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Sep 17-23, 2009

Vol. 13, No. 38

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Local News

The Kitzhaber Bandwagon Gets More Crowded

By The Source Staff
Sep 17, 2009
Local News

Go see "Cabaret" immediately

Cabaret, produced by Bend Oregon's Cat Call Productions, has proved to be a hit.

By The Source Staff
Sep 18, 2009
Local News

A Sports Icon Fondly Remembered

By Bob Woodward
Sep 17, 2009
Local News

At Least Someone Has A Sense of Humor

For months I've held out hope that somebody someplace would retain a sense of humor in the wake of the on-going battle over health care.

By The Source Staff
Sep 16, 2009
Local News

A Sports Icon Fondly Remembered

By The Source Staff
Sep 18, 2009
Local News

A Fall Flokie Favorite

By The Source Staff
Sep 19, 2009
Local News

A Fall Folkie Favorite

By The Source Staff
Sep 19, 2009
Local News

Stupid Tricks Season Winds Down

By The Source Staff
Sep 21, 2009
Local News

A Job Well Done

By The Source Staff
Sep 22, 2009
Local News

Wood = Good

By The Source Staff
Sep 21, 2009
Local News

Inside The Safety Net: Volunteers in Medicine fills in the gaps of an ailing health care system

Class opens with a taste test. "¡Me gusta!" one woman exclaims to another after spearing a bite of vegetables with a fork. A chorus of

By Eric Flowers
Sep 16, 2009
Local News

Karl Denson's Tiny Universe Coming to Bend 10/4

I heard yesterday that Karl Denson's Tiny Universe is coming to Bend on October 4 at the Domino Room. This adds another solid booking to

By The Source Staff
Sep 16, 2009
Local News

How Larry and His Flask spent their summer

Sometimes, when my iTunes shuffle stops upon a Larry and His Flask tune, I start thinking: "I wonder where the hell those dudes are right

By The Source Staff
Sep 16, 2009
Local News

DJ Barisone is Leaving Town

One last show in Bend for DJ Barisone.

By The Source Staff
Sep 21, 2009
Local News

These United States tonight at the Silver Moon...and there's a new Pearl Jam album out

These United States is playing the Silver Moon Brewing Co. tonight.

By The Source Staff
Sep 22, 2009
Local News

Shrinkage Isn't Always a Bad Thing

So the local daily rag reports this morning that, for the first time in 22 years, overall enrollment in Bend-LaPine schools is expected not to

By The Source Staff
Sep 16, 2009
Local News

Mild-Mannered Merkley Turns Into a Tiger on Health Care

By The Source Staff
Sep 19, 2009
Local News

Fighting the Socialist Menace of 1961

By The Source Staff
Sep 19, 2009
Local News

Dealing With the New "Slacker" Economy

By The Source Staff
Sep 21, 2009

Editorial

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire Swayze's curtain call, murder in the Ivy league, and more!

The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from the Adirondack front porch

By Eric Flowers
Sep 16, 2009
Editorial

The Incurable Goose Plague

Let us consider Branta Canadensis, the Canada goose. In many ways it is a noble bird. Its V-formation flocks honking their way across the sky

By Eric Flowers
Sep 16, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Obama's Salmon Plan

Another key issue and another key concession from Obama. No we're not talking about the backpedaling on gay marriage or universal health care. This time

By Eric Flowers
Sep 16, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Government Can Be Good

This week's letter comes from Wayne Bredtze who politely reminds us that something has been lost in all the screaming about a socialist take over

By Eric Flowers
Sep 16, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Where's The Liberal?

The new conventional wisdom is that Obama is losing the independent voters that helped elect him. The polls show he's too liberal, we are told.

By Eric Flowers
Sep 16, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Thanks For The Good Work

I'm writing to give kudos to Holly Grigg Spall for the excellent review she did on "Steel Magnolias" at the 2nd Street Theater. For the

By The Source Staff
Sep 16, 2009
Letters to the Editor

The Real Beef With Obama

So, I'm looking through this Obama speech, trying to find the part that says, "Children, obey your government," or "Government = Good, Free Enterprise =

By Eric Flowers
Sep 16, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Who's A Patriot Now?

During the 8 years of the Bush Administration, Republicans told Democrats they were un-patriotic, un-American and didn't support the troops if they questioned or didn't

By Eric Flowers
Sep 16, 2009

Picks

Our Picks for 9/17-9/24: Cabaret, Finn Riggins, Blue Turtle Seduction

By The Source Staff
Sep 16, 2009
Theater

Spend an Enchanting Night on Guy J. Jackson's Tintar Isle

"Who at least doesn't want to visit someplace beautiful?" questions the Stubby Motherlover, the song-singing, 30-fingered creature, one of many captivating characters to make an

By Suzanne Burns
Sep 16, 2009

Chow

In Deep At Typhoon

Going vegetarian at Typhoon.

By The Source Staff
Sep 17, 2009
Chow

Got Crabs? 48 hours in Winchester Bay

By Alice Finer
Sep 16, 2009
Chow

Got Crabs? 48 hours in Winchester Bay

By Alice Finer
Sep 16, 2009

Film

Sisterhood of the Traveling Tire Iron: Secrets, solidarity and sluts attempt to resuscitate slasher genre in Sororiety

With a slew of horror movies saturating the market lately the genre is getting overworked. Initially, Sorority Row follows almost all the '70s drive-in rules

By Source Weekly
Sep 16, 2009
Film

A Love Less Ordinary: Even Michael Cera's cuteness can't save Paper Heart

Charlyne Yi is the kind of girl you'd like to be friends with, meet for dinner on the weekend and hear her observations on LA

By Source Weekly
Sep 16, 2009

Sound Stories & Interviews

CD Review - Anastacia: Grains of Sand

By The Source Staff
Sep 16, 2009
Sound Stories & Interviews

Out of the Pigeonhole: The big year and big sound of Deer Tick

It's noon on a Monday and John Joseph McCaully III, riding in a bus somewhere between Colorado and Washington says, "We're basically trying not to

By The Source Staff
Sep 17, 2009

Outside Features

Around the Hood: Hut-to-Hut Adventure

My first hut-to-hut mountain biking trip was 18 years ago in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado and the La Sals of eastern Utah.

By Pam Stevenson
Sep 16, 2009

Extras

TSTicket Terms

By The Source Staff
Sep 21, 2009