The High Desert Museum illuminates luminescence The slowly pulsating fireflies floating across the grass, the soft glow of some fungi carpeting the forest floor and the wondrous gleam of a mid-ocean sea creature all have one thing in common: bioluminescence. Catching sight of any one of...
Shakespeare in the Park What light from yonder window breaks? ‘Tis Shakespeare in the Park performed by the Northwest Classical Theatre Company. The Portland-based thespian troupe will fill the Central Oregon air with three performances of Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors this summer. The 5th annual cultural event...
Bend's Urban Growth Boundary challenges Who can forget the late Oregon Governor Tom McCall’s famous 1971 no-growth plea to non-Oregonians: “We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven’s sake, don’t move here to live. Or if you...
An insider's view of the outdoors I have a confession to make. Though I have lived in Bend for almost five years now, I’m more of an inside gal. I’m not what you would call “outdoorsy.” In my limited experience, outdoorsy types actually enjoy being in the...
A seemingly endless sea of sagebrush stretches across the broad Fort Rock basin south of Bend, broken here and there by upthrust rimrock, eroded volcanic buttes and a few widely scattered ranch buildings dwarfed by an unbelievably expansive sky. But hidden beneath and among the tall sagebrush...