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.
Barry Lopez
thursday 11
Oregon author Barry Lopez has been
called the "nation's premiere nature writer" and we tend to agree with
that assertion. His non-fiction book Arctic Dreams earned him a
national book award in 1986 and in 2004 his novel Resistance was the
winner of the Oregon book award. So, yeah, he's definitely not light in
the resume department. At this event, Lopez will read and also be on
hand to sign your books. 7pm Thursday, Jun 11. Bend Public Library, 601
NW Wall St.
Holden Young Trio
thursday 11
Both
funky and rootsy, Holden Young and his Boulder-based trio descend on
the Moon for what is almost guaranteed to be a perfectly danceable
night. The band jumps genres but seems rooted in Colorado groove-based
roots rock. 9pm. $3. Silver Moon Brewery, 24 NW Greenwood Ave.
According to People Magazine local celebrity Thomas Beatie has given birth to a second child. Beatie grabbed international headlines when he, after sharing his story in an obscure magazine, he appeared on Oprah to announce that he was pregnant after living a good chunk of his adult life as a man following a sex change.
After a few months trying to find a way to make the event happen, the folks at the 4 Peaks Music Festival announced today that there will be no third installment of the festival.
Organizers announced this spring that a full-scale outdoor camping festival was off, but hopes were alive for an in-town event in July — but those plans, too, are now scrapped.
There is music a plenty throughout Bend tonight, including the First Friday Crescendo, a musical talk on the monthly art walk, capped with a show by Moon Mountain Ramblers. But as if that’s not enough, there’s also a youthful battle of the bands and a large-scale rap show.
Wake up seven days a week with the Cascades Reader. Get local news, event information, podcasts, discounts and more. Sign up now!
We'll send a verification code to %EMAIL%.
Get the best of The Source - Bend, Oregon directly in your email inbox.
Sending to:
