In its nearly 30-year history, TED has built a distinguished collection of stories from the world’s best thinkers, inventors and doers discussing what they do best—thinking, inventing and doing. Bill Clinton, Jane Goodall, Malcolm Gladwell, Richard Dawkins and Bill Gates, along with thousands of others, have presented for TED. Sharing their experience in bite-size nuggets […]
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Following Whistler’s Footsteps
Looks like a go for Bachelor’s mega-improvements
(April 8) UPDATE: The forest service has confirmed that no appeals were received by mail. Mt. Bachelor is officially free to move forward with improvements beginning Monday, April 8. Downhill mountain biking has long been the missing element in Bend’s bike-topia scene. Management at Mt. Bachelor knows it and, for years has been in talks […]
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Forget the Sequels and Go to the Source
With the disappointing remake of Evil Dead, stay home, roll back the clock to the Golden Era of horror films, forget that these films spawned any sequels and stream one of the originals. It is easy to forget that The Exorcist (1973) isn’t actually just about heads twisting 360 degrees and vomit splatter, but actually […]
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Bend’s Blues
Northside Bar and Grill brings together two generations of rock-and-roll
Video poker machines light up the back of the room, and a deep-fryer chugs away filling the air with the smell—and feel—of grease. Sandwiched between beer signage, neatly framed autographed Michael Jordan and John Paxson jerseys hang on the wall. On a recent Tuesday night, two of Bend’s most seasoned musicians, the incomparable Bobby Lindstrom […]
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Eat Up
Operalicious feeds an aria-starved Bend
Since the closure of the nonprofit volunteer-run Obsidian Opera Company five years ago, Bend has been in an opera lull. Fear not Opera-fanatics, Operalicious, in partnership with The Rotary Club of Bend and End Polio Now, are bringing back a fun-infused sampler platter of favorite mini-opera bites on Saturday. For free! “The big concept behind […]
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Skate…or diy
Can Bend finally host a world class skatepark?
Zach Koepke was seven years old the first time the cops were called on him for skateboarding in Bend. At the time, Koepke (now 22) with his shaggy blond hair and outfitted in full pads, was pushing around in front of his Elk Meadow Elementary School; it seemed like a fun place to skate. It […]
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River Right
Kayakers take on one of Bend’s best runs
Boaters in Bend are used to having both flat and great Class 4+ water within a 20-minute traveling radius year-round. But it is only a few select months of the year when anything in between is ready for action. And the best stretch of Class 2+ in town: The Riverhouse Run. This weekend (organizers hope) […]
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Everything’s Bigger in Texas, Including the Music Festivals at SXSW
Top 5s from South by Southwest
Day Four. Austin, Texas. SXSW 2013. It’s midnight. I haven’t eaten a meal since the four breakfast tacos and 32 oz. PBR I slammed at a janky bodega 12 hours ago. My backpack contains a bus schedule, a bottle of sunscreen and a phone with a dead battery. I’m wearing a straw fedora and cowboy […]
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Bring out the Best
Staycations the perfect excuse to splurge
In this economy, when all of us are holding on to our purse strings a little tighter, a fancy vacation just might not be in the budget. But why take a plane, train or automobile when there is so much to do right outside your front door? Of course you will still have to cook, […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Little Bites: Ch-ch-ch-changes
A sampler platter of Bend’s
dining developments
Palate, A Coffee Bar is the new timber-and-corrugated-steel, hipster-friendly cafe that moved into Maragas’ old spot on Colorado Avenue. Owners Jodi Groteboer and Jason Rhodes were longtime employees of Portland’s storied Albina Press, a coffeehouse that has spawned several notably venues in Portland. Offering Stumptown beans, they should also have beer and wine, too (6 […]
