe obsession is a certain kind of genius. Darren Aronofsky’s obsession? His impossible task? Making sense of the Bible. Noah’s story is simple enough, if you leave out the details, which I imagine many true believers would suggest that you do. […]

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Down the Rabbit Hole

Artist of the Month Mark Rogers paints dark dreamscapes
Avatar photo Brianna Brey

Portland-based oil painter Mark Rogers is the master of the button-up, dark and disturbed. His images are vivid: a maggot-topped hotdog ready to be devoured by a pupil-less boogieman in a bolo tie and a top hat; swamp monsters preaching to hoodie-clad teens; the universe condensed into a birdhouse presented by a button-eyed ringmaster. He […]

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Demon Barbers of Punk

Any way you slice it, Portland’s Back Alley Barbers are a bloody good rock band
Avatar photo Ethan Maffey

Somewhere, Stephen Sondheim is kicking himself for not crafting his murderous musical Sweeney Todd as a gothic rock production featuring the Portland death punk band Back Alley Barbers. With a website spattered in blood from straight edged razors, and press shots of the members in an actual barbershop featuring alluring yet deadly grins, the costumed […]

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M.C. Full Blown Genius

Atelier 6000’s Escher exhibit stuns
Avatar photo Jared Rasic

When looking at an original Escher work, hanging on a wall a foot away, it is impossible to oversell it. The shading is so precise and the lines are haltingly delicate, yet so strong and breathlessly assured that being in the same room as those prints is akin to existing in a state of perpetual […]

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Fair Notice

Music festivals start questioning city and county permit process
Dave Cantor

“Bend should be a fun place to live,” said city councilmember Victor Chudowsky. He is discussing a brewing storm as the city and county consider whether the decades-old processes for issuing permits to music festivals fits into the area’s lively summer schedule of outdoor events. Over the past several months, several smaller festivals have run […]

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Bubbling Up

Kombucha Mama steps into the spotlight with rebranding
Avatar photo Erin Rook

As Bend continues to grow its reputation as a beer town, two local women are putting the city on the map for a different kind of brewed beverage: kombucha. When Jamie Danek and Michelle Plantenberg started Kombucha Mama in 2009—just a few years after the 2,000-year-old effervescent fermented tea started to be produced commercially—they brewed […]

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Adrift in a Sea of Speculation

City Club presents a one-year-later look at Mirror Pond; let’s hope we’re not in the same boat one year from now.
Avatar photo Phil Busse

Early Thursday morning, a crane appeared at the contested dam. It was the latest indicator that, in case anyone was questioning, the dam is broken. Large steel plates were placed, like giant bandaids, by Pacific Power over the leaks, in what increasingly seems like an uphill (downstream?) battle to patch up the aging dam, and […]

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