If you plan on voting in the May Primary and don’t know if you’re registered, or feel like playing politics ala Mitt Romney and switching your registration to vote in the “other” party’s primary, you’re running out of time to do so.
Tomorrow (April 24)is the voter registration deadline for Oregon’s May election.
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Why Tart Mattered
Editor’s Note: Joe Benevento is former head chef at Tart and writes the Source’s Kitchen Chronicles. I miss duck wings. There, I said it. I can't take it any longer, the truth must be told to the world. I miss me some lip-smacking good, confit duck wings. Truth be told, it had to be said […]
Dig this, it's The Dig
Last night’s triple bill at The Horned Hand rocked the pants off the few folks who showed up. New York band The Dig was especially impressive, check the video below of “Already Forgot Everything You Said.
Oregon A.G. to Take on BP Over Gulf Spill
Oregon Attorney General John Kroger isn’t running for re-election, but he apparently isn’t leaving in bullets in the chamber before he exits as the state’s top cop. On Friday, Kroger announced that he is going after petroleum giant BP for its role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster off the Gulf Coast, which Kroger’s says cost Oregon public employees about $19 million in lost retirement funds because BP misrepresented its safety standards to shareholders including the Oregon Public Employee Retirement Fund.
Little Bites: Rejoice! Spring is here!
And while we're still contending with weather roulette, we have something worth getting excited about – fiddlehead ferns and asparagus.
We're just on the cusp of a very short-lived fiddlehead season, and if you want to take advantage of these tender lovelies you'll have to act fast. Named for their violin scroll shape, fiddleheads are a fern's new growth. In the Pacific Northwest, the fern of choice is the lady fern. On the East coast, the ostrich fern reigns.
Our Picks for 4/19-4/25
Photo Tara Reynvann
Last Band Standing, No. 1
thursday 19
This is the kickoff of the annual elimination-style concert series that pits local bands against one another and allows concertgoers to vote on who advances to the next round.
Alfalfa Neighbors Ask For Cell Tower Survey Help
Cell phones are ubiquitous in today’s culture from middle school students to professionals to, well, everyone, it seems no one is without a cell phone and, increasingly, a smart phone and tablet. All that data has to be transmitted somehow, of course.
NOSTRAFILMUS: Waiting for Godot
The thing about Waiting for Godot is this: it doesn’t matter what it’s about. Is it purgatory? Hell? An allegory for the cold war? Are they all facets of a broken mind? Does Beckett just hate us and want to show us he’s as smart as Camus? Is it the Beyond section of a Bed, Bath & Beyond? No.
Bend picks new assistant city manager
Jon Skidmore will be Bend City Manager Eric King’s new right hand man, King confirmed today.
The city has been searching for a new assistant city manager for some time.
Hoodoo to Close Season with $15 Lifties
Although this weekend’s weather, assuming the forecast for mid-70s holds, is likely to scream summer to most Central Oregonians, those who are still thinking winter, or maybe just, spring, can indulge their impulse at Hoodoo Ski Resort.
Hoodoo announced today that it’s adding a final weekend to the season this Saturday and Sunday and offering skiers and boarders that make the trip to Santiam Pass $15 lifties.

