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Sep 10-16, 2009

Vol. 13, No. 37

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Local News

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Video From Portland Show on 9/7

Last week in Out of Town I suggested Source readers check out the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland. In the writeup

By The Source Staff
Sep 9, 2009
Local News

Back In Black (Welcome back Woody)

We'll maybe not in black, but longtime Source columnist Bob Woodward is returning as a contributor this week with a new Blog, which we've dubbed

By The Source Staff
Sep 10, 2009
Local News

Parking Lot Screeds

Saturday afternoon shopping at Costco requires patience. The aisles are crowded, the checkout lines long and, as I found out on a recent Saturday, there's

By The Source Staff
Sep 9, 2009
Local News

The Bulletin: A Homer For Your Jockstrap

Is it just me or have others noted how our local daily has suddenly become the jock newspaper of record. You know, stories, some front

By The Source Staff
Sep 11, 2009
Local News

True Customer Service

For the past 19 years Carrita Foster has been the personable mainstay behind the check-in counter at the Juniper Swim and Fitness Center. During that

By The Source Staff
Sep 15, 2009
Local News

Booked Up: All about the time I tried to update my Facebook page 100 times in 24 hours

I tried to update my Facebook status 100 times in 24 hours.

By The Source Staff
Sep 9, 2009
Local News

New Friday Music: Heart's Roger Fisher at the Silver Moon and Rock N' Roll Adventure Kids at Players

We've got some late breaking news in the live music sector that very well might change your Friday night schedule. First off, Roger Fisher,

By The Source Staff
Sep 10, 2009
Local News

Poor Man's Whiskey FINALLY Brings "Dark Side of the Moonshine" to Bend

Poor Man's Whiskey-easily one of Bend's favorite bands, is returning to Bend this fall, to finally unleash the much rumored, but little seen "Dark Side

By The Source Staff
Sep 15, 2009
Local News

Noisy Trains Are an Eastside Bane, It's Plain

Scanning our local daily newspaper this week, The Eye noticed that an Eastsider named Lisa Burley is trying to get the city to do something

By The Source Staff
Sep 10, 2009
Local News

Van Jones: Condemned for Thoughtcrime

Ordinarily we like to keep The Eye focused on local or state matters, but today - the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist massacre -

By The Source Staff
Sep 11, 2009
Local News

The Chinese Tire Tariff: WWLS?

What would Les say? Les Schwab, born poor in Bend, used borrowed money to buy a dilapidated shack of a tire store in Prineville

By The Source Staff
Sep 13, 2009
Commentary

Critical Condition: What I learned about America from Jeff Merkley at Summit High

What crystallized at the Jeff Merkley Town Hall, Sept. 1 was that the most pressing healthcare reform issue is actually education. Ignorance is alive and

By Eric Flowers
Sep 9, 2009

Editorial

Life During Wartime: Politics Afghan style, justice Scotland style, and more!

The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from Brooklyn, where only the

By Eric Flowers
Sep 9, 2009
Editorial

The Tavern Owners' Video Game Bluff

Here's a dilemma we'd love to have: Say the state has put a machine in our home that spits out money at the rate of

By Eric Flowers
Sep 9, 2009
Guest Commentary

Time To Face The Facts U.S. Health Care System Is Terminally Ill

Opinion and conjecture abound on the prospect of changing how to pay for medical care in Oregon and across the U.S. Honest concern about fundamental

By Eric Flowers
Sep 9, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Give Peace A Chance

The dedication of the Peace Bridge of Bend and celebration of World Peace Day (U.N.-mandated International Day of Peace) will take place in Bend's Pacific

By Eric Flowers
Sep 10, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Beyond a Wake-up Call

Forty-seven years ago Rachel Carson wrote "Silent Spring" warning of the indiscriminate use of toxic pesticides and their effects on our health and the environment.

By Eric Flowers
Sep 9, 2009
Letters to the Editor

The Nattering Naysayers

So let's get this straight. Obama's predecessor took America to war under false pretense, citing "weapons of mass destruction" that everyone agrees did not exist,

By Eric Flowers
Sep 9, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Why Single Pay Works

When Senator Jeff Merkley ended his town meeting at Summit High School, I was standing with the microphone man waiting to be the next speaker.

By Eric Flowers
Sep 9, 2009
Letters to the Editor

We Do It Harder In Bend

By Eric Flowers
Sep 9, 2009

Picks

Our Picks for 9/10-9-17: Hill Country Revue, Sisters Folk, HardNox. Xterra National Championships

By Anne Pick
Sep 9, 2009
Book Talk

WRite: From the Margins

Being an artist doesn't take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life, it is also

By Mike Bookey
Sep 9, 2009

Chow

Pub Grub: Bend's breweries raise the bar on bar food

Anyone who's been in Bend for more than five minutes can tell you that folks around these parts take their beer very seriously. New microbreweries

By Alice Finer
Sep 9, 2009
Chow

Pub Grub: Bend's breweries raise the bar on bar food

Anyone who's been in Bend for more than five minutes can tell you that folks around these parts take their beer very seriously. New microbreweries

By Alice Finer
Sep 9, 2009

Film

Pretty Good: That's actually the title of Rage's new ski flick

The recent cloudy, windy afternoons and crisp cold evenings have awakened the sleeping bear of desire. The ski and board shops on Century Drive are

By Source Weekly
Sep 9, 2009
Film

Game On! The Cranksters yank puppet strings in violent psychedelic mess

The writing/directing team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, responsible for the pair of Crank films, deliver an epic cartoon with a messy-mix of politics,

By Source Weekly
Sep 9, 2009
Film

The Long and the Short of It: Extending Shane Acker's bleak animated 9 improves its action, but not its story

Once upon a time, if you saw a short film, you saw the work of someone who wanted to make a short film. Nowadays, that

By Source Weekly
Sep 9, 2009
Film Events

Elementary My Dear DS: Diabolical Box doesn't hold many surprises B

Professor Layton is a British professor of archaeology, sort of Indiana Jones in a top hat. As the hero of a trilogy of games (The

By Source Weekly
Sep 9, 2009

Sound Stories & Interviews

Sound Check: Bend gets sweaty and sexy with Brett Dennen and G.Love

By The Source Staff
Sep 10, 2009
Sound Stories & Interviews

Folk Survives: Sisters Folk is still trucking and here's five acts you need to see

A lot has changed in the past couple of years when it comes to live music in Central Oregon. Venues have opened and closed, we've

By The Source Staff
Sep 9, 2009

Outside Features

Goodbye, Summer: Hello Cyclocross, corduroy, Elk Lake and sliding scales

Alas, summer is coming to an end. The signs are all here - the kids are back in school, the floaters have dwindled and cyclocross season has

By Pam Stevenson
Sep 9, 2009