What Does A Frisbee Have to Do With Pie?
Frisbees were invented by alumni from my small Vermont college. While there were famous alumni and authors from the school, the addition of frisbee to American culture was a certain point of pride for the school. There was even a statute of a giant Great Dane leaping with a frisbee in his mouth on campus…
What Bad Has Ever Come From Pie?
Oh sure, perhaps there have been some poisoned pies sent to enemies in the Middle Ages, but really, I would hazarded that 99.9% of the time a pie has been baked, it has brought joy. There are a few days left for our Pie-Off: Submit a recipe to pie@bendsource.com, and we will select three recipes…
Gremlins TOMORROW!
You’re invited to the Source’s pre-Halloween celebration of the cutest, turned grossest little creatures to come out of 1984…GREMLINS! BEST CHRISTMAS PRESENT EVER! Thanks, Dad! Wednesday, Oct. 30Old Stone Church, 8 pm. FREE! Beer from 10 Barrel Brewing Co., give-aways and lots and lots of Mogwais. Don’t forget the three golden rules of Mogwai ownership……
Wes Anderson Trailers: Real and Fake
This weekend, SNL made a fake tralior for a Wes Anderson horror flick “The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders” starring Edward Norton as Owen Wilson.We wish it were real. But wait, before you go crying precocious crocodile tears while typing a strongly worded complaint letter to SNL on your vintage type writer…Last week, a very…
Gremlins: When Monsters Were Fun!
On Wednesday, October 30, the Source presents the 1984 funny and scary GREMLINS! Sponsored by 10 Barrel, the film plays (for free!) at Old Stone, 8 pm. Given the camp, it is easy to gloss over how clever and inventive some of the storyline is. The screenwriter, recently out of NYU film school, Chris Columbus…
Water Levels in Mirror Pond to Drop Further as Dam Inspection Begins
Mirror Pond water levels are already quite low. Pacific Power spokesman Bob Gravely just told me that the utility company will begin drawing down water levels Monday morning at the “crack on dawn” so that company personnel can access and inspect the Newport Avenue Dam, which sprung a significant leak in early October. Permitting requirements…
Pre-Halloween Weekend Roundup!
Some go sexy for Halloween, some go creepy. I recommend stuffing yourself into the most elaborate, outlandish costume you can find. It’s normal to stress about what to wear for the most glamorously ghoulish weekend of the year, but one thing you shouldn’t worry about is finding a party to flaunt your get-up. The Source…
Friday Mixtape and Contest!
Autobiographical concerts!
FREE Tickets to Start Laughing Comedy Show
We’ve got two tickets to tonight’s Start Laughing comedy benefit at the Tower Theatre and we want to give them to you! The show is a benefit for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Oregon and includes admission to a VIP reception pre-show at Umpqua Bank and a post-show party at 5 Fusion which will…
Come Watch Gremlins with Us Next Wednesday (It’s Free!)
Get in the Halloween spirit—come see Gremlins for free! (Yeah, we know, the 1984 film is a Christmas movie, but it’s scary—kinda. Mostly it’s hilarious and awesome.) Shaky on the plot? Read this week’s review and find out how Gremlins helped give rise to whole genre (also, the PG-13 rating). We’ll be pouring beers, Gremlins…
Wild Rose: New Thai Restaurant in Downtown NOW OPEN
OPEN FOR BUSINESS! Wild Rose Thai is the newest addition to Bend’s downtown dining options: A Northern-thai restaurant at 150 NW Oregon Ave., formerly Common Table. Pad Mamuang with sticky jasmine rice $7 The decor inside is brightly colored and busy with beautiful terracotta flatware and brightly colored chairs and table cloths, a big change…
Letters 10/16-10/24
Voters get early snow on room tax measure 9-94. Did you “like” bendtaps.com? Then you won’t have to pay for VisitBend’s $410,000, 40% raise. No worries, Bend’s hard working hotel owners will extract this 11.4% tax from their customers. Twenty-five years ago it was 1%. Why work in the hotel industry, you can increase your…
Indulge in the Outdoors
Bend’s best athletes aren’t runners or cyclists or even Nordic skiers—they’re furry sled dogs. These little beasts, called Alaskan huskies, are shorthaired, agile and weigh between 45 and 55 pounds—much smaller than their fluffy Washington husky and Alaskan Malamute cousins, which can easily tip the scales at 100 pounds or more. As is true with…
Cross Crusade Turns Twenty
Tina Brubaker, a cheery, petite powerhouse, fondly remembers racing cyclocross in Oregon in 1994, just one year after the Cross Crusade series was established. With a roaring fire, cold beers and even a brother-sister duo that sang and played the banjo, those early races, which attracted approximately 50 racers and were often held at a…
Unreasonable Mount
dIf you wonder what drives someone to want to climb mountains, look elsewhere. The documentary The Summit does not attempt to justify people risking frostbite and skull smashing in order to get a life-affirmingly fantabulous view. Director Nick Ryan is on a different, more specific mission: to sort out what went wrong in early August…
Scary! Funny! Furry!
There’s a good reason to have conflicting emotions about the 1984 film Gremlins. It is a wonderfully entertaining film, but also one that is equal parts adorable, scary and silly. A brief recap, as it has been nearly 30 years since its release: In search of a Christmas present for his grown son, a father…
New Appalachia
Originating in Kentucky’s Appalachian Mountains in the mid-late 18th century, bourbon—still subject to time-honored distillation and quality standards—has (thankfully) in recent years been moving west. Keeping with the traditions of those before them, Oregon distilleries from Portland to Bend are now crafting, aging and bottling high-quality bourbons. Here are four bottles worth indulging in: CW…
Shulamith
Shulamith Poliça | Mom & Pop Music The first album from Minneapolis synth post-pop group Poliça—2012’s Give You the Ghost—inspired Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon to exclaim to Rolling Stone: “They’re the best band I’ve ever heard.” On their second album Shulamith—just released this week—Vernon lends his sultry tenor vocals to the lead single “Tiff.” Clearly,…
Deep Into That Darkness Peering
“I’m not some kind of goth, just so you know,” Alastair Morley Jaques asserts. “I’m an alarmingly happy and optimistic person.” But for the past five Halloweens, Jacques has taken on the personality of a man fascinated by death and darkness—poet and author Edgar Allen Poe. The 31-year-old father of two studied theater at Evergreen…
Making History
Along Third Avenue, by the auto parts stores and low-slung hotels, is an unassuming beige building—not unlike the other blocky buildings along the no frills stretch of Bend. There is nothing on the exterior to indicate that Just Joe’s Music is a worm hole into another universe—one filled with blaring saxophones, screaming trumpets, memories and…
Wicca-pedia
A grouping of generically bland apartments in Redmond are not the dark gothic mansion on the hill with flickering lightning and roaring thunder I imagined (hoped?) to be a Wiccan’s home. I approach the numbered door, and it opens with a whiff of musky incense. Standing in front of me is Toby Hurd, a tall,…
String Theory
Canadian Kyla LeBlanc—who goes by the stage name Kytami—is one of those rare innovative spirits who doubles down on experimentation. Rather than merely adding her instrument—a violin—to a particular genre, Kytami is inventing a new category of music by merging multiple sounds into a potpourri of creativity. Hip-hop, world, trance and punk all orbit the…
Indulge in Reading
This past week, the Deschutes Public Library Foundation announced its second lineup for the popular Author! Author! series. In its sophomore year, the series is rolling out some of the best and most entertaining writers in the country. Leading the pack is Sherman Alexie, who burst onto the literary scene in 1993 with his collection…
Out of Town 10/23-10/31
portland friday 25 Samantha Bee The longest-running “Daily Show” correspondent ever (take that Colbert!), Samantha Bee built a career by effortlessly caricaturizing and skewering unsuspecting interviewees across the political spectrum. Her most recent stunt was taunting Rep. Scott Rigell (R-VA) with chicken noises and attempting to hold her breath in a tantrum until he did…
Our Picks 10/23 – 10/31
wed 23- thur 24 The Trembling Giant FILM—In some circles the word “hunting” conjures up images of machine gun-toting rednecks with no regard for nature. This beautifully filmed, thoughtful documentary about bow hunting for elk in the American West reminds us that such simplistic, narrow-minded hunting associations are just that. 6:30 pm. McMenamins, 700 NW…
Chocolate Round Up
Last week, we gave ourselves the onerous assignment to sample chocolate around Bend. It is a tough job, but someone needs to do it. Bend d’Vine Chocolate Café & Wine Bar David Kalov is a chocolate chemist. The unassuming Bend d’Vine owner makes all of the shop’s bold chocolates in house—as well as the other…
High and Dry
Thousands of fish now lie dead on the banks of the Upper Deschutes, stranded after the Oregon Water Resources Department reverted to extremely low winter flow rates last week. Perhaps worse, no laws were broken—current water management policies allow for such low flows, which in this case resulted in the death of approximately 3,000 brown…
A Good, but Incomplete Idea
Let’s be clear: We approve an increase in the Transient Room Tax for the City of Bend, as proposed by Measure 9-94 (not to be confused with Measure 9-96 for a similar room tax increase in Deschutes County). In fact, we think that the TRT for the City of Bend should be more ambitious. The…
The Horror, the Horror!
It was a dark and stormy night in the summer of 1816 when Lord Byron gathered a group of friends and authors to the shores of Lake Geneva and proposed a contest: He read German ghost stories aloud, and then challenged the attendees to write their own horror story. A 19-year-old Mary Shelley submitted a…
Indulgence as a Virtue
Indulgence gets such a bad name. It is darn near considered a deadly sin—or, perhaps it is considered the cornerstone for all of the seven sins—a self-satisfying nap as proxy for sloth, pigging out on pies and sweets considered a form of gluttony, and the pathway to lust is often paved by indulgence in one’s…
Different, but the Same
The common adage seems to be that America is an increasingly divisive country. Exhibit A: Congress’ most recent budget negotiation, which resulted in a federal government shut down, and each side, arms crossed, pouting and refusing to talk reasonably to the other for days. So much that is contemporary American culture seems to be defined…
One Day at a Time
MONDAY 14 This just in: Kanye West is a big, dumb snob. As he constantly reminds us, Kanye is the best thing to happen to the fashion world since Coco Chanel slipped into a pair of men britches—and so, is totes embarrassed by his no-style, Sears-shoppin’ baby mama Kim Kardashian. In a ridiculously wrongheaded attempt…
TONIGHT: Two Bike Events Worth Attending
Yes, it’s a busy night for bike nerds. Both events look great. Here’s how to decide. Bend Bikes Community ForumBest for: bicycle advocates/infrastructure wonks/alternative transportation proponents: More here. Bike-Packing/Snowbiking/Mountain Biking 10 Essentials PresentationBest for: adventurers/fitness freaks/backpackers with bad knees/bike-packing curious/fat bike enthusiasts: More here.
Pie Season Has Arrived
Pumpkin pie, the iconic topper to a tummy full of Thanksgiving feast, and a true marker that the holiday season has arrived. In my years of attempting to create the prefect Turkey Day desert, I’ve learned that the keys are a handmade crust—light, flakey and especially buttery—and the perfect spice profile to balance the sweet…
Giant Inflatable Puppy Wants You to Pass on that Burger
Photo by Erin Rook. People driving past Drake Park for lunch were greeted by a large inflatable dog and a handful of animal rights activists urging them to fill up on plant-based foods. It’s generally considered poor table manners to talk about the unsavory origins of one’s food during a meal, but that’s precisely why…
ON STANDS NOW! The Source’s Scary/Sweet Issue
This week’s Source has…TWO COVERS! WHAAAAAT!?!?! Check out the Source’s scary/sweet, Halloween/indulgence issue! Half of the issue is—get this—UPSIDE DOWN! Inspired by Jekyll and Hyde, trick-or-treat and all the other lovely juxtapositions of scary and sweet in the world, we present to you, TWO COVERS (a scary Sasquatch cyclocross cover by Dana MacKenzie and a…
