Tuesday Night, Nothing-to-Do Blues?
Tuesday night is about to roll around and with the Elks having finished for the season, that leaves few options to fill your evening. Yeah, you could go see Inglorious Basterds (which you should because it was great!) or another end-of-summer flick, but for only $5 you could rock out to some sweet and soulful…
Maragas Winery Gets a Makeover
I had a chance to sit down with local winter entrepreneur extraordinaire Doug Maragas this past week to talk about his new(ish) winery and vineyard north of Terrebonne. We also touched on the future of his tasting room — and former residence — at the corner of Colorado an Bond.
Clearing Up Some of the Stench in Salem
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The Horrors of Un-Socialized Medicine
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Moon Mountain Music Festival…is FREE
I’ve been keeping an ear out as information about the secondinstallment of the Moon Mountain Rambler's very own music festival, the Moon Mountain Festival rolls out, and tonight finally got confirmation that the two-day event at Elk Lake over Labor Day Weekend is not only a go, but will be free this year.
Last year,…
Who wants to bet on the Bulletin?
I’m going to make a small wager right now with anyone who wants to take me up on it. I’ll wager a Taco Stand smothered burrito that the Bulletin leads tomorrow’s A section with a story and photo about the Over the Hill golf tourney in Sunriver.
Tonight is Ladies Night in Downtown Bend
Hey laaadies! That was of course meant to be sung in the voice and obnoxious tone of the Beastie Boys, in case that didn’t make sense. But anyway, let’s get to the point.
Evil Dead the Musical is Coming to the 2nd St. Theater
The first time I saw Evil Dead, it was on a gritty VHS tape rented from a wire rack somewhere near the back of my neighborhood grocery store’s video section (which doubled as the tobacco counter). I remember one thing about that virginal viewing experience – I thought, probably at age 11 or so, that…
Labor to Wyden: Which Side Are You On?
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Rolling out the Greenprint: Inside Deschutes County's largest conservation planning effort to date
The Trust for Public Land’s Kristin Kovalik, one of the Greenprint Coordinators, taking a look at area maps. Photo by Ben Murphy.
What if you could ride your bike, expressly on maintained trails, from Bend to Redmond? What if we saw another Shevlin-sized park on the city's perimeters or if more large-scale conservation efforts, like…
The BLM's Steens Mountain Freeway
The acronym “BLM” stands for “Bureau of Land Management.” After looking at what the BLM did in the Steens Mountain area last month, maybe the name should be changed to “Bureau of Landscape Mutilation.” For reasons as yet unclear, the BLM took a backhoe and other heavy equipment and plowed more than 14 miles of…
Beating A Hasty Retreat Health care backpedaling, dispatches from the drug war, Rove returns and more!
Editor's note: Guest columnist sits in this week for Mick McMenaminuses who has departed for parts unknown with flask full of cheap whisky and a newly minted Chase Visa card. Godspeed, Mick.
Letter of the Week: Stop Health Care Reform
This week's letter comes from Lolly Champion who takes us through health reform by the numbers. Thanks, Lolly.
Baez Stands On Her Own
RE: your un-bylined “On Stage” feature, The Source Weekly, 8/13/2009, p. 23 The writer says that Joan Baez “still holds the title of the 'female Bob Dylan.
Obama Out Of Control
This letter is in response to the article written by H. Bruce Miller.
The Loud Mouths
I remember learning as a late teenager of then-President Ronald Reagan's plan to destroy Nicaragua by funding a group of mercenaries known as the “Contras.” With CIA money, they killed, rampaged, and blew things up.
Best of Bend Elks 2009
Memories from a baseball season as the play-by-play announcer for the Bend Elks on 106.7 KPOV: The most horrifying, sickening sound in baseball is the contact of a baseball with a face.
Turning Paradigms Upside Down: Sixty is the new forty and MEAT is the New RICE
“Sixty is the new forty.” Hillary Clinton made the line famous last year when she celebrated her 60th birthday during the presidential campaign. Woodstock celebrated its 40th anniversary this past weekend and the Joan Baez concert at the Athletic Club on Sunday night was brimming with Bend's Baby Boomers. It seems like friends have been…
Cat Food for Thought: Sci-fi thriller is commentary on prejudice and the human condition
District 9 is much more than a sci-fi thriller. It's an engaging mockumentary infused with black humor, a scathing satire on 24-hour news, commentary on xenophobia, corporate greed and apartheid, and it's all wrapped up in a full-blown action movie. So much work went into this movie that it's hard to believe it was made…
Too Many Cooks: Adams’ flat performance hinders otherwise solid Julie & Julia
Julie & Julia is split in half to tell the true stories of the chef and author of Mastering The Art Of French Cooking, Julia Child, and aspiring writer Julie Powell, who wrote a popular blog about cooking all the recipes in that book over one year. But the problem is – only Child's half…
Tried and True: Chan's slow and steady approach wins the race
When I'm in the mood for Chinese, I usually tend towards Hong Kong Restaurant. Not only is it the first place I happened upon when I moved to town, but since Chinese dining rooms are not known for their atmosphere, I've always been too taken with the backdoor charm of the adjacent Bamboo Room to…
Tried and True: Chan's slow and steady approach wins the race
When I'm in the mood for Chinese, I usually tend towards Hong Kong Restaurant. Not only is it the first place I happened upon when I moved to town, but since Chinese dining rooms are not known for their atmosphere, I've always been too taken with the backdoor charm of the adjacent Bamboo Room to…
CD Review – The Minus 5: Killingsworth
The Minus 5 Killingsworth Yep Roc Records
Portland's Minus 5 arrives in style with, Killingsworth, a Gypsy caravan of acoustic folk songs woven through with softly ethereal, downtrodden voices. Most of the tunes are downers to the point of absurdity, but absurdity hardly indicates a lack of artistic worth.
Business is Good: The not-so accidental rise of Moonalice
Almost nothing about Roger McNamee's band, Moonalice, is conventional. For starters, McNamee isn't your typical rock star – by any means. The guy is a massively successful businessman, holding degrees from Yale and Dartmouth and founding a private equity group, Elevation Partners, that includes a team of high-flying names like, for example, Bono. Also, the…
Talent In Bloom: 2nd Street's bubbling cast brings life to Steel Magnolias
Full disclosure, this review is based on my experience sitting through a rehearsal performance of 2nd Street Theatre's Steel Magnolias, when there was still a whole week to go before the play was set to open, where a photographer buzzed around on stage for the first half an hour of the show, chasing the actors…
Our Picks for the Week of 8/19-8/27
Moonalicefriday 21See this week's preview for more on this all-star rocking tribe of jammers and their fearless Chubby Wombat leader. $10.
Tonight and Tomorrow in Music…Teddy Presberg and Alpaca!
If you’re looking for something to do out on the town tonight, the Silver Moon is probably your best bet with the crazily weird jazz stylings of Teddy Presberg. The St.
