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Mar 31 - Apr 6, 2011

Vol. 15, No. 13

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Local News

Former Ernesto's Spot to Reopen As Pub and Brew Shop

Owners of the Brew Shop have signed a lease to move into the former Ernesto's spot on Third Street.

By Eric Flowers
Mar 30, 2011
Local News

Behind the Scenes of the Source Fashion Shoot

Taking spring style photos when it's 38 degrees outside can be tough.

By Christian Heeb
Mar 31, 2011
Local News

The Ascetic Junkies In Bend Tonight!

Get your dancing legs ready! The Ascetic Junkies are here to rock your Wednesday night!

By The Source Staff
Mar 30, 2011
Local News

Hola! Sunriver is Open

Hola! opens a new Sunriver location.

By Amy Belasen
Mar 30, 2011
Local News

Common Table To Host Japanese Fundraiser Dinner

By The Source Staff
Mar 30, 2011
Local News

Thanks for Putting a Damper on March Madness, Frontline

Frontline digs into the big money behind college basketball.

By The Source Staff
Mar 30, 2011
Local News

Central Oregon Homeless Count Numbers Released: More homeless children than ever

The 2011 homeless count in Central Oregon found that startling number of homeless children.

By The Source Staff
Mar 30, 2011
Local News

Win Tickets to See Leif James at Three Creeks Brewery on Saturday Night

Win tickets to see Leif James perform at Three Creeks Brewing Co. in Sisters.

By The Source Staff
Mar 31, 2011
Local News

A Taste of Summer at 900 Wall

900 Wall gives us a sample of its new lunch menu.

By The Source Staff
Mar 31, 2011
Local News

Bend Names Canada Goose City's Official Bird

In a surprise move, the city of Bend, Oregon makes the Canada Goose its official bird, names April 1 "Bend Goose Day."

By The Source Staff
Apr 1, 2011
Local News

Guys and Dolls Onstage This Weekend

Guys and Dolls comes to Bend.

By The Source Staff
Apr 1, 2011
Local News

New Music Video for Culver City Dub Collective by Bend's Rage Films

A new music video by Culver City Dub Collective, directed by Rage Films' Sky Pinnick.

By The Source Staff
Mar 31, 2011
Local News

Some UConn Fan Just Called and Threatened Me With Violence!

College basketball gets some people really riled up.

By The Source Staff
Mar 31, 2011
Local News

This Weekend's Music Lineup

Live music for the weekend of 4/1-4/3.

By The Source Staff
Apr 1, 2011

Editorial

Your Fresh Straight Poop Hot Off the Presses

Scoop Lewis, Ace Reporter, reviews the past week's biggest news stories, both locally and nationally.

By Source Weekly
Mar 30, 2011
Editorial

A Low Blow to the Death With Dignity Act

House Bill 2016 is an atrocious law, that's why the legislature must smack it down fast and hard, and that's why it and its sponsors are getting THE BOOT.

By Source Weekly
Mar 30, 2011
Letters to the Editor

We're All Cowboys Now

On Monday, the House passed a resolution making "the Code of the West" the "model of conduct in [the] State of Oregon." WTF?

By Source Weekly
Mar 30, 2011
Letters to the Editor

An Open Letter To Superintendent Wilkinson

A letter to the editor concerning school boundary change proposals.

By Source Weekly
Mar 31, 2011
Letters to the Editor

You Don't Make Friends With Salad

This Letter to the Editor reviews the origin of the Caesar salad in response to last week's Chow article.

By Source Weekly
Mar 30, 2011
Letters to the Editor

The Best Use of Our Dollars?

Letter to the Editor in response to the March 24 article "In Search of Stability" on regional teen homelessness.

By Source Weekly
Mar 30, 2011

Culture Features

Art on the Hill: Bill Hoppe on a decade of art on the campus of COCC

It's the first day of the spring term and Bill Hoppe's office on the bottom floor of Central Oregon Community College's Pence Hall is nearly as messy as the construction that's snarling uphill traffic on the expansive campus.

By Mike Bookey
Mar 30, 2011
Picks

Our PIcks for 3/30 - 4/7: Juniper Grass Music Festival, Art Walk, Budo Fights, Ice Cube, The Baseball Project and more

The Source Weekly provides our picks for Bend's best bets in local entertainment.

By Source Weekly
Mar 30, 2011
Theater

Spring Theater Productions Have Sprung in Bend

Thus far, 2011 has proved to be a thriving year for the Bend theater scene.

By Anne Pick
Mar 30, 2011

Chow

Common Table To Host Earthquake Relief Dinner

By The Source Staff
Mar 30, 2011
Chow

Chocolate is the New Black: Deschutes Brewery proves that chocolate goes with everything

The most indulgent of Deschutes Brewery's events, the Chocolate Beer Dinner, sounds like a grown kid's ultimate fantasy.

By Sara Roth
Mar 30, 2011
Beer & Drink

Lady's First: Support your local lady mixologist

Four nights drinking in San Francisco, seventeen bartenders - only one of them with two x chromosomes.

By Source Weekly
Mar 30, 2011
Beer & Drink

Boneyard's Suge Knite

The latest addition to Boneyard's growing family of beers - a 14-percent imperial stout, dubbed Suge Knite, and pronounced just like the infamous gangsta rap producer - is the Evander Holyfield of ales: a serious heavyweight.

By Source Weekly
Mar 30, 2011

Film

Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Sucker Punch lives up to its title

Sucker Punch's premise of Catholic-school-meets-Victoria Secret girls fighting demons, dragons and kicking ass was somewhat appealing.

By Morgan P Salvo
Mar 30, 2011
Film

Time Travel Done Right: Gyllenhaal and company somehow make Source Code work

Yes, there's a certain validity to the pitch-meeting shorthand that would describe this science-fiction thriller as Groundhog Day meets Quantum Leap - but that doesn't detract from what it manages to do right.

By Source Weekly
Mar 30, 2011
Film Events

Channeling Johnny Mac: Building a better tennis moustache is this easy

Top Spin 4 takes Pong to the personalizable extreme.

By Source Weekly
Mar 30, 2011
Film Events

Intervention

Humpy calls for an intervention for cable TV station TLC from their programing, which is no longer amusing.

By Source Weekly
Mar 30, 2011

Sound Stories & Interviews

Out of Town 3/31 - 4/7: My Chemical Romance, A Day to Remember, Pete Yorn and Ben Kweller, Henry Rollins

If you're not spending your weekend in Bend, here are a few concerts Out of Town you may want to check out.

By Source Weekly
Mar 30, 2011
Sound Stories & Interviews

Jay Tablet - Put it on The Tab

Jay Tablet's new album Put It On The Tab is dancey as hell and incredibly melodic.

By Mike Bookey
Mar 30, 2011
Sound Stories & Interviews

Ice Cube: Renaissance Man - The many, many faces of a creative, hip-hop genius

Ice Cube still has it, so don't expect to be disappointed when he lights up the Midtown on Wednesday night.

By Mike Bookey
Mar 30, 2011

Natural World

Bald Eagle No. 629-15689: The story of a gunned-down national symbol

Some years back - at least five, anyway - somewhere in the Northwest a blessed event took place high up in a bald eagle nest.

By Jim Anderson
Mar 30, 2011
Outside Features

"Small" Basketball in the Big Time: Don't think Butler vs. VCU in the Final Four is the greatest thing in sports history? Well, you're kind of a jerk

For all of you who started paying attention to college basketball sometime at the end of February and are getting all pissy because there are two teams from outside the sacred circle of the BCS fraternity in the Final Four, you really need to shut up.

By Mike Bookey
Mar 30, 2011
Outside Features

I'm Your Huckleberry: From dawn till dusk with the Mt. B ski patrol

Sebastian Folz spends time with the Mt. Bachelor Ski Patrol.

By Source Weekly
Mar 30, 2011

Spring Arts & Style

A Woman on her own Path: Shelly Futch Anderson

Arts and Style profile on Shelly Futch Anderson.

By Anne Pick
Mar 31, 2011
Spring Arts & Style

Intelligent Design: Stuart Breidenstein

Spring Arts and Style profile of Stuart Breidenstein

By Kaycee Anseth-Townsend
Mar 31, 2011
Spring Arts & Style

Style of the Stylish: Alicia Renner

Spring Arts and Style profile on Alicia Renner.

By Mike Bookey
Mar 31, 2011
Spring Arts & Style

New Mom, New Painter: Sarah Hubbard

Springs Arts & Style profile of artist Sarah Hubbard.

By Mike Bookey
Mar 31, 2011