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.
Two days before Christmas, and just in time to qualify his latest film, The Wolf of Wall Street for this year’s Oscar Awards, director Martin Scorsese hosted a screening for members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts, the governing organization that has handed out Oscars each year since 1929. Although the film has roundly […]
A roundup of trending news: * Polar vortex: Because meteorically it doesn’t exist unless it has a catchy phrase, today’s brutally cold front sweeping across the midwest and New England is being labelled a “polar vortex.” Temperatures in my hometown, Madison, Wisc. started at negative – as in your face freezes in 30 seconds – […]
A short tutorial about Christmas and Chanukah by some young kids. Spoiler: Apparently the meaning of Christmas has something to do with Spiderman! Like and share for a chance to win our grand prize…TWO nights stay at the magical Sunriver Resort! This may just be an illustration but the Resort is seriously wonderful and festive […]
Torrey Newhart grew up in Bend, and returns for a piano and accordion performance tonight at Broken Bottle Top Bottle Shop. 7-9 pm. Call Me Maybe from Torrey Newhart on Vimeo.
In the final scene of “The Christmas Story” (yes, as in “you’ll shoot your eye out.” Just say it! Get it out of your system. Okay, better? We on the same page now?). . . in the final scene of “The Christmas Story,” the Parker family remedies their disastrous Christmas dinner (a neighbor dog has […]
With the exception of a handful of school districts (like Bend and Lake Oswego), public education in Oregon ranks among the worst in the country. Graduation rates in Redmond and Portland are dismal, approaching 50 percent. Yet, the vast majority of Oregonians value K-12 public education. In fact, it is the number one concern, according […]
Schadenfreude is the German word (and very German concept) for “taking pleasure in others’ pain.” This video adds to that concept, taking humor in other people’s falls! A two minute montage of people candidly and painfully slipping on ice: On the eighth day of Christmas the Source gave to me…two lift tickets to Hoodoo! For […]
On Monday morning roundup: Fake interpreter at Mandela funeral: In the strangest news leftover from Mandela’s funeral, the story about the faux interpreter continues to get stranger. Turns out that the sign language interpreter—the guy standing feet from some of the most powerful and protected people in the world—was a fake. Well, now, turns out […]
A year ago today, a disturbed 20-year old man walked into an elementary school and killed 20 students, and 6 staff members. In one of the most chilling recollections, Vanity Fair writer David Kamp reconstructed what the town – and people there – were like the day before the shooting. It is a frightening reminder […]
Can you top this worst Christmas gift ever, as posted on the New York Times a few Christmas ago: “We received a can of haggis (yes, I guess haggis comes in a can) and a copy of the book “The Road.” It was quite the depressing Christmas.” There is an entire collection of troubling, funny, […]
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