What in the World?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Oregon Caves Concession Cottages, Oregon Route 46, Cave Junction, Josephine County, Ore. Break out the chicory, it’s time for some morning reading. More Clinton-era documents have been released. And given the potential for Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2016, people are paying attention. This PIECE, which…
Morning Blog
Well, good morning. You know it’s the last day to register to vote before the May 20 primary, right? Now you do. So, in addition to eagerly anticipating our endorsements, which are going to hit the street on Thursday, take a look at some information from the Oregon State Bar. The race for Deschutes Circuit…
Better Living Through Music: Gold Casio “Colors On the Wall”
Portland via Bend act Adventure Galley released their most recent EP Anywhere That’s Wild last November. But members have had plenty of other projects in the works. Brothers Brock and Forrest Grenfell and fellow bandmate George Shultz are taking keyboard obsessed disco pop to a whole new level with side project Gold Casio. A baseline…
Pakit Announces Closing…In Other News, Junkyard for Sale
For a few days there have been rumors that the future of Pakit Liquidators—the junkyard/music venue near Bend High School—was up in the air. This morning, Pakit made this announcement via Facebook: Via Facebook The announcment comes after Pakit hosted a seemingly successful TedxBend after party on Saturday night. The venue also has several shows…
Isles jams ever so slightly
If you haven’t already read Bri Brey’s bit on the re-emergence of Armature, a local gallery and event space at 50 N.E. Scott St., you probably should. Regardless, though, there’s more than just art to catch at the space’s reopening at 6:30 pm. Saturday. There’re bands, too. Isles, a Bend quartet, is one of the…
Friday Mixtape!
A playlist of live performances!
What in the World?
It’s Friday! And the world is still turning! Here is what’s happening… LA Times Forget the margarita tonight, the great lime shortage of 2014 continues. Even royal babies don’t meet outrageous 21st Century standards of beauty…Us Weekly is accused of photoshopping 9-month-old Prince George. In the most counterintuitive headline of the day…Bob Weir (of the…
Wine Growlers! Legal Again.
Portland, OR — Oregon Senator Ron Wyden today announced that the federal agency that regulates the sale of alcohol has agreed to rescind an order than would have blocked the sale of wine growlers in Oregon. In a letter to members of the Oregon delegation the administrator of the federal Alcohol, Tobacco Tax and Trade…
Make Way for the 2014 RESTAURANT GUIDE
This week’s papers have arrived! And this week’s issue is stuffed with…drum roll, please…THE 2014 RESTAURANT GUIDE! A comprehensive listing of eateries in Central Oregon and the announcement of our Restaurant and Rookie Restaurant of the Year! Matt Fox and Jen Hornstein Read the full 2014 Restaurant Guide here. Congratulations to Zydeco Kitchen and Cocktails,…
2014 Rookie of the Year
You can hear and smell The Lot before you ever see it. A cacophony that starts as a murmur of laughter and clinking glasses rolls up and down Columbia Street just off Galveston, past Hutch’s Bicycle Store. The blissful roar couples with the smells of spicy Mexican dishes, Thai curries, sizzling burgers, and fresh baking…
YES on Fire Levy
For emergency services, response time is king. In the City of Bend, and throughout Deschutes County, the fire departments have the obvious responsibilities to manage house fires, as their name would suggest, but actually spend 80 percent of their time responding to emergency medical calls—and, points out Fire chief Larry Langston, the difference between a…
Ariana and Andres Fernandez Ariana Restaurant
Ariana and Andres Fernandez met at COCC more than a decade ago, where they were attending culinary school. Both come from families where food and cooking were a centering force. In fact, Ariana’s family is still very involved in the business, with her dad, a chiropractor, managing the wine selection, and her mom working the…
Gee GMOs, Leave Us Alone!
What better timing than our annual Restaurant Guide to check in on the battle over so-called Genetically Modified Organisms. Currently, there is a heated battle in Southern Oregon about banning GMOs—a fight that will affect Central Oregon farmers and foodies, and that may determine whether the entire state will ban GMOs. The concerns over GMOs…
Jeff Hunt, Spork
Jeff Hunt likes pork. So much so, that Spork, a food cart turned proper restaurant, purposefully includes a reference to the swine. “It’s a delicious animal and super versatile,” says Hunt. “There’s a lot you can do with it.” Bend already has an impressive and diverse food scene—a successful diversity bolstered both by supportive and…
Letters 4/16-4/22
IN REPLY TO “CONNECTING THE DOTS” (4/17) The feature article was well done, outlining the broad efforts going on by one of our nation’s premier park and recreation departments, Bend Park and Recreation District. Also accompanying that article were other important efforts by grass-roots groups (volunteer and nonprofit) to create and preserve public access, and…
Michi Nakanishi, Ju:no
“I create a culture here (that’s) like real Japanese dining,” says Michi Nakanishi, the proprietor, coordinator and sushi chef for the relatively newly opened Ju:no. With a slender bar and a tidy interior, the space is classy, yet the prices are extremely approachable. Likewise, the expansive menu features everything from more exotic sashimi to the…
Choose Your Own Adventure
“We were in Colorado at a Yoga Journal conference in the mountains in 2005,” Jason Magness said about founding YogaSlackers with his friend Sam Salwei. At the time, the two were teaching yoga and slacklining—the tricky sport of walking and balancing on a bouncy rope. He continued, “People started to ask about the whole package…
Joe Kim, 5 Fusion
In February, when executive chef and part owner of 5 Fusion, Joe Kim, read the James Beard Foundation’s 20 nominees for the Best Chef in the Northwest, he did a quadruple take at his own name. “It’s a big deal, because you don’t do anything for it. You don’t ask for it. They find you,”…
Twee Noodling
Michel Gondry is concerned about how documentary filmmakers use selective editing to manipulate audiences’ perceptions of reality. (Of course he is. He’s Michel Gondry. He’s like the French-iest guy ever.) And so Gondry decided to present his new film about renowned linguist Noam Chomsky as an animation, so the audience will never forget they’re watching…
The Source Weekly’s 2014 Restaurant Guide
It is an exciting time for food, and eating, in Central Oregon. The idea of local, fresh food is no longer a novel idea, but the standard and expectation for diners. And, for the past decade, Zydeco, our Restaurant of the Year, has led those trends, while also presenting those fresh and healthy foods in…
Triple Threat Todd Looby
When Todd Looby was growing up in a middle class neighborhood on the south side of Chicago in a community full of cops, firemen and teachers, arts were not particularly encouraged. “Art was not a hugely celebrated thing,” the largely self-taught filmmaker said. “In recent years, it has gotten better, but I had to discover…
The Source Weekly’s 2014 Restaurant Guide
It is an exciting time for food, and eating, in Central Oregon. The idea of local, fresh food is no longer a novel idea, but the standard and expectation for diners. And, for the past decade, Zydeco, our Restaurant of the Year, has led those trends, while also presenting those fresh and healthy foods in…
Film Events 4/23-5/1
Spaghetti Western Wednesdays Spaghetti, salad, and garlic bread, served up with a classic movie. One drink minimum. Wednesdays, 6pm. Tin Pan Theater, 869 NW Tin Pan Alley. $6. The Tao of Bluegrass- A Portrait of Peter Rowan There are only a few Blue Grass Boys still around that played with the Father of Bluegrass, Bill…
Evolving Pennywise
The history of Hermosa Beach-based punk godfathers Pennywise reads like an especially well-tailored script for an episode of VH1’s “Behind the Music.” Assembled in 1988 by a crew of fast-talking surf-punks deeply embedded in the SoCal hardcore scene, Pennywise released its first album, 1991’s Pennywise, to minor, but groundbreaking chart success. The departure from the…
Something Tasty This Way Comes
Dogwood Cocktail Cabin The long-vacant, former Astro Lounge location next door to Barrio on Minnesota Ave. has undergone some major renovations. New front windows, as well as a bohemian log cabin vibe, are additions that owners Doug and Phoebe Pedersen built into the Dogwood Cocktail Cabin. The focus of the new bar will be handcrafted…
The Source Suggests
4 Peaks Preparty After the advent of a new, more expansive permit that will allow for the event to grow beyond its 1,000 attendee capacity, the seventh year of this jamgrass festival looks to be the best lineup yet. Railroad Earth, Dumpstaphunk, Poor Man’s Whiskey, Hot Buttered Rum and Brothers Comatose—just to name a few.…
X is for Xcellent
According to Armory XPA’s legend, Deschutes chose not to brew a known recipe for the first run of their new equipment in the Portland pub. The reason behind the decision was consistency. New equipment has a learning curve if the goal is matching an existing flavor profile. Why not try something brand new instead? The…
Chasing Midnight Moonlight
Familiarity with Peter Rowan might entail being a fan of the 1973 New Riders of the Purple sage hit (and we use that term loosely) “Panama Red.” Rowan, a guitarist and mandolin player from Boston, wrote it after working with everyone in bluegrass from Bill Monroe to David Grisman and Jerry Garcia. His accomplishments in…
Bend, Bend, Bend, Bend, Bend
It is actually a genre of jokes; the ones that start with “You know you live in Bend when…” and reference Subaru Chinese fire drills, and hop saturation. And the Bend Follies, the second annual fundraiser for the Tower Theatre, is probably the best stage for this genre of humor. “Since 2009, we’ve been trying…
With Armature Wide Open
Author, novelist, playwright and poet James Baldwin summed up the solidarity of the artistic lifestyle saying, “The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.” Yes, the vision of the artist can be a lonely one. The solipsistic painter…
Houston, We Have A Speaker!
Charles Precourt has had a front row seat to much of the history of the second half of the Twentieth Century. First, as a top notch Air Force pilot stationed near the Berlin Wall, at the dividing line between the two super powers. And then, in the ’90s, as an astronaut commanding the Space Shuttle…
Bittersweet Sympathy
I Remember You is a play about embracing nostalgia in doses. It is easy to get caught up in memories of a glorious past until all that is left are recently polished trophies and a contact list made up of people you don’t know anymore. Deep in that sense of ennui is where we meet…
Out of Town 4/23-5/1
seattle saturday 26 Jake Shimabukuro If you’ve been underestimating the ukulele as an overdone hipster accessory, you need to check out the charming and talented Jake Shimabukuro. The Hawaiian ukulele virtuoso and composer makes the tiny four-stringed instrument do things you never knew it could. A recoding of his cover of “While My Guitar Gently…
Our Picks 4/23-5/1
thursday 24 Jeff Crosby and the Refugees ROCK—This L.A. via Idaho band has the small town to big city storyline locked down. With folk-rock songs about transitional points in life, leaving home, the open road and the shock of settling in a metropolis, anyone (or everyone) who has ever experienced a massive change in life…
2014 Restaurant of the Year
It is not even yet 10 on a Wednesday morning, but already Zydeco is busy. Steve and Cheri Helt, the husband-wife restaurant owners, have been across the street filming a spot on a local TV show about the upcoming Foodie Crawl, and now they are rushing for another media interview. The back kitchen is busy,…
Good Housing News and Bad Housing News
Since last summer, housing prices in Central Oregon—and especially Bend—have rebounded alongside the strengthening economy, with many homes selling above asking price. Great news, right? Well, not for everyone. According to numbers released last week by the Central Oregon Rental Owners Association, Bend’s rental vacancy rate dropped below one percent (to 0.7), a number reminiscent…
Truck Stop Skate Park closes its doors
The Truck Stop Skate Park, Bend’s only indoor skate park, closed it’s doors on April 12th. The building was recently sold to make way for basketball courts. At this point there is not a new location slated for the park. There is hope that a new location can be found. A skateboard art show and…
