Source Weekly

info@tsweekly.com
Posted inSpecial Issues & Guides

Spindrift: Keeping It Local and Hands-Free

Why the Spindrift is awesome when taking your dog for a walk.
Source Weekly

If you’ve spent time outside in Bend when the weather is nice, you know that dogs are prevalent. People here like to get out and be active, and many of them like to bring their dogs with them. But sometimes it isn’t very practical to have your dog on a leash, yanking your arm out of the socket.
That’s where Spindrift comes in—to ease your aching shoulder and to make it easier to get outside with your dog with their new hands-free leash system. Dogs are attached to their owners at the waist, making it easier for people to run with their dogs. This new leash system also makes it easier for owners to take their dogs on trails that require dogs to be leashed.

Posted inFood & Drink

End of the Rainbow: Crooked River Rainbow Trout—Three Ways

Some information and tips when it comes to catching and cooking fish.
Source Weekly

The brilliant white plates were a stark contrast to the colorful food that my fiancée Kristen and I had just placed atop them—food that we had worked hard to acquire and as a result were even more excited to consume.
The rainbow trout we’d caught earlier in the day did not disappoint. It was so good, in fact, that we used a few remaining pieces of grilled garlic bread to mop up what little remained on our plates at the end of the meal. Those last few bites marked the end of a circle of life that started on a local stream and ended in trout three ways—with lemon & dill, smoked paprika and maple, and foil-baked on the grill.

Posted inCulture

Dungeon Crawl: Diablo III is a rehash, but that doesn’t mean it’s not fun

Diablo 3 is worth the buy but plays similar to the past Diablo games.
Source Weekly

To borrow a line from a song from bygone days, “everything old is new again.” It seems that retro gaming is alive and well…and its name is Diablo III.
For those who remember Diablo II, well, D3 is the same game—sort of. Graphics have been updated, the story has some changes, but by and large, this is a point-and-click dungeon crawl. Twelve years ago, Diablo II was the benchmark of dungeon crawls and many games tried to emulate that formula—some with marginal success, and others – well, not so much. Blizzard did it the best and D3 is a prime example of continuing to hit that benchmark.

Posted inOpinion

Got sugar?: Bend schools should give chocolate milk the boot

Opinion over banning chocolate milk in the Bend-La Pine school districts.
Source Weekly

Two local children’s advocacy groups, Good Hydration and Smart Food Initiative, recently asked the Bend-La Pine school district to remove sugar-sweetened milk and juice from the school cafeterias. They have teamed up with Dr. Stephen Archer, M.D., local obesity specialist and bariatric surgeon, and they have the support of over 100 local health professionals who have added their names to a letter to the school board supporting this removal.
So, what is the big deal about chocolate milk? A cafeteria without chocolate milk seems positively un-American!

Posted inOpinion

Trapped in the 19th Century

The Department of Fish and Wildlife get The Boot this week.
Source Weekly

It was a pet owner’s nightmare. Jack Williamson of West Linn was walking on a trail along the Metolius River near the Wizard Falls fish hatchery with Kieri, his 8-year-old Wheaton terrier, when the dog was caught in a body-crushing otter trap less than two feet off the trail.
Kieri survived, but suffered injuries that included pulmonary edema and a broken vertebra that required surgery to fix. All told, the dog racked up about $16,000 in vet bills.

Posted inOpinion

Reefer Madness

Different opinions are made about the criminalization of marijuana in Oregon.
Source Weekly

I love pot. I hate pot. I don’t care about pot. The best we can tell, that’s the message that’s been coming out of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Portland over the last six months as it wrestles with how to reconcile federal law with Oregon’s liberal medical marijuana laws. Last week, U.S. Attorney Amanda Marshall (yes, that’s a real name and not a Hollywood creation) told the Associated Press that she was concerned about the criminalization of Oregon’s medical marijuana culture, but also indicated that she wasn’t opposed to the underlying legislation.

Posted inCulture

Our Picks for 05/23-05/30

This weeks picks we are sure you will love.
Source Weekly

The Two Escobars
wednesday 23
We’d never heard of narco-soccer before researching this little film, but now we’re fascinated. The term refers to the shadowy connections between drugs and sports in Columbia in the early 1990s, when Pablo Escobar ruled the Columbian drug underworld and Andres Escobar (unrelated) ruled the soccer pitch, that is, until he was murdered. This movie investigates the dirtiness. Free. 6pm. Boyle Education Center, COCC, 2600 NW College Way.

Posted inMusic

OFF! OFF! Vice Records

Review for OFF!’s brand new self-titled album.
Source Weekly

This review is a little late, which is ridiculous, considering that the self-titled “full length” from the Keith Morris-fronted OFF! clocks in at only 15 minutes.   And even though they pack sixteen songs in fifteen minutes, it really shouldn’t take more than a day or two to pull a review together for this album.  But OFF! are hardcore royalty and, honestly, I was just a little intimidated.  If you don’t recognize his name right off, Keith Morris founded the legendary Black Flag, stuck around for one album, and then left to found and front the seminal L.A. hardcore band Circle Jerks for the next 13 or so years. The remaining members of OFF! are also celebrated musicians on the scene—guitarist Dimitri Coats (Burning Bridges), bassist Steven McDonald (Red Kross), and pummeling drummer Mario Rubalcaba (Hot Snakes, Rocket from the Crypt).

Posted inCulture

Trespass Here: You should catch the next Armchair event

Tin Pan Theater hosts a night filled with story telling for their first Armchair event.
Source Weekly

Thursday night I was one of forty or so folks who crammed into Tin Pan Theater to witness the first Armchair Live Storytelling Night.
Like the Moth in New York City or Back Fence PDX in Portland, Armchair featured an evening of storytelling from performers who told never-before-shared, true stories without the use of props or cues. This first Armchair at Tin Pan Theater was the pilot for what organizers hope will become a storytelling series in Bend.
The event was the brainchild of several of Bend’s creative all-stars: Cassondra Schindler, Gretchen Raynack, Matt Ebbing, Jordan Elliot, and the night’s MC, Sara Yellich. Armchair is one of the first non-movie events that theater owners Micah and Esme LaVoy have hosted in their new digs since opening in March and an indication of the kind of niche the may be filling in Bend.

Posted inCulture

Sacha Un-Punk’d: The Dictator proves Borat’s Cohen can deliver comedy without unwitting suckers

Sacha Baron Cohen stars in recent comedy The Dictator.
Source Weekly

With The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen finds himself addressing a situation no entertainer wants to confront: What do you do when the shtick that was your bread-and-butter just can’t work any more?
Borat was, after all, a minor masterpiece of comedic filmmaking, combining Cohen’s sensibility as anarchic, gleefully offensive social satirist with faux-documentary style in something that emerged as Candid Camera by way of South Park. But by the time he was ready for his follow-up, Brüno, it was already clear that Cohen wasn’t going to be able to sneak up on people any more. Sure, he could find plenty of work for hire as a gifted comic actor in stuff like Hugo, or more Madagascar voiceovers. But for his own original creations, he was going to have to find a new, Punk’d-free delivery system—and based on 2002’s Ali G Indahouse, that was far from a sure thing.

Sign up for newsletters

Get the best of The Source - Bend, Oregon directly in your email inbox.

Sending to:

Gift this article