Scam Alert: Man Posing as Sheriff’s Staff Asking Residents for Money to Clear False Warrants
Have you ever missed jury duty? If you’re one of that (dare we say vast) majority of of people who tosses their jury notices in the recycling bin, don’t be duped by an official-sounding fellow with an intimidating proposition. According to Sgt. Aaron Harding with the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office, a man has been calling local…
Friday Mixtape: Rain Songs
By: Josh Gross April showers bring May flowers, as they say. And here in the drought-parched West we sure could use some of that April drizzle. And if we’re going to do a rain dance, then we need the right tunes. So here they are: a mixtape comprised entirely of songs about rain, including obvious…
Women Writers Continue to Be Overlooked by Literary World
For any writer, getting your work published is only the first step down the long and arduous path to literary acclaim. Book reviews and literary journals are essential in the lit establishment as they provide legitimacy for the most valued writers in our culture. Besides determining and broadcasting the work of authors deemed most worthy…
Saving Grace Takes Back the Night to Raise Awareness About Sexual Assault
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and cities around the world are hosting Take Back the Night events to raise awareness about violence in their communities. With roots in anti-violence demonstrations in the 1970s, Take Back the Night events often include marches, rallies and vigils. In Bend, Saving Grace hosts a family-friendly event aimed at providing…
Sheryl Crow Returns to Bend July 6
If all you want to do is have some fun, you’re in luck. Sheryl Crow is coming to the Les Schwab Amphitheater July 6. Tickets, which are running $45 and $85 plus service fees, go on sale Friday, April 10 at 10 am. The LSA summer concert series is really staking up. Who are you…
Bend City Council Votes to Limit Vacation Rentals
Last night, after hours of deliberation, a battle-weary city council voted unanimously to support the first reading of ordinances including a new short-term rental licensing program and changes to land use code that limit the concentration of what are frequently referred to as vacation rentals. Under the first ordinance, which passed with relative ease, new…
Three Creeks: All Grown Up
One rule of thumb for all beer fans: A craft brewery where everyone knows your name is truly a comforting, gratifying experience. A McDonald’s where everyone knows your name, meanwhile, might be an indication that you need to adjust your eating habits. Sisters resident Don McKay, along those lines, is particularly blessed. For the past…
Source Suggests 4/1-4/8
Dana and Susan Robinson Hailing from the green mountains of Vermont, Dana and Susan Robinson bring their “new-time, old-time” music to an intimate house concert setting in the Newport Hills of Bend. The combination of Dana’s masculine, yet smooth, vocals with Susan’s harmonies creates a brand of American folk music made for easy listening. Uplifting…
Film Events 4/1-4/8
Nfinity Champions League 2 Here it is: The moment we’ve all been waiting for. Every single day of your life has been building to this. While the birth of your children was nice and all, the Nfinity Cheerleading Championships shall make that first beautiful wail pale in comparison. This year the blood, sweat, and cheers…
Art Watch 4/1-4/8
Throughout April at the Red Chair Gallery in downtown Bend, aspiring high school students will experience the ins and outs of a “real world” art show—from the jury selection process to hanging and pricing and (hopefully) selling their work. For the past four years—almost as long as the gallery has been in existence—the women at…
Artist of the Month: Lee White
What does an artist do when his work seems to elicit the same response— that it looks like an image from a kid’s book? He runs with it, establishing himself as a successful and prolific children’s book illustrator with almost 20 books under his belt. Illustrator Lee White’s drawings inhabit a dreamland where children ride…
F-U-N-N-Y
Ten years ago, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, an interactive musical, stormed Broadway, capturing six Tony nominations and a Grammy nomination for its songs. The performance is a perfect storm of improv comedy, theatrical flare and gleeful musical numbers. This month, the musical is being staged for the first time in Central Oregon. Recently,…
From Athens to Paris to, of course, Bend
For Greek-American and Bend-based writer Stephanos Papadopoulos, the poems collected in his recent book The Black Sea embody the “inherited memories” of his ancestors. His grandfather, a tobacco merchant who was born in Samsounda, recounted to his grandchildren the trials of the Pontic Greeks of The Black Sea, and the Asia Minor Catastrophe of the…
Out of Town 4/1-4/8
eugene friday 3 Quixotic Quixotic is, oh, the standard acrobatic circus on ecstasy. You will literally be seeing double with their projection mapping, which creates eye-popping displays of color and aerial grace. Through their strings/drums mix and out-of-this-world costuming, Quixotic envelops “electronic dance music meets Cirque” for the layman. The Kansas City based group is…
Picks 4/1-4/8
thursday 2 Be Calm Honcho MUSIC—Like Best Coast, Be Calm Honcho seems to adore California, and play guitar-forward anthems about the state’s carefree mindset, songs beset with just the right mix of LA surf and SF psychedelic influences. Most notable is Shannon Harney sweet, but saucy voice. 9 pm. Volcanic Theatre Pub, 70 SW Century…
Cat Fight
Last Saturday, a brilliant spring day, around 6:45 pm, just as the sun was beginning to set, a hiker spotted a young male cougar sitting within sight of the trail. He wasn’t on some remote, backcountry pathway, but was walking up Pilot Butte, the popular state park with trails that snake around the 500 foot…
A Love Supreme
Though jazz music doesn’t enjoy the mainstream popularity it did in the mid-20th century, there are certain albums and songs whose influence has permeated the nation’s musical ground water. John Coltrane’s masterpiece “A Love Supreme,” release 50 years ago February, is one of these classics. While it’s not uncommon for jazz to touch on religious…
(Nearly) 100 Days Progress Report
CASEY ROATS Source Weekly: Since starting on Council, what has caught you most by surprise? Casey Roats: I have been most surprised to learn how costly and time consuming our Urban Growth Boundary expansion process has been. The 2008 proposal was over 8,000 acres and was remanded back to Bend by the State. The current range…
Exploding from the Wilderness
Bradley David Parsons is finally ready to invite you into his world. A drummer since the age of 10 and the percussive backbone of Bend’s popular folk-rock quartet Wilderness, Parsons has been writing songs of his own for years—quietly honing his voice as a songwriter and vocalist. Though more than happy playing drums in Wilderness…
Side Notes 4/1-4/8
An activist group called Cascadia Forest Defenders protested proposed clear cuts in the Deschutes National Forest on Monday by hanging a banner from the Highway 97 overpass above Greenwood Avenue that read “Entering Deschutes National Forest: Where Recreation and Clearcuts Abound!” The Defenders, a grassroots environmental organization opposed to what it calls the “ecologically and…
Tea For All
Metolius Tea & Apothecary owner Amy Seidenverg was living in New York and studying the theory of history when she stumbled upon an herb shop in Brooklyn that changed her life’s path. The Brooklyn herb shop held a community class, where Seidenverg discovered she had a hidden passion for plant medicine and herbal remedies. Returning…
Letters 3/24-3/31
IN OPPOSITION TO THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP In response to the March 26 letter from Stan Baker asking readers to support the TPP “Free Trade” agreement, I urge readers to check out Elizabeth Warren’s speech on the Senate Floor, probably on YouTube, against this impending catastrophe. This secret Act effectively gives international corporate governance power to bypass our…
Putting Money Where It Belongs
A year ago, Congress’ “job approval” rating hit an all-time low, 13 percent. Over the past year, that approval rating has climbed to 23 percent, which yes, is an improvement, but still dismal, and still hamstrung by the constant partisan bickering and stunts like writing letters to Iran’s leaders. But not everything at the U.S.…
Go Here 4/1-4/8
Last summer, I worked at Bend Park & Rec, and while putting in long hours keeping Bend’s parks beautiful, a coworker of mine, a Crook County native, spun me tales of gold in the hills near Prineville Reservoir. The stories were entertaining, and I filed them away, like pirate’s treasure maps, for later consideration. Scan…
