Bend on MSNBC

While I was gone, Bend apparently appeared on MSNBC in an article under their “Budget Travel” category. Titled “Portland’s quirky-chic cousin“, it’s actually not a bad article, by and by, but you just know I have to pick some of it apart. The author starts her day with breakfast at … Continue reading

Wouldn’t have seen that coming

Here’s an unusual one. The Bulletin is offering a "Deal of the Day" service to site visitors and mobile text messagers: Bendbulletin.com is pleased to offer our site users a special Deal of the Day every day from Aug. 8 through Aug. 14. The deals and merchants change daily, so … Continue reading

Deschutes County restaurant scores online

This is huge: Deschutes County is now posting restaurant inspection scores online and publicly available. Go here to see them. Every restaurant in the County—even places that are not nominally restaurants, like hotels, or small food counters in other types of establishments—is online, it looks like. You can search by … Continue reading

Bend Bulletin’s revamped website

The Bend Bulletin has rolled out their new and improved website today (announced the other day here). Overall it’s a much, much better interface, with better use of space and design and flow. The default fonts—at least on Firefox—might be a bit large for my tastes; it’s possible to be … Continue reading

Bend Living’s Best of Bend 2008

I just blogged about Gusto’s Best Of survey the other day, and now Bend Living has their Best of Bend 2008 survey up! Now all we need is The Source or KTVZ or some other sort-of-official-sounding entity to run a third "Best Of" list and it’ll be a perfect storm! … Continue reading

KTVZ takes a stab at online classifieds

I’ve been seeing ads for KTVZ "Mark It Place" online classifieds lately, and tonight finally took a look at what they’re offering. The problem, of course, with this or any other similar endeavor is the 800-pound gorilla in the room—namely, craigslist. There is simply no competing with them; not only … Continue reading

The Bulletin’s E-edition, now free with regular subscription

I was going to blog about the Bulletin‘s E-edition (online pay-to-read news) finally offering free access to paid dead-tree subscribers (which I reported as a rumor here), but there’s really nothing I can say that will top Jake’s post. So go read that instead. The headline alone is worth it.

Oregon Badlands Day of Action

A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the Badlands Brewery Crawl, an effort by the Oregon Natural Desert Association to raise awareness to get the Badlands east of Bend designated as a Wilderness Area. Now, ONDA is pushing April 1st as a "Day of Action" to further the process: … Continue reading

Rumor: The Bulletin opening up E-Edition

Tipster Stanislaw Funk today let drop that the Bulletin will soon be doing something new: offering free "E-Edition" access to subscribers of their dead-tree edition. If true, it’s a step in the right direction—when we had our Bulletin subscription I often wished I could also have online access to those … Continue reading

The Abyss… on eBay

The other day when I blogged about finding Deschutes Brewery‘s The Abyss around town, I didn’t foresee the beer showing up on eBay. At least, not so soon. Seriously. Go to eBay and type in "abyss deschutes" in the search box. I did that just now, and there’s one with … Continue reading