Jun 3-9, 2010

News

• Local News

  The Welcome Wagon: Forest welcome center gets a cool reception, county resort planning update

  By Eric Flowers

  Jun 2, 2010

  
• Local News

  Soaked: a benefit from the seemingly interminable rain

  By The Source Staff

  Jun 4, 2010

  
• Local News

  Soaked-Part II: one more benefit of the seemingly interminable rain

  By The Source Staff

  Jun 6, 2010

  
• Local News

  Mount St. Helens: where were you when the mountain blew?

  By The Source Staff

  Jun 8, 2010

  
• Local News

  The Helio Sequence Tonight at the Tower

  The Helio Sequence plays tonight at the Tower Theatre in Bend, Oregon.

  By The Source Staff

  Jun 3, 2010

  
• Local News

  Rad! Why The Helio Sequence show last night was one of the best rock shows at the Tower

  The Helio Sequence stops off in Bend with Empty Space Orchestra. Check out video from the show.

  By The Source Staff

  Jun 4, 2010

  
• Local News

  Watch the Crowning of the National Moustache Champion

  Video of Larry McClure, and his longhorn-style moustache, is crowned champion.

  By The Source Staff

  Jun 8, 2010

  
• Local News

  Crime and (Eventually, Maybe) Punishment

  By The Source Staff

  Jun 3, 2010

  
• Local News

  Miniature Portland, No - Miniature LA, Sí

  By The Source Staff

  Jun 5, 2010

  

Opinion

• Editorial

  Drill Baby, Drill: A Memo to BP and Obama, cage fighting mushroom mishaps, and more!

  The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from an urban verb along a French river flowing opposite of expectation, for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly.

  By Source Weekly

  Jun 2, 2010

  
• Editorial

  Easing the Perennial Parking Pinch

  The three inevitabilities of life in Bend are death, taxes, and having a hard time finding a parking space downtown.

  By The Source Staff

  Jun 2, 2010

  
• Letters to the Editor

  The Coolest Baby EVER!

  Have you seen this smoking baby? Of course you have. You probably had to blow off all your Memorial Day weekend plans because you couldn't pull yourself away from the YouTube clip of that little pudgy bastard puffing away like he'

  By The Source Staff

  Jun 2, 2010

  
• Letters to the Editor

  A Hostile Response

  Your cynical response to John Sabo’s letter (5/20) says all I need to know about The Source Weekly.

  By Source Weekly

  Jun 2, 2010

  
• Letters to the Editor

  Blood On Our Shirts

  The Republican primary victory of Rand Paul in Kentucky for the seat of Jim Bunning who is leaving the Senate was so revealing that it merits some follow-up. Mr.

  By Source Weekly

  Jun 2, 2010

  

Culture

• Culture Features

  Opening the Doors: Teafly's "We Live Here, Too" project lets us meet our neighbors, one photo at a time

  Theresa "Teafly" Peterson arrived in Bend in 2003 when her van broke down and she decided to stick around for the winter. Around that same time, a gay man was beaten at a Bend nightclub, leading to the passage of the Bend Equal Rights Ordinance.

  By Mike Bookey

  Jun 2, 2010

  
• Culture Features

  Hair is in the air: Let it grow for the Beard and Moustache National Championships

  The life of a beard starts out as just a little stubble on a man’s face. The man thinks, perhaps I’ll just let it grow a little more, see what happens. His wife and coworkers humor him, thinking it’s just a phase.

  By Sara Roth

  Jun 4, 2010

  
• Picks

  Our Picks for 6/3 - 6/10: Beard Team USA National Beard and Moustache Championships, Tyrone Wells, Tommy Gaffney, The Laramie Project and more.

  Our Picks for 6/3 - 6/10: Beard Team USA National Beard and Moustache Championships, Tyrone Wells, Tommy Gaffney, The Laramie Project and more.

  By The Source Staff

  Jun 2, 2010

  

Food & Drink

• Chow

  The Other Liquid Lunch: Mother's keeps it casual on Galveston

  Between sips of any number of bountiful, fresh-squeezed smoothies, regular customers can tell you why "Juice" is Mother's middle name. Have a hankering for chocolate or need a dose of wheatgrass to get you through the afternoon?

  By Amy Belasen

  Jun 2, 2010

  
• Chow

  The Other Liquid Lunch: Mother's keeps it casual on Galveston

  Between sips of any number of bountiful, fresh-squeezed smoothies, regular customers can tell you why "Juice" is Mother's middle name. Have a hankering for chocolate or need a dose of wheatgrass to get you through the afternoon?

  By Amy Belasen

  Jun 2, 2010

  

Screen

• Film

  Just Desert: The gang swaps Berkin for burqas in the second Sex and the City movie

  Sex and the City 2 is dull and this dullness has a lot to do with the amount of time Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte spend in the desert. Within the first quarter of the film, they are swept off to Abu Dhabi on a trip that is beyond luxurious.

  By Holly Grigg-Spall

  Jun 2, 2010

  
• Film

  Dagger of Mass Deception: Prince of Persia proves that some video games are better left alone

  Joining the ranks of flicks vying for worst movie of the year award is Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Persia is like a bad combo of Pirates of the Caribbean and The Mummy.

  By Morgan P Salvo

  Jun 2, 2010

  
• Film Events

  Big Sky Country: Red Dead Redemption dreams big and nearly delivers

  One of the most frustrating things about designing a world is that someone will always come along and criticize it. The days are too long. The nights aren’t long enough. Weather patterns are erratic. The trees lack variety.

  By Source Weekly

  Jun 2, 2010

  
• Film Events

  Gay in that Way

  Look, let's get one thing clear: regularly watching Glee does not make me gay. Reading Men's Health magazine makes me gay. Thinking up increasingly convoluted high-fives to give my softball teammates makes me gay. Cut off jean sho

  By Source Weekly

  Jun 2, 2010

  

Music

• Sound Stories & Interviews

  Sasquatch! Band of Horses! Exclamation Marks!

  By The Source Staff

  Jun 2, 2010

  
• Sound Stories & Interviews

  Into the Mystic: The White Buffalo isn't scary. He's just a dark, boozy songwriting genius

  He’s a big dude. He’s massively bearded. And when he sings, he sings about drinking and fighting and losing his mind and everyone in the joint listens because it’s impossible not to.

  By Mike Bookey

  Jun 2, 2010

  

Outside

• Outside Features

  Work It, Baby: COTA Trail Report

  Welcome to the first installment of the Central Oregon Trail Alliance’s (COTA) Weekly Trail Report.

  By Source Weekly

  Jun 2, 2010