Bend Takes Home Two Medals at the World Beer Cup Awards
The 2014 World Beer Cup Awards concluded this weekend in Denver, Colo. With the highest number of entries to date (4,754 beers from 1,403 breweries in 58 countries) judges awarded 281 medals across 94 beer style categories. Oregon took home 17 medals awarded to 14 brewing companies including Bend’s own 10 Barrel and Bend Brewing…
Whimsy & Righteousness
Ernest & Celestine originally screened in Oregon as part of the Portland International Film Festival (PIFF), and I remember thinking it was a shame. Not the film itself—which is an absolute delight—but the fact that it was screening in its original French with English subtitles. Fine for adults, but out of reach for kids who…
Straight From The Farm
Bette Frasier is more than just the owner of the Well Traveled Fork, and more than just a tour guide to High Desert area farms. She is greeted with hugs and toothy smiles from farmers, and she knows the names of family members, their pets and what everyone’s been working on. “We’re several generations removed…
Won’t Back Down
Steve Peat just loves racing his bike. And Won’t Back Down is a love story, chronicling the veteran downhill mountain bike racer’s love affair with the sport—and all the ups and downs, victories, losses and struggles. (Hey, its like a real relationship!). Yes, the film has plenty of footage showing Peat successfully navigating some pretty…
Worthy’s Hop Fetish Goes to 11
Forget about the aggressive name. Worthy’s Eruption is more sports car than volcano. This beer boasts a lot of horsepower with 8 percent ABV and 100+ IBU, but those numbers are misleading. Far from an explosion, it’s all about skilled handling of powerful elements. The result is a medium-full bodied, quite drinkable beer. With subtle…
All Shook Up
Sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire make up two thirds of the Dixie Chicks, the best selling all female group of all time. Ann and Nancy Wilson, the sisters of Heart, have been cranking out soaring ’80s melodies for four decades running. Johanna and Klara Söderberg are young Swedish sisters whose spine-chilling vocal harmonies in…
Oregon’s Very Own John Grisham
Author Phillip Margolin traded the thrills of the courtroom as an Oregon trial attorney for a career penning legal thrillers, and has nearly 20 bestselling books to show for it. His most recent novel, a historical drama titled Worthy Brown’s Daughter, is a heartbreaking story of slavery and murder set in nineteenth-century Oregon. Margolin will…
The Source Suggests
Zach Ryan and The Renegades Zach Ryan and The Renegades play the kind of living room rock and roll reminiscent of the purest of pop forefathers. Clean and bouncy verses and hooks driven by Tom Petty-esque guitars and narrative lyrics that rattle around in your brain for stretches long after the songs have ended make…
4 Non Blondes
No GPS necessary to find LUMIN Art Studios. It’s nestled into the only distinctly non-rural-looking brick building on Fourth Street in Tumalo (the street numbers only go up to Eight). It’s next to Tumalo Coffeehouse. If you see the fire station, you’re close. Hit the elementary school, and you’ve gone too far. While artist collective…
Tales from the Road
“I can whistle in five languages. I’m smarter than a circus dog and I’m on Facebook,” claimed the crusty male voice in a message left for Austin country rock band the Wheeler Brothers. Oh, the stranger also called them morons. Crazy stalker? Not necessarily. The Wheeler Brothers actually invited fans and strangers—like this man—to call…
21st Century Poetry
Logically, poetry should be the literary form of the 21st century. It’s short, concise, and for a shallow reading, only requires a snap second attention span. Sounds an awful lot like Twitter (a-hem, Millennials, you should love it). Yet despite its digestibility, the form is still clouded by a shadow of elitism and snobbery, dating…
Out of Town 4/2-4/10
portland saturday 12 Pink Martini and the Oregon Symphony Pink Martini will perform with special guests The von Trapps in a special three-night engagement at the Oregon Symphony. Portland’s favorite little orchestra recently released an album with the descendants of the Austrian family famously depicted in “The Sound of Music.” And while it would be…
Our Picks 4/9-4/17
thursday 10 Tim Snider RAWKIN’ VIOLIN—Swinging between the classical precision of Itzhak Perlman and the free-rocking of Dexys Midnight Runners (really? you don’t remember “C’mon Eileen”?), Tim Snyder is a touch high-strung (ha! get it?) and a bit cheeseball, but a highly prolific, dynamic and fun violinist. 7 pm. Old St. Francis, 700 NW Bond.…
Taking Care of Business
A whisky for the non-whisky snob, Professionals Spiced Whisky is sweet and smooth, an easy drink laced with flowery helpings of vanilla and pumpkin pie spice. The base of the spiced whisky is distilled in Canada (hence the spelling whisky, which denotes origin in Canada, Japan, Scotland, England, and Wales) and is bottled and flavored…
Huffing and Puffing
Becky Johnson, vice president of Oregon State University-Cascades, says she wants to be a good neighbor. As the lead proponent for the university’s expansion to a full-service, four-year college, that sentiment has placed her on the frontline with neighbors. And, since last April, the university has convened a board of community members the school calls…
The Green Issue
It is like the perfect storm—in a good way: The combination of large budgets and the idealism of college-age students. Across the country, college campuses are serving as some of the most impressive laboratories for sustainability practices. And, Oregon State University-Cascades campus is no different, both in regard to the hardware (the buildings) and the…
Change Starts at Home
If Sam Newman’s passion for sustainability could be tapped, it might just qualify as an alternative fuel source. The recent graduate of OSU-Cascades’ Sustainability Program is at once energetic and thoughtful, cycling between rapid-fire commentary and deep reflection. When he talks about the importance of preserving the environment for future generations, Newman has trouble sitting…
Clearly Marked
The Deschutes Paddle Trail is a stunning stretch of nature, skirting along the twisty river, and ducking in and out of fir forests. But that beauty also creates a paradox: The Deschutes River’s beauty attracts hordes of visitors, but not all manage to preserve its natural habitat, trampling off-trail plants and unintentionally damaging adjacent land.…
Giving More Than They Take
Last year, Oregon ranked sixth in the number of Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) certified projects, registering 47 buildings statewide. One of Bend’s crown sustainable architecture jewels is the Bend Park & Recreation administration building, awarded a prestigious Gold LEED Certification upon completion in 2009. The building is fully loaded with radiant floor…
Get on the Bus, Gus
Over the past decade, the tenor of the environmental movement has shifted more towards the you-attract-more-bees-with-honey sweetness. Oh sure, there are still plenty of indignant protestors and bloggers (rightfully) browbeating corporations and polluters. But increasingly so, the paradigm for speaking about environmental issues and, more broadly, sustainability matters is about figuring out a solution that…
Letters 4/2-4/8
Mirror Pond (continued) One topic I neglected to address in my recent Letter to the Editor about removing the Mirror Pond dam (The Source Weekly, March 27) is water quality. My M.S. thesis in Environmental Health was an aerial water quality study, but it doesn’t take a Master’s Degree to see algae growing in the…
Dirt Bikes Come of Age
In the ’70s, riding dirt bikes was an informal sport, jumping Huffy bikes off mounds in backyards and tearing Schwinn Sting-Rays through hiking paths (certainly a precursor to mountain biking for thousands of kids). But even though the sport had formally arrived in America in 1969, when a group of teenagers in West LA started…
Hicks With Issues
Fifteen percent of the United States’ population lives in poverty. That’s a lot of poor people, living a lot of different kinds of lives. It’s weird, then, that when poor people turn up in movies and on television, their stories always seem to feature the same few elements: The South Bad teeth Weird sex stuff…
