New Food Cart Pod Coming Along Nicely
The new covered food cart pod on the corner of Hartford Avenue and Columbia Street (near Hutch’s Bicycles and next to Real Food Bistro’s cart) is closer to opening. The plan is to be up in running in August. A month ago owner David Staley was unsure as to whether he’d be able to serve…
Cascade Cycling Classic is On!
Sam Wiebe Bend’s Alex Candelario is in top form and looking to crush this week. The 34th annual, six-stage Cascade Cycling Classic kicked off today with a short prologue. Head to the Tetherow club house to see today’s finish (the men don’t even start until 7pm and the short 2.5-mile course will take only minutes…
Countdown to SWAYZE
Oh boy, oh boy. It is like the day before Christmas! All the screens are hung (James and I just perched on a 24 foot ladder to precariously hang a surprisingly heavy 16 foot screen). The beer is bought and neatly tucked into The Old Stone Church and, without a Blockbuster in sight, we have…
Source Seeking Fall Fashion Coordinator
Think that you have an eye for what’s trending in Bend? Can you coordinate plaids to stripes—or, know better not to do so? Do you know when four-inch heels and cowboys hats are appropriate? The Source is looking for a top-notch Fashion Coordinator for our Fall Fashion Issue (hits stands August 29). This is a dynamic, contract position. The…
Pacific Power in Standoff with Mirror Pond Management Board
The mood was TENSE in today’s Mirror Pond Management Board meeting as its members, one after another, put Pacific Power representative Angela Price on the spot. The meeting was originally arranged so that project manager Jim Figurski could share the results from the latest survey. But what followed could only be described as a standoff…
TICKET GIVEAWAY: Tonight’s Backstage @ LSA show
Ticket giveaway on our Facebook page for Reggae by the River, TONIGHT!
EXTRA: Tumbleweed Wanderers
More from Tumbleweed Wanderers
Rescue Fashion Show at Dojo TONIGHT!
Rescue presents more than ten local designers in an Asian inspired fashion down tonight at the newly remodeled Dojo (852 NW Brooks St.) 8 pm. If you haven’t checked out the changes, you might be surprised to find that the former Boken feels a bit more like a night club, at least after 10 pm,…
FREE PINK MARTINI TICKETS
We’ve got two more tickets for Pink Martini tonight! 6:30 pm at the Les Schwab Amphitheater! Comment below telling us why you deserve these tickets and we will pick a winner this afternoon. You must come pick up the tickets at our office, 704 NW Georgia Ave. before 5 pm today. Thanks for reading!
Friday Mixtape!
A blog-tastic playlist!
What’s Better Than Free?
Better than FREE – as in the Source’s SWAYZE SUMMER series – is that we also are giving away items. Starting on Wednesday, the Source is hosting a series of great American actor Patrick Swayze movies – starting with Point Break. 8 pm, Old Stone Church. Sponsored by Widmer Brewery, each movie is free to…
In the Bottle
Crux is now bottling, and three flavors are available at Newport Market, although already one was sold out. Nonetheless, it was the Insider IPA I was looking for, as a treat to bring to an after-work, porch-sitting chill-out session with two other guys. Served in single pint bottles, these are perfect serving sizes. The label…
Gary’s No Quit Wit
On July 10, Bend beer drinkers will get to raise a pint of “Gary’s No Quit Wit,” Worthy Brewing’s latest creation, in honor of Bend living legend Gary Bonacker, Sunnyside Sports co-owner and mountain bike pioneer. Also, cancer fighter and creator of Tour des Chutes, a benefit ride he created. Ten years ago Bonacker was…
Meet the Artist
In 1965, Andy Warhol created an image for Time magazine for an article called “Today’s Teen-Agers.” The iconic image ran on the cover. Warhol took the children of Time’s staffers to an arcade and posed them for portraits, assembling the photos into his signature color blocked pop-art collage style. The cover helped launch Warhol to…
Bike Town USA . . . Really?
City Councilor Victor Chudowsky always gets a prime parking spot out front of Thump Coffee in downtown Bend. That’s because parking at the popular café isn’t a problem. At least not for bike commuters. Rather than another conventional parallel car parking space, similar to those lining the rest of Minnesota Avenue, a string of fire-engine…
Our Picks 7/10 – 7/18
friday 12 Pink Martini OUTDOOR MUSIC—Most surprising about Pink Martini is how wholesome it is, a 21st century, postmodern version of the Carter Family (and/or Liberace). Borrowing from show tunes, Von Trapp classics and sparkly ditties, the music is highly proficient yet easily consumed, as effervescent as a flute of champagne. 6:30 pm. Les Schwab…
Media Salon Rides Again
On Monday evening, the Source hosted its third “Media Salon,” a monthly event where our editor, Phil Busse, goes all Oprah-like and Q&As with local experts. It is our attempt to bring our newspaper more to life, and to create a forum where readers can interact. You know, make our news reporting all relevant and…
Ichin’ for Stitchin’
The 38th annual Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show has 1,300 quilt entries. Ranging in size from 36 to 100 inches, entries total 6,128 feet of quilt—over a mile if you laid them end-to-end. Enough to solidly blanket (ah ha! quilt joke!) the entire town of Sisters, transforming every bare wall and exposed eve into a work…
The Legislative Class of 2013
The legislative session ended on Monday, and 2013’s class of legislators wasn’t the flashy group in recent history, but in a final sprint toward the finish line, they did manage to release $1 billion for important construction and education projects. Call these their “class gift”—some $600 million in capital projects and various spending for the…
Don’t Be A Dunderhead
I teach in Portland and, last weekend, one of my students received a phone message during a break between classes. When she returned, she was clearly shaken. Her girlfriend, a 22-year-old Reed College graduate like herself, had been in a bike accident. There wasn’t much information, but what was known was she had broken her…
One Day at a Time
MONDAY 1 Impossible as it may sound, some people are actually claiming that motherhood has changed howling seahag Kim Kardashian into a (what??) somewhat bearable person. “When I walked in to see her, Kim was holding the baby,” said unreliable witness and Pussycat Dolls founder Robin Antin to Us Weekly. “I said, ‘Oh, my god.…
Letters 7/3 – 7/11
Bear Creek's principal getting administrative leave These recent weeks we have seen society wake up to its double standards and bigotry, whether it is seeing a 11 year old boy as a second-class citizen because he cherishes one of the many cultures that coexist in this country or the casual use of the n-word to…
Tour Tech
Over the past year, cycling technology has seen great gains—from aerodynamic helmets that actually make riders faster, to sexy hydraulic rim road brakes that offer super modulation and stopping ease. Now that the Tour de France is well under way, the public is getting its first glimpse of the latest in tour tech. This week,…
Destroy All Monsters
“The audience needs to be invested in the difference between what you’re doing and something generic, and I would argue that most of the audience don’t know the difference between someone who I consider to be making ‘cinema’ and someone who’s not,” Steven Soderbergh recently told Empire, explaining his reasons for quitting directing. “That shit—that…
Swayze Summer!
People’s sexiest man alive (circa 1991), enviable dance skills, the ability to make women want him and men want to be him and, oh man, dat ass. The Source has created a summer film series to honor the work of one of our favorite late, great actors, Patrick Swayze (swoon)! Let us refresh you on…
Alone Aboard the Ark
Alone Aboard the Ark The Leisure Society Full Time Hobby Equally at home in a rural, blue-collar, cedar-planked Surrey pub as it is in a lively urban London ale house, the music of Britain’s The Leisure Society hits all the notes of traditional and modern British folk music. On the band's latest release, Alone Aboard…
The Everlasting Battle
Though the second Iraq war has largely wound down, U.S. involvement in Afghanistan is now in its 12th year. Meaning: Three of the members of Tumbleweed Wanderers were 10 when that war started and the other two were barely in puberty. From their perspective “peacetime” largely exists in history books. Such sensibility informs the lyrics.…
Street Heat
River floating, camping, hiking, pub cycling-the list of must-do Bend summertime activities is long, but not complete without adding one last thing—a Summerfest concert by flamenco guitarist Todd Haaby. Of course, there is a lot more than just music at Summerfest, but concerts are a big part of the annual downtown street fair. They’re also…
Out of Town 7/10 – 7/18
seattle saturday 13 Sub Pop’s Silver Jubilee Sub Pop Records were the first to coin the Seattle sound, signing bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden and Mudhoney before they were plaid-clad and MTV trendy. Since SubPopproduced its first platinum record—Nirvana’s Blech—the label’s name has become synonymous with supporting authentic independent artists. The label wil celebrate its 25th…
Transient Room Tax Resolution Passes
The Bend City Council put months of discussion to rest Wednesday night by passing the Transient Room Tax Resolution, 5-2. Voters will decide in November if the tax-rate on rooms should jump from 9 to 10.4 percent. The decision didn’t come easily, though. After hearing support from several business figures in the community, council members…
Mt. Bachelor Posts Construction Progress for Downhill Bike Park
Mt. Bachelor has posted maps and photos of trail progress for a new Downhill Bike Park! Here is their Facebook post from this afternoon: Woo hoo! Read more on the background of the project here, and check out more photos of construction here.
