But What Have You Done for Us Lately?
The Crooks and Liars website somehow has gotten its hands on what appear to be the scripts for five ads being produced by the Oregon Republican Party, and The Eye couldn't believe our eyes when we read them.
Tea Partiers vs. Earth Lovers: Who Won?
Downtown merchant and blogger Duncan McGeary compared Wednesay's Tax Day Tea Party with Saturday's Earth Day Procession of the Species and decided the latter came up short.
Celebrate Record Store Day
Tomorrow is the third Saturday in April, which means, of course, that it's Record Store Day. This holiday, which began in 2007, is a national celebration of independent record stores - a medium that has been slowly going the way of the buffalo in the past decade, as evidenced by the fact that we only…
BAF #2
The second installment of BAF TV. The crew hits the coast and does some sandboarding.
Making Criminals Out of Butt-Droppers
This truly was a momentous week in history: On Wednesday, The Wandering Eye attended a right-wing political rally, and today we find ourselves agreeing with Lars Larson.
Video from Weinland at McMenamins
Portland folk rockers Weinland dropped some sweet melodies and kicking rhythms on a much appreciative crowd at McMenamins on Wednesday night. Here’s a clip of the band from last night.
Bend Tea Party Sizzles, But Rhetoric Fizzles
The Wandering Eye had a nice, steaming dish of crow to eat for breakfast today. We predicted that the "Tax Day Tea Party" in Bend would fizzle, but we have to admit the tea partiers put on a pretty impressive show.
Mr. Saturday Night Special
This afternoon, I thought of writing a letter pointing out that every gunman responsible for his share of last month's carnage had the legal right to own a gun. The officers killed in Pittsburgh? Their shooter was a registered gun owner. The eight killed at a nursing home in North Carolina? He owned his gun…
Rent Vs. Reality
I start by saying I love the Source Weekly-it brings some great things to light. Like the article a couple of weeks ago about homelessness in Deschutes County.
Laughing in L.A. L.A. land: Randy Liedtke finally returns from Los Angeles to give us some comedy
He wants you to know he doesn't always wear a bow tie.Randy Liedtke is a funny guy. But when the hefty, fire-red bearded Redmond-raised comic talks about his new life in Los Angeles and says that he got a day job as a prep cook at a gay bar in West Hollywood, he isn't joking.
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Be a Draft Dodger
Oh come on, relax. We're not being unpatriotic, but are rather talking about the NFL draft, which although not until next weekend has already overtaken the sports websites and taken up entire hour-long segments of valuable ESPN2 time which could easily be used to air "Sports Century: Charles Barkley" in its entirety.
We here at…
A Slippery Slope
Ostensibly, the potential implementation of DUI checkpoints/roadblocks in Oregon is a righteous moral mission undertaken by the state to liberate sober drivers from the overwhelming threat of tyrannical, legally drunk drivers on the road and unburden taxpayers of the associated costs of consequent accidents. Similarly, the pretext for the U.S. invasion of Iraq was to…
In Its Place: Land Trust is putting Whychus Creek back where it belongs
Monday, March 23rd was a big day for the Land Trust's Camp Polk Preserve; tour leaders and docents met at the preserve to learn the details of the restoration of Whychus Creek, a project that will be kicking into high gear this spring and summer. Crews are slated to begin breaking ground to restore the…
Spreadin’ the Love: Aloha Spirit and the “Shave & Taper”
Whew, taxes are filed-time to play! Forget about 1040s and Schedule Es and feel the love for Central Oregon and all it has to offer.
HOORAY FOR THE BUBBLEHEADS Corduroy Carpet to Moon MountainKudos to the Sisters Sno Go-Fers Snowmobile Club. Last Friday night they groomed the #6, #7 and #8 roads linking Dutchman Flat…
Warm Fuzzies: New Crystal Chronicles draws from the best
"I'm dead."
"Just a minute, I'll be right there. I have to kill these… things." The things in question are cute, furry orange creatures with fox-like tails. Called mu, they aren't very dangerous. They mainly hop around, pouncing on me at inopportune moments. But a gang of them murdered my friend, and I don't want…
Don’t Knock Our Coast
I think that Bruce Miller should explore the entire Oregon Coast before he forms an opinion. The Oregon Coast has one of the most different forms of landscapes of any coastlines in the world.
Manic Impressive: Rogen’s crazy mall cop is a protagonist we hate to love
Where's Guttenberg and Bobcat?In the Jody Hill-directed comedy Observe and Report, Seth Rogen plays a bi-polar, egomaniacal security guard who beats up children. So yeah, Rogen fans can be forgiven if they think their hero is being cast against type.
But then again, Observe and Report doesn't adhere to many rules at all. In some…
Dog Days: Wendy and Lucy goes existential in Oregon
Auschwitz? No, just Oregon. At first glance Wendy and Lucy seems to revel in simplicity. Wendy (Michelle Williams) is a girl. Lucy is a dog. Together they seem inseparable. But what unfolds is an intimate look at a road-weary girl's predicament and her marooned isolation. Wendy and Lucy is a tale of things going wrong…
Little Bites: On The Upswing
We’re not ready to call the Great Bend Restaurant Shakeout over just yet, but lately we’ve been hearing more about restaurants opening than closing. Following a wholesale massacre that brought down dining titans Merenda, Deep, as well as Volo, Bistro Corlise and, earlier, Blue Fish Bistro, the downtown scene is poised for a rebound of…
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Giuseppe’s one-stop shop for food and fun
It's a clam bake.It's Friday night after a hard week. You're looking for an indulgent meal with some good wine, a few cocktails beforehand, maybe some live music after. But you're spent, rendered incapable of making decisions or traveling far. Well, no need. Somehow, right under our noses, Giuseppe's on Bond has slowly morphed into…
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Giuseppe’s one-stop shop for food and fun
It’s a clam bake.It’s Friday night after a hard week. You’re looking for an indulgent meal with some good wine, a few cocktails beforehand, maybe some live music after. But you’re spent, rendered incapable of making decisions or traveling far. Well, no need. Somehow, right under our noses, Giuseppe’s on Bond has slowly morphed into…
CD Review: William Elliott Whitmore
William Elliott Whitmore Animals in the Dark Anti Records
Authenticity: How do you measure or even capture it? It could be argued that once a musician records their songs some of the true original spirit is already lost. The pure inspiration must be recreated, photocopied for the studio recording session making it difficult to capture…
‘Grass Town, USA: Mountain Standard Time’s accelerated trek from Nederland, Colo. to your eardrum
Who's that guy in the van waving at?There is a place in Colorado called Nederland. If you listen to bluegrass or any of the myriad of styles that orbit around that genre, you probably know about this little mountain town. I've never been there, but this is how I've often pictured it: Everyone is playing…
Our Picks for the Week of 4/15-4/23
The Prairie Rockets friday 17 New to the Bend's Americana scene, but bursting out of the gates with a solid hold on the genre, this all-female trio of pickers seems on-spot with three-part harmonies. Their music is folky as a whole, but also hits heavily on bluegrass and a little bit of blues. Nice old-timey…
A Different Tale
"A Bend Chimp Lover" is right. Chimps are not monkeys, they are Great Apes.
Jesus Bashing
Steven Humphrey's tongue in cheek (hoof in mouth) tirade bashing Jesus in this week's Source makes me wonder if he really is a) as stupid and uneducated as he writes, b) masquerading as a no-talent writer wannabee, or c) really has no talent as a writer.
Anyway, I'm sure he has never heard of St.
Another Equal Rights Victory
America's "heartland" is all "heart" and "mind." Iowa's Supreme Court legalized gay marriage! It wasn't a case of "4 to 3", liberals versus conservatives, it was a unanimous decision upholding a lower-court's rejection of marriage being between one man and one woman.
Born Again: From the salvage yard to the front yard
Paul Schmitz isn’t a holy man, but he’s in the reincarnation business nonetheless. A jack of all trades with a craftsman’s soul, Schmitz has built a name for himself by tearing down old, unwanted buildings and then lovingly re-constructing the sum of their parts, creating something different, and perhaps better, than their creators ever imagined.…
The Wind Cries Money: Finding profits and positive vibes in micro wind farms
Mike Costanti smiles as he cycles through digital images of Nome, Alaska's Banner Wind Project, completed in December 2008 by his company Western Community Energy. It's the largest wind farm in Alaska and one that will help lessen Nome's annual dependence on diesel fuel by 200,000 gallons, and Costanti is proud WCE led the development…
John Kroger the Giant-Killer
John Kroger, Oregon's attorney general, doesn't fit the super-hero mold. There's no cape, no rippling muscles, no rugged, square-jawed face. (To tell the truth, the man looks a bit like a grown-up Howdy Doody.) But beneath that mild-manner…ed mien and modest lawyer's attire there is one seriously bad-ass dude. Just ask the people who run…
The Big Chill: Mind, Modernism & Other Madness
We live in very cold times, and the forecast is for an even chillier future. Certainly we have been blessed with some warm breaks in our Central Oregon winter. And in the longer term, it appears that 21st-century consumption is driving up average global temperatures. Yet in a deeper sense, our way of life is…
Davey Jones Locker: Piracy goes all literal, discomforting stats and more, more, more!
Editor's note: The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from your rear window, hoping to hit Dismal Gulch by dawn, on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly. Suddenly Proud to Pay Taxes Three pirates felled in high seas, three bullets fired…
