Everyone is in a hurry. We swallow our food whole and consider the stop sign a suggestion. We don’t have time to say goodbye, we’re late, we’re late, we’re late. Our quality time goes to the computer, where we work till our eyes bleed pixels. The sun is that thing that makes us draw the blinds to keep the glare off the screen.  And that is why I’m so worked up: we must take time to ... [full story]

Listen: Kurt Vonnegut has come unstuck in time. The American novelist, short-story writer, essayist and would-be curmudgeon died recently at 84 - the age at which he dispatched his fictional alter ego, Kilgore Trout - several weeks after suffering head trauma from a fall.   Kurt Vonnegut Fans will recognize the first line, above, as a variation on a line from "Slaughterhouse-Five," Vonnegut's masterpiece. His protagonist, Billy Pilgrim - "unstuck in time" - ricochets from childhood to ... [full story]

If a bass could build its ideal habitat, the specs would be something like this: shallow water, in or near heavy cover with quick access to deep water nearby. While the nearby deep-water access is good news for anglers (you need some place to float your boat), pulling bass out of water in or near heavy cover can pose some access problems.   Larry Nixon is a former Bassmaster Classic champion with more than $2 million in ... [full story]

En­gi­neers are de­sign­ing a new breed of plan­e­tary ex­plor­ers: ti­ny, shape-shift­ing de­vices that ride the wind like dust par­t­i­cles and al­so to com­mu­ni­cate, fly in for­ma­tion and take sci­en­tif­ic mea­sure­ments.The specks might even be the first ex­plor­ers from Earth to vis­it plan­ets out­side our so­lar sys­tem, the de­sign­ers claim. A “smart” dust par­t­i­cle would con­sist of a com­put­er chip about a millimeter wide en­cased in a pol­y­mer ma­te­ri­al that wrin­kles or smooth’s out when elec­tri­cal­ly ... [full story]

BEND, Ore. - BendFilm, Wahoo Films and Pinnacle Event Media Services are pleased to sponsor the third annual Future Filmmakers Festival, to be held at 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 3 at the Summit High School Auditorium.  This year the Future Filmmakers Festival collected more than 60 entries from high schools across the state and will select approximately 20 films for the festival screening.  The films range in length from one to ten minutes and ... [full story]

NEW RELEASES   'HOT FUZZ' - Simon Pegg plays Sgt. Nicholas Angel in the comedy cop movie 'Hot Fuzz.' CNS Photo courtesy of Matt Nettheim. HOT FUZZ - Cuteness needs to stay cute. Turning blatant, it crams in cutes like "Hot Fuzz." Of course, the title of this British comedy indicates that we will not get another "Kind Hearts and Coronets." And the Brits do have a tradition of broad comedy, as anyone can attest who knows ... [full story]

Cuteness needs to stay cute. Turning blatant, it crams in cutes like "Hot Fuzz."   'HOT FUZZ' - Simon Pegg and Nick Frost play British officers in the comedy movie 'Hot Fuzz.' CNS Photo courtesy of Matt Nettheim. Of course, the title of this British comedy indicates that we will not get another "Kind Hearts and Coronets." And the Brits do have a tradition of broad comedy, as anyone can attest who knows of Benny Hill or ... [full story]

Q: There's a small space off the downstairs hall in our old Victorian that we'd like to turn into a half-bath - the house was built circa 1899, with only one bath upstairs. The trouble is this little room is taller (at nearly 12 feet) than it is wide (just under 8 feet). What should we do so it doesn't feel like you're "in the bottom of a well?" A: Two quick tips: 1. Do ... [full story]

THE CHEF With broiled salted fish, Japanese pickles and rice for dinner one night, and homemade ravioli and monicotti the next, Jeffrey Stout learned the meaning of eclectic cuisine at the family table. He has his Asian-born mother to thank. "I didn't really realize that I wasn't eating differently than anyone else until high school," the San Francisco Bay area-raised chef said with a laugh. "My mother wanted to be as American as possible. She ... [full story]

Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit never knew what hit him. Not only was that cute little bunny turned inside out, but so was Wonderland itself when Grace Slick wrote a song called "White Rabbit" back in 1966 for her band, the Great Society. Slick's song, which became a musical icon of the psychedelic era and a hit for her subsequent band, the Jefferson Airplane, was more about Alice than about the rabbit she follows down a ... [full story]