Helping Hands Needed For Scouts’ Chicken Coop Raising
Attention handymen and handywomen. The Bend Community Center is looking for volunteers to help with a chicken coop and greenhouse raising project this weekend, which also happens to be Earth Day.
Local Food Getting Easier to Find
It’s getting easier and easier to find local food and I’m not just talking about CSAs. Two locally grown food-related organizations are launching parallel campaigns that aim to connect food buyer with local producer.
Coachella 2012 Recap!
I finally finished putting together all of my post Coachella coverage from the first weekend of the festival. Below you will find a full slate of links to photos, videos, streaming music, and my very own survival guide (if you’re thinking about going next year).
Listen to Tracks from Eric Tollefson’s New Album: Out today!
The Bend singer-songwriter’s new album, The Polar Ends, drops today, and you can listen to one of the hits from the eight-song record at Tollefson’s site. The track “Whose Love,” features a impressive horn performance by Brooklyn dance band, Rubblebucket and is now streaming on E.
May Primary Registration Deadline is Tuesday
If you plan on voting in the May Primary and don’t know if you’re registered, or feel like playing politics ala Mitt Romney and switching your registration to vote in the “other” party’s primary, you’re running out of time to do so. Tomorrow (April 24)is the voter registration deadline for Oregon’s May election.
Why Tart Mattered
Editor’s Note: Joe Benevento is former head chef at Tart and writes the Source’s Kitchen Chronicles. I miss duck wings. There, I said it. I can't take it any longer, the truth must be told to the world. I miss me some lip-smacking good, confit duck wings. Truth be told, it had to be said…
Dig this, it's The Dig
Last night’s triple bill at The Horned Hand rocked the pants off the few folks who showed up. New York band The Dig was especially impressive, check the video below of “Already Forgot Everything You Said.
Oregon A.G. to Take on BP Over Gulf Spill
Oregon Attorney General John Kroger isn’t running for re-election, but he apparently isn’t leaving in bullets in the chamber before he exits as the state’s top cop. On Friday, Kroger announced that he is going after petroleum giant BP for its role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster off the Gulf Coast, which Kroger’s says…
Monsters on the Prowl: Cabin in the Woods changes all the rules in a genre busting good time
Kids in the woods horror movies are a pretty reliable genre. Evil Dead (1 and 2) being the best example of the formula. Cabin Fever also fits the bill and now, thanks to Lion's Gate and Mutant Energy Productions, we have the supreme example of them all in 2012's Cabin in the Woods. Horror movie…
Disabled Community is No Food Cart Foe
In the article on proposed changes to Temporary Use Rules and Food Carts, reporter Erin Marlowe accurately describes me as a “food cart junkie.” I support the food cart cottage industry as a gear in Bend's economic engine, as delivering delicious eats, as creating income for owners of undeveloped lots when carts parked there pay…
Little Bites: Rejoice! Spring is here!
And while we're still contending with weather roulette, we have something worth getting excited about – fiddlehead ferns and asparagus. We're just on the cusp of a very short-lived fiddlehead season, and if you want to take advantage of these tender lovelies you'll have to act fast. Named for their violin scroll shape, fiddleheads are…
Our Picks for 4/19-4/25
Photo Tara Reynvann Last Band Standing, No. 1 thursday 19 This is the kickoff of the annual elimination-style concert series that pits local bands against one another and allows concertgoers to vote on who advances to the next round.
Alfalfa Neighbors Ask For Cell Tower Survey Help
Cell phones are ubiquitous in today’s culture from middle school students to professionals to, well, everyone, it seems no one is without a cell phone and, increasingly, a smart phone and tablet. All that data has to be transmitted somehow, of course.
NOSTRAFILMUS: Waiting for Godot
The thing about Waiting for Godot is this: it doesn’t matter what it’s about. Is it purgatory? Hell? An allegory for the cold war? Are they all facets of a broken mind? Does Beckett just hate us and want to show us he’s as smart as Camus? Is it the Beyond section of a Bed,…
Bend picks new assistant city manager
Jon Skidmore will be Bend City Manager Eric King’s new right hand man, King confirmed today. The city has been searching for a new assistant city manager for some time.
Hoodoo to Close Season with $15 Lifties
Although this weekend’s weather, assuming the forecast for mid-70s holds, is likely to scream summer to most Central Oregonians, those who are still thinking winter, or maybe just, spring, can indulge their impulse at Hoodoo Ski Resort. Hoodoo announced today that it’s adding a final weekend to the season this Saturday and Sunday and offering…
Council meeting tonight will not be boring
The council meeting tonight is so packed with stuff that people care about, you might actually want to make an appearance. If not, at least check the Source’s Facebook and Twitter pages.
Phil’s Expansion Gets Green Light
It’s goodbye to the humble gravel lot at Bend’s favorite mountain biking destination. The planned makeover of the parking lot at Phil’s Trailhead east west of Bend got the official green-light Tuesday from Forest Service officials, clearing the way for 76-space asphalt parking lot at Phil’s.
Subterfuge At City Hall
Many opponents of Bend's Surface Water Improvement Plan (SWIP) have focused upon invalid / incorrect underlying assumptions utilized by the City to create this grandiose scheme. Others have relied upon a conviction that surface water is the wrong approach to serve citizens and that the watershed will be harmed or that forest fires will ravage…
The Time Is Now
“Do you believe that this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living?” When Derrick Jensen, an environmental activist, author, small farmer, teacher and philosopher asked thousands of people this question, the answers ranged from emphatic “No’s” to derisive laughter. His next question was “For those of us who…
Getting Gored by Pronghorn Again
Back in 2002, the developers of Pronghorn promised Deschutes County that – as state law requires – they'd build 192 lodging units at their swanky “destination resort” out among the scrub junipers east of Tumalo. At least 150 units were supposed to be in place by 2007. Instead, in an event that's come to be…
Family Feud: Telfer-Knopp primary could tell us how far is too far for local GOP
Signs of unrest within the Senate District 27 started to appear as early as mid-February, before the legislature had wrapped it's inaugural interim session. Bend Republican Chris Telfer, a former city council member and one-time candidate for Oregon treasurer, got the first inkling of the coming political storm from a colleague who had just gotten…
Here's the Story of a Band Called Yonder: Three reasons not to miss the band's yearly Bend spectacle
When Yonder Mountain String Band members line up on stage, what you're seeing and what you're hearing are often at odds. These four inconspicuous looking white dudes look casual, but their crazy excellent musicianship is evident when they shred, their fret boards a blur of fingers and strings. If you've been musically conscious since 1998,…
Where Heavy Synthesizers and Light Beer Collide
Music junkies of Bend fear not, All You All has new material for your local music fix. RISE UP presents an EP release show that is guaranteed to transform the PoetHouse into a killer dance party fueled by three rocking regional bands. All You All is a band with a heavy blues sound and a…
It's Time to Revisit Common Table: Scaffolding is down, and a new menu is up
If you haven't been to the Common Table lately, it's worth a visit. The nonprofit cafe that's dedicated to providing meals for everyone, regardless of their ability to pay, recruited a new chef in November and has made some significant changes. Matt Matheny, a 27-year-old whose previous experience includes Pronghorn's Chanterelle and the now defunct…
Silver Moon Shakes it up
It's been a few months since Tyler West left Silver Moon Brewing for Oakshire Brewing in the valley. So, microcosmos stopped over there week to see how life was shaking out for one of Bend's first and most well-loved breweries under the leadership of new head brewer Brett Thomas. And holy crap is that guy…
Grant will fund CO arts and culture map
A local arts organization just won a grant for $6,000. That sounds like small potatoes until you hear what the Arts and Culture Council for Central Oregon is going to do with the money.
Getting Neat with Nature in Zion
Attempting to catalog the events of 2012 thus far proves to be somewhat of a challenge.
Arm-Wrestling Addiction: We went on the inside to see what it takes to go over the top
Nano Cruz’s hands are thick and meaty. They feel like they’re twice as big as mine – and they might very well be. When shaking hands with Cruz, a hulk of a man with a warm smile and a soft voice, my palm is lost in his. His fingers feel like sausages. Cruz's large, powerful…
Ski Crater Lake: An out and back in Oregon's national park
On June 12, 1853, three members of a mining expedition searching for the legendary “Lost Cabin” gold mine stumbled upon a “deep blue lake” in southern Oregon. Roughly 50 years later President Theodore Roosevelt created Crater Lake National Park on May 22, 1902. And, last Thursday, I turned 40. I couldn't think of a better…
A Symphony of Destruction: The Raid: Redemption is a modern action classic
It might not be fair, but I don’t judge martial arts movies by the same standard as I do other genres. I don’t need character development, brilliant acting or nuance when it comes to a new kung-fu movie. I only need exhilarating action, an under-reliance on wire work and some savage ass-kickery. The Raid: Redemption…
Fox Network: 25 Years of Stinko!
Did you know the Fox Network is turning a creaky 25-years-old this year? That's the age when most people realize they're no longer children and may very well end up lonely underemployed potheads living in their grandmother's garage. (Not you, of course.) (Yes, you.) Anyway, Fox is celebrating it's anniversary this Sunday (April 22) starting…
