During summer in Central Oregon, event choices are numerous. Any given night of the week music, festival, art and theatre options are stacked so thick that one must spend time weighing out the possibilities. Just look at the music options for August 1: Big Head Todd and the Monsters at the Athletic Club in Bend…

 Yes the growing season is short in Central Oregon, and yes our acidic volcanic soil is great at nurturing tubers and not tomatoes, berries and the juicer side of fruits and vegetables, but that doesn’t stop the fantastic array of local farms from producing tasty items for the many farmers markets and farm to table…

  Our world is incomplete until each of us discovers what moves us–our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must listen and act on it for ourselves. To hear it, we need a positive environment that supports deep listening and truth telling. ~ Richard J. Leider While interviewing people for various stories in…

Spring fever has hit Central Oregon hard. Sunny weekends and increasingly warmer days have people strolling along the river, pumping up the tires of their cruiser bikes and thinking about what fun adventures these warmer days will bring. As I worked on our quickly expanding calendar of events for May, fantastic music shows are in…

The future of print media is a hotly debated topic. iPads and tablets are making digital magazines, newspapers and even text books into easy to read, affordable and dynamic platforms of information. As digital gets smaller, faster and cheaper, the future of print is unknown, but undeniably printed books, magazines and newspapers have a longer…

When interviewing Dorothy Freudenberg for this month’s feature article, I was struck by her statement, “I realized a subject could speak more profoundly eloquently sometimes in a different color than its given color; that allowed me to break the rules about what I thought things should be…” That got me thinking about my own subject:…

The January issue of Cascade A&E is proud to feature images from 37 local photographers in a seven page spread. After a call to art was issued to find a cover photo, we were thrilled to receive amazing images from some of Central Oregon’s finest photographers. With no theme to the request, my inbox was…

Snow has started to fall, decorations have appeared around town holiday festivities are in full swing. It must be December in Central Oregon! If holiday music is your thing, options abound around town. The Central Oregon Mastersingers kick off the month at the First Friday Art Walk on December 2 with carols at the Tower…

A few years ago I took on the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) challenge. The 50,000 word goal presents an opportunity to write for quantity during the month of November. The idea is, do away with editing censoring for 30 days just write. “When you write for quantity instead of quality, you end up getting…