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May 29 - Jun 4, 2008

Vol. 12, No. 22

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Local News

One More Shot: Scoring hundreds of points with the Central Oregon Hotshots

Some of the 200 or so people scattered throughout the stands at Mountain View High School's gymnasium are gathering their belongings and tossing jackets over

By Mike Bookey
May 28, 2008
Local News

Would Walden Bid for Governor Be a "Disaster"?

Speculation is growing that the 2nd Congressional District's own Greg Walden will go after the Republican nomination for governor in 2010, but at least one

By H. Bruce Miller
Jun 3, 2008
Local News

"Pop-Up Video" Smacks Down Smith

One of the knocks on Jeff Merkley during the Democratic senatorial primary campaign was that he was too bland and mild-mannered to run the kind

By H. Bruce Miller
May 31, 2008
Local News

Bend's Super-D Throws In With Obama

Wayne Kinney, a Democratic convention superdelegate who lives in Bend, announced today that he's supporting Barack Obama for the party's presidential nomination.

By H. Bruce Miller
May 28, 2008

Editorial

The Shakeup at the Mountain

By Intern
May 28, 2008
Editorial

The Triumph of Martketing: Senator Wide Stance update, city gets a new leader, more...

By Intern
May 28, 2008
Editorial

Sen. Ron Wyden

By Intern
May 28, 2008
Letters to the Editor

Fly It Right, Or Not At All

I have told myself I was going to write a Letter to the Editor to the Source one too many times without actually doing it.

By Intern
May 28, 2008
Letters to the Editor

Owners Give Dogs A Bad Name

I adopted a dog in 1997, the year I moved to Oregon. I've seen Bend change from an extremely dog-friendly town to an ambivalently dog-tolerant

By Intern
May 28, 2008
Letters to the Editor

Respect the Badge

I would like to respond to the Name Withheld letter titled "Turn in Your Badge." While I have never been a police officer, I have

By Intern
May 28, 2008
Letters to the Editor

Don't Sell Short Sales Short

I would like to comment on your article entitled "Selling the Market Short" in which the writer attempted to warn the public of the result

By Intern
May 28, 2008

Culture Features

Won't You Be My Neighbor? Bend kids meet new friends through the Hello Neighbor program

photographs from caldera's hello neighbor project grace the source weekly headquarters.When was the last time you talked with your neighbors? Maybe they're your best friends,

By Mike Bookey
May 28, 2008
Picks

Our Picks for the Week of 5/29-6/4

By The Source Staff
May 28, 2008

Chow

Eating High on the Hog: BBQ Season has finally arrived

at $3 a pound, you can't go wrong with pork. Summer means barbeque. To some people, barbeque includes anything cooked on a grill. To me,

By Intern
May 28, 2008
Chow

Quick Bites: Spring is the small wine time

Wine making is a tricky business. I recently visited my friend Mark Huff, owner of Stag Hollow Vineyard, who along with his wife Jill Zarnowitz,

By Intern
May 28, 2008
Chow

Quick Bites: Spring is the small wine time

Wine making is a tricky business. I recently visited my friend Mark Huff, owner of Stag Hollow Vineyard, who along with his wife Jill Zarnowitz,

By Intern
May 28, 2008
Chow

Eating High on the Hog: BBQ Season has finally arrived

at $3 a pound, you can't go wrong with pork. Summer means barbeque. To some people, barbeque includes anything cooked on a grill. To me,

By Intern
May 28, 2008

Film

Simple on the Screen: The Visitor looks at deportation with a subtle eye

some flowers are just funnier than others. The Visitor is tough to categorize. On one hand it's a straightforward story of a lonely guy who

By Intern
May 28, 2008
Film

Keeping Up with the Joneses: While Globetrotting with an Older Indy

Hey, aren't you han solo?The unabashedly campy Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull takes us on yet another retro, whirlwind adventure, this

By Intern
May 28, 2008
Film Events

Do Wii Need Another Mario Kart? Popular franchise makes its way to Nintendo's new console

blasting off with mario Kart. Nintendo capitalizes on the nostalgia for childhood games like Mario, Link and Samus, allowing us to relive these classics with

By Shawn Wallbaum
May 28, 2008

Sound Stories & Interviews

Liner Notes: Word to the 23rd

Spoken word or tamborine? Which is it, Al?Spoken word is hard to pull off. Sometimes this genre, or subgenre, if you will, brings to mind

By The Source Staff
May 28, 2008
Sound Stories & Interviews

Sound Check: Staying Dry at the Schwab

By Mike Bookey
May 28, 2008
Sound Stories & Interviews

Lords of the Weird: Bombadil prefers to do things their own way

probably didn't hang out with the lacrosse team. If anyone went to the trouble of reading all the Lord of the Rings books, and just

By Intern
May 28, 2008
Sound Stories & Interviews

Dead Ahead: Donna Jean and the Tricksters extend the branches of the Grateful Dead family tree

This band is not playing at your church this sunday. Honest. You can try to avoid the Grateful Dead. You can attempt to bury your

By Mike Bookey
May 28, 2008

Natural World

Running the gauntlet: The intersection of owls, cars and evolution

CASUALTIES to nature and man.Every day you see them dead on the highway, animals that tried to run the gauntlet and lost - cats, dogs,

By Jim Anderson
May 28, 2008
Outside Features

King of Runners: A conversation with Bend's own Max King

By Intern
May 28, 2008