TGIF: What to do in Bend 12/12-12/14
Christmas is fast approaching, so between frantic shopping, holiday office parities (ours is TONIGHT!) and other obligatory events, try to enjoy yourself. Here’s what we will be up to this weekend… friday 12 Dirksen Derby Kickoff PARTY—What has become the de facto early season snowboarder party, the 8th annual Dirksen Derby kicks off this evening…
Filter to Play WinterFest 2015
Yes, that Filter… And yes, that WinterFest! We’ve just confirmed with our sister company Lay It Out Events that modern rock, head-banging commanders Filter will headline Bend WinterFest on Feb. 14! Valentines day plans officially made. Stay tuned to the Source for more information about the awesome music, artists and more that will be #inBend for WinterFest and mark…
Calling All Artists: Wanna Be the Source Artist of the Month?
If you’ve ever picked up a copy of the Source and thought, “My/my friend’s art should totally be on the cover!”—you’re in luck. We’re currently on the lookout for new (preferably local) artists to feature on our covers and as our Artist of the Month. In addition to having his or her art featured on…
Bus lines for skiing! New stops, new great rates.
Press release: CASCADES EAST TRANSIT BEGINS SERVICE TO MEISSNER NORDIC PARK CET and Mt. Bachelor lower fares for Route 18 Mountain Service December 8, 2014 – Bend, ORE – Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council is pleased to announce improved service on Route 18 Mountain Service, now serving Meissner Nordic Park. Nordic skiers can take public transit…
Bend: Best Beer City! Is that really a surprise?
From the Livability.com . . . See the full article here. Bend, OR Named One of Livability.com’s 10 Best Beer Cities, 2014 Annual list ranks America’s top beer cities In recent decades, breweries have sprung up all over America – in towns big and small – evolving the art and science of brewing while enhancing…
City of Bend Explains Snow Removal Priorities
Were you among the many Bendites cranky about the accumulation of snow and ice during our first snow of the season? Perhaps you wondered why the snow ploughs never made it down your street. Well, the City has responded via a video released its annual video explaining how it approaches snow removal, what methods it uses, and…
Crux Hires Cam O’Connor as New Head Brewer
Crux Fermentation Project announced this week that they have hired a new head brewer, Cam O’Connor, former Deschutes Brewery brewmaster who sports an impressive resume. After completing the Master Brewer Program at University of California–Davis and stating his carer at Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, he spent a decade brewing for Deschutes Brewery. He’s the man…
Friday Mixtape!
A playlist full of rock.
Source Weekly Friday Soundtrack
What are you listening to at work? Here’s what’s pumping through headphones in the Source Weekly office. Any guess as to who is listening to which tracks? Neil Young “Needle And The Damage Done” Mumford and Sons “Winter Winds” Gary Clark Jr. “When My Trail Pulls In” Redman “Whateva Man” Saul Williams “Black Stacey”
Tell Us How You Really Feel: Casey Roats
We want to know how you feel about the hot-button issues of the day. That, and polls are a great way to kill time and make fun graphs! You may have noticed the results in this week’s issue of our recent poll on the Grand Jury decision not to indict the police officer who shot…
Baby, it’s Cold Outside
In the first installment of our two-issue guide, the Source shops around town for big and small gifts. In this issue, we highlight gifts that are perfect for keeping your favorite relative or friend busy while staying warm indoors—gifts for the cook, the hibernator and the handyperson.
Similar But Eastside Different
At first glance, Jackson’s Corner Eastside closely resembles its westside counterpart: it’s a bright space filled with large wooden tables, an open kitchen with a brick oven, and a counter with affable staff standing next to a glass case filled with eye-catching pastries and slices of pie. There are two counters, one for quick access…
The Rocky Road to City Council
Casey Roats’ path to City Council reached another milestone Monday evening. After about three hours of often-tense deliberations on the letter and spirit of the City Charter’s residency requirements, councilors voted 5-2 to find Roats qualified to serve. TThe majority aligned in support of the notion that “intent” carries more weight than the common understanding…
Oregon Beer: Big in Japan
Thanks to its coastal proximity, the beer produced by Oregon’s breweries has fans in remarkably faraway places—even in Japan, which is currently experiencing a small but growing beer boom of its own. “Craft beer fans are pretty unique people,” says Keiji Nishio, owner of the Dig Beer Bar in the freewheeling Japanese city of Osaka.…
Snow is in His Blood
Last year was a miserly winter, with poor snow pack on the West Coast and brutally low temperatures in the Midwest and Eastern Seaboard—and those conditions dramatically crimped both the Nordic and downhill ski industries, with major dropoffs in nearly every measurable indicator of those sports. Yet, at the very same time, another snow sport…
A Christmas Carole
Christmas plays can be tricky. For starters, not everyone celebrates Christmas, which potentially alienates part of the theater-going crowd. Also, most Christmas plays are often shoddily written, more about sentiment than substance, and a means to distract children with pageantry instead of quality. Oh, and finally, if the play decides to approach Christmas from a…
Go Here 12/4-12/10
Last week, many of us gave thanks for the privilege of living in our own little Narnia, but as we step from the dinner table through the wardrobe, it’s important to remember with great gifts come great responsibilities. That is, Central Oregon is avalanche country and the risk of getting caught in one is very…
Disguise, Dissimulation and Cunning
In the spring of 1972, Step Bronstad steps into line at a Military Entrance Processing Station, “surrounded by dozens of other young men about to begin an odyssey that would likely place most of us in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam.” When he is hustled into an interrogation room, forced to answer questions about his…
Free Has Responsibilities
Free speech is one of the great tenets of American culture, politics and identity. But the First Amendment is also perhaps the most misunderstood “freedom.” It is not an unlimited hall pass to say whatever you want, wherever you want, to whomever you want. Take for example a recent incident in Southern Oregon, where a…
Out of Town 12/3-12/11
portland friday 5 Holiday Spectacular: Portland Cello Project and Ural Thomas & the Pain The Portland Cello Project has more soul than the average string group, and a reputation for transforming pop music with its evocative covers. But the group takes its genre-transcendence to the next level in its Holiday Spectacular with Ural Thomas—the 70-something…
Whatever, Mom
My son and I recently had our first big “fight.” I’m talking about the ugly, make-each-other-cry, immature-high-school-relationship kind of fight—the one that begins (explodes) as soon as you close the car doors after leaving the public setting where you were this close to unleashing your inner psycho in front of everyone. “You don’t even know…
Our Picks 12/3-12/11
friday 5 First Friday ART—December’s First Friday will be stuffed like a turkey with local artists debuting their wares and creations at shops downtown. Take, for example, recent transplant to Bend from Boston, photographer Maria Fernanda Bay. She was last week’s Source cover artist, and her work will be on display at Bishops Barbershop on…
Letters 11/25-12/2
IN REPLY TO “CONNECTING THE DOTS” (11/26) Thank you for the article about our new huts. I am not sure how it was missed, but the other person at our meeting was Jonas Tarlen, Founder and my business partner in Three Sisters Backcountry. Without his tireless efforts our current huts and our new additions would…
Film Events 12/3-12/11
Final Pose It isn’t clear whether they will provide chairs or if attendees will be “required” (ya’namaste) to sit in a pose or their yoga mat, but this is a special screening of “A Final Pose,” a short documentary on the end of life journey of Sisters yogi Myra Fisher, which screened at Bend Film…
European Vacation
Life is pain, even in the gorgeous French Alps. What starts as a perfect family vacation—one spent skiing pristine mountains, chatting in restaurants, laughing with friends—goes hideously awry in Force Majeure, Ruben Östlund’s darkly hilarious and/or darkly horrifying tale of a marriage on the rocks. Or maybe that should be “on the slopes”? I don’t…
A Very Mariachi Christmas
For most of us not regularly exposed to traditional Mexican music, the mariachi genre recalls little more than quick strumming, stacked harmonies and abundant horns and, of course, those lovely elaborate and colorful cowboy suits. But Jóse Hernàndez, bandleader of Mariachi Sol de México—a group he founded in 1981 at just 23-years-old in Los Angeles—explained…
Romeo, Oscar, Charlie, Kilo
Portland foursome Tango Alpha Tango’s strengths lay in the details of its ripping blues rock. Unfettered guitar solos burst out of the script of songs like The Incredible Hulk punching through a solid brick wall. Nathan Trueb’s dirty vocals land somewhere between Lou Reed and Tim Curry in Rocky Horror Picture Show, both measured and…
Source Suggests 12/3-12/11
Hot Buttered Rum Your first December dose of progressive bluegrass, Hot Buttered Rum, returns to the Belfry with twang-laden country-bluegrass arrangements strapped with wholesome three-part harmonies. The band are the kinds of dudes you want to crack a beer with, kick back, and maybe even add a fourth part to those hedonistic harmonies. 8 pm.…
Gift Guide: The Cook
The kitchen is an ever-expanding universe, with endless opportunities for welcomed gifts, from basic equipment for beginning chefs, like a collection of quality knives, to specific tools for the most advanced cook. Ginger’s Kitchenware (Old Mill, 375 SW Powerhouse) has a varied collection of knives, including everything from a paring knife to butcher cleavers ($29.99-$280,…
Beers To Stay Warm With
It took almost two months of back-and-forth text messages, but GoodLife finally named its winter ale, a special beer for the second annual Central Oregon Winter Beer Festival, a smooth ale with cinnamon and nutmeg undertones. “It just finally came to me,” says Steve Denio about the name they finally landed on: Yukon Cornelius, so…
Gift Guide: The Handyperson
It can be tough to shop for the religious DIYer. You know the person: She’s most at home in her paint-splattered Carhardt overalls, pouring over a how-to book and a massive mug of coffee. And, he’d rather spend the weekend up to his ears in sawdust than browsing the aisles at the local furniture store.…
Gift Guide: The Hibernator
Here is a specific personality type: That person who loves cuddling up by the fire, throwing on a Netflix documentary and crafting their way though the winter months with the cat snuggled on their lap. Sound familiar? Someone in your life? Check out these local shops for great gifts for any lover of indoor-activities. Kinitting…
