The Downtowner Move
Most regular customers of the popular Brooks St. deli have already heard that it’s moving lock, soup stock and beer barrel over to its sister operation at the Summit.
Salem Revolving Door Spins Again
Quick pseudo update on the story from last Friday about questions around Democratic state representative Larry Galizio’s appointment/hire to high level Oregon Universtity system job on the recommendation of Gov. Ted Kulongoski’s staff — after Galizio provided the key, swing-vote on the Metolius Basin resort ban.
Biscuits and Beatdowns: A neurotic's quest for Best of Show at the Deschutes County Fair
“This is great! This is everybody's dream,” said Linda Scott, first-time baked goods judge at the 2009 Deschutes County Fair. From 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. the day before the fair kicked off this year, Linda tasted every single entry in the senior and adult categories. Linda's parents ran Gibb's Bakery in Redmond for 45…
Conservatives Find Something New to Whine About
Right-wing radio host and blogger Bill Post of Salem has uncovered a horrendous political scandal: Jim Bernau, CEO of Willamette Valley Vineyards, appears to be a closet liberal. Post was able to break this blockbuster of a story, according to his blog, because an alert listener tipped him “that there was a bus at the…
Lefty the One-Armed Guitarist
This just landed in our in-box and we had to share.
Clem on Galizio
Normal 0 0 1 712 4064 33 8 4990 11.1282 0 0 0 Pretty interesting story this morning in both the Oregonian and the Bulletin about what looks suspiciously like a quid pro quo on the Metolius destination resort legislation.
Rumor mill turns
I had a chance last night to vet at least a couple of rumors about downtown last night at our Best Of party. I talked to one business owner about a recent local blog report that the downtown chocolate shop, Chocolat e Gateaux, is closing soon and that Astro and Marz may not be far…
Tower Theatre Rolls Out its 2009-2010 Slate
Normal 0 0 1 118 678 The Source Weekly 5 1 832 11.1282 0 0 0 The Tower Theatre’s executive director, Ray Solley, just sent over a list of some of the shows that the downtown theater will be hosting in the remainder of 2009-2010.
Send the Pols a Message: Just Listen
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Thank You Les Paul
You may have heard the news by now, but Les Paul, the guitar wizard who did wonders for both guitar players and guitars themselves, passed away today at the glorious age of 94. Most know his name because it is also the moniker for one of rock and roll’s most popular instruments, the Les Paul…
Damn Dog Owners
Sure, Bend is dog-friendly and many dog owners tote their furry friends around like kids. Dogs in the grocery store, dogs in the restaurant, dogs everywhere.
Tonight in Free Music
Normal 0 0 1 149 866 The Source Weekly 19 10 1045 11.1282 0 0 0 It’s Wednesday, or “hump day” as some of you might call it (I don’t, I call it Wednesday) which, for whatever reason means there’s probably some quality music to be found in Bend.
Mirror, Mirror: Reflections from Mirror Pond and Mirror Lake
TRAGEDY ON THE RIVER On a Monday evening two weeks ago, I put in behind the Park & Rec building to paddle upriver and meet a few friends for some whitewater play in the rapids above Bill Healy Bridge. It was 6:30 p.m., about 90 degrees, and the river was choked with floaters. As I…
Went Phishin': My surprisingly normal weekend with America's most dedicated music fans
After some 36 hours encamped on a stretch of dusty Central Washington farmland dotted by Honey Buckets, make-shift Bloody Mary bars, rented RVs and taking in about 40 songs from one of rock music's most storied live bands, here is how I'll remember the Phish shows at the Gorge Amphitheater last weekend… Winding through the…
Who Me? Couldn’t Be
Am I on Steroids? Guess what? You might be on steroids. Last week, it became known that David Ortiz tested positive for one (or more than one) of those pesky performance-enhancing drugs back in 2003. But Ortiz says that he has no clue how he could have possibly ingested or been injected with steroids and…
wRite: Capture This Moment
The color of it moved something in him long forgotten. Make a list. Recite a litany. Remember… …Where you've nothing else, construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them. – Cormac McCarthy, The Road
This whole rhapsody, better go capture this moment And hope it don't collapse on him… – Eminem, “Lose Yourself”
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Nina de la Tierra: Child of the Earth: The mystery of the Jerusalem Cricket
I've been getting phone calls and e-mails recently reminding me this is the time of the year when unsuspecting humans meet up with our colorful and common—but sometimes alarming—Jerusalem Cricket. Of all the insects that live in, under, over and on Central Oregon, none can catch a person's eye and generate more fear, questions, admiration,…
Treacherous Love
Amelia Gray's AM/PM Amelia Gray's AM/PM (Featherproof Books, $12.95) consists of 120 impeccably compact stories of love, discomfort and concert souvenirs. The single-page stories were written, one in the morning and one in the evening, over the course of two months. This timeline, and their brevity, may make it sound like this is a simple…
An Epic in Your Palm: Monster Hunger proves hard to put down
Monsters have overrun the Snowy Mountains. Herbivorous Popo lumber across windswept ridges, defended by dense coats and scimitars of antlers.
Peace, Love and Five Kinds of Gravy: Let the healing begin in CHOW's magic garden
Last Sunday morning found me a little worse for the weekend wear. But as disjointed text messages lamenting the night before and proposing breakfast started coming in, I realized that compared to my potential dining companions, I was in reasonably good shape. My one-too-many was certainly a far cry from the impressive 3 a.m. nightcap…
Peace, Love and Five Kinds of Gravy: Let the healing begin in CHOW's magic garden
Last Sunday morning found me a little worse for the weekend wear. But as disjointed text messages lamenting the night before and proposing breakfast started coming in, I realized that compared to my potential dining companions, I was in reasonably good shape. My one-too-many was certainly a far cry from the impressive 3 a.m. nightcap…
Toy Soldiers: Trying to see the good in the dismal G.I. Joe
A wise woman once told me that the older she got the more she tried to see the good in things rather than the easier route of criticizing everything. I have thought of that comment virtually every day since she said those words, but never more than while watching GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra.…
Set To Blow: The Hurt Locker goes for intense psychological study
The frequently used term “nail-biting” has never been more appropriate than to describe The Hurt Locker. Focused on a bomb squad assigned to dismantle IEDs (improvised explosive devices) in Baghdad circa 2004, the gritty realism and sheer tension of this movie sucks you in, hooks you and keeps you dangling the entire time. Based on…
Welcome to the Jungle
Most children by the age of ten can recite a chilling version of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” or another outlandish ghost tale. At summer camp they sit around late at night terrifying one another by raising the ante with each story. But the child who terrorizes like no other is always the child of…
CD Review – Black Ice Cream Anyone?
Helado Negro Awe Owe Asthmatic Kitty Records
Helado Negro's debut album (or Roberto Carlos Lange latest project), Awe Owe, is a mix of traditionally structured songs sung and strummed by Lange, with heavy looping, samples, handclaps, the dabbling of woodwinds and Latin percussion. The album can be patchy as if intended for a canvas or…
Joan Baez, 40 Years Later
When Joan Baez plays here in Bend on Sunday night, it will be exactly 40 years and one day after the legendary folk singer closed the first night of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair in Bethel, New York. Yes, that Woodstock.
Just Warming Up: From the remains of Kronkmen and Vihara emerges Warm Gadget
The names of the two men at the helm of this band should be familiar to local music buffs – but the same can't be said of Warm Gadget as a whole or the music this band produces. Colton Williams and Tim Vester have a couple of decades worth of local music experience between them…
Our Picks for the Week 8/14-8/20
Nershi-Law Duo friday 14 Bill Nershi and Scott Law must love Bend, but really, who doesn't? Friday marks each of their second passes through Bend this year and we're not complaining. Nershi, of String Cheese Incident fame, teams up with Law for an intimate yet totally rocking night of flat-picking at Silver Moon. 9pm, Silver…
News in Briefs: Burn bans and bank busts
The Bend City Council hammered through a relatively full docket at its last meeting. Of interest was the narrow passage of a new ordinance that bans all outdoor yard waste burning – and not so much for its policy implications, but for the fact that it showed the council could, at least on one occasion,…
The Great Destination Resort Land Rush
Deschutes County already has far more destination resorts than any other county in Oregon. And according to calculations by Paul Dewey of Central Oregon LandWatch, if all the destination resorts now on the drawing boards statewide were actually developed, the number of units at such resorts would triple. Meanwhile the county is stuck in the…
It Rhymes With Mace: Going for Broke, town horror meetings and more!
The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He has most recently been seen in PDX, then fleeing to swim across the Columbia, on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly. She Made It! Sonia Sotomayor became the first Hispanic and third female to wear a…
Emotional Rescue: Saving the Lost Dogs on the streets of Santiago
For better or worse, “Leap and the net will appear” is an adage I can live by naturally. Most recently, this took me to Chile with the intention of making a film about homeless dogs. My inspiration for “Lost Dogs” came from a YouTube video that shows a dog on a busy Santiago highway as…
An American Pig
I was disgusted to read the article on the freeing of journalists Laura Lee and Euna Ling. They had risked their lives to research the female slave trade (sex trafficking) in North Korea.
Enough is Enough
Over my lifetime, I have watched personal liberty and freedom slowly ebb away by what appeared to be reasonable explanations about what was “for the public good” from our federal government. But I am horrified to see how quickly, in the last few months, the federal government has encroached on so many of our individual…
The Perils of the Private Sector
There's a tendency among the Right to bash government programs. We often hear accusations such as: “Medicare is a failure” The goal of Medicare is to provide healthcare services to the elderly and other selected groups.
