Video From Last Night’s Son Volt Show
Source editor Eric Flowers braved the sub-zero temperatures last night to make it to the Domino Room for a set by alt-country rock legends Son Volt. Here’s some a couple videos from the show.
Mercury Down: Baby it’s cold outside in Bend
The whining has begun. It's too cold.
Son Volt Tonight at Bend’s Domino Room
Yes, it’s cold out there. Really, incredibly, astonishingly cold.
A Cross To Bear: The big cyclocross party comes to Bend
On the surface, cyclocross (cross) racing appears to be nothing more than racing road bikes off-road, a quirky, counter-seasonal form of bike racing. On closer inspection, cross is more than that.
Champagne: wallowing in the real stuff
One of the most persistent local myths (besides the old 300 days of sunshine a year one) is that the Central Oregon Cascades have “epic” powder snow conditions every winter. Let’s get real.
Photos From Last Night’s Civil War
Our own Anne Pick was one of the few freezing spectator’s at last night’s Oregon Civil War. In the event that you inexplicably use this website for all your college sports news and haven’t heard yet, the Ducks won a hard-fought game 37-33. That’s why in the photo above, Oregon students (and many non-students) charged…
Conservative Tax Dogma Takes a Hit
Props to Kari Chisholm of Blue Oregon for making a point that progressives should make a lot more often: Contrary to conservative dogma, money the government takes in from taxes does not vanish from the economy and disappear into some black hole. “Let’s be absolutely clear about this: Every single dollar that the state ‘sucks…
Old School: taking in the big game at the corner bar
During a recent month-long ESPN sports film festival one of the featured films dealt with Baltimore’s loss of their beloved Colts and how it affected the fan base, especially those in the all-volunteer Colts marching band.In a story of never ending loyalty the Colts band stayed together in spite of the team being hustled off…
Forget G.I. Joe, We’re Going Cobra
In the greatest piece of military marketing since the Marine’s coined, “The Few. The Proud.
Bend’s Own Tree Dwellers Compete in National Music Contest
The Tree Dwellers, a Bend-based band comprised of Mountain View and Bend High students, is one of the eight remaining bands for the Garage Band Playoff, a USAA sponsored contest to find the next great “road song.” The current round of voting starts today and extends through next week.
Source Weekly Civil War Twitter Feed Now Live
As I mentioned yesterday, one of our writers, Anne Pick, is on her way to the Civil War game at Autzen Stadium in Eugene and will be Twittering as she goes. Check out her tweets here at the Source Weekly Twitter page.
The Civil War: Made in California, Played in Oregon
The impending Civil War has been bringing plenty of national media attention to Oregon over the past few days, mostly from ESPN which is carrying the game tonight at 7 p.m.
Civil War Tailgating Video
Those who’ve attended either University of Oregon or Oregon State University games know that for some folks, the activity outside the stadium is more important than the game itself. Of course, we’re talking about the age-old activity known as tailgating, during which fans grill up some food, get pumped for the game, but mainly see…
Fight On, Brave Platypi!
Oregonians are weird. And the longer I live here (almost 25 years now) the weirder they seem.
Letter of the Week: Wars For Jobs
This week's letter comes from Sue Bastian who, with more than just a hint of sarcasm, points out that war may just be the answer to our economic woes, if not our foreign policy woes. Thanks for the letter Sue. You can pick up your victor's spoils, a bag of Strictly Organic coffee, at our…
OSU Responds With a Video to Counter the Ducks’ “Smell Roses”
Not to be outdone by the “I Love My Ducks (I Smell Roses)” video created by University of Oregon undergrads that call themselves Supwitchugirl, Oregon State University, on the eve of the big Civil War game, has now fired back with a video that shows that the Beavers have some talents of their own. Check…
A Pretty Cheesy Anti-Tax Pitch
It looks like the opponents of Measures 66 and 67 have found their Dorothy English. Her name is Carol Marie Leuthold, and she and her husband Dan have a dairy farm in Tillamook.
Reunion at Yuppie Junction: Searching for the latte stand on the skinny tracks and an epic rider recoups
This past weekend was the 30th reunion of the Amity High School Class of 1980. When I received my invitation a while back, I Googled my old boyfriend who was a dark-haired Italian star of the soccer team. Now, he is a rotund, bald banker. Not ready to face the reality of my years or…
Creature Comforts: Wes Anderson makes light of Roald Dahl and stop motion animation with Fantastic Mr. Fox
In a world of Jessica Rabbits and Disney princesses, a world in which female audiences are largely ignored in the attractive animated characters department, Wes Anderson has not only provided a charming, roguish and sharply dressed fox voiced by George Clooney but in creating this creature the director overtly references the first cartoon crush of…
The Ninja Whisperer: Blood, sweat and severed limbs aplenty in Ninja Assassin
According to the notorious ninja website (realultimatepower.net), “Ninjas are awesome; they cut off heads – they flip out and kill people.” In the case of Ninja Assassin, they also sever main arteries, hack off limbs and entire mid sections causing torsos to spurt towering fountains of blood. There is enough blood pumping out of veins…
Crazy Like a Fox: It's more than felt and flair at the Westside billiard lounge
If Fox's Billiard Lounge was a Hollywood movie, I imagine the pitch would have been something along the lines of Color of Money meets Cocktail. It's unclear whether owner Marshall Fox is Tom Cruise's number one fan or just felt that Newport Avenue was severely lacking in a pool hall with bartenders who can juggle…
Crazy Like a Fox: It's more than felt and flair at the Westside billiard lounge
If Fox's Billiard Lounge was a Hollywood movie, I imagine the pitch would have been something along the lines of Color of Money meets Cocktail. It's unclear whether owner Marshall Fox is Tom Cruise's number one fan or just felt that Newport Avenue was severely lacking in a pool hall with bartenders who can juggle…
The Road Less Traveled: The campaign to protect unroaded forests gets torn apart by a Wyoming judge in 'half-assed retirement'
The environmentalists' boogeyman walks with tiny, uncertain steps. He's 87 years old, suffers from an arthritic knee and worries about stumbling and falling down. He's also slowly shrinking – he lost an inch and 24 pounds over the last three years, so now he's only 5 feet 6 and 120 pounds. But today he's looking…
Follow the Source Weekly Civil War Twitter Feed
Tomorrow, the Source’s intrepid calendar editor and writer Anne Pick is boarding a bus here in Bend full of Duck fans that will take her to the Civil War game at Autzen Stadium. Since this is arguably the biggest Civil War in it’s 113-year history, we figured we’d give you live updates via our Twitter…
Who's Your Uncle?: Son Volt sold its soul for country rock and roll
After what seems like a long and relatively unremarkable year for touring acts in Bend – or more precisely touring acts not in Bend, as the case often was – 2009 draws to a close with something of a highlight. Son Volt makes a stop at The Domino Room next week, bringing one of the…
We Got GWARed!
It was the night before Thanksgiving and the fake bodily fluids were flowing throughout the Midtown, where we sent photographer Ben Murphy to document the almost-annual show from alien shock rockers GWAR. The band arrived on stage, each member in their now-infamous costumes and proceeded to play largely filthy rock and roll music, but most…
Going to Church
Well, not that kind of church. I mean Church, the deep-space indie rockers that are coming over from Portland to play the Annex. So if you tell people, “I'm going to Church on Friday night,” your friends just might think you're a religious zealot… or perhaps they'll accurately peg you as a follower of the…
Our Picks for 12/2 – 12/10: Oregon’s Civil War, First Friday Art Walk, Rise, Willy Vlautin
Civil War thursday 3 This is a first: The Civil War, the annual football battle between the Ducks and Beavers is being played on a Thursday night. Also, this 113th installation of the game is bigger than ever, with the winner receiving a spot in the Rose Bowl. Several spots in Bend are showing the…
Oregon's Chutzpah Champ
Up to now, the ultimate example of “chutzpah” has been the guy who murders his parents, then begs the court for mercy on the grounds that he's an orphan. But Bill Sizemore has topped it: “Chutzpah” is a guy who gets convicted of racketeering, spends time in jail for contempt, gets indicted for tax evasion…
Holy Huck!: Seattle's cop killer saga, a reality TV rant and the perils of plastic surgery
The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from the White House, trying to explain to Secret Service how he crashed Malia and Sasha Obama's pajama party, wearing a violet tubetop and Hawaiian grass skirt, on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly.
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El Tigre?
Hey there. How was your Thanksgiving weekend? Eat a lot of turkey? Get some football in? Good to hear.
All Smoke and No Heat
I really get tired of all the conspiracy theories about the Twin Towers and how some of our government officials somehow blew up the buildings. When I learned about the construction technique used, I wondered how they passed New York city building codes. Then I found out that government buildings don't need to meet city…
Obama's Risky Decision
In a couple of days president Obama will speak to the nation to announce his Afghanistan strategy. Presumably, he will tell us that several thousand more troops will be part of it. With the signing of that authorization of additional soldiers Mr. Obama will have become what we were hoping he would never be: a…
