PICK: Casey Neill and The Norway Rats
GREAT MUSIC—Deceptively peppy, Casey Neill and The Norway Rats crank out songs that are infectiously catchy. But really, their music is so much more: intricately crafted and complicated with layers of moaning guitars, gypsy accordions, tinkling pianos, pounding drums, and adorable hipsters crooning and harmonizing. Is it wrong to want to pinch them? 7 pm.…
PICK: Orquesta Monte Calvo
saturday 6 Orquesta Monte Calvo MORE DANCE MUSIC—It isn’t too often that an Afro-Latin dance band twists its snakey danceable world-music grip around Bend. Corvallis’ Orquesta Monte Calvo mixes traditional and modern music styles from Peru and Colombia—Psychedelic Cumbia, Chicha, Samba, funk and more 9 pm. Volcanic Theatre Pub, 70 SW Century Dr. $6.
PICK: First Friday
friday 5 First Friday ART—Take a stroll downtown filled with art bites and booze samples. Make sure to swing by Crow’s Feet Commons, hosting a slew of great events including Base Camp Studio’s painting marathon and On Ensemble, forward thinking taiko (Japanese ensemble drumming) artists. Bishop’s Barber Shop will host work from the Source’s artist…
PICK: Speed boat racing!
BOATS—Like a sanctioned drag car race on the water, the annual end-of-summer, engine-roaring High Desert Showdown is open for any and all boat drivers, although we high recommend more than your 15 horsepower fishing dingy if you want to keep pace with the 170 mph speedboats. 9 am. Haystack Reservoir, Culver. $10 for spectators.
FILM REVIEW: The November Man
With The November Man, you quickly get the sense that you’re watching an uncredited Bourne sequel, with a few important improvements: An R rating, no shaky cam, and very few government functionaries spouting geopolitical buzzwords in front of monitors. Those are good improvements! It stars Pierce Brosnan doing sex stuff and spy stuff (an espionage…
An Interview with Panther Attack
Seattle-based noise band Panther Attack play obtuse, nontraditionally structured experimental rock music. Panther Attack songs take a meandering path that can lead from gong-smashing percussion to mathy guitar riffs to space-age dreamy loops, often spiraling off into stream of consciousness tinted jams. Sung Amongst Shadows, the band’s 2014 release, is a cleaned up amalgamation of…
Editor’s Note: This week’s issue goes back to school
Over the years, one of the frustrations I have had as an editor and with the media industry in general is that too often news reporting is considered a binary exercise—that is, either the story is a serious piece, which usually means digging up dirt or revealing some hard truths; or, it is a feel-good…
Bend Zine Library Now at Townshend’s Teahouse
Last year, we wrote a story about Bend’s Zine Library, a fun collaboration between the local independent publishing community that compiled private archives of zines, local and national, and put them up for rent and reading free of charge. Formerly housed at the Work House and then at Armature Studio, last week, the Zine Library…
Hearings Officer Approves OSU Cascades Site Plan
Deschutes County Hearings Officer Ken Helm has approved Oregon State University-Cascades site plan for a 10-acre campus expansion in southwest Bend, but the go-ahead comes with some conditions, namely recommendations regarding road crossing improvements and parking enhancements recommended by the City’s planning department. “We appreciate the City’s and Mr. Helm’s thorough review of our application,…
PICK: The Great Duck Race
RUBBER DUCKY—Although each yellow rubber ducky looks identical to the other ducks, the minor differences in manufacturing flaws, buoyance, and, of course, catching the right current and not getting caught in the weeds, makes all the difference for the 25th running of the Great Duck Race. 1:30 pm. Drake Park. Each duck costs $5.
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Random goodness
Mt. Bachelor Announces Season Pass Pricing and Pass-holder Perks
With temps in the 90s and the river still packed with tubers squeezing the last drops out of summer, it’s hard to think about ski and snowboard season. But we’ll be checking snow reports before we know it. And with Mt. Bachelor season passes going on sale in September (and getting more spendy come October),…
Newspaper on the Radio 8/28
Editor Phil Busse chats with Mike from 92.9 FM about the 8/27/14 issue of The Source Weekly, featuring our Fall Fashion pages and big news about the Mirror Pond Plaza.
Another Dimension
In 2012, Mark Duplass and Aubrey Plaza starred in Safety Not Guaranteed, a charmingly lo-fi genre-buster that, to great effect, merged time travel with a quirky rom-com. Duplass treads similar territory in The One I Love, another hipster-Twilight Zone offering about attractive white folk confronting circumstances entirely beyond their understanding. Duplass plays Ethan, a husband…
Film Events 8/28-9/4
Ghostbusters 30th Anniversary Not that there needs to be a good reason to see Ghostbusters on the big screen, but the 30th anniversary seems like as good a reason as any. Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Dan Ayckroyd, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, Sigourney Weaver and William Atherton as that jackass Walter Peck work their…
Troubadour Realism
The dusty, dreamy rock and roll of Jeff Crosby and the Refugees isn’t dismissible or fluffy, although the Americana-rooted songs could as easily fit into a glowing ’90s alt-rock radio lineup as a dingy, sticky-floored dive bar. The Springsteen-esque songs delve deeply into the core of personal turmoil, blue-collar lifestyles and nomadic tendencies. From the…
Two Heads Are Better Than One
“We walked over the bridge in Milwaukee/Past the statues of Fonz and the duck. With the wind kicking in/and the sparrows all running amok,” sings Aimee Mann in her signature hazy alto-drone at the opening of “Milwaukie,” the second track on The Both’s self-titled debut. Then, BAM!, punk singer Ted Leo’s steady, punchy voice joins…
Out of Town 8/28-9/4
portland tuesday 26 – monday 1 Portland Film Festival Already a top-notch event, Portland Film Festival has upped its game this year, with screenings in the city’s best and funkiest theaters, and on rooftops. Closing night is at Waterfront Park, with a wonderful documentary about an unemployed man from the Bronx who, in 2008, is…
Go Here 8/28-9/4
With Labor Day here, a farewell to float tubes may be in order. But, cooler shorter days don’t mean time to hibernate; instead, they make for perfect biking weather. It’s no secret Bend is bike-nut crazy, but not all of us were born on berms, with mud coursing through our veins. For those new to…
What Would Andy Griffith Do?
For the past year, under a lease with the city, Crow’s Feet Commons has managed Mirror Pond Plaza. But last Wednesday, the City of Bend unexpectedly declined to renew that lease. (See “Clipping the Crow’s Wings”) Were there specific complaints that Crow’s Feet Commons was poorly managing the space? Not really. Yes, a few grumblings,…
Where Everybody Knows Your Name
There’s a new addition to the chain-link fence at the corner of Olney and First Street. A large sign reads “Farm to Street Food Cart” with an oversized green arrow pointing south into what looks like a partially abandoned industrial neighborhood running parallel to Third Street. It’s not a street that looks likely to be…
The Source’s 2014 Fall Fiction Competition
Calling all writers! Send a fictional short story based on one of the below prompts to the Source Weekly for a chance to be published in the paper and win awesome prizes. Read the guidelines below and submit to fiction@bendsource.com Choose from one of the following prompts: “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been…
Clipping the Crow’s Wings
It’s 9 a.m. on a Friday, and the Mirror Pond Plaza is already bustling with activity. Friends chat at the café tables over coffee and croissants. Children play on the steps between the square and Drake Park. Customers stop inside Crow’s Feet Commons to check out bikes. And tourists pass through en route to the…
Roll Out the Barrels
Tiring of the same old flavors in your beer? The sight of 10 different IPAs on tap at the local growler joint filling you with ennui? Well, the world of barrel aging has your back—and if you’re unfamiliar with it, prepare for a rather intense crash course if you attend The Little Woody beer festival…
Letters 8/20-8/26
PROTECTING PEDESTRIANS AND DOGS As reported in the Bulletin [“Pedestrian sting yields 7 citations” (8/20)], the Bend Police Department has begun its annual operation to educate motorists about properly yielding to pedestrians at crosswalks. May I suggest another “sting” operation to “educate” motorists on the dangers (read: stupidity) of transporting dogs loose in the back…
Sinless Sweets
Barclay Losse has a sweet tooth. He also has diabetes. About a year and a half ago, Losse started experimenting with desserts that he could enjoy without jeopardizing his health. “I wanted to create something tasty that wouldn’t mess with my blood sugar as much as other tasty things,” he explains. “Also, I had jaw…
Our Picks 8/28-9/4
thursday 28 Fremont: Finding the Path HISTORY—Actor Alastair Morley Jaques, known for his creepily spot-on impersonation of Edgar Allen Poe, will portray Central Oregon mapmaker and explorer John Fremont as part of “Fremont: Finding the Path,” a Oregon Bureau of Land Management-funded event. The larger-than-life man, known as “The Great Pathfinder,” is revived by the…
Fall Fashion 2014
N Spekktor (a pseudonym, she requested we don’t run her real name in case she gets famous someday) is a local painter and fashion designer with a penchant for electronic music. As a testament to her passion for fashion, she wears a tattoo of a needle and thread shaping an infinity symbol on her forearm…
Whatcha Doing, Candidate?
The race between incumbent Sen. Jeff Merkley and his opponent Dr. Monica Wehby is heating up. Merkley, who served five terms in the Oregon House of Representatives before defeating Gordon Smith to become Oregon’s junior senator in 2008, was the first federal candidate to be cross-nominated by the Independent Party. Whereas, if elected, Wehby, currently…
Calm in a Storm of Adrenaline
Propping elbows with day-old scabs on the table, 21-year-old professional mountain biker Carson Storch from Bend calmly explains, “I like being in the air.” “Oh, these,” he says when asked about the scabs that look as if a tiger has clawed both of his arms. “These are actually from Mt. Bachelor,” he explains. “I just…
