TONIGHT! Blitz to the Barrel
The 2013 edition of Blitz to the Barrel, a mostly-downhill, invite-only pro mountain bike race with a $20,000 cash purse, is back and as always, finishes at 10 Barrel Brewing Company on Galveston Ave. If unfamiliar, here’s a look a last year’s race, which ends with a beer-chug at the finish line and, later, an…
Submit Your Best Horned Hand Memories!
With the last shows at the Horned Hand happening this month (their final day in business will be June 29), so we’re soliciting your best memories from the bar/venue/taxidermy haven! Tell us about your favorite show, your most drunken debaucherous night, the time you got told to shut the f*** up or share anything else…
The Patriot: Tim Tebow signs with New England
The end of the Spygate curse? Readers weigh in!
You had to be there . .
No, seriously, you had to be there. Normally, I record our Media Salons and then repost as podcasts. But here’s the deal: My recorder memory was full. It recorded about three minutes and then sat silent. So, really, if you weren’t there, you missed out on a great event. We had a full room at…
Panic at Apple?
Apple has worn the badge of innovation proudly ever since Steve Jobs retook the company over in 1997. Under Jobs Apple could do no wrong, creating and dominating new markets in Tech like no other company before it. Now, two years since his death Apple is on the ropes. Their stock price is down 35%+…
Here’s what a chocolate bar buys you . . .
Guest Commentary: Sustainability From the Inside OutBy Lawrence Messerman, Ph.D It is a question, practically of relationship. We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. . . . For the truth is, we are perishing for lack of fulfillment of our greater needs, we are cut off…
MGMT to play LSA in August
New LSA show announced for August 31.
You Want To Get With Me?
The second gift in three days? Oh, readers. Are you trying to woo me? Last week I received flowers (to write a story about a nursery) and today I received chocolate from a man wanting to write a guest editorial. (And, oh yes, I can be bribed: That editorial will run on the blog soon!)…
Media Salon tonight!
Every second Monday of the month, the Source hosts a smashingly fun and smart Media Salon! This month we focus on bikes—one of Bend’s greatest obsessions. (Beer, one of Bend’s other great obsessions, also will be on tap and flowing.) The casual Think & Drink, Q&A-style event is a follow up to our famous Bike…
VIDEO: Oregon Enduro in Bend
Watch this lovely video, recapping Saturday’s enduro mountain bike race in Bend. Locals dominated, despite a field of heavies—Adam Craig won the pro mens overall and part-time Bend resident (and full-time Kiwi crusher) Rosara “I’m from not from Australia” Joseph took the pro women’s overall after five short stages of racing. The video is on…
The Weekend Commences
This weekend is all about theater, art, nature and grad parties. If you’ve got someone special participating in a commencement ceremony this weekend three tips…get the card with the special money holder slot, buy the good flowers and get there early because parking is going to be a pain in the ass. Redmond High’s commencement…
Friday Mixtape!
A mixtape featuring PDX talents.
Download This App: Find My iPhone
lost! “Find My iPhone” will save your ass one day. Once downloaded (both on your iPhone and home iOS system—iPad, MacBook, etc.) Mac owners can use one to find the other. Last night, my clumsy buddy found out just how well the free app works. During a mid-ride break and after checking a message, he…
Flowers? For me!
I don’t know that I’ve ever been brought flowers before. Usually when I hear someone enter the building and ask for the Editor, I hide. In the past it has been spitting mad readers or upset musicians. But this morning, Michael Ludeman Earth’s Art simply wanted to introduce himself and his Earth’s Art, a gardening…
High Desert High Cuisine
Jen (as in her kitchen and garden) explained that rodeo weekend is perhaps one of the best times to visit her restaurant. Many locals, she says, hide away for the weekend, and French fries are about as close to high-style French country cuisine that the cowboys will get. Which is to say: This weekend, Jen’s…
Poncho or Cowboy Hat?
Not every Tremoloco song requires bi-lingual ears, but for tracks like “Temo” and “La Lechuza” it sure helps. The seven band members of the Tex-Mex band from Los Angeles play guitar-esque instruments with names like the “requinto romantic” (a high-pitched acoustic guitar) and the jarana (a Spanish ukulele). Singer-guitarist Tony Zamora has played with Los…
Little Bites: B to the Q
Baldy’s Barbeque With three locations in Central Oregon (westside, eastside and Redmond), Baldy’s is one of the few BBQ joints around that serves fried okra, a testament to the true Southern-ness of the cuisine. The C.O. staple serves up everything from barbecued shrimp to smoked turkey. And the sides…oh, the delicious sides. Delectable slaws, spicy-sweet…
Portland bands that really need to return
Weinland It’s shocking that this Rose City vintage rock band has been away from Bend for years now. It's perfect for this town. Lead singer Adam Shearer is a beard-toting, city-fied mountain man. He fronts one of Portland’s most likeable bands and writes ’70s rock songs that blend acoustic and electric guitar with harmonies that…
Bite me Bend
Now a decade old tradition, Bite of Bend is a food-festival extravaganza that turns downtown into smorgasbord of local fare. But now that weekend event will be preceded by an appetizer of eight days of food-centric events. From June 23 through 30, there will be classes, dinners and demonstrations to serve as epicurean foreplay for…
Out of Town 6/5 – 6/13
portland thursday 6 Third Annual Captain Picard Day An annual tradition for the schoolchildren aboard the USS Enterprise, Captain Picard Day honors the baldest, baddest Starfleet captain “Next Generation” has to offer. How? With an art contest, of course. Submissions honoring Jean-Luc Picard will be eligible for hundreds of dollars in prizes, but the real…
Summer Reads
Just as hot cocoa doesn’t sound as appealing as a cool iced tea on a warm June afternoon , books for summertime satisfy a distinct craving. Stretch out your hammock and take a load off. The Epic: “Lonesome Dove” — Larry McMurtry (1985) Capt. Gus McCrae—a charismatic, clever, womanizing Texas Ranger-turned-cowpoke—is perhaps the most likeable…
Saddle Up
This past March, I traveled with my New York niece and nephew to a massive rodeo in San Antonio, Texas. It was a dusty, sprawling affair, and I was probably the only one not wearing cowboy boots. To gear up the Upper East Side kids and better blend into the central Texas crowd, we stopped…
Three’s Company
Company starts with a surprise 35th birthday party. One that the forever-alone protagonist, Bobby, doesn’t want to have. Bobby is a bachelor, surrounded by (or perhaps more accurately suffocated by) five couples. His best friends are all married, for better or worse. Throughout the play Bobby observes the dysfunction of the relationships around him and…
Horse Trading for Golf Courses
Tom McCall is a hero. In 1967, when a single developer in Cannon Beach threatened the state’s longstanding law that the “public owns the beaches,” the then-governor cowboyed up two helicopters and flew to the disputed tract of land. His bravado stirred public sentiment—and set in place the Oregon Beach Bill, which declares all beaches…
Our Picks 5/5 – 5/13
friday 7 First Friday ART—Downtown will be stuffed to its gills with art lovers, wine drinkers and street musicians yet again this Friday. This First Friday showcases the first in a series of monthly exhibits by the Source’s cover artists at the Franklin Crossing Building. Check out this week’s cover artist, Marv Johnson (not to…
Queen For A Year
The one thing that sets rodeo queens apart from other pageant queens is they have to ride a horse. At breakneck speed. Around an arena full of people. A bunch of times per night. All summer long. They start with a Queen's Run at the beginning of each rodeo where they are joined by visiting…
Best Use of Public Space: Riverfront Plaza
Today, sun shines on the Riverfront Plaza at 875 NW Brooks St. where families and friends sit at wrought iron tables—some under the shade of an umbrella, others basking in the late-afternoon rays. Adults play yard games, sip pints of locally made beer and collect the bean bags for another round of cornhole. This scene…
Cowgirl Up!
If getting down to “Single Ladies” doesn’t strike a chord, what’s a girl to do? Country-western dancing, that’s what. When my city slicker girlfriends arrive in Bend, my first stop is often Maverick’s, a lively buckaroo bar and dance hall. I buy them a Jack and Coke and then make them dance with a regular…
One Day at a Time
MONDAY 27 This just in: Amanda Bynes was NOT “slapped on the vagina” by police—at least according to the police. Why are the police being accused of slapping Amanda Bynes on the vagina? Apparently she’s still very bottom-sore over last week’s arrest when police arrived at her residence, and she responded by tossing a bong…
Must See Rodeo Events
Barrel Racing Because girls shouldn’t be left out of the fun, barrel racing is something for the ladies to do. On horseback, each rider threads as quickly as possible through the barrels positioned around the arena in a cloverleaf pattern. This event is about precision and speed. Bull Riding Poor bulls. Ever since they were…
Letters 5/29 – 6/6
Notice: Popular Recreation Forest Near Bend Slated for Logging We are horrified by the Forest Service’s extreme logging proposal for the forest just west of Bend along Skyliners Road and Century Drive toward Mt. Bachelor. Imagine a huge virtual clear-cut of about 14-17,000 acres with few ponderosa pines left, shrubs ground down to stubble, stumps,…
Horsin’ Around
Bend’s Suzi Lewis, 56 years young, knows horses. She has been riding horses since she was 8—all over the U.S.—and has been giving lessons to aspiring Central Oregon trail riders for decades. So when she called Central Oregon "one of the best places to own and ride a horse,” I took her words as gospel.…
Where have all the eagles gone…?
As a kid on the family farm in Connecticut during the (first) Great Depression, with the help of my grandfather, I was taught to trap, kill and skin striped skunks. I then sold the pelts to buy shoes for school. But, it is no longer necessary for me to trap, skin and sell the pelts…
Yippie-Ki-Yay!
At the height of his career, Billy Crystal starred in City Slickers (1990), a fish-out-of-water story about three New Yorkers who land on a Southwestern cattle drive by way of a midlife crisis. The smashhit came for Crystal on the heels of When Harry Met Sally (1989), and he had just hosted the first of…
Doctor, doctor
The best story in Escape Fire—a documentary skewering the health industry that the recently departed Roger Ebert called “extraordinary” and gave his trademark thumbs up—is about a young soldier who has returned injured—both mentally and physically—from the war. Self-identified as a “hillbilly,” the young man explains that he would have scoffed at what he calls…
Parents Just Don't Understand
M. Night Shyamalan: a dude who went from being crowned “The Next Spielberg” on the cover of Newsweek (circa Signs) to a guy who had his name laughed off the screen (circa The Last Airbender). Considering his last few f-ups, it's not surprising that After Earth—which he directed and co-wrote—doesn't feel at all like a…
Black Cloud
Black Cloud Tango Alpha Tango Independent It is easy to believe that the pauses between the songs of Portland rock outfit Tango Alpha Tango’s new album Black Cloud are necessary respites allowing lead singer Nathan Trueb to wipe the sweat from his brow. These songs are hot. (Damn hot!) And the amount of teeth grinding…
More Than a Name Change
Sometimes the second act is sweeter. That is what happened when Matt Harmon and Kali Giaritta—formerly of the Ascetic Junkies—struck out on their own to become There Is No Mountain. As great as The Ascetic Junkies' bluegrass whiskey stomp was—making them a Bend favorite for five years—the music of There Is No Mountain is even…
More Salt in Wound for Tourism Feud
HERE’S THE SITUATION: A lot of hotel owners, like Wayne Purcell of the Riverhouse and others who own properties on Third Street, are pretty ticked at the city tonight. HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED FIRST: Last February, Visit Bend and a group of other hoteliers came to the city asking to take a measure to the ballot…
Police Chief Proposes Bold Mass Shooting Prevention Plan
In the last few years, police officers have heard terrible threats from students in Bend schools, which, if carried out, would cause the devastating havoc seen around the nation in mass shooting incidents. One child hearing voices telling him to steal an officer’s gun then shoot children. Another teenager saying he is the next Sandy…
Bend’s Young and talented Perfrom at “Night of Elegance”
Victor School of Performing arts, a new dance studio on Bend’s North side, and Bend Experimental Art Theatre will host a gala performance of Bend’s young dancers and singers on Thursday June 6 and Friday June 7 at Summit High School. The “Night of Elegance” will include historic and ballet dance performances and Broadway songs…
