The Complete 2015 Lust List Winners
Here you have it, folks, the complete list of Bend’s hotties, as voted by Source Weekly readers. Note: In some categories, there were no clear winners (that is, no one who had more votes than anyone else). We’ll take that as a sign that Bend’s hotness is spread out across the city—and that’s a good…
What Do You Do With A Dead Deer?
All day long the tune “what do you do with a drunken sailor” has been skipping through my mind—except the replacing some of the key words with “dead deer.” As I padded around my house this morning, with a cereal bowl in my hand, I looked out the window—and saw a deer laying dead by…
Les Schwab Amphitheater Announces Death Cab for Cutie and Built to Spill on July 9
Les Schwab Amphitheater has announced it is bringing Death Cab for Cutie and Built to Spill to Bend on July 9. Tickets go on sale Friday, Feb. 13. Be forewarned, you can only buy six.
Mosley Wotta Records New Spoken Word Track ‘Markets’ with Collothen
Local artist and musician MOsley WOtta (Jason Graham) shared a new track yesterday—a spoken word piece titled “Markets (Song from thew Field), a collaboration with Collothen (Colten Tyler Williams), mixed by third seven (Billy Mickelson). Currently available streaming on MOWO’s Bandcamp site, the track promises to be the first in an ongoing spoken word project…
Independent Party of Oregon achieves major party status
The Independent Party of Oregon has become the first major party in the state, outside of the Democratic and Republican parties, Secretary of State Kate Brown announced today. As of February 2, the state determined that the party had reached the necessary threshold to qualify—membership exceeding 5 percent of the state’s population. As a major…
WinterFest cancels snow events, adds more Metal Mulisha and music
Ski bums across the region have been obsessively checking snow reports, and the organizers of Oregon WinterFest are no exception. With weather reports calling for unseasonably warm weather, the festival is adjusting, shifting the focus from snow-centric events to a little more rock and roll. (Full disclosure: Lay It Out Events is part of the…
Ralphie May talks about the man behind the comedy routine
I chatted with stand-up comic Ralphie May—former runner-up on “Last Comic Standing”—in advance of his show in Bend. Here is the complete transcript of that conversation. May performs tonight at the Tower Theatre. Source Weekly: You’re 17 and you win a contest to open for Sam Kinison- super exciting or pants-shitting nervousness? Ralphie May: Uh,…
Bistro 28 Carries Forward Zydeco’s Style
Plush couches adorn a beautifully restored Bruce Wayne-sized fireplace. Thoughtfully hung bike rims pay friendly tribute to the town’s outdoor culture. And high-top bar tables made of three and a half-inch-thick maple invite both personal and business communions alike to Athletic Club of Bend’s newly opened culinary treat, Bistro 28. Replacing the once popular Scanlon’s,…
Craft Beer: Officially Mainstream
Living in Central Oregon, where we are one step away from having the water company just pipe IPA directly to our kitchen taps, it’s easy to think the beer scene here is incomparable to anything else in America. And that’s pretty true, actually, though Asheville, North Carolina, undeniably comes close. But as my beer-themed road…
Finding Art in an Espresso Cup
“I find it amazing that I’m doing this full time,” Karen Eland tells me over the phone, en route to Seattle to talk about her “coffee art.” She adds, “It’s just one of those random ideas that popped into my head.” Inspired to go with a wild idea she had in an Oklahoma coffee shop…
Second-to-Last Comic Standing
Ralphie May walks between the raindrops. Some critics think he’s racist, sexist and likes using the word “retard” a little too much. But the man who came just short of winning the first season of “Last Comic Standing” lives a blessed life with a beautiful wife, two gorgeous kids and his own damned bus to…
Modern Day Ghosts
Imagine you’re walking through a pristine old growth forest, dense with splayed ferns and greened by waves of coastal mist. The air is cool beneath the thick canopy; you can smell muddy bark where it meets emerald moss and the tang of pine. In A Sudden Light, Garth Stein’s new novel about a timber baron’s…
Out of Town 2/4-2/11
Eugene friday 6 & saturday 7 KLCC Microbrew Festival 2015 Bringing classic fundraising out of the standard car washes and pledge drives, KLCC (Eugene’s NPR affiliate, 88.1) holds a microbrew tasting event instead featuring collaboration brews and a homebrew competition, along with a cd and record music sale. Seventy-five breweries will serve up 190 craft…
Our Picks 2/4-2/11
thursday 5 Ralphie May COMEDY—The first (second to) Last Comic Standing, Ralphie May, is that guy at the end of the bar yucking it up while the guys around laugh with and/or at him. Like many comedians, his shtick hinges on self-deprecation, but May doesn’t limit his candid observations to himself. Expect this “Gathering of…
Film Events 2/4-2/11
Iolanta\Bluebeard’s Castle Three hours and forty minutes of operatic splendor brought straight to your eye and ear holes by the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Bluebeard’s Castle is a dark fantasy that loosely examines the Bluebeard folk tale through a psychological and psycho-sexual lens. Yeah, nothing light here. And not to lighten the mood,…
Short, But Stern
The short film category at the Oscars is a fascinating cinematic examination. In some sense, they are the pure films, not worried about commercial success, and in other ways, they are the minor leagues, a place to see the up-and-coming talent. But they also are a fascinating insight into the mind of the Academy’s collective…
Valentine’s Gift Guide
Your Self Though often underrated, self-love is the greatest love of all. And what’s more, as Whitney Houston explains in her classic and aptly titled ballad “The Greatest Love,” it’s easy to achieve. Plus, since it’s all about Me, Myself, and I, it’s good for those bitter single folks who can’t get down with the…
Source Suggests 2/4-2/11
Bend Comedy: Tyler Boeh While Ralphie May performs the same night at the Tower, a more affordable option for nationally touring stand-up comedy comes from Tyler Boeh. Boeh’s high energy and quick wit, paired with his beat boxing skills and a touch of silly, physical comedy make for a gut-busting evening of entertainment. Whether he’s…
Not Happy, But High Quality
There is not as much of a thematic through-line with the documentary selections as the live action narratives, except a subtle one: Regular people dealing with trauma, death and depression and keeping hope alive. While that sounds like a brutal bit of programming (and at times it is), there is always light and beauty; there…
Side Notes 2/4-2/11
Foster Fell v. City of Bend/City Attorney/City Recorder Local activist Foster Fell, represented by attorney and former representative Charlie Ringo, has re-filed his lawsuit challenging the election—and now certification—of City Councilor Casey Roats. Worth noting: Roats is no longer listed as a defendant, as he was in last year’s dismissed version of the lawsuit alleging…
Breaking the Cycle
Last Sunday, an estimated 114 million viewers tuned in to watch the Seahawks and the Patriots battle it out on the Super Bowl field. And many of those folks, on couches and barstools across the country, saw something they’d never seen before—a Super Bowl ad about domestic violence. While the ad has rightly received some…
We Do Need an Education
The high school class of 2013 in Oregon had the worst on-time graduation rate in the country. The rates for the class of 2014 climbed slightly higher, to a “historic high” of 72 percent, as reported in the Oregonian. But still, it’s a dismal rate and has Oregon public schools scraping at the bottom of…
More Than Just a Weekend
Named for the three Sister mountain peaks and Broken Top Mountain, which are visible from the venue’s site, 4 Peaks Music Festival has become a highly visible part of Central Oregon’s music scene with its annual summer three-day concert and, now, with a series of preview shows. Still four months from its kickoff, and with…
Letters 1/27-2/3
IN REPLY TO “TIRED OF NEWCOMERS” (1/29) I have lived in both Bend and Portland and have heard all the griping about newcomers for years. I have now chosen to make a life in the small town I was born and raised in and I could not be happier. I never lock my doors and…
What Goes Up
“It’s really a festival of fun,” says Stirling Cobb, the events and sponsorship manager at Mt. Bachelor. He’s talking about Vertfest, one of the few winter carnivals to focus on backcountry skiing, which returns this weekend to Central Oregon for its third consecutive year. “It’s all about the mountain lifestyle where like-minded people can come…
Counting Crows
It’s seems like just yesterday that the Christmas Bird Count (CBC) and then the Ft. Rock/Christmas Valley Raptor Count, plus several other “counts” have taken place, and now for those who want to—or have to—stay at home and look at birds out the window, here comes the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC). This one is…
Preview First Fridays
Norma Holmes “Mother Nature is my inspiration,” states prolific Plein Air painter Norma Holmes. “Painting is my passion. I paint the drama of the Cascade Mountains bathed in early morning light, the intriguing silence of the High Desert, and the many hues of the Metolius River.” Holmes is an awe-inspiring talent, and a longtime gallery…
