The job of an editor is, of course, or at least in part, to edit—to remove excess. But while there is a certain joy pruning verbose stories to lean fighting machines, there is also a frustration when we simply do not have enough room in our newspaper for everything. This is one of those weeks. […]
Phil Busse
Phil Busse has done his tour of duty with alt-weeklies, starting in 1992 right after graduation from Middlebury College as the first environmental beat reporter for San Francisco Weekly. After a brief detour through the University of Oregon School of Law, Phil returned to writing as the first Managing Editor for Portland Mercury. In 2006, he started the Media Institute for Social Change in Portland, through which he continues to host a summer program teaching college students to produce documentaries.
Until he was 25 or so, Phil thought that he would be a spy, and took scuba lessons to prepare, and learned to drive a motorcycle and an 18-wheeler. Perhaps, then, it is unsurprising that his favorite holiday is the Fourth of July (he loves blowing stuff up). He feels at home with Joseph Conrad's fictional characters.
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TEDxBend: Tchicaya Missamou
Here’s the dilemma: The organizers at TEDxBend want to keep the list of speakers a secret until the day of the event. They want you to trust them. And, here’s the problem: Even though the event isn’t for another month, tickets for this year’s TEDxBend, a day-long event of inspiring speeches and ideas, go on […]
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Far From A Paint-By-Number
Mr. Turner is Mike Leigh’s best film yet
Commonly, Mike Leigh’s films have emphasized interpersonal tensions between characters, like in his breakout Secrets & Lies about a black woman tracking down her working class white birth mother, or Happy Go Lucky about a London school teacher’s whose eternal optimism goes against the grumpy grain. But, in Mr. Turner, his latest and perhaps greatest […]
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Editor’s Note: In this week’s issue
It has been a fun week at the Source. While it would be easy to assume that researching breweries for our annual Beer Issue is fun because of the perks (and, yes, thanks Atlas, thanks Red Tank, thanks Sun River for the samples!), actually what has been most exciting about researching for these articles has […]
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Two Guys and a Bottling Company
Mobile Bottling Solutions gives businesses a foot in the door
Ask Levi & Strauss: It wasn’t necessarily the gold seekers who struck it rich, but the entrepreneurs providing ancillary services, like blue jeans, who made the really steady income. Of course, for the current craft-beer rush that analogy is a bit off, as breweries are making good money, but last September, longtime friends Jason Rickley […]
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A Cider a Day
Bend’s local hard cider business is booming
Aaron Cousins stands facing two shiny new fermentation tanks, the toes of his boots wrapped several times around with duct tape. He is wearing a black skull cap and dressed in a black sleeveless hoodie that shows off aqua-colored lines of a sprawling tattoo on his right shoulder. “Cider sales in the U.S. have doubled […]
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Taking Center Stage
At 75 years old, Ural Thomas and The Pain is Portland’s best new band!
Ural Thomas has always been there. Since starting to sing and play music at age three, he has been in the vicinity of soul music history. The “middle” of 14 children (and named for the Ural Mountains in Russia), Thomas grew up in North Portland, in what had primarily been an African-American neighborhood until recent […]
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A Good Problem To Have
Sunriver Brewing is bursting at the seams
Sunriver Brewing’s biggest problem is one that every business would like: They are growing faster than they expected. Ryan Duley, the marketing director for Sunriver Brewing, walks between rows of 15-keg capacity containers—eight on each side of the cavernous, cement-floor warehouse on the outskirts of Sunriver—and explains that a year ago the brewing company, which […]
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Sad News: former AG and UO president Dave Frohnmayer dies
I rarely exclaim out loud when I read an email, but I audible gasped when I read this note from House Republican Leader Mike McLane: “It is with deep sadness that we learned today of the passing of Dave Frohnmayer. Dave’s vast contributions to the state of Oregon – as a member of the Oregon House […]
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Need a Little Alone Time?
The “new” Oregon Desert Trail offers an 800-mile trek through solitude
The difference between the Pacific Crest Trail and the Oregon Desert Trail, explains Shane Von Schlemp who has walked both, is a lot of “space-out time.” He goes on to explain that the famous PCT is well-marked—and increasingly well-trodden—while ODT is, at best, a faint trail that meanders through some of Oregon’s most hard-scrabbled and […]
