We’re not sure whether this is grab the pitchforks-and-torches meeting, or a more pleasant let’s-help-each-other-out-with-their-vegetable-beds, this evening is intriguing “Community Bill of Rights Workshop.” Paul Cienfuegos identifies himself as “the West Coast’s leading community rights activist” (although his website doesn’t do much to explain that claim; er, 1000Fires.com) and says he will explain how local […]
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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Sign Up for Same-Sex. . .
It is time: Get your signature on the record as supporting same-sex marriages. On Friday, Basic Rights Oregon has a statewide roll out of their signature campaign (well, in Portland, Eugene, Bend and Ashland; no word about La Pine). Stop by and give your signature and/or pick up petitions to gather friends’ signatures. Or, heck, […]
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Did the fire look at you?
With fires to the north and south, the Source has sent out writers to report back from the front lines. Those stories will appear in next week’s special “fire prevention issue.” In the meantime, our recommendation for movies about firefighters: Gold medal: Backdraft (1991)— A family of square-jawed Chicago firefighters (including William Baldwin) struggle with […]
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Summer Reading
To keep summer reading buzzing, three books about bees
OK, only one is actually about bees, but the other two have “bee” in their names. Give us a break: It's summertime. Little Bee, Chris Cleave (2005) Chris Cleave’s first novel, Incendiary, about a bombing in London, was released the same day as an eerily similar bombing. The coincidence catapulted him to fame, and to […]
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Swayze Summer Continues!
The Outsiders Introduces a new class of actors
In 1982, Francis Ford Coppola had just wrapped up the first—and most important—decade of his career. He bounded through the Godfather trilogy and, in 1979, earned his third Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for the era-defining Apocalypse Now, a movie in which a brooding Martin Sheen serves as the main vehicle for a […]
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Honeymoon Over For AirBnB and Bend
AirBnB and other informal services where residents rent out their homes have remained in an ambiguous space, largely unregulated by the same agencies and rules that govern hotels. But as those rental have grown in numbers (and market share), so has grown the City’s interest in taxing them. Last Friday, the City of Bend sent […]
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Summer Adventure
Up, up and away
An introduction… Floating down the Deschutes River, along the lazy stretches in Bend, that phenomena is on display as invisible convection current shimmer as the air rises from the warmed earth into the atmosphere. It is an image and an attitude that quintessentially belongs to summertime—an effervesce, a symbol of letting go, ephemeral and expanding. […]
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Countdown to SWAYZE
Oh boy, oh boy. It is like the day before Christmas! All the screens are hung (James and I just perched on a 24 foot ladder to precariously hang a surprisingly heavy 16 foot screen). The beer is bought and neatly tucked into The Old Stone Church and, without a Blockbuster in sight, we have […]
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What’s Better Than Free?
Better than FREE – as in the Source’s SWAYZE SUMMER series – is that we also are giving away items. Starting on Wednesday, the Source is hosting a series of great American actor Patrick Swayze movies – starting with Point Break. 8 pm, Old Stone Church. Sponsored by Widmer Brewery, each movie is free to […]
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Don’t Be A Dunderhead
I teach in Portland and, last weekend, one of my students received a phone message during a break between classes. When she returned, she was clearly shaken. Her girlfriend, a 22-year-old Reed College graduate like herself, had been in a bike accident. There wasn’t much information, but what was known was she had broken her […]
