Vote for Your Favorites. It’s Easy! It’s the “Best Of!”
Not sure what to do with that paper ballot in the “Best Of” ballot issue? There’s an easier way to vote for all of your favorite things in Central Oregon! Do it online—from our website! Step 0: Go to our homepage, bendsource.com. Step 1: Click on the box that says “Vote Here!” and features an…
BREAKING! U.S. Eclipsed by Mexico as Fattest Country
Flickr via Joe13 Yep. It’s true. As another can of Coke was drained, and another McRib consumed, Mexico’s adult obesity rate hit the 32.8% mark, narrowly eclipsing the U.S. obesity rate of 31.8%, according to a United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) report. The news, as reported by Huffington Post and others, makes Mexico…
Swayze Summer Starts Next Week with Point Break!
“If you want the ultimate, you gotta be willing to pay the ultimate price.” – Bodhi (aka Patrick Swayze) Here’s a smart thing to do next week: Go see Point Break, the 1991 Kathryn Bigelow (Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) directed surf/bank robber movie starring Keanu Reeves and one of the world’s greatest actors, Patrick…
TONIGHT! The Source’s Media Salon on “Smart Growth”
Last month’s Media Salon on bikes was packed—it nearly took a crow bar to remove guests afterwards who wanted to stay and discuss. Tonight, the Source presents its third Media Salon, an informal but engaging and informative Oprah-styled Q&A. Hosted by Editor Phil Busse, this month addresses “smart growth.” With the economy returning, Bend again…
We Have Free Tickets to COUNTRY FAIR!!
The shadow of guilt I felt lasted for a number of years. After a brief stint as a casual Dead head, catching shows from Foxboro to Alpine Valley, my music tastes shifted. Even so, for years I carried around a shoe box full of bootlegs (especially fond of Cornell 7/77). Then, one day when cleaning…
Summertime Music: Portland’s AgesandAges
Great music from PDX (video)
Friday Mixtape!
Down the rabbit hole using Spotify.
I Survived!
Hoo-RAY! I survived another Fourth of July. No, seriously. In the 90s, four out of 10 Fourths ended up with trips to the E.R. It has been my favorite, yet a cursed holiday, starting in 1987 when the pyrotecnic in my hometown blew himself up. The bad luck continued four years later when I (accidentally)…
New Owners for Silver Moon Brewing
Press release for Silver Moon ownership change.
Out of Town 7/3 – 7/11
portland thursday 4-sunday 7 Waterfront Blues Festival Bringing together rising talents (like young Seattle soul singer Allen Stone) and bona fide legends (Robert Plant presents the Sensational Shape Shifters, Mavis Staples) the Waterfront Blues Fest is a patriotic mini-week of blues and brews. Other artists to watch include Eric Burdon, the former frontman for The…
Behind the Mask
The parallels to Superman are uncanny: The Lone Ranger was created in the 1930s as a new kind of American hero—a fighter for all that is right and just in the world. He is a bit of a square, a bit of an anachronism, and after lapsing into irrelevance for decades, he has been rebooted…
New Old Timey
More than any medium, music carries its sense of place. Or, at least that is how it once was. Say Liverpool, and what do you hear? See? Or consider a few years later after the British Invasion, when the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Janis Joplin delivered the Haight-Ashbury scene—and all of its flower power,…
Punch Drunk Love
In the first season of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” in an episode called “Never Kill a Boy on the First Date,” Buffy—a 5-foot-nothing cheerleader/superhero tasked with killing the world’s scourge of vampires without chipping her nail polish—skips out of her school library to fight a horde of martial arts proficient monsters. Before she exits she…
Smells Like Southern Spirit
Catfish and crawdads may not dominate every menu around town, but peppered throughout Bend are a representative number of Southern food dishes—certainly enough to make us as happy as pigs in slop! (In a good way. Seriously! That was meant as a compliment.) Fried Chicken Even that guy who orders the veggie quinoa bowl, deep…
Hugo, We Go, Don’t Let the Pine Go!
There is something ironic in this fact that both Facebook and Apple, two of the largest motivators for 21st century technology, moved massive data centers into Prineville and gave a much-needed shot in the arm to the local economy, but the local movie theater, The Pine, a community hub for 75 years, is potentially shutting…
Little Bites: Pack It In
Summertime means road trips. And with Airbnb and Craigslist opening up more informal rental options, the quality of kitchen is far from regulated. Yes, let’s face it: Vacation rentals have worse utensils than your first college apartment. Packing these 11 items—all which (more or less) fit in your glove compartment—will ensure culinary happiness while on…
Controversial Quilters
Quilting legend Caryl Bryer Fallert was the first quilter to win a major prize for a quilt made with a sewing machine, a technique that quilt purists say is blasphemous. She mentored Hollis Chatelain, who caused a stir in the quilt world when she won an award for a painted quilt. Chatelain then mentored Randall Cook, who…
Double Whammy from Deschutes!
Fresh Squeezed IPA, 6 % An IPA that IPA doubters/haters will like. Why’s that? For starters, because the hops aren’t smothering the beer, nor are they covering anything else up. And, the hops that are there, are more citrus than pine, and not hops for the sake of more hops. (Is it clear I’m not…
Musical Ashram
The singer for Portland’s abstract folk band Y La Bamba, Luz Elena Mendoza, opens her song with a reference to a trip to India that Mendoza took a decade ago, one that initiated an unintended spiritual journey that even today haunts the statuesque Mexican-American and native Oregonian. Her cool voice is heavy with the weight…
Hot and Sweaty
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell Two years ago, the Pulitzer Prize selection committee reviewed three novels as contenders for its selection—and selected none as its finalist. One inference from this decision is that there were no good novels that year. But that is incorrect. Absolutely wrong. (A more accurate assessment is that the Pulitzer reviewers were…
The British are Coming (to Dance!)
If Paul Revere were alive today and charged with warning Bendites of a pending British invasion, he might be doing it by stapling flyers to telephone poles advertising a July 4 show for U.K. electronic music producer and breakbeats pioneer Kafty Kuts (aka Martin Reeves) at Bend’s Liquid Lounge. After all, in place of bayonetted…
Not Mother’s Motorcycle Rally
Wellesley College is consistently ranked the No. 1 college in the country, an all-women's school with powerful graduates like Barbara Bush and Hillary Clinton. Perhaps not as well known, but equally influential in the world of two wheels, is Linda Dugeau, Wellesley Class of 1938 and the founder of the Motor Maids. Unlike their West…
Buzzword Upcycle
What would it look like if Andre 3000 met Gogol Bordello in the New Mexican desert for a peyote-induced love affair that produced a fashion baby? Well, if you followed those pop culture allusions, then take that style mashup and roll it in mid-'90s grunge fashion with a touch of American Apparel preppiness. That? That…
Hold the Line
On Monday afternoon, as rafters bumped into each other floating down the stretch of river adjacent to the Park & Rec building, a dimly lit conference room inside the building was equally crowded. For the first time in a year, the so-called UGB Remand Task Force was meeting publicly and discussing what, if any, progress…
Smash a Bottle of Champagne Across our Bow!
Dear Mr. Ray Mabus – It has been nearly a century since the Navy has named a vessel after our fair state. As you may know, the USS Oregon was a battleship that saw action in the Spanish-American War, but it was decommissioned in 1919. Even landlocked states like Arizona and Wisconsin have fared better…
Our Picks 7/3 – 7/11
thursday 4 Fourth of July (Day) FREEDOM—We can’t say when or where Thursday’s Freedom Ride will start, but we can say it’s one of the biggest, most important community events of the year. Celebrate freedom, America, bikes, cats—whatever—just let it ring, while riding around town with thousands of other freedom lovers. Also, don’t miss the…
Curbing Corporate Spending
This week, the Oregon Legislature did something important, albeit largely symbolic: It asked Congress for a constitutional amendment to reverse the 2010 Citizens United decision, an onerous ruling that relieved corporate campaign spending from government restrictions. Chief Justice John Roberts penned the opinion, stating that the First Amendment allows such “freedoms.” Or, in more operational…
One Day at a Time
MONDAY 24 It’s been a big week for gay rights, abortion fights, and racist, homophobic, and incredibly annoying celebs—so let’s dive right in! As gleefully reported last week, celebrity racist (oh, and she cooks shitty Southern food, too) Paula Deen was FIRED for admitting to spouting racist epithets in the not-too-distant past. (Her excuse? She’s…
Letters 6/26 – 7/4
Bend Parks & Recreation and NorthWest Crossing, Sunset View Park Aloha. When I moved here 20 years ago I felt The Bend Park & Recreation (BPR) District was a wonderful organization seriously working to preserve as much of the local outdoors as possible. There is no doubt that BPR has done a great many good…
A Lake or River Person?
I grew up on a lake in Wisconsin. Baths in the morning involved long walks on short piers, and rinsing in the clear, warm water. Afternoons were spent slicing across the still surface on water skis, and evenings watching the sun sizzle as it dropped over the horizon at the far end of Green Lake.…
Live Music Provided
When it comes to entertainment for a backyard BBQ or a stylish evening get-together at home, a live band beats a shuffled iPod playlist every day of the week, and twice on Sundays. With little advertising to the general public, house concerts happen more often than most people know. Some shows end up impromptu rock…
The Dinosaurs are back!
Dinosaurs may have been blasted into extinction—or starved to death—some 70 million years ago, but in every kid's imagination they're still with us, and capable of making life more exciting than homework, or even computer games. The High Desert Museum's new exhibit, "Be the Dinosaur: Life in the Cretaceous," has combined interactive video simulations with…
Freedom Ride FB Back in Business
Psssst! Hey, freedom riders… The Facebook page for the annual red, white and blue bike-a-palooza is back online! The Source spotted this post this afternoon… Happy 4th everybody! Let’s ride! Like Facebook the page for updates. Here’s some video from the 2011 ride. If you love America, you’ll be there. U.S.A!!!
FREE BEER at The Tower Theatre
FREE BEER! The Tower Theatre is now offering free tastings of Worthy beer for the duration of the Farmer’s Market, today 3-7 pm. The venue will open their back doors to the street-side vendors at the market and offer tours of the facility. Did we mention there’s free beer? Worthy Wednesday will continue throughout the…
