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Jul 22-28, 2010

Vol. 14, No. 29

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Local News

Monster Chops: Kate Davis plays bass

By Bob Woodward
Jul 27, 2010
Local News

Klondike Kate: "Our Destitute Prostitute" or "Aunt Kate"

By Source Weekly
Jul 21, 2010
Local News

Bend's Brothels: The Sin-Dustry That Built Our City

Two streets along the tracks, a town built on timber and toil. A time of too many men: Saws abuzz and itches needing scratching, alleys with rough-hewn wooden stairs to dark doors.

By Source Weekly
Jul 21, 2010
Local News

Dudley Finds Restaurant Owners Are Good Tippers

By The Source Staff
Jul 24, 2010
Local News

Don't Bug Me: a visitor's view of Bend

By The Source Staff
Jul 22, 2010
Local News

Derrick Brown: The Witty Poet Performs Two Shows Tonight

The renowned slam poet descends on Bend.

By The Source Staff
Jul 21, 2010
Local News

PDXchange Brings Portland Cello Project and Loch Lomond to the Tower

By The Source Staff
Jul 22, 2010
Local News

PDXchange Program Announces Fall Shows: The Thermals, Blind Pilot, Weinland/Laura Veirs

Henry Abel and the PDXchange program continues to roll out awesome show.

By The Source Staff
Jul 23, 2010
Local News

See Dusty Rhodes and the River Band Sunday Night...It will be your last chance

Dusty Rhodes brings its wild show to the Silver Moon before retiring from the road.

By The Source Staff
Jul 24, 2010
Local News

Win Free Tickets to Pickathon!

The big roots festival is coming up, and we've got free tickets to give away.

By The Source Staff
Jul 27, 2010
Local News

Bend's Balloon Man Plans a Double Event

By The Source Staff
Jul 22, 2010
Local News

Walden Declines to Join the Tea Party

By The Source Staff
Jul 22, 2010

Editorial

Ain't No Party Like a Tea Party

The author is wondering when all of the competitive bikers will stop being here.

By Source Weekly
Jul 21, 2010
Editorial

Tammy Baney Takes a Stand

In politics, going along to get along is often the easiest and safest course.

By Source Weekly
Jul 21, 2010
Letters to the Editor

Floyd Landis? Really?

In looking at the preview coverage of the now-underway Cascade Cycling Classic, we saw the name Floyd Landis listed among the competitors.

By Source Weekly
Jul 21, 2010
Letters to the Editor

A Good Start

I'm so tired of reading about these idiots so broken up about the thinning of the geese flock. Do they realize they got eaten?

By Source Weekly
Jul 21, 2010
Letters to the Editor

Keep Wildlife In the Wild

In the parking area of Todd Lake I met the parents of two boys (aged between 8 and 10) who had filled a Ziploc bag with tadpoles and frogs.

By Source Weekly
Jul 21, 2010
Letters to the Editor

Our Toxic Times

I just finished reading an article about polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination of the Hudson River drainage (Harper’s Magazine, Dec. 2009).

By Source Weekly
Jul 21, 2010
Letters to the Editor

Don't Blame the State for Wolf Problems

I look forward to wolves re-establishing themselves throughout Oregon. I take a keen interest in each new sighting, the expansion of their territory, and the environmental benefit they bring.

By Source Weekly
Jul 21, 2010

Culture Features

Coming Home: First-time author Sarahlee Lawrence travels the world and finds a new life... on her parents' farm

“I’d never grown a vegetable before.

By Sara Roth
Jul 21, 2010
Picks

Our Picks for 7/21 - 7/29: West Wind Ranch Americana Music Festival, Los Lonely Boys, Dusty Rhodes and the River Band and more

Derrick Brownwednesday 21If you’re one of Bend’s many slam poetry fans, you should hustle to the Poethouse where Derrick Brown, the acclaimed slammer and performer who was once a paratrooper, but is now an accomplished author. All ages.

By Source Weekly
Jul 21, 2010

Chow

Get it before its gone -- Riley's Market is closing

Finding something sweet to eat at Northwest Crossing and bidding farewell to Riley's Market!

By The Source Staff
Jul 27, 2010
Chow

Adam Schell, Chef/Author, Hosts Cooking Classes at Allyson's Kitchen

Cooking series with author/chef Adam Schnell

By The Source Staff
Jul 21, 2010
Chow

Tour de France: Tart's French fusion fare finds a welcome and waiting audience

When 28 closed this spring, I shared the sentiments of friends who'd felt broken up with and betrayed. How could one of the best spots to grab a martini and a flatbread pizza be sold out from under a group of loyal patrons?

By Amy Belasen
Jul 21, 2010
Chow

Little Bites: Eat, Drink, Man and Woman: Our Happy Hour preview

Blame it on the recession or our enlarged livers, but Bend has a happy hour scene that rivals most towns two or three times our size. It seems you can't turn around in downtown Bend without running into a drink special or a discount appetizer.

By Source Weekly
Jul 21, 2010
Chow

Tour de France: Tart's French fusion fare finds a welcome and waiting audience

When 28 closed this spring, I shared the sentiments of friends who'd felt broken up with and betrayed. How could one of the best spots to grab a martini and a flatbread pizza be sold out from under a group of loyal patrons?

By Amy Belasen
Jul 21, 2010

Film

A Good Night's Sleep:The Dark Knight director is back to break the run of bad summer movies with Inception

One of my personal problems with Facebook is that I have a lot of other reviewers as friends, meaning that when they see a movie long before its release, they often can’t help but make their opinion known.

By Holly Grigg-Spall
Jul 21, 2010
Film

Boy-Man Problems: Cyrus provides a touching emotional battle of the wills

By Morgan P Salvo
Jul 21, 2010
Film Events

All Roar and No Score: As in real life, this Tiger is less than perfect

I'm not Mario. I need to make my shots seriously stronger if I want to send the ball sailing over the sand dunes and water ponds that look like they were salvaged from an overhaul of Everquest.

By Source Weekly
Jul 21, 2010
Film Events

My Rejected Mad Men Script

GUYS! I must confess I’m purrrrr-ty disappointed in the creators of Mad Men right now.

By Source Weekly
Jul 21, 2010

Sound Stories & Interviews

Dark Night of the Soul

If you only dig music that makes you feel good, you might want to avoid Dark Night of the Soul, the recently released collaboration between Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse.

By Source Weekly
Jul 21, 2010
Sound Stories & Interviews

Click For Us, Please: The Bend natives of Adventure Galley have a solid new EP, and now they're in a big-time music contest

A lot of bands enter contests. This typically means a high-school battle of the bands, or perhaps engaging in a larger affair, like the recent Last Band Standing. But with the Internet, music competitions take on an entirely new style and scope.

By Mike Bookey
Jul 21, 2010

Natural World

Working With a Surplus : Nature's creatures will survive... or at least most of them will

The photo above that Dick Tipton shot of the Osprey getting hammered by a Western Kingbird is the epitome of what lengths small birds go to in order to protect their home and family from larger birds, whether the threat is real or not.

By Jim Anderson
Jul 21, 2010
Outside Features

Above It All: High Elevation riding is wide open

During the hottest time of the year in Central Oregon some people would rather find activities that don’t involve breathing a lot of dust while dodging mosquitoes.

By Source Weekly
Jul 21, 2010
Outside Features

How We Roll: Going through the gears of Central Oregon's cycling scene

July in Central Oregon has cyclists of all affinities putting rubber to pavement and dirt.

By Michelle Mercer
Jul 21, 2010