Bend Loves Drink! Horned Hand to re-open as a mead hall
It looks like Bend will soon have its own meadery. Starting Oct.
Urgent Needs for Volunteers at Masters Nationals This Week
With just a matter of hours remaining before the start of the multi-day Masters Road Nationals bike event, organizers are still well short of the roughly 400 volunteers needed to shepherd the event through the five-day campaign that begins Wednesday. Volunteer coordinator Renee Mansour said she is scrambling to find enough bodies to staff key…
FIRST LISTEN! New track from Bend singer Chris Beland
Bend Singer Chris Beland is soon to make the move back to California. But before he goes, he’s got one last album to bestow upon Central Oregon.
Bank robbery suspect nabbed in DUII stop
A routine DUII stop led to the arrest of an Oregon woman on federal bank robbery charges at the front end of the Labor Day weekend. Jennifer Collenn Langwell, 33, of Hillsboro was arrested after an OSP officer responded to a report of erratic driving.
Masters Road National Championships: Uber-fit old folks descend on Bend for bike races
For the second consecutive year hundreds of “mature” bike racers will flock to Central Oregon for the USA Cycling Masters Road National Championships. This year it’s a five-day affair that will kick off Wednesday, Sept.
Into the Badlands
We went into the Badlands the other day with some photo enthusiast to learn how to shoot at night. Since we have the moon up right now and the milky way is not visible we concentrated on using the moon as a source of light.
What Happened to Josey Wales?
Is it me, or does the High Plains Drifter look like he’s performing at the senior center talent show. More evidence that the GOP should just keep playing to their strengths, Blind Fear and Righteous Anger and leave the comedy to those who still have a sense of humor.
Little Woody and Maragas Stomp (Bacchus Loves Bend)
It’s a classic Labor Day match up: wine versus beer, grapes versus hops, oenophile versus beer connoisseur. So pick your poison and head outside to celebrate summer’s end.
New Plan Will Guide Airport Development
The last few years have been turbulent (get it, turbulent) for the Bend Airport even though activity has dramatically increased since 2000. Cessna closed a large facility there in 2009 and it’s been difficult to attract new businesses, in part because of a shortage of space for midsize companies at the airport, said city officials…
Win Little Woody Passes
We’ve got a pair of passes to this weekend’s Little Woody barrel aged beer fest and whiskey tasting. It’s the premier small batch beer event in Bend and beyond and you don’t want to miss it.
Dry Conditions Prompt Forest Restrictions
If you’re planning a camping trip for Labor Day weekend, be prepared to leave the smores at home. Deschutes forester John Allen announced a raft of restrictions that could put on a damper on weenie roasts and kumbaya around the campfire, as well as other activities that could unwittingly spark a wildfire.
Still Think Lance is Clean? Read This and You Won’t
Adrian Smith, a prominent blogger on soccer, cycling and clean sports, recently posted this amazingly damning, focused and, despite it’s 4,000 words, succinct narrative on Lance’s dirty past. It’d be a shorter post if Lance hadn’t acted like such an asshole for most of his career.
You Should Enter our Fiction and Art Contest!
It’s time for the annual Source Fall Fiction and Art Contest! And you should write, paint, sculpt or draw something! We want to publish your work and throw you a party! Here’s what you need to know to win: “She stumbled out the front door and down the wet steps.” The Source’s Fall Fiction and…
Look To Redmond for: No-Kill Blueprint
Emma Clifford’s opinion letter in the August 16th Source (“Bend Can Do Better By Its Animals”) struck a chord with me and many other readers of the Source magazine – as plans for ‘no-kill’ (or ‘high-save’) already do exist within pockets of our Central Oregon community. Since December 2008, the blueprint for a ‘no-kill’ solution…
Albom’s Albatross
I see that Mitch Albom is coming to Bend in September. He’s promoting a new book and I’m guessing he’ll spend a fair amount of time telling people how important he is. Mitch and I were in the same union (Newspaper Guild Local 22) back in 1995 when his employer, the Detroit Free Press, demanded…
Smoked Out, Again
Central Oregonians like to brag about their clean air, and most of the time the bragging is justified. Last week, though, somebody driving into Bend might have thought he’d taken a wrong turn on I-5 and ended up in Los Angeles. A yellowish-brown pall hung over town, so thick at times that you could barely…
In Your Face Hump Day.
Wednesday is here and there is plenty of live music to get you over the mid-week hump. San Francisco based Tartufi plays the Horned Hand at 9pm.
Severed Roots: Century Center owner puts brakes on popular festival after issues with neighbors
If you circled the last weekend of September on your calendar and dedicated it to Bend’s homegrown music festival, you should make other plans. Bend Roots Revival has been cancelled due to issues related to traffic and development at Century Center, where the seven-year-old festival was to have taken place. “It’s unfortunate,” said Century Center…
Our Picks for 08/29-09/06
West African Drummers & Dancers wednesday 29 We like free stuff. Our part-time columnist Scoop Lewis, Ace Reporter (currently on a leave of absence) reallllly likes free stuff. Especially when he can pick up a bottle of Old Overcoat bourbon on BOGO day. Lewis is also fond of saying, “why pay for music when you…
Metropolitan vs. Rustic: One weekend—two distinctly different music festivals—infinite enjoyment
Musicfest Northwest, Portland Oregon Sept. 5-9 Every September the heart of the Rose City buzzes for the better part of a week with psychedelic and indie rock nouveau, avant-garde electronic beats and impassioned folk music. Now in its twelfth year, the festival has become the third largest indoor festival in the country. Over the years,…
The Middle of Everything: Mazza adds another ethnic option in Bend
It was the love of the community that brought Michel Shehadeh to Bend, but it was a passion for the food that convinced him to jettison his career in San Francisco and open a restaurant in downtown. Recently Shehadeh’s Mazza Bistro joined a small but growing number of ethnic restaurants that are helping to diversify…
Let There Be Wood: Little Woody takes beer making back to its origins
Somewhat ironically, the inspiration for Bend’s barrel-aged beer festival started not with a meditation on wood, but as an homage to iron—steel specifically, according to one of the festival’s key developers, local brewer Pat O’Shea. O’Shea said it was the experience of seeing his hometown of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania trying to preserve its 20th Century steel…
Oregon Olympian Nick Symmonds Does the Beer Mile
Eugene-based track star, Nick Symmonds, is one fast dude. He’s also pretty clever, as proved by his e-bay tattoo-sponsorship idea.
Holding the Edge: Lawless flirts with conventionality in its dark, anti-heroic tale.
Lawless is a portrait in anti-heroism, the real-life story of larger-than-life characters whose appeal comes from their refusal to play by the rules. Perhaps what makes it frustrating is that the only reason it’s not unequivocally awesome, is that it seems to give in to expectations. Make no mistake: Director John Hillcoat and screenwriter Nick…
Hand in Red Right Hand: The bleak & desolate world of John Hillcoat & Nick Cave
The ongoing collaboration between musician/writer Nick Cave and director John Hillcoat spans 14 years. While Hillcoat has made a lot of short films and music videos (including The Bad Seeds’ “Babe I’m on Fire”) his features mostly rely on Cave’s soundtracks and screenwriting. Hillcoat likes humans caked in dirt and bloody sacrificial filmmaking while Cave…
Happy Self-Induced Coma Week!
Guys! So here’s the deal (in regards to what’s on TV this week): THURSDAY—The last day of the Republican National Convention. SNOOOOORRRRE! SUNDAY—Breaking Bad’s mini-season finale. YAAAYYYYY! TUESDAY—The first day of the Democratic National Convention. SNOOOOORRRRE! And that’s it. WAIT! One more… TUESDAY—That TLC reality show about conjoined twins. YAAAYYYYY! SNOOOOORRRRE! Ew. And that’s it,…
Fly Time: Relying on the kindness of a stranger
Hiking up the trail along the east fork of the Lostine River into the Eagle Cap wilderness in the Wallowas is one of the most perfect fly fishing pools imaginable. Enough off the trail that you might miss it, the pool comes at the base of a short rocky drop in the river. After the…
