Running Form Clinic Tonight—With Real Professionals
How to run efficiently. Remember when we wrote about Jay Dicharry and his fancy treadmill, the one that cost more than my house and measures impact forces in 3D? He’s giving a talk tonight at Rebound Physical Therapy (the Westside Clinic, 1160 SW Simpson) and will be joined by local running legends Max King and…
It’s Over!
Dredging Mirror Pond won’t come cheap. Which means it might not come at all. Today, during the Mirror Pond Management Board Meeting, we learned there’s 380,000 cubic yards of silt (affectionately referred to as “goo” or “warm Jell-O”) in the bottom of the man-made lake near downtown Bend. At $30-$50 per yard of silt removed…
The Sawyers! Sentenced!
Finally. Locals Tami Sawyer and her husband Kevin have gotten their just deserts. The two were sentenced in federal court today for defrauding about 30 investors out of over $6 million during Bend’s housing boom. She got nine years in prison, he two. KTVZ captures the Sawyer’s departing federal court in Eugene today. See KTVZ’s…
Arrested Development Returns or Another Excuse for a Party
This Sunday marks one of the most irrelevant drinking holidays of all time, Cinco de Mayo. The fifth is not, as many Americans think, the Mexican Independence Day, but it does offer an excuse for frat boys everywhere to slam Cuervo and Coronas. Delicious Tequila aside, Cinco de Drinko is pretty pointless, so why not…
Sherpas vs. Climbers: World’s Highest Altitude Brawl
Jon Griffith Ever since the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster, chronicled in Jon Krakauer’s “Into Thin Air,” it’s become clear that the world’s highest mountain needs a break. Too many people on the same route has led to excessive trash, dangerous climbing conditions and a general disrespect of local Sherpa culture, experts say. But lately Everest…
Brickhouse is the Reason To Go Downtown Tonight
It’s Friday and the weather is uhh-may-zing. Good reasons to go out tonight. But here’s the best one—there’s a pretty solid rumor going around that Brickhouse will open tonight in the old Firehall. Though we couldn’t confirm in person, the restaurant’s voicemail message says it’s happening. New lounge menu plus the best steaks in town…
Weekend Roundup 4/26-4/28
It’s beautiful outside! FINALLY! Here are some great ways to enjoy the weekend and the weather. Friday 26 James Apollo and the Sweet Unknown8 p.m. The Belfry 302 Main St. (Sisters) $5-$10. Yep, King Ghidora is named after whatever this dragon thing is. King GhidoraDeath metal. The Religious Rite and Kronk Men open. 21+. 8…
BendFilm Makes Top 50 List
MovieMaker.com just named BendFilm in the top 50 best bang for your buck film festivals in the world. The decade old festival takes place every fall in downtown Bend. Last year, flicks were shown at the Tower, McMenamins, 2nd St. Theater, Tin Pan and in the Old Mill. It may not be SXSW or Sundance,…
Sing Your Heart Out
Don’t Stop Believing that karaoke is a good idea. No matter the song, no matter how many beers deep. We Wannabe stars, and We Will Survive the boos, the drunken heckles. In fact, the Source’s Christmas party turned into a karaoke-centric shindig, late night at Corey’s. Here are some gems suggested by our editors, writers,…
Fists of Fury
Although he was still recording, for the past few years Aesop Rock shied away from headlining his own albums. But with the 2012 release of Skelethon and a recent appearance at Coachella, Aesop has returned full-force. The tenor of his furious rhymes and flow is a throwback to the rap of ’90s groups like Mobb…
Hungry for More
Holy hot dog, does Bend love food! The Huffington Post recently named the Bend area #3 on a list of 15 of the country’s most restaurant-crazed cities, calculating our remarkably high per-capita restaurant ratio of 431 restaurants for a county with just over 166,000 people. On Sunday, 13 cream of the Bend-restaurant crop will offer…
Out of Town 4/24 – 5/2
seattle friday 26 Dr. Dog and Dawes For most of Dr. Dog’s career the band’s main creative outlet has been twisting ’60s inspired pop with the lo-fi anti-polish of an early ’90s grunge scene. Using eight-track recorders, their early work has a vintage twist; even in the digital copies, the needle touching down on vinyl…
Emotional Baggage
A romantic comedy with a measure of drama, Shooting Star is playwright Steven Dietz’ ode to the 1970s, failed relationships and middle age. Staged by Cascade Theatrical Company and performed excellently by a two-person cast, most of the play takes place over a 24-hour period during an epic snowstorm. Two ex-lovers, the NPR-listening hippie Elena…
Ring the Bell and Rejoice!
The Belfry, the popular new music venue in Sisters, was in trouble. With only seven days left in its Kickstarter campaign, the venue had raised less than 50 percent of its goal; $16,476 of the nearly $34,500 owner Angeline Rhett needed to upgrade the venue into a spot capable of hosting full-fledged shows in Sisters.…
Our Picks 4/24 – 5/2
Bobby Joe Ebola and The Children MacNuggits thursday 25 MUSIC—Bobby Joe and the MacNuggits sound like the feral offspring of Tenacious D and Larry and His Flask, which is a good thing. Often funny, sometimes searing, the Bay Area band’s social commentary and furious folk-punk songs are always entertaining. Just ask YouTube. These guys might…
The Ways and The Means Forward
For a town hall Ways and Means Committee meeting, last Friday’s event at the National Guard Armory was pretty tame. Responsible for hammering out the finer points—the pennies, nickels and dollars—of the biannual budget, the House and Senate committee is traveling the state to hear from constituents. And, in the past, this kind of event…
For Those About to Rock
Last August Dave Hill called off the Bend Roots Revival, a local music festival scheduled for September. It had been a difficult summer for Hill, the owner of the Century Center. The gray-haired, goatee-sporting businessman had listened to complaints from residential neighbors and, in August, had a run-in with Nosler, a neighboring bullet manufacturer. Nosler appealed…
Phil’s Fix No Fix At All
Let’s consider the Bend of the future: With even more locals and tourists looking to access singletrack mountain biking, hiking, trail running and primo dog walking territory within a 15-minute drive from the nearest brewery, areas like Phil’s Trailhead will become even more popular than today. But when these recreators arrive at Phil’s Trailhead, what…
One Day at a Time
MONDAY, APRIL 15 Welcome to “America, You So CRAZY!” week—a remembrance of perhaps the worst week that Chris Brown had nothing to do with (at least at this point). TODAY: America reeled in horror when twin explosions at the Boston Marathon injured 170 people and killed three—including 8-year-old Martin Richard. According to authorities, the bombs…
Letters 4/17 – 4/25
Military Recruitment happening in Bend Schools Parents, now is your chance to "opt out” of schools releasing students' directory data to the military who may contact young people with repeated phone calls and mailings to entice them into the service through expert salesmanship—and empty promises. Since the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, our schools…
Diving For Cantaloupe
John Gannon is a slight man, thin and a little bowlegged. The front and sides of his thick dark hair are streaked with grey, but the Korean's relatively creaseless face and quick smile make him appear much younger than his claimed 64 years. “Claimed,” because Gannon—whose journey from war-torn Korea to the United States is…
Uncertainty Principle
PRIMER, the 2004 debut film of writer/director/editor/composer/star Shane Carruth, stands as one of the foremost Great Whatsits of independent cinema. Made for $7,000, it told its time-travel story in a fashion that was somehow both eminently sensible and entrancingly brain-croggling, with a resolution that all but commanded viewers to go home and get busy on…
Mostly Pain
SOMEWHERE OUT THERE in an alternate universe, I like to think that the Coen brothers directed Pain & Gain. It’s a premise that seems ideal for them: the true story of a team of lunkheaded Florida bodybuilders who decide to kidnap a wealthy deli owner and hold him hostage until he agrees to sign over…
Good Cop Bad/Bad Cop Good
[Hey Readers! I’m going on vacation this week—and all I’m taking is my computer and the best dirty cop show of all time, The Shield! Currently you can stream seasons one and two (with the rest of the series to follow) for free at crackle.com—and to remind you of how awesome this show was, here’s…
Ghost on Ghost
Ghost On Ghost Iron & Wine Nonesuch Records The fifth studio album from singer/songwriter Sam Beam—who records as Iron & Wine—is by far the cheeriest record he’s ever made. Beam, known for his quieted and haunting voice, unleashes on Ghost On Ghost. Happy church organ, marching snare and jazz horns accompany Beam’s singing that on…
Bombadil Tonight!
Like “Lord of the Rings?” So does Durham, North Carolina band Bombadil, sort of. The band’s name comes from the mysterious musical Tom Bombadil, a shadowy fringe character called “the oldest and the fatherless” in J.R.R. Tolkien’s popular fantasy epics. Granted, like many LOTR film fans, no one in the band has read the books,…
