“Yes I Can Too!” Smith Says
The Eye doesn't want to appear to be picking on Gordon Smith, but he just seems to be presenting a lot of targets of opportunity this week. The latest: He's come out with a video touting how he's cooperated in the Senate with - get ready for it - Barack Obama.
Smith Cancels His Golf Date
Gordon Smith - perhaps stung by Democratic criticism of his penchant for buying ultra-expensive golf clubs and hanging out with fat-cat lobbyists - has canceled his big fundraising golf party planned for next weekend at Bandon Dunes.
The Patterson Hood Interview
Let There Be Rock!We caught up with DBT founder and frontman Patterson Hood at his home in Athen, GA recently to discuss the band, some music history and the ongoing tour. Hood was in a talkative mood and generously gave us almost a half an hour of his time.
Smith Gets Country-Clubbed
It's an old story, but Oregon Democrats are still hoping to score political points with it: Gordon Smith once paid more than a million dollars for four golf clubs.
Taking the Ax to Walden on Timber Payments
The Democratic Party of Oregon has unleashed a brutal video attacking the 2nd District's own Greg Walden for voting against the federal timber payments bill earlier this month.
Intelligent Design is Not Science, At Least Not Yet
In the debate between intelligent design (ID) and evolution there is often an important element that is left out: The scientific method. And while there can be an endless debate on definitions of the word "science," it's important to remember how science is used to arrive at certain conclusions before we use it to conclude…
Not To Beat A Dead Chipmunk…
Seems there's an issue about a feral feline at The High Desert Museum and the effect on the other species sharing its environment. Sound familiar? Why do we always whine about the glowing ember while ignoring the raging forest fire we created behind us? Which species has destroyed and endangered more fellow creatures than…
ID Theory Is Science
Sooner or later everyone asks the question, "Where do we come from?" The answer carries profound implications. Until this question is answered we cannot solve another fundamental question that is key to ethics, religion and the meaning of life (if any): "Are we here for a purpose?" There are two possible answers: the universe and…
Sisters Rode-Ode
Sisters Rode-Ode By Brad Lockwood The "biggest little" rodeo is in town "The Greatest Show on Dirt!" According to JJ the Clown. Imported princesses, Fort Dalles, Umatilla, Jefferson… Peer and praise until they're done. Denim on denim, top to toe. Wrangler pleats like rails, U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co.
Washed Ashore: Netherland offers an outsiders perspective on the Big Apple
Outlegged by news networks that never sleep, outsold by the juggernaut of visual entertainment, the novel doesn't bring us the news as it once did. Or it's easy to think so until you read a book like Joseph O'Neill's splendid, "Netherland." This wholly unexpected novel turns the city once known as Nueve Amsterdam inside out…
Tipsy Business: Flair bartending in Bend without Tom Cruise
more than just another drink. Forget everything you know about the 1988 movie Cocktail. Marshall Fox, bartender at Bo Restobar, is the real deal. While he may not be prancing around Jamaica with Elizabeth Shue or catering to New York City elites with silly poems, he's doing something Tom Cruise never does in the movie…
The Art and Technique of Surviving: Animals’ longevity gets hand from evolution
Sagebrush lizard in hiding. "It's right there… right under that sagebrush," I whispered to my friend. "See it?" I don't know why I was whispering; that beautiful sagebrush lizard I was pointing at couldn't hear me if it wanted to. There is nothing more exasperating – or exhilarating – than trying to show someone a…
Hitting the Trails: Spring Fling adds more MTB trail miles, Dirty Half, more
The best riding is still ahead of usMore Techy Trail? You Bet Thanks to the efforts of the 150 volunteers and 21 trail crew leaders who showed up to work during COTA's annual Spring Fling, there's a lot of new trail under construction as well as some revitalized existing trail and some promising reroutes.…
Bourne to be Wild: The Bourne Conspiracy
I shoot you, you shoot me. We’re a shooting family. With three very popular books written by author Robert Ludlum and three very successful movies based on them starring Matt Damon as the amnesiac hero/spy Jason Bourne, it doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that this might make a really cool video game.…
Not Happening: M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller is all scenery and no substance
mark Wahlberg and the world’s largest bowling bag on tour. M. Night doesn't make horror movies; he makes long Twilight Zone episodes. Shyamalan is known for his narrative twist and turns and surprise endings, but he can't conjure his way out of The Happening's poorly executed script. Most of M's tricks are here but the…
Edward Norton Pumps It Up: Who needs steroids when there’s gamma radiation?
all this just for a free blood pressure test?Edward Norton finally gets to play a Hollywood hunk, albeit a large green one. The actor's usual cool demeanor gets ripped in this film as fast as his muscles do, morphing from the research scientist Bruce Banner into Marvel Comics' super-conflicted-hero character, The Incredible Hulk. Not to…
Patio Style: A survey of some summertime dining faves
It took some time to arrive but it seems that summer has finally settled into Central Oregon. Now that it's here, it's time to take stock of some of the new outdoor dining options around town, as well as some of the standbys. ANTHONY'S HOMEPORT 475 SW Powerhouse Dr., Shops at the Old Mill District.…
Patio Style: A survey of some summertime dining faves
It took some time to arrive but it seems that summer has finally settled into Central Oregon. Now that it’s here, it’s time to take stock of some of the new outdoor dining options around town, as well as some of the standbys. ANTHONY’S HOMEPORT 475 SW Powerhouse Dr., Shops at the Old Mill District.…
Quick Bites: Obama, wine, and you
tSW's wine column remained neutral through the primary season, but with Senator Barack Obama now the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee, and the rhetoric between the Obama and McCain camps heating up, the time has come to weigh in. Naturally, we vote in our own self interest, and so it is fair to ask "What…
Quick Bites: Obama, wine, and you
tSW’s wine column remained neutral through the primary season, but with Senator Barack Obama now the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee, and the rhetoric between the Obama and McCain camps heating up, the time has come to weigh in.
Naturally, we vote in our own self interest, and so it is fair to ask “What…
Come For the View: Taking it in at Brasada Ranch’s Blue Olive
It’s all about atmosphere at Blue olive. In a place like Brasada Ranch every thing is rustic luxury: The views, the big timbered lodge, the perfectly manicured golf course. The dining room is no exception. Deliberately distressed wood floors and high ceilings complement huge picture windows that overlook rolling hills of native fescue and a…
Come For the View: Taking it in at Brasada Ranch’s Blue Olive
It’s all about atmosphere at Blue olive. In a place like Brasada Ranch every thing is rustic luxury: The views, the big timbered lodge, the perfectly manicured golf course. The dining room is no exception. Deliberately distressed wood floors and high ceilings complement huge picture windows that overlook rolling hills of native fescue and a…
The Summer of Furtado: A new record in the making, Tony Furtado returns to Bend
Bluegrass is only skin deep. Tony Furtado very well might seem like a perfectionist upon first inspection. But that might not be completely accurate. First he's not a jerk. Invariably, perfectionists are jerks, mostly by necessity. Striving for perfection just has that effect on people. Perhaps it's more accurate to just say that Furtado really…
Austin’s Latest Drama Show
Shearwater Rook Matador Upon the first few listens of Shearwater's Rook, I wanted to synch up the tracks to the cartoon version of Watership Down or The Last Unicorn, ala Dark Side of the Moon/Wizard of Oz. Rook is an album worth immersing yourself in, front to back. The Austin-based indie band (which began as…
Liner Notes: Soaks, Sounds and Sustainability at the Coyote Festival
The city of Paisley is best known for one thing - it's down-home, country-style Mosquito Festival. The Mosquito Festival is the only event other than city council meetings listed on the city's Website.
Truckers Kept A Rollin’: The South rises again as Drive-by Truckers rolls through Bend
DBT is coming to ouR house. Can I get a hell, yeah!When your Alabama/Georgia-based band features a three-guitar attack and you have two albums with the word "South" in the title and a third with the word Alabama in it, it's sort of hard to escape the Southern Rock label. In the case of…
Our Picks for the Week of 6/18-6/27
Anastacia wednesday 18 Formerly of the band Threes, Anastacia has a new project going and this free McMenamins performance is her first appearance in a while. Rumor has it that, along with her all-star band of local musicians, she'll be dishing out a brand new bag. 7pm, McMenamins Old St. Francis School, 700 NW Bond…
History Be Damned: Wild west bounties won’t save the Snake River runs
For centuries, killing predators was to fish and wildlife management what leeches were to medicine. By the mid-20th century, even the dullest minds in government had figured this out. But duller minds were yet to come. Enter the administration of George W. Bush. In 2008, it is hawking control of salmon-eating birds, fish and mammals…
Full Power: KPOV soon might not be the small community station it once was
Mike Ficher keeping it together at KPOV.At noon on Thursday, June 26 KPOV, Bend's low power FM community radio station will have been on the air for three years. Operating out of the back of the historic Boys and Girls club building that extends nearly the entirety of the block between Bond and Wall streets,…
BBR Story Causes Mt. Bachelor Eruption
Headlined "Hanging in the Balance," the story by BBR Editor Kevin Max quotes former lift maintenance manager as saying she quit in disgust in January because management wouldn't let her do her job right and "she didn't want the responsibility of the potential disaster unfolding at Mt. Bachelor." "I can't work for a company that…
Taking Back the Planet: End of interstate era may be in sight to animals delight
The cops shot a cougar in Chicago a month ago. DNA tests suggested the young male may have begun his journey in the Black Hills of South Dakota, 1,000 miles away. If so, he roamed across three big states, looking for love. Earlier this winter, an automatic camera set up by a biologist photographed a…
Victory for Freedom in the Supreme Court
Justice is done One of your neighbors has a grudge against you and secretly informs on you to the police. The next thing you know you're being held in a prison in a strange country. You don't know what you're charged with or what the evidence against you is, and you can't go to court…
Don’t Ignore Pet Abuse Story
Dr Holly O'Brien was right on in her letter regarding animal abuse in our area. She brought up the worthwhile idea of the Source doing an article on animal cruelty laws and what the public can do if they witness animal abuse. I was disappointed that you did not jump on her suggestion, choosing instead…
Golf Courses Need To Go
Some of the largest nitrate polluters are the golf courses. The courses are massive green grass lawns being grown in a semi-arid environment. What makes plants green? Nitrogen. Therefore, in order to have green golf courses on the edge of the desert one needs massive amounts of polluting nitrogen. Plant nutrient uptake can be significantly…
Bonus Coverage: Hanks crosses Pope, Source takes to the air and more
They don’t care how big tom hanks is. Vatican to Hanks: Get Lost The Vatican has told Tom Hanks it doesn't want him in church. It's not his religion they have a problem with - it's the movie he's making. The producers of Hanks' new movie, Angels and Demons, had asked permission to shoot inside…
Reaction to Smith on Gay Marriage: WTF???
Bloggers, pundits and just ordinary folks are still scratching their heads trying to make some sense out of remarks Gordon Smith made last week during a panel discussion in Washington on partnership rights.
