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What are you doing for the Cinco?
Hacienda
There’s lots of fun shit going on this Saturday in celebration of Cinco de Mayo. We’ve started a short list for you, which can be found in this week’s ‘Our Picks’ section.
It’s finally happening. The Avengers is coming out at midnight.
Apparently the kidnapping suspect who held is ex-girlfriend at knife point during hostage negotiations with OSP at a Crescent Lake cabin is not only crazy, he’s also luckier than a rabbit’s foot.
According an OSP news release, Alberto Quiroz Martinez received a “non-lethal” wound to the head when he burst out of the cabin where he had been holed up for hours while police tried unsuccessfully to negotiate a surrender.
Our cover design team here at the Source Weekly is top notch. Check out the Romney pinata they crafted to make this week’s cover:
It’s filled with lots of Swiss bank accounts, flip flops (get it?), and Cadillacs.
It's all in the hips. That's the take-home message from dance instructor, Andres Garcia, who, every Wednesday night offers free bachata dance lessons at Seven.
Since we live in Bend and not, say, Miami, chances are you are just as unfamiliar with the sexy Latin dance as I was. If, however, you're already hip to the history of the forbidden dance, it's Cuban hip motion and international sensation Romeo Santos, you can skip the next paragraph.
Do you find it a little hard to plan out your Sasquatch Festival schedule and decide which stages you need to be at? We’re making that process a little easier on you with the Spotify playlists below. As always, this year’s event features several well-known bands as well as indie favorites that you may not have heard of.
Think we all know this title is so ours.
We’re got like 16 breweries, an Ale Trail, silipints and a cycle pub for god’s sake!
We can’t let reining champion Asheville, North Carolina, win again! Or, worse yet, Grand Rapids, Michigan, which is currently leaving us in the dust.
State police snipers shot and captured the suspect in a kidnapping case after a multi-hour standoff at Crescent Lake, freeing his hostage in the process. According to Oregon State Police, Alberto Quiroz Martinez was shot and wounded after he came out of a Crescent Lake Cabin with his hostage Melody Kaye Mickel as a “human shield.
The Republican primary campaign for Senate District 54 is entering its final stretch as incumbent and former Bend city councilor Chris Telfer tries to off a well-funded challenge from local Republican heavyweight and former House Majority Leader Tim Knopp.
While Knopp has pledged to keep the discussion on policy issues including taxes and economic growth, his supporters aren’t playing by the same rules.
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