Latest LSA Announcement: Willie Nelson Coming to Bend
Here it is, the next installment of Guess Who’s Coming to the Les Schwab Amphitheater? And in this edition, we’re announcing a familiar name to the LSA stage, Mr. Willie Nelson.
Short Takes: Response Times, Bubbles and KOHD's Goodbye
A fire destroyed a home on Bend’s Westside Wednesday morning, and it took nine minutes for the fire trucks to arrive after the first 911 call came in. Why? Because all the available firefighters were tied up handling a couple of other emergencies.
The Mother Hips Coming to Bend
UPDATE (3/31) This show has been canceled. Yes, that’s a bummer.
A Rough Welcome for the Professor
Lewis & Clark Law School professor James Huffman announced his candidacy for Ron Wyden’s US Senate seat yesterday, and the ink wasn’t even dry on his press release before the Democrats pounced on him. The Oregon Democratic Party set up a one-page website titled “Meet Jim Huffman, Right Wing FreedomWorks Ideologue and Candidate for US…
KOHD Stops Its Local Newscasts
And then there was one.
Putting the People Back in 'We the People'
When Abe Lincoln talked about “government of the people, by the people and for the people” at the Gettysburg battlefield in November 1863, it’s a pretty safe bet he wasn’t including corporations in his definition of “people.” But in January 2010, a bitterly divided US Supreme Court decided that corporations have the same free-speech rights…
Video: Eric Tollefson and the World’s Greatest Lovers
Eric Tollefson and the World’s Greatest Lovers played the free Wednesday night show last night at McMenamins here in Bend, serving up a feast of blues rock jems before heading down to Hollywood for a show at the Whiskey A Go Go on Saturday. I’ve got some video here, but sadly it is not of…
She's No Superwoman!
My first thought was that, from the single mother mired in a Central Oregon recession to oncologist Dr. Linyee Chang, or one of the physicians at Fall Creek Medicine, from COCC's Rebecca Walker-Sands and Kathleen McCabe to Rachael Scdoris, all these candidates, all you can come up with is a bored housewi.
We're Forever Blowing Bubbles
The front page of the Local section of today’s Bulletin brought more proof (not that any was needed) that the bubble years are over for Central Oregon: Enrollment dropped in all of the region’s school districts over the past year. Bend-LaPine enrollment this school year is down 0.
Pizza, Pizza: New pies from 10 Barrel and Versante
After breezing through 10 Barrel Brewing's soft opening last week, Quick Bites got a closer look at the new pub's operation this week. Owners Chris Cox and Garrett Wales said business has been brisk for the newest member of Bend's brewpub family. We returned this week to look over the pub's menu, which features many…
Time Wounds All Heels: Or ski not gently into that good night
The sands of time play before my eyes as I type. I see an hourglass, half-full, half-empty, depending on how you look at it. Today is my dog's birthday, and mine too. She's nine years old; I'm 48. Sometimes, getting older can be a good thing- like when you enter a new age group for…
Eric Tollefson and The World’s Greatest Lovers Tonight for Free
Yes, that is the real name that local blues rocking singer songwriter Eric Tollefson has chosen for his band. I profiled the red head in this week’s issue of the Source in advance of the band’s triumphant journey to Hollywood to play the Whiskey A Go Go.
I Dislike You, Sandra Bullock!
I'm boycotting the Oscars, guys! I know, I know: “Whatever will the Oscars do if Humpy doesn't watch them this year? They'll be ruined!” Nevertheless, I feel like someone needs to make a stand against the Sandra Bullocks of the world. As you may have heard, Sandra Bullock has been nominated for a Best Actress…
What's Avatar? Our defiant Oscar picks
Our two film columnists, Morgan P. Salvo and Holly Grigg-Spall, spent the year liking and hating films, and thinking others were merely OK. Here's who they think should win Oscars this weekend, even when they know their pick won't necessarily take home a little golden man – because James Cameron probably already has it down…
Whacked Out: The Crazies has its moments with remake of bio terrorism creep fest
The Crazies is based on the 1973 George A. Romero flick of the same name and joins the ranks of newly remade apocalyptic scenarios, though this 2010 version borrows only marginally from the original. While Crazies '73 was set in Pennsylvania, this time the plot revolves around the inhabitants of Ogden Marsh, a small Iowa…
In the McCrystals We Trust: In search of the perfect meal at Jen's Garden
It's not always glamorous being a food writer. Dining out on a stipend and describing the food, ambience, a restaurant's pedigree, has its challenges. But one of the hardest parts about food writing is relativity. If you're trying to fill a Mexican fast-casual niche, you can't be compared to El Bulli, the best restaurant in…
In the McCrystals We Trust: In search of the perfect meal at Jen's Garden
It's not always glamorous being a food writer. Dining out on a stipend and describing the food, ambience, a restaurant's pedigree, has its challenges. But one of the hardest parts about food writing is relativity. If you're trying to fill a Mexican fast-casual niche, you can't be compared to El Bulli, the best restaurant in…
Little Bites: Pizza, Pizza: New pies from 10 Barrel and Versante
After breezing through 10 Barrel Brewing's soft opening last week, Quick Bites got a closer look at the new pub's operation this week. Owners Chris Cox and Garrett Wales said business has been brisk for the newest member of Bend's brewpub family. We returned this week to look over the pub's menu, which features many…
Change is Good: Why Eric Tollefson can get away with naming his band The World's Greatest Lovers
When Eric Tollefson released his full-length disc, Sum of Parts, last year, it seemed like the towering redhead had come out of nowhere. There'd been little buzz about him before the release, but soon after he couldn't be avoided, opening shows for Jackie Greene and playing a hard-charging set to warm the stage for G.…
All Together Now: Joe Bonamassa
The name has been bouncing around the media consciousness of Bend for the last month or two. Radio. Websites. Newspapers. But mainly radio – lots of radio, a medium that lends itself well to the baritone pronunciation of a name like Joe Bonamassa, with its vowels and consonants so sexily colliding. And when you combine…
Coming Clean: When a losing streak isn't enough to kill a gambling addiction
Oregonians have their own way of looking at things. There is a spirit of fun and adventure that runs through pretty much everything we do here. And when Oregon was struggling to rebound from a severe recession in the 1980s, Oregonians looked for a way to respond that did more than just make money. The…
John Day 1, Nazis 0
John Day is a pretty little Eastern Oregon town that up until last month was known mostly for the good fishing in the John Day River and good fossil-hunting in the nearby John Day Fossil Beds. But in mid-February, a group that embraces fossilized political and racial ideas cast an unwelcome spotlight on John Day.…
This week's number: $16 Million
The amount of money that the City of Bend is seeking in earmarks from the federal government. Chided in the past for not seeking government handouts, the city is asking Oregon's congressional delegation to help the city fund federally mandated upgrades to its drinking water system and its sidewalks, many of which have been found…
Crazy For You: The politics of education, unpaid dental bills and the problem with atheists
The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from a failed Socialist state headed by an illegal alien (or maybe listening to too much AM radio) on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly. The Crazies There's something in the water. Or it's…
No Trivial Matter
I am writing this letter to concur with The Source's letter complaining about the Trivia Bee competition held February 20th and its procedural, factual and typographical faults. In my opinion, it was actually worse than that. I have played in various trivia competitions for 35 years, and I left the Trivia Bee that night more…
A Magnet For Problems
There is a problem with traffic around Kenwood/Highland school every weekday mornings and afternoon. It is dangerous for the kids and dangerous for the neighborhood. The school district and the city have been working on a possible solution for a number of years. They currently are considering back-in angled parking on Harmon from Newport Avenue…
Is Wilderness Good Business?
I was on site when President John F. Kennedy declared the North Fork of the John Day a wilderness. The way we used the new wilderness changed. There were no more mountain bikes, no more game carts or retrieving game with a Jeep. That is all part of life and we have made adjustments and…
Ain't No Party Like A Tea Pary
In response to Dana Johnson's claim that the Tea Party has the answers for the ills of this country. First, this so-called Tea Party movement has absolutely nothing in common and nothing to do with the Boston Tea Party of 1773.
Our Picks for 3/3 – 3/11: Eric Tollefson, Art Fusion, Steve Kimock and more
Eric Tollefson and The World's Greatest Lovers wednesday 3 Go to the Sound section for a profile of this local singer/songwriter and his band of Lovers. Tollefson will open the show with an acoustic set, followed by a full rocking gig later on. Free, all ages. 7pm. McMenamins Old St. Francis School, 700 NW Bond…
Cards, Booze, Working Girls and Spittoons: The High Desert Museum brings the wildness of the West to life with Sin in the Sagebrush
The peculiar and markedly simple card game of faro might actually be spelled “pharaoh,” but there's no point in debating the spelling because hardly anyone has played the game in the last century. But down at the High Desert Museum, faro is being played, the antiquated cards dealt onto a century-old table by a young…
