Part of the fun in heading out to a summer festival is getting there: hitting the road, rolling down the windows and blasting the radio. The trip north (to the Portland area) is as adventurous as the music offering: The swooping charm of the cliffs and bluffs, and the awe-inspiring vistas of satin-draped Mt. Hood […]
Dave Cantor
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Musicology to the North
It’s worth the trek
Part of the fun in heading out to a summer festival is getting there: hitting the road, rolling down the windows and blasting the radio. The trip north (to the Portland area) is as adventurous as the music offering: The swooping charm of the cliffs and bluffs, and the awe-inspiring vistas of satin-draped Mt. Hood […]
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Dusty Doings to the East
There are more than cowboys out on the range
Heading inland, the options for summer entertainment don’t dry up. It’s all wide-open spaces, and the options for summer music entertainment are just as vast as the landscape. From cow town rodeo festivities to the angriest and most disturbing strains of metal imaginable, a few tanks of gas can take concertgoers just about anywhere they’d […]
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What in the World?
Not quite unbelievable, but strange. Have a look, loyal readers. Creepy Future: If Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World still haunts your dreams, there’s a batch of fine lit out there that touches on the human race’s potential for a problematic future. This is just a brief introduction, since there’s no Philip K. Dick work referenced. […]
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Better Living Through Music: Skygreen Leopards
San Francisco’s Skygreen Leopards cropped up in the early aughties when all those freak folk troupes were making a supreme racket (and who can explain why it all fell away?). But the duo, Donovan Quinn and Glenn Donaldson are returning with Family Crimes, a July record on Woodsist, after having been silent for about five […]
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Thump Coffee Heats Up
Dave Cantor The Thump Coffee roastery and brew bar at NW Bond St. and NW Franklin Ave. isn’t open to the public yet—maybe soon, though. A new sign popped up recently in the shopping center at NW Bond St. and NW Franklin Ave. next to Amanda’s Mexican Cuisine. It reads, “Thump Coffee: roastery & brew […]
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Better Living Through Music: Shabazz Palaces
Patrick O’Brien Smith/Sub Pop Whose snake is this? A few Source staffers were cold chillin’ downtown last weekend and were privy to a boatload of Digable Planets getting pipped in over the soundsystem. Good times, right? But it just made us curious about what Butterfly, one of the group’s MCs, was up to. In 2011, […]
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Balancing Act
Runner Lauren Fleshman tries to have it all—and does
Two-time USA Track and Field Outdoor 5,000M champion Lauren Fleshman has a hand in every part of the sport—from media to clothing and snacks. She appears on the cover of the June edition of Runner’s World and is immortalized as a paper doll inside. She also is a partner in the Oiselle clothing line for […]
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Harrowing Moments in Pole Pedal Paddle History
Competitors recall close calls
The thrill of racing is peppered with a bit of danger at the annual Pole Pedal Paddle. Isn’t that part of the fun, anyway? A mad pack of downhill skiers jostling like pinballs down the slopes? Racing as fast as a sports car down Mt. Bachelor on the skinny wheels of a bicycle—and gravelly pavement? […]
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Looking At Lanes
There’ve been improvements, but more work’s ahead
Although Bend claims Bike Town, USA, as its title, it is not for bike safety. In that regard, it has lagged behind no fewer than five other Oregon cities, only earning recognition as a Bronze Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists. But last year, the City of Bend moved forward and ratcheted […]