TONIGHT: Tubaluba Brass Band at McMenamins
Tonight! Tubaluba Brass Band from Seattle will bring a cajun big band vibe to McMenamins. The Source caught up with Josh Wilson about the band, their influences, and what they want folks to take away form their high-energy shows. Check them out at McMenamins TONIGHT! 7 pm, FREE. Source Weekly: Can you give me a…
New Year’s Resolutions: What Would You Like to See in the Source in 2015?
Tis the season for making resolutions for a better year. And we’re no exception. While we can’t please all the people all the time (and, really, that’s not our job), we do want to be your source for news and perspectives that make you think, as well as the latest in local and regional arts,…
Budweiser is Over: 7 Beers Americans Have Stopped Drinking
Beer sales are down. Sales of particular variety of beer, that is. According to KGW, the big name brands are those experiencing the biggest dip. It’s no surprise, then, that Anheuser-Busch/InBev jumped at the opportunity to purchase 10 Barrel. Here are the top seven brands with plummeting sales. (Read the full analysis here.) 1. Budweiser…
Friday Mixtape! 25 Best Songs of 2014
25 songs that shaped the year in music.
Tips for Avoiding Christmastime Car Break-ins
Heads up folks—’tis the season for car break-ins. Last night, a Source staffer’s car got broken into in the Connecting Point parking lot between 7 pm and 11 pm. She told us that one of the glass repair shops she called noted that they’d had multiple calls about break-ins just today. We called the Bend…
TGIF: What to do in Bend this Weekend 12/19-12/21
‘Twas the last weekend before Christmas and all over Bend, holiday events were stirring for family and friends. The microbrews were bottled by the brewers with care, in hopes that no Michelob soon would be there. friday 19 Train Man HOLIDAYS—Perhaps at another time of year, a grown man playing with miniature trains to attract and…
Ariana Named One of Top 100 Restaurants in America by Open Table Diners
This year, Chef Andres Fernandez of Ariana won the Source’s best chef honors, and in early 2014 the chefs of Ariana were invited to cook for the James Beard Foundation, an unprecedented honor for Bend chefs. So it’s already been a good year for the restaurant. And it’s only getting better. Ariana just announced that it…
The Nest Grows Larger
Sparrow Bakery Northwest is so much more than just another place to purchase Bend’s favorite pastry, the Ocean Roll. Recently opened in Northwest Crossing, it’s a large, open space with ample natural lighting, high ceilings, plenty of tables and a fresh, urban decor that’s sophisticated yet inviting. It’s the kind of place where you could…
Whatever, Mom
Some might say I come from one. And I suppose that by pure definition, they’d be right. My parents did split when I was 15, my immediate family no longer functioned as a whole, and I was definitely a bit grief-stricken. It’s a fitting description, but I still wouldn’t fully agree… For the longest time…
10 Barrel Conquers Idaho
If you haven’t taken the hilly, mostly barren journey to Boise lately, you might be surprised at how huge the local beer scene has become. From old standbys like Sockeye to newer outfits like Payette and Crooked Fence—both available around Bend—there’s truly something for everyone. The selection’s constantly growing, too: Haff Brewing debuted in Boise…
Grumpy Crumpet
If you’re an NPR listener, you’ll know the story well. After all, they run it every single holiday season without fail. Ever since it was first broadcast on Morning Edition in 1992, David Sedaris’ classic Christmas misadventure, The Santaland Diaries, has become a public radio classic, and helped launch the writer’s career. The tale, which…
A Christmas Snark
David Sedaris is a damned national treasure. I’m not saying all of his work is perfect (hell, I’m not sure he has ever topped 2000’s “Me Talk Pretty One Day”), but when Sedaris goes after a subject he is impassioned about, he can find some of the most incisive observational humor of any satirist working…
Mama Said Kronk You Out
If The Kronk Men were a child, they would be turning 15 this year—an age that many bands, especially in small towns, never see. It’s an angsty age, one that balances fierce independence with experience. That’s the case for this local band that has been constantly gigging in every venue, dive bar and basement in…
Our Picks 12/17-12/25
thursday 18 Holiday Singalong MUSIC—Sisters Folk Festival presents a holiday singalong, preceded by a ukulele workshop. Musicians Victor Johnson and Kerry Williams will present “Easy as 1-2-3” to those of all ages interested in accompanying the non-denominational caroling on ukulele. The Belfry provides the venues and the libations while community members bring the tunes. 5…
Rock the Tower
The Tower is a gem of a theatre with vaulted ceilings, balconies that appear to float at the back of the venue, a beautiful (albeit not enormous) stage, and plush seats, each embossed with the name of a sponsor who helped fund the 2004 rebuild. Since its refurbishment, the venue has been a magnet for…
Film Events 12/17-12/25
Spaghetti Western Wednesdays Every single Wednesday at Tin Pan Theater (except for Christmas Eve!) there is all-you-can-eat spaghetti, garlic bread and salad partnered with a damned ridiculous western from the late-’60s to the late ’70s. Every week the film is a surprise, so when the lights go down and William Shatner comes up playing twin…
Source Suggests…Christmas! 12/17-12/25
Holiday Community Sing-A-Long Presented by the Sisters Folk Festival, and led by two important members of the Sisters musical community—Victor Johnson and Kerry Williams—this event is accessible for kids, adults and anyone in the holiday spirit. Starting with a workshop teaching classic Christmas tunes on the ukulele, and ending with a chorus of carolers, this…
SlingShot Boomerangs Back to Bend
This is a documentary that is equal parts about the main character—Dean Kamen, a prolific inventor—and about a cause—clean water. Those two elements add up to create a film that is way bigger than the sum of its parts. The film was warmly received at the recent BendFilm Festival, where we caught up with producer…
The Other Side of the Fence
At the Nov. 19 City Council meeting, local residents once again lined up to offer testimony on vacation rentals. It has been a heated debate, but this time, rather than sharing concerns about how the rentals should be regulated, many spoke out in opposition to the makeup of the citizen task force recommended by the…
Quarterlife Crisis
It’s usually men who have trouble growing up in American movies and TV shows, from the pitiable buffoonery of sitcom dads to the all-out idiocy of Adam Sandler’s oeuvre and the self-aware stoner shenanigans of Judd Apatow’s universe. While the ladies have started to get their fair share of immature role models, movies like Bridesmaids and…
Far From Ferguson
From the signs carried by marchers to the name of the event, the statement was simple, yet weighty—”Black Lives Matter.” On Saturday, more than 200 people marched through Bend in solidarity with protestors in cities across the nation, including Washington, D.C. The demonstration, organized by local faith leaders, came about in response to the national…
Body and Soul
Jazz has no shortage of tragic tales of abbreviated lives: Bird’s heroin addiction, John Coltrane’s liver cancer, Billie Holiday’s woe-filled history of drink, drugs, and abusive men. What a treat, then, to examine Clark Terry’s lengthy, inspiring life. The St. Louis-born trumpeter/flugelhorn player performed with Duke Ellington and Count Basie, mentored Miles Davis and Quincy…
A Voice for Central Oregon
Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian last week announced the appointment of Bend’s own Yaju Dharmarajah to the Oregon Council on Civil Rights. Dharmarajah is a Sri Lankan immigrant and staff representative with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 75 in Bend, as well as the co-founder of the Central Oregon Social…
From Competitor to Coach
Earlier this month, Bend Endurance Academy announced a new coach, Jordan Buetow, who joins the staff at the Nordic Development Team Coach. Buetow grew up in Alaska, and more recently, raced for Bates College on the east coast. Two years ago, he spent the summer training with BEA, and now returns as one of its…
Go Here 12/18-12/25
Nothing says winter break like careening down a hillside, full-tilt, on a found object that may or may not have been engineered for such things. Skiing and snowboarding are tops here, but sometimes they just can’t scratch the snow-day itch like a day of sledding can. Wanoga Sno-Park Wanoga is home to a day-use snowmobile…
Doing It Right
This story, dear readers, is like many of the tales I’ve shared with you over the years, a story within a story—this one about off road vehicles (ORVs). In this case it started out as a love/hate thing. What removed the hate part was the provider of the tale, Wade Bryant, and the fact that…
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
We have a closet full of Boots and Slippers this week. SLIPPER: Heisman: The University of Oregon QB Marcus Mariota could have gone pro last year. He didn’t. Instead, he returned to the University of Oregon—and, in the process, has led the Ducks toward a national title. On Saturday, he won the Heisman trophy—and did…
Letters 12/9-12/16
USE YOUR TURN SIGNAL…AND SAVE THE PLANET For those of us who measure time by the season [you know, rafting/golf season and ski season!], it is now the combined school and ski season. This makes for some pretty heavy, and perhaps unnecessary, traffic backups at strategic traffic circles, like Century Drive/Mt. Washington and Reed Market/Brookswood.…
