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Jun 24-30, 2010

Vol. 14, No. 25

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Local News

Cash Cow: City says hotel owners have been improperly helping themselves to room taxes

It's a truism that nobody likes paying taxes. So last year when the city of Bend staff proposed to eliminate a loophole in the city's room tax rules that allowed hotels to take a meal credit deduction, several Bend hotels predictably objected.

By Eric Flowers
Jun 23, 2010
Local News

Weltmeisterschaft: Watching too much "fussball" on television

By The Source Staff
Jun 25, 2010
Local News

Farewell Funk: summer arrives to save sagging spirits

By The Source Staff
Jun 27, 2010
Local News

Clear Summer Nights Lineup Released: Robert Randolph and the Family Band is coming to Bend!

Robert Randolph, fresh off the release of his new record, comes to Bend.

By The Source Staff
Jun 23, 2010
Local News

Stephanie Schneiderman at McMenamins Old St. Francis School Wednesday Night - Video

By The Source Staff
Jun 24, 2010
Local News

Last Band Standing Finals are Set: Empty Space Orchestra and Klever Kill advance

The finals for the Thursday, July 1 are set and here's the complete lineup.

By The Source Staff
Jun 25, 2010
Local News

Video From the Bite of Bend Stage: Rubblebucket and March Fourth Marching Band

By The Source Staff
Jun 29, 2010
Local News

Dudley "Scandal" Doesn't Hold Water

By The Source Staff
Jun 23, 2010
Local News

Whooping Cough and the Anti-Vaccine Wackos

By The Source Staff
Jun 25, 2010
Local News

The Downtown "Fest" Season Strikes Again

By The Source Staff
Jun 26, 2010

Editorial

Toking the High Road McChrystal vs. Obama, stupid bombers, and more medical pot

The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America.

By Source Weekly
Jun 23, 2010
Editorial

The Pharmacy Board and the Demon Weed

George Washington grew it, Shakespeare might have smoked it, and its use in medicine dates back some 5,000 years. But until last week, the State of Oregon regarded it as a dangerous drug in the same category as heroin and LSD.

By Source Weekly
Jun 23, 2010
Letters to the Editor

The Chamber's "Donation"

Like a lot of Bend businesses, we belong to the local chamber of commerce - you know the one "The Bend Chamber of Commerce, Make You A Promise... We're Taking Care of Business... Yeah, We're Taking Care of..." But we digress.

By Source Weekly
Jun 23, 2010
Letters to the Editor

The Kindness of Strangers

Recently my five-year-old daughter and I rode our bikes to Ray's to do some grocery shopping. On our way out of the store, she fell down and stood standing in the parking lot crying and not wanting to ride home.

By Source Weekly
Jun 23, 2010
Letters to the Editor

Road Cycling Nationals Championships to Increase Tourism

From June 22-27, Bend will once again be hosting the USA Junior, U23 & Elite Road Cycling National Championships and the USA Paracycling NationalChampionships.

By Source Weekly
Jun 23, 2010
Letters to the Editor

Hold Hotels Accountable For Room Taxes

I am writing in response to the front page story in The Bulletin on June 17 regarding Wayne Purcell and Brett Evert charging their hotel guests tax and keeping the tax revenue as additional profit. Put simply, this is stealing and it is indefensible.

By Source Weekly
Jun 23, 2010

Culture Features

Ready to Roll: The Renegade Roller Girls have a new banked track, and it's time to take them seriously

For 30 seconds, I was a roller derby girl. That's the amount of time I managed to stay upright on the track before falling on my face.

By Source Weekly
Jun 23, 2010
Picks

Our Picks for 6/23 - 7-1: Show Us Your Spokes, USA Cycling Road Racing National Championships Block Party, Steve Earl, Bite of Bend and more

Last Band Standingthursday 24Round two of the semi-finals continues this week with performances by Klever Kill, Blackstrap, Tall as Rasputin, Absofreakenlutly, Eric Tollefson and the World’s Greatest Lovers and Empty Space Orchestra.

By Source Weekly
Jun 23, 2010

Chow

The Art of the Cart: Vendors "corner" ethnic lunches in Bend

By The Source Staff
Jun 23, 2010
Chow

Little Bites: The Bite of Bend Preview Top Chefs, locals-only tent, mix masters and a boozy race for glory

This weekend, downtown will turn into a food and booze extravaganza known as the Bite of Bend. As the Source Weekly is one of the esteemed sponsors, we thought we'd bring you our must-eat-and-drink picks for the festival.

By Sara Roth
Jun 23, 2010
Chow

The Bite of Bend Preview Top Chefs, locals-only tent, mix masters and a boozy race for glory

By The Source Staff
Jun 23, 2010
Chow

The Art of the Cart: Vendors "corner" ethnic lunches in Bend

A recent surge in gourmet street food vendors has added welcomed diversity to Bend's vibrant casual dining scene. Local food vendors include former chefs who have tired of the restaurant scene, but can't give up their love affair with good food.

By Amy Belasen
Jun 23, 2010

Film

Hexed: Damned from the start, Jonah Hex never lives up to its potential

It all made sense during Jonah Hex’s ending credits that this PG-13 tease had Neveldine & Taylor (responsible for Crank) written all over it.

By Morgan P Salvo
Jun 23, 2010
Film

Playing it Safe: Pixar once again puts Woody and friends in peril for the third installment of Toy Story

There’s a palpable weariness in the movie theater as the latest addition to the Toy Story franchise draws to a close and it’s not just because of the struggle with young children who got bored after the first sighting of the familiar gang.

By Holly Grigg-Spall
Jun 23, 2010
Film Events

The Saturday Morning Shenanigan Locomotive

There’s crap for TV this week—unless, like me, you’ve got a cop fetish.

By Source Weekly
Jun 23, 2010

Sound Stories & Interviews

Celebrate Steve Earle Day

Steve Earle coming to Bend is one of the coolest, most intriguing bookings we've seen at the Tower Theatre (PDXchange not included) this year and that's probably why the show is sold out and has been for a while.

By Mike Bookey
Jun 23, 2010
Sound Stories & Interviews

Riding the Buzz: Rubblebucket's seven-man, one-woman afrobeat, indie rock party

Alex Toth, the trumpet player and bandleader of Rubblebucket, is riding in a van somewhere in Iowa on his way to Nevada while the rest of his Brooklyn-based octet is in Vermont—the band’s other home—playing at a hot air balloon festival.

By Mike Bookey
Jun 23, 2010

Natural World

Hummingbird Health: Believe it or not, those fast flyers don't need red food coloring

The hummingbirds that spend summer with us are returning, and with them returns the dilemma over whether or not red food coloring is harmful to them.

By Jim Anderson
Jun 23, 2010
Outside Features

Free the Dogs!:One pooch's thoughts on off-leash laws in national forests

Woof! Sprocket here. Every Monday morning for the past two years, my mom has typed up a column for the Source. You know, she does a pretty good job of bringing home the Milkbones, so I thought I'd help out this week.

By Pam Stevenson
Jun 23, 2010