Photos From Sunday’s Free LSA Show: The Features (with streaming music)
If you like creative rock and roll, and you also like not paying to see it, chances are you were at Les Schwab Amphitheater for Tennessee band The Features this past Sunday. If the show somehow escaped your radar, here are some photos from their set. Their latest album is also streaming below the pics,…
First Draft of Bend Roots Revival Festival Schedule
The first draft of the schedule for Bend Roots Revival has been posted! Click here to see who’s playing, when and where! We are very excited to see so many returning local bands and some new names on the schedule. The Bend Roots Revival will take place Thursday September 27th at The Victorian and Parrilla…
Buckethead Back in Bend
Shred Heads rejoice. The six-string enigma and former Guns and Roses (well kinda) member Buckethead returns to the Domino Room Wed, Sept.
Tin Pan Theater Screening One Kick Ass Flick
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The REAL Way to Use Ketchup Cups: It will blow your mind!
Here’s your Friday how to. You can thank us later.
I am the Walrus
Imagine listening to Penny Lane with a live trumpet section or Yesterday performed with an acoustic guitar and string quartet. Sound good in your head? Well it’s going to sound even better tonight at Bend High when The Sunriver Music Festival presents The Classical Mystery Tour: A Tribute to the Beatles.
Beat Juice to Improve Fitness? What will they think of next?
DAILY FITNESS TIP: Drinking beat juice for days on end may make you run/swim/pedal a little bit better! You’re welcome! Some of our endurance-nerd friends here in Bend have been slamming beet juice all summer in the hopes that it will improve blood and oxygen flow to muscles, as is the claim. It MUST…
Unger and Greene debate reveals little
Few differences between Deschutes county commissioner candidates Alan Unger, a Democrat, and Tom Greene, a Republican, emerged today in a debate sponsored by a Central Oregon Community College government class. Both are vying for the one seat up for grabs in this November’s election.
Former Bulletin Reporter Won’t Be Criminally Charged in Crosswalk Death
Former Bend Bulletin Reporter James Sinks will not be charged in connection in death of a pedestrian that Sinks allegedly hit in a crosswalk last month. According to the Salem Statesman Journal, Sinks, who now serves as the communications director for Oregon State Treasurer Ted Wheeler, was cited for failure to obey a traffic signal…
Moonshine Magic in Bend Still on the Down Low
Get ready for our great close-up on the home distilling community out next week in our “Best of” issue. We interviewed a mixed bag of legal and anarchist distillers in Bend to find out why distilling is so very, very against the law in one’s home.
Bust a Love Move Today
Long before Gay A. Bradshaw (one of Oregon’s own) put a name on them, trans-species relationships have continued to baffle, challenge, and warm the hearts of non-human animals and humanimals alike.
Oregon’s Ashton Eaton Leads Olympic Decathlon After 8 Events: Watch NOW at the Tower
UPDATE: Eaton just won gold in front of a packed house at the Tower Theatre. Ashton Eaton is the man.
Kasey Anderson & The Honkies Play Antique Rock During Quick LSA Set
Last night’s Outlaw Roadshow at Bend’s Les Schwab Amphitheater, featured Counting Crows and included the opening bands Field Report, Tender Mercies (a replacement for originally scheduled We Are Augustines) and Portland rock band Kasey Anderson & The Honkies. Besides the omission of We Are Augustines from the bill, the only disappointment was that Anderson’s band…
Fire Reported Near Tumalo Reservoir
A fire near Tumalo Reservoir has been reported and is being termed a “full suppression fire,” by local fire officials. The location of the fire is unclear.
Cashing In: How Microsoft and Yahoo Are Selling Politicians Access to You
Microsoft and Yahoo are selling political campaigns the ability to target voters online with tailored ads using names, Zip codes and other registration information that users provide when they sign up for free email and other services. The Web giants provide users no notification that their information is being used for political targeting.
County Has Shirked Its Regulatory Responsibility
I appreciated Ms. Marlowe’s article on the illegal B&B situation in our community, and found it to be very fair to all parties. I would just add a couple of items since I, too, live in the neighborhood highlighted. Of the seven home[owners] on the street involved, five of us have lived here 23-28 years…
NRA Boot is an Affront to Freedom
You clowns are despicable. Saying that the National Rifle Association kills people is the most egregious effrontery I’ve read in a long time, and that includes the countless buffooneries the left propagates all the time. What’s worse, your comments show your total ignorance regarding the firearms issue, not to mention your illogic and lack of…
Merkley’s Crooked River Plan
It’s been said that the hallmark of a good compromise is that no one gets everything that they want, but everyone gets something. That’s pretty much the summation of the recent agreement about how to apportion the remaining unclaimed water in the Prineville Reservoir. The agreement, which was brokered by Senator Jeff Merkley, D-OR, and…
Our Picks For 08/09-08/16
Ashton Eaton Decathlon Competition thursday 9 Watch our homegrown Olympian Ashton Eaton compete for gold in the final events of the decathlon streamed live from London. Eaton is already the world record holder in the decathlon after he crushed the 1992 record in the Olympic trials in June. This guy is a machine, able to…
Life Is Better When You’re Smiling: Pop reggae singer Michael Franti believes that change starts with the right attitude
Whether writing political songs or party songs, Oakland reggae singer Michael Franti draws from a childhood that helped shape his world view. “I was adopted,” said Franti in a recent phone interview. “My birth parents, for whatever reason, didn’t think they were able to raise me and gave me to another family.” And according to…
Tidal Waves: Seattle’s The Moondoggies is ready to sing happy songs again
Listen to The Moondoggies’ second album Tidelands and you might think lead singer and songwriter Kevin Murphy is the quintessentially depressed, flannel-wearing Northwest folk rocker. The truth is, the short-lived dark period of Murphy’s life that produced the album was more an anomaly than a trend. “It was a somber record out of a weird…
Do You Hear What I Hear?: Music editor Ethan Maffey attempts to preserve his ears with technology
Back in May of this year, California band Social Distortion came to Bend’s Domino Room. The lovely alt-country rocker Lindi Ortega opened the show for the legendary punk band. Toward the end of her set, the diminutive Ortega belted out a surprising note and disintegrated the eardrums of most everyone near the speakers, including myself.…
Sun…River…and Beer: Finally a new hangout in southtown
I spent more than a decade living in the Sunriver area, watching my babies grow into kids amidst a sea of seasonal tourists. It became a family pastime to watch and laugh as these visitors tried to navigate the roundabouts, pedaled their way around the bike paths or slicing it into the water on the…
Living up to the dream—the beers are different here.
So, Crux Fermentation Project has had its own beer on for a little over a month now—we figured it was time to duck out on our weekly production day and throw back some pints. You know, fortify, for when we got back to the office and everyone was pissed. And we gotta say, Crux, it…
Unraveling the Olympics: Local knitters compete in controversial Revellenic Games
Athletes, on your mark, get set, knit. Welcome to the 2012 Ravellenic Games, the most buzzed about event in recent fiber arts history. As the Olympics are underway across the pond, local knitters are participating in their own international version of the greatest games, including “events” like the bag-n-tote backstroke and hand-dyed high dive. The…
Drawing Conclusions: Art and conservation working together at Whychus Creek
Arts Central of Bend provides “Art for All” and really means it. Just before the school year ended, art instructor, Kyla Schoessler—with the help of Laura Campbell of the Upper Deschutes River Watershed Council—put on a program for the Sisters Middle School that was nothing short of amazing. They designed an outstanding field guide to…
Rotten to the Core: Total Recall picks and lifts from the original but goes nowhere really fast
Just like its hero Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), Total Recall has a ton of problems. Quaid has a boring rut of a life and wants a change…some action. The film has that in spades, the problem is the lack of substance. The film’s main flaw lies in the filmmakers’ public proclamation that this not a…
Must-View Verhoeven: Painting the Dutch director by numbers
1) When Verhoeven was still Dutch and still good: The Fourth Man, This crazy, surreal, very cool movie is about life, death and sex. Jeroen Krabbé plays a man who has visions of impending danger and begins an affair with a mysterious woman, (Renée Soutendijk) who may lead him to his doom. Soldier of Orange…
Honey Boo-Boo of the Apocalypse
I haven’t researched this at all, but to my knowledge there are “four horsemen of the apocalypse,” whom the Bible claims are scheduled to appear just before the end of the world—and they are as follows: HORSEMAN #1: Bloomin’ Onions at Outback Steakhouse. (OH! I forgot to mention these “horsemen” aren’t necessarily “men on horses”—they…
Endless Space proves a 4X game can be enjoyable
Every once in a while, a game comes along that changes my opinion about the genre it represents. Endless Space is just such a game. Graphically pleasing, this debut title from Amplitude Studios brings unprecedented depth to the 4X hemisphere of strategy gaming. For those of you who don’t know what a 4X game is,…
Too Hot to Handle?: Early season steelhead, schooled at Pronghorn and a Good ride.
Come early August dedicated steelheaders know that what happens on the lower Deschutes stays on the lower Deschutes. And I won’t break that confidence. However, it’s no secret that the annual steelhead pilgrimage has begun on the Columbia River, which has fish junkies like myself trekking north in hopes of intercepting some of the early…
Calling Bull(snake): Sometimes imitation is the worst form of flattery
In nature, faking it is a complicated game of survival. Birds that nest on the ground often look like dust and duff. The nighthawks’ eggs and babies resemble small stones while a newly hatched Townsend’s solitaire resembles tiny pieces of charcoal. So effective are bitterns that they seem to vanish amidst stalks of marsh vegetation.…
