Weaving Back to Roots
Artist Sara Siestreem has several jobs, no cell phone and no car, allowing her to focus intently on what she cares about most.
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First Look at Official Designs for James Beard Public Market
Today, 1859 Magazine got the first look at the official designs for the James Beard Public Market (JBPM). Director of the JBPM project, Ron Paul, released the renderings, and the result is breathtaking. Plans for the new downtown food hub and cultural center have been fifteen years in the making and tomorrow’s JBPM Grand Reveal at OMSI will highlight the details of the designs.
Bend Luthier Andrew Mowry Crafts Custom Instruments
The life of a luthier tells a story of discipline, detail and patience, in a world that is increasingly bent on instant gratification.
Golden Collaboration
Brown Cannon III and K.C. Lockrem’s are siblings who collaborate to create mixed-media art.
Wine Aging
There are those of us who have indulged in the fantasy of having a personal wine cellar. One that’s full to the rafters of dusty old wine bottles. Next comes the anxiety of how long we would age each one until it’s coaxed into perfection, and the fantasy becomes overwhelming and drifts away. While not all wines are made for aging, the ones that are made to age likely don’t need the years of storage or the precise conditions we fret over to reach their full and delicious potential.
The Hunt for Spring Mushrooms
It’s early spring and the old-growth forests of Oregon are ripe with prized wild mushrooms hiding in plain sight. A simple walk through an area dense with trees might be the home to hundreds of different varieties of fungi. From spring kings to morels to oysters, wild mushrooms thrive in the wet and warming weather of a changing season.
CollaBEERation Makes the Pint Glass Stronger
To mark its thirtieth anniversary, Portland’s Widmer Brothers Brewing celebrated the milestone by co-composing a series of collaboration beers with five fellow Oregon breweries. Among the collaborators was their kid brother, Deschutes Brewery in Bend, which is still one of the state’s most veteran beer makers. Widmer’s pre-Hefeweizen flagship, Widmer Alt, was mixed with Deschutes’s pre-Mirror Pond workhorse, Bachelor Bitter. Then they aged it in whiskey barrels for good measure. The project demonstrates that while craft brewers are ostensibly competitors tussling for shelf space and draft lines in the same market, wort is thicker than water.
Portland Band Creates a Folk-Influenced Orchestral Sound
Though this iteration of Alameda has been playing together for only a year, the maturity and melding of the band’s orchestral arrangements stitch seamlessly.
Humm Kombucha
KOMBUCHA—a fermented tea first sipped by the Chinese in the Qin Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago—is ripe with legend: Did it really give samurai warriors their swag? Was it Ghengis Khan’s on-the-road-again beverage of choice? Did it save the life of gulag-bound Alexander Solzhenitsyn? Here’s a fact: The kombucha market in the United States is exploding, poised for $600 million in sales this year, according to Inc. magazine. One of the most successful brewers is Bend’s Humm Kombucha. Cofounder Jamie Danek credits a twenty-year-old recipe, Bend culture—and “magical fairy dust.”
