The BendFilm Festival is just over a month away (Oct. 9-12) and to get Bend hyped for the 11th annual program, they have released a sneak peak from a rather intense moment in The Sublime and the Beautiful. Here is the IMDB summary of the film: David Conrad is a college professor and sometimes philanderer […]
Brianna Brey
Bri Brey is a Bend native who started as an intern at the Source Weekly after her graduation from the University of Oregon three years ago. She is now the full-time arts, culture and music editor.
Committed to bolstering Bend’s growing musical and arts community, Bri takes after the semi-fictional William Miller of Almost Famous. Despite a cynicism cultivated over the 20 years she’s lived in Bend, Bri loves Christmas. She loves decorating and gift giving and prides herself on having the best white elephant strategy. She once devised an It’s a Wonderful Life drinking game. Contact her at bri@bendsource.com with local music, arts and culture events (or the rules to that drinking game).
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Interview with Naomi Hooley of Moody Little Sister
Four years ago, Naomi Hooley was sitting in her truck, dejected, scared and on the edge of something great. She had just ended a marriage and made the decision to move the 3,000 miles from Alaska to Portland to pursue her longtime love of music as a full time career. She set her sights on […]
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PICK: Larry and His Flask
monday 15 Larry and His Flask MUSIC—Fresh off their European tour, hometown grass-rockers Larry and His Flask are symbol crash, a power chord and a shotgunned beer away from superstardom. With a style mixing traditional roots and punk rock that is all its own, the Flask plays music for lamenting loss, drinking too hard and […]
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PICK: Les Misérables
friday 12 Les Misérables THEATER—Quite possibly the biggest theatre production Central Oregon will see this year, Les Misérables rehearsals started way back in January to bring the loudest, longest and most depressing musical about 18th century French social hierarchy to the stage at the Tower Theatre. 7:30 pm. Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall St. $30-$45. […]
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Young and In Love
A review of Patrimony’s b3li3v3
On Friday, Portland’s heavy-rock pianist, Machine, will pour on the Fiona Apple-style fire and storytelling. Drummer Peter Thomas (of Hopeless Jack and the Handsome Devil) plays a dynamic backbone to Madeline Mahrie’s smoky expansive vocals and Madonna-esque chameleon aesthetic. Machine is a sultry eye and ear-catching duo that will kickoff a sprawling United States tour […]
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And Then There Was Jay Tablet
A review of West Ghostin’
Scheduled to bring his effortlessly unflappable rhymes and beats to the Volcanic Theatre Pub on Thursday, was half of the prolific duo The Cool Kids, Chuck Inglish. Unfortunately, a last minute cancellation of all of Inglish’s Oregon dates, Bend among them, is a big letdown for the sparse, but growing hip-hop community. Local producer, DJ […]
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Source Suggests 9/18-9/25
Moody Little Sister After joining forces musically and romantically, Rob Stroup, a founding member of Portland’s Baseboard Heaters, and Naomi Hooley, an Alaska native with an angelic alto, became Moody Little Sister, an endearing balladeer pop-folk duo. After fully recording, but never releasing their last album, Hooley and Stroup went back to the drawing board […]
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No Flux Capacitor Required
Southern Oregon’s VAM Commanders reunite
When the VAM Commanders started out in Ashland during the mid-90s—smack in the middle of the era of bleached-hair boy bands adorned with puka shell necklaces and Gap cargo shorts—they were counterculture thrash-rock teenagers ready to destroy the world with distorted power chords. “Like so many bad decisions, it was fueled by alcohol,” explained Josh […]
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Because, Why Not?
Aspect adds brews to boards
Galveston isn’t the sleepy, small-town thoroughfare it used to be. Now one of Bend’s most populated Westside streets, the avenue is a people-watching haven—read, stumbling traffic from 10 Barrel and sun-soaked floaters from Drake Park—and, with the Lot and a few notable restaurants, also a foodie’s paradise. With 10 Barrel’s brew-pub and tons of taps […]
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Pond-Hopping Punk Rock
Larry and His Flask are home, for a hot minute
Three weeks ago, Dallin Bulkley, Andrew Carew, Ian Cook and Jamin and Jeshua Marshall were onstage under a giant circus tent in Biddinghuizen, Netherlands. As Larry and His Flask, the spirited and wild five-piece band screamed, spit, headbanged, plucked and strummed to a crowd of thousands at the Lowlands music festival that drew more than […]
