Making Music: The classical music is alive and well in Central Oregon
Despite the continued portrayal of Bend and Central Oregon as a mini epicenter for indie, folk, rock, metal, hip-hop and pop music, thanks to the excellent musicianship of the Central Oregon Symphony under the able direction of maestro Michael Gesme, classical music remains alive and well in our community. Playing to packed houses at Bend…
A Video Taste of the Mt. Bachelor Powder
If you’re one of the folks who haven’t been up Mt. Bachelor in the past week, well.
Lyrics Born Video from WinterFest
WinterFest sure was wintery, huh? Not only was the weekend a winter wonderland, due to plenty of snowfall, but the festival itself proved to be an excellent time for locals and visitors alike. Mike Bookey shot tons of video this weekend, which I plan on editing together into a mini-documentary this week.
Punk Rock Monday with the Vampirates
Whether you have the day off today or are slogging along like we are over here as we recover from a long and fun WinterFest weekend, there is some fun to be had tonight — just in case you’re the sort of person who really likes to get the most out of your three-day weekends.…
Friday’s WinterFest Schedule
WinterFest is underway tonight at 5 p.m.
Video From Last Night’s WinterFringe: Larry and His Flask and Mosley Wotta
A few hundred of us got an early jump on WinterFest at last night’s WinterFringe event, which began downtown before teleporting to the Century Center. Downtown, there were brief sets from Mosley Wotta, who delivered a solo spoken-word set, and Larry and His Flask, who did a totally un-amplified run through of half a dozen…
Plowing Snow: My continued battle to keep the snow off my sidewalk
Call me naïve, but I get out when it snows and judiciously clean the sidewalks bordering my house. I’ve done so for over thirty years and always thought that if I didn’t clean them I might get tagged because there’s a city ordinance on the books that sidewalks have to be cleaned within 24 hours…
Oregon Drug Bust of the Week: Almost 100 Pounds of Pot
OK, due to SNOWCLUSTEREFF 2011, I’m a little late on this week’s drug bust, but it’s a pretty sizable one. This week, we head down to rural Jackson County where an Oregon State Police drug task force seized 98.
Download A Pint With New Bend Ale Trail App
The ever expanding Bend Ale Trail took a cyber leap forward this week when Visit Bend announced that the DIY beer drinking tour map and website is now available as an interactive iPhone app. The program, which is downloadable, through the bendaletrail.
Larry and His Flask are Playing The Warped Tour! And tonight’s WinterFringe
I got an e-mail announcing the lineup for the Van’s Warped Tour and as I was scrolling through the lineup, I was all like, “Holy crap, our own Larry and His Flask are playing the Warped Tour!” The hillbilly acoustic rockers will be featured on the entire tour, which runs from late June to mid…
Get Pumped for Bend WinterFest with Video from Last Year’s Festival
One of Central Oregon’s biggest outdoors festivals, Bend WinterFest, kicks off tonight with a new addition to the snowy weekend – Winter Fringe, but Mike will have more about that for you later today. This year’s festival is bigger than ever and includes something for everyone.
Snow Report: Skiing at Virginia Meissner after the storm
I don’t think I’ve made the drive up the Cascade Lakes Highway in more than a month now. That might be an exaggeration, but I like to ski three times a week and this has been a serious hiatus.
The Traveling Camera: Meet Christian Heeb
Christian Heeb is a new contributor to the Bent blog and his photographs, along with some backstory on the shot, will be appearing here regularly beginning with this post. Heeb, a Bend-based photographer who travels the world, shooting photos for magazines including National Geographic Traveller, Conde Nast Traveller, Geo Saison and more.
Want to Win WinterFest Tickets?
Hey there, friends. You look like the sort of folks who might want to head down to Bend WinterFest this weekend and work off all the frustration you piled up during SNOWCLUSTEREFF 2011™.
Pictures From Yesterday’s Snowpocalypse
On Monday night, we all went to bed thinking that we’d wake up to some drizzly rain. Instead, we all woke up to SNOWPOCALYPSE 2011. Or, as the Source Staff coined it yesterday, after losing power, then going to three different staffer’s houses due to further power outages, then finally coming back to the Source…
Small Packages: Meet the northern pygmy owl, our tiny, feathered giant killer
The photos above give new meaning to the phrase: “He has eyes in the back of his head.” That’s a typical (life-sized) view of the northern pygmy owl, Glaucidium gnoma, smallest of the Oregon owls, but a giant-killer, in spite of its size. It is not uncommon to witness this robin-sized owl go after -…
Why the Source Weekly Should Have Won Last Week’s Trivia Bee
Last week, three source staffers – Mike Bookey, Ban Tat (Sales) and myself competed in the Education Foundation’s annual Trivia Bee at the Tower Theatre. We were robbed. Below are three reasons why the Source team should have taken home the trophy:
And Then What?: Rabbit Hole copes with reconnecting to everyday live after a loss
One of the only guarantees in life is that it ends and throughout our lives we must find ways to cope with loss. Oftentimes, when we lose someone close to us, many questions remain in their absence, and for those that affect us the deepest we wonder what happens now? In Rabbit Hole, everyone deals…
A Very Special Episode
Ladies and gentlemen, set your DVR and/or Betamax to “record,” because this coming Tuesday (Feb 22) is a “very special episode” of Glee! (Record scratch.) “Hold on there, Wm.™ Steven Hump-Me!” I hear you cry. “Isn't every episode of Glee a 'very special episode?'” Well… okay! You have a point! Glee is basically the Blossom…
Channing Tatum Has Landed: Somber tone sets the pace for The Eagle
Russell Crowe, Brad Pitt and Colin Farrell have all donned ancient Roman attire, and now we can add to the sword-and-sandal fraternity… Channing Tatum? Turns out it's not such a bad call, since The Eagle has little dialogue to screw up. This must be “survival month” at the movies because beyond the themes of honor…
Gather Round the Table: Jen's Garden's community table offers wallet-friendly fine dining
Jen's Garden in Sisters doesn't do shtick. Dishes are served without flashy components, such as the now-ubiquitous vertically stacked plate presentation. Instead, Jen's keeps the focus on quality ingredients and execution. Rather than opt for modern, sleek decorations, Jen's Garden channels a country-style living room. Still, despite the lack of flair, Jen's Garden has carved…
Tea For Fun?
Those who have found themselves buying three “beef” chalupas after a rough night always have a theory as to how their liver deceived them. The schoolyard chant, “Beer before liquor, never sicker; liquor before beer, never fear” might be best left in the Kappa Kappa Delta house. If you've been drinking vodka all night, is…
The Bay Area Chameleon: Lyrics Born's shift toward soulful electro grooves may be his best reincarnation to date
“I get bored so easy. That's really my blessing and my curse,” says Tom Shimura, the man better known as Lyrics Born, the stage name he's been using for about two decades now. It's his insatiable boredom, Shimura says, that has led him to reinvent himself as a musician not just between albums but on…
Owen Hart – Earth Control
While some kids are punching out the lenses of their mom's ridiculous '80s glasses to add irony to their wardrobe, Tacoma's Owen Hart picks and chooses the best of metal from ages ago on its debut album, Earth Control – and not for irony's sake. The band isn't reinventing the wheel here, but that's not…
Our Picks for 2/16 – 2/24: Y La Bamba, Bend WinterFest, Golden Gloves Championship, Zwicklemania and more
Y La Bamba wednesday 16 One of the bloggers over on our brand-cranking-new Bent blog has been raving about this show for a while now and we have to agree, this is a really excellent band. Cramming seven members onto the stage, this Portland act manages to weave a few Mexican influences and numbers into…
Too Much of a Good Thing: Fish advocates and farmers say there is enough water to go around for all users on the Crooked River. So why can't they figure out how to share it?
Russ Rhoden has two pictures that he likes to show visitors to his Prineville office. The first is an aerial photo taken sometime in the first half of the 20th century and shows much of Prineville submerged under spring flood waters, the rooftops poking up like little tar paper islands. The other shot is a…
Fidelity's New Skyline Deal Deserves Scrutiny
When is a deal not a deal? Apparently when one of the parties to the agreement is an out-of-state landowner that controls more than 33,000 acres of forest outside Bend's backdoor. At least that's what we can glean from the recent behind-the-scenes negotiations that have been going on between Fidelity National Timber Resources and a…
Your Complete Weekly Dump of Straight Poop
Monday, Feb. 7 Bloody Cairo: At least 297 people have been killed in Egypt's anti-government uprising, according to Human Rights Watch … Must've been a slow news day: Glenn Beck rips into Super Bowl players for not standing with their hands over their hearts when Christina Aguilera sang the National Anthem. This reporter had both…
Blizzards and Bikes
It's Bike Town U.S.
Population Bill Has Come Due
Your February 3rd issue contained two of the best letters to any editor that I have read since moving to Bend last June. Carlos Wysling and Vanessa Schulz nailed the roots of their arguments by analyzing the big picture, something many people seem incapable of doing, especially when such an analysis results in conclusions that…
Tonight’s Ky-Mani Marley Show Canceled
If you haven’t noticed, today’s snow has just about ruined everything, from the school day to the Source production schedule (we’re currently crammed in a staffer’s living room trying to make a newspaper without the aid of our office or its electricity). Add another thing to the list of things ruined by the storm tonight’s…
