Mirror Pond Meeting Time Listed Incorrectly on Parks Website
Incredible. Just weeks after the newly formed Mirror Pond ad hoc committee was blasted for meeting in private, today’s meeting time was incorrectly posted on the Parks’ website! Unbelievable, right? The meeting time was listed as starting at 5pm. In fact, it started at 3pm. We all make mistakes. Heck, we here at the Source…
Friday Mixtape!
Digitalism: the theme of this week’s playlist
Update on Mt. Bachelor’s New Bike Park (with Photos)
By now, you’re likely aware that Mt. Bachelor is about to open its new lift-served downhill mountain bike park. We rode it last week. It was fun. You can read about it here. Today they revealed new information. Here’s what’s up: Opening day: Friday, Sept. 13Hours: 10am-4pm, dailyClosing day: Monday, Oct. 14 (Columbus Day)Ticket price:…
FREE Ghost Tree Dinner on the Range Tickets!
Yeah, you read that right! We are giving away two tickets for a phenomenal small-plate dinner and fundraiser at the Sunriver Meadows Golf Course, the Ghost Tree Invitational! Saturday Aug. 24 starting at 5 pm you can eat really good food and drink wine and beer for free! More information at ghosttreeinvitational.com. While the Ghost…
STUFF FOR FREE! Joshua Radin Tickets!
We have two tickets to the Joshua Radin concert at the Athletic Club of Bend this Sunday and we want YOU to have them!Radin will perform with special guest Gregory Allen Isakov at 6 pm, Sunday Aug. 25. According to Wikipedia, in 2004 Zach Braff introduced Radin’s first composition, “Winter” to “Scrubs'” show creator, Bill…
Nothing But the Art
Art in the High Desert, an annual festival in the Old Mill District, doesn’t have a beer garden. There will be no bounce houses, no music stages, no scent of kettle corn wafting through the booths and definitely no tie-dye shirts for sale. The experience that Art in the High Desert has provided in its…
MUSE Continues to Cruise
Every Wednesday at 8 am, Palate Coffee on Colorado Avenue becomes a radiating hotbed of positivity and encouragement. A rotating cast of local women, all involved in some capacity with the World MUSE organization, meets at the coffee bar to share stories in an informal, but always optimistic, conversation. Topics range from urban homesteading to…
Creating Law Out of Disorder
In the 13 months since being elected, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum has been making history. She has helped beef up Oregon consumer protection programs and endorsed a bill that should help medical marijuana cardholders better connect with legal pot-slinging dispensaries. But perhaps Rosenblum’s biggest accomplishment came the day she took office, June 29, 2012:…
Ticket to Ride
It was hard to miss the nervous, excited, anticipatory energy buzzing through the crowd of mountain bikers. Grown men dressed in neon greens and electric blues and sporting Star Wars-eque helmets were saying silly things, like, “Pedal bikes! Yay!” before high-fiving one of their goofily-dressed comrades. I know, because I was one such doofus (though…
Our Picks 8/21 – 8/29
thursday 22 Plow United ROCK—Legendary punk rockers Plow United toured the backwater clubs of America from 1992 to 1998. The band broke up, then inadvertently cultivated a mysterious buzz that spurred a reunion more than a decade later. Tuck and Roll and No Cash Value open. 9 pm. Astro Lounge, 939 NW Bond St. $5.…
Balancing Act
Flanked by two giant astronaut statues with creepy eyes peering out into the crowd, Primus front man Les Claypool slaps his guitar into a disjointed, yet sublimely coherent, bass line. Swirls of color emerge from the 3D graphics broadcast behind him and float over the crowd at this year’s SASQUATCH! Music Festival. “When it’s all…
British Invasion
Nostalgia rots your insides, holding you back and preventing you from accomplishing anything new. This is a hard, unsentimental truth, one usually taught by too many heartbreaks or too many awkward reunions. Gary King (Simon Pegg) still hasn’t learned it. Still rocking the battered Dr. Martins and Sisters of Mercy T-shirt he’s had since he…
On Demand
A famous friend with connections to the music industry is a good thing to have if you’re trying to launch a singer/songwriter career. The thing for Ohio-born Joshua Radin and his college buddy Zach Braff (“Scrubs”) is that the last thing Radin wanted was to be a musician. “I didn’t grow up playing music,” explained…
It’s How You Said It
Yes, we understand the ticket sales are necessary to support concert costs and pay bands like Michael Franti and upcoming MGMT (Aug. 31). But no, we don’t think the closure of the open lawn space at the Old Mill to freeloaders, who for the past decade have picnicked and lounged on the lawns there while…
One Day at a Time
MONDAY 12 We have good news and bad news to start off the week, and we’ll let you guess which is which: Abusive a-hole Chris Brown suffered a seizure this past weekend…and apparently it’s YOUR FAULT. According to TMZ, Brown experienced the non-epileptic seizure at a Los Angeles recording studio, but declined hospitalization or treatment…
Letters 8/14 – 8/22
Goats on the Grass! No just fans If you are involved booking bands you know it takes someone with a music background and/or connections to do so. Otherwise you make excuses as to why you can only book bands like "Dork and the Dinks" come on admit it is not the unpaid fan sitting on…
Out of Town 8/21 – 8/29
portland friday 23 Trek in the Park Atomic Arts bring Portlanders aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise (actually a makeshift stage in the park) to boldly go where no audience has gone before! A live rendition of the classic 1967 Trek episode “The Trouble With Tribbles,” a definitive episode of the original “Star Trek” the original series…
Does Beer Town Mean Party Town?
As the annual marathon craft-brew taste-off, Bend BrewFest, got underway in the Old Mill District on Thursday night—an event that draws more than 60 breweries and 140 individual beers and, according to one Source staffer (after a few plastic mugs full), “a lot of f***ing people”—crowds of tourists spilled into downtown after the 10 pm…
Pod People
On Friday, a dozen hungry lunch-goers sat in a new common dining area on Bend’s Westside filling up on vibrant red and green curries from Thailandia, spicy fried chicken dishes served on a bed of bean sprouts and kimchee from Real Food Bistro, and traditional carnitas tacos made with handmade tortillas and slathered with salsa…
Little Bites: GroLo
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in half the years between 1971 and 2000 Bend has hit below-freezing temperatures between July 3 and Aug. 31—the prime of an already short local growing season. That’s a major problem for the hordes of amateur and professional farmers in Central Oregon who are growing their own backyard…
Wolverines! Final Swayze Summer Tonight!
That’s right Swayze-lovers, TONIGHT is your last chance to see the our man Swayze on the big screen at the Old Stone Church. Tonight at 8 pm we’ll screen Red Dawn, a raucous and ridiculously fun story about a band of teenagers who, in the aftermath of World War III, bring back American’s resilience and…
