Wake up seven days a week with the Cascades Reader. Get local news, event information, podcasts, discounts and more. Sign up now!
In The Eye's past trips to Hawaii, when other tourists asked us where we were from and we replied, "Bend, Oregon," the response would be something along the lines of: "Oh, I hear that's a real nice place."
The Blender has a thing for tribute bands, which is why we were at Boondocks last night to check out Appetite for Deception, a Portland-based band that is – somewhat surprisingly – pretty dead-on in their depiction of Guns N’ Roses.
When a 39-year-old man dies suddenly of a heart attack, it's shocking. When the man is a former professional bike racer and top-ranked endurance athlete, the shock is almost overwhelming. This kind of thing just shouldn’t happen, we think.
Got an aching back? If you live in Bend, you're more than twice as likely to have surgery for it as the average American is.
The Eye wandered back to Bend from Hawaii yesterday and was surprised to find the vegetation looking more lush and tropical in our backyard than it did on Maui, thanks to June's record-busting rainfall.
The most important piece of legislation around the Metolius Basin went down earlier this afternoon according to Blue Oregon Blogger Carla Axtman who blogged about the vote as it unfolded on the House Floor. Officially HB 3298 failed on 30-29 vote.
Well, no, not actually. But the space that previously housed the once-popular Club 97 is opening soon as The Underground.
CNN Money has come out with yet another list of the nation’s most overvalued housing markets. And yes, Bend is again smack dab in the middle of it.
OMG, RTL!
First it was seeing local singer songwriter Reed Thomas Lawrence's name on the lineup for the Rothbury Festival up in Michigan alongside the likes of Bob Dylan, the Dead, String Cheese Incident, The Black Crowes, Broken Social Scene and more, now we click over to MySpace Music and see RTL listed next to Kanye West on the videos page.
The page has the video for Lawrence's song "Music" which was shot here in Bend by Rage Productions and features some quintessentially Bend moments including but not limited to cruiser bikes and a backyard barbecue accompanied by a reggae-ish, summery groove.
Mop tops welcome. A close friend of mine once wrote - in delicate cursive handwriting
nonetheless - that the fact that the Beatles ever existed is remarkable
in and of itself. The author, now a Ph. D. candidate in classics at the
University of Pennsylvania, asserted that the notion of four so
ahead-of-their-time musicians (well, three really - we all know that
Ringo doesn't count) living in the same working-class town at the same
time is on plane with sorcery. And, the fact that they came together to
form a band, as my Ivy League comrade insists, is nothing short of a
sign of divine intervention.
Volumes have been written on the
Beatles. Some have gone as far as to claim the band's music is more
spiritual than some religious texts and others have used the band as a
backdrop for the cultural rift created by the 1960s. Even with all of
this having been written, there are actually people who don't like the
Beatles. Seriously, there are people who just plain don't like the
Beatles. Just as I don't like Dane Cook, or Bud Light, or NBA
officiating, some people don't like the Beatles. But most people do
which, too, might be just as strange when you consider that the band
hasn't been playing together for almost 40 years.
Get the best of The Source - Bend, Oregon directly in your email inbox.
Sending to:
