Former Chamber Chief To Run For City Council
If you don’t know Mike Schmidt, it’s worth pointing out that whatever assumptions that you might have about his former career as a “chamber guy” are probably off the mark. In fact it’s probably more telling that Schmidt is no longer with the Bend Chamber than the fact that he was –since he’s spent…
Tonight in Music: Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band
Once again, the rural Indiana country blues rockers of Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band are stopping off at the Domino Room tonight (Monday), making that — by my count — the band’s third appearance in just over a year.
Ascention: Mt. B’s new uphill policy and more
As anticipated by ‘front country” skiers, Mount Bachelor announced their new uphill access policy (www.mtbachelor.
Ska City: Necktie Killer Brings The Toasters, The Slackers to Bend
I’ve been working on a profile of local ska-punk-funk band Necktie Killer this week and in the process, I learned that the band is in the process of helping to build their very own ska scene here in Bend by bringing in some huge names from the genre to Mountain’s Edge Bar (formerly Timber’s South):…
The Journal's Fuzzy Numbers
The Wall Street Journal published an editorial against Measures 66 and 67 that’s been widely circulated via e-mail and quoted approvingly on conservative websites such as The Oregon Catalyst. But Oregonian blogger Jeff Mapes caught the Journal with its factual pants down.
Dancing Punks: The Redwood Plan Tonight at Players
Tonight, Seattle’s deliciously danceable Redwood Plan plays at Players Bar and Grill and in doing so, introduces our town to a style that as far I as know, has never been heard here: Dance Punk. Here’s my profile of the Redwood Plan from this week’s Source.
A Good Read; adventure tales for a long winter night
This time of year it’s a treat to spend an evening reading a great adventure book. A book full of timeless tales that when can re-read years after a first reading still have some impact.
Arrrrr! Pirate Rock at the Silver Moon Tonight with Deadly Gallows
We’re all aware of punk rock and surf rock and indie rock and alternative rock, but there’s plenty of other rock genres out there, one of which has recently come to my attention: pirate rock. And yes, the music sounds exactly like the name suggests — lots of angry growls and talks of planks and…
Chris Telfer's Magical Pot o' Gold
State Sen. Chris Telfer (R-Bend) continues to insist there are hidden billions that the state could tap into to erase its budget deficit without a tax increase – even though the state Department of Administrative Services says, in effect, that she's full of it.
Bill Bradbury Brings His Campaign to Bend
Sitting in a wood-and-canvas director's chair at the front of a mostly full room at the Central Oregon Environmental Center last night, former Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury introduced his campaign for governor to Bend. Wearing a suit with a red shirt and blue tie – prototypical candidate attire – and with the Segueway…
Another Bank Heist: Reid vs. Obama, China vs. Detroit, and Mick vs. Capitalism
The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from “Avatar” – a futuristic and fabulous world with no plot and subpar acting but, hey, it looks great – on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly. Whachusay? Cracker Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader,…
Five Ring Circus: Let the Games Begin
While the big news at NBC Television is the squabble over the Tonight Show time slot between Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno, there's another story at the network that's equally interesting to some. It's the story of how NBC is taking a bath (to the tune of $200 million) on advertising for the upcoming Winter…
Film Tonight in Bend: “Beautiful Losers” – A Story of Street Art
The kind and always hip folks at PoetHouse Art are hosting a screening of the acclaimed documentary Beautiful Losers, which tells the story of the evolution of street art in the US. The film covers graffiti art and other mediums influenced by the punk, hip-hop and anti-establishment movements found in many American cities beginning in…
This Is Getting Embarrassing
The anti-Measure 67 forces continue to have a real problem finding a bona fide small business in Oregon that actually would be hurt by it. In early December they mass-mailed a “personal letter” from Tillamook dairy owner Carol Marie Leuthold expressing fear that M67 would “hurt our farm and the families it supports.
Video From the Finn Riggins Show Last Night
Boise’s Finn Riggins played McMenamins Old St. Francis School last night here in Bend to a mostly subdued and seated, yet still numerous and attentive crowd.
Old School: Kayo’s new dinner house plans and Oxford’s 10 Below
10 Below and the Oxford Hotel are set to officially open this week. Located in the lower lobby of the hotel, 10 Below gets its name from the hotel's street address (10 NW Minnesota). The menu ($8-25), by Chef Sam Reed, formerly of Sunriver Resort and The Biltmore in Arizona, is sure to please. Local…
Old School: Kayo’s new dinner house plans and Oxford’s 10 Below
10 Below and the Oxford Hotel are set to officially open this week. Located in the lower lobby of the hotel, 10 Below gets its name from the hotel's street address (10 NW Minnesota). The menu ($8-25), by Chef Sam Reed, formerly of Sunriver Resort and The Biltmore in Arizona, is sure to please. Local…
Yin and Yang: Explore the Backcountry or Curl Up with a Good Book
Some days you're just raring to go grab adventure. And sometimes a crackling fire, a slumbering dog and a good book call your name.
Recordings you need to hear but may have missed: Otis Redding – The Soul Album
Otis Redding The Soul Album Released 1966
What a feat. In his short 26 years of life, Otis Redding left behind a bunch of studio albums and some of the greatest passion and desperation packed soul recordings. Otis is most known for his pop songs, but The Soul Album offers varying textures and styles that…
Little Bites: Old School: Kayo’s new dinner house plans and Oxford’s 10 Below
10 Below and the Oxford Hotel are set to officially open this week. Located in the lower lobby of the hotel, 10 Below gets its name from the hotel's street address (10 NW Minnesota). The menu ($8-25), by Chef Sam Reed, formerly of Sunriver Resort and The Biltmore in Arizona, is sure to please. Local…
All that Blood and Nowhere to Go: Disappointing plot ruins the gory light in Daybreakers
Beginning with ultra-cool shots and dreamlike photography, Daybreakers shows promise, but with all of its flourishing potential (and tons of blood and gore) it starts to fall apart midway and never recovers. The Spierig Brothers directed The Undead, a fairly unknown and underrated Australian zombies-from-space flick, but this time the pair of sibling directors traded…
Let's Dig Our Way Out of This Hole
The City of Bend is talking about creating a no-destination-resort buffer zone around the city, and the Central Oregon Association of Realtors doesn’t like that idea one bit. Deschutes County is reviewing and revising its rules for where destination resorts can go, and city staff wants to prohibit them within five miles of the city’s…
Snow Job: local TV talking heads predisposition to powder.
I’m sure more than a few locals have their pet peeves when it comes to the local television’s newscasts and their talking heads. Talking heads who regularly fall victim to mispronunciations, delivery flubs, you name it.
Finn Riggins Brings its Weirdly Awesome Indie Rock to Bend Tonight
If there’s one band that I’ve been pleased to see make return appearances in Bend over the past year, it’s Finn Riggins (read our profile of the band from this summer), the sometimes goofy but always tight Boise indie rock trio. The band is playing tonight at McMenamin’s Old St.
Look Out Below!: Grebes are falling out of the sky
This has been the year for grebes to fall out of the sky, literally. Three weeks ago, a Western grebe was discovered standing in the middle of Bradley Road east of Sisters in the early morning hours by Spirit of Sisters storeowner Sue Purcell. Sue had no idea what the bird was, where it had…
The World is a Stage: The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus wraps a real-life puzzle in a universal enigma
Although this movie will be spoken of generally as “the one Heath Ledger was making when he died,” the latest work from the director of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Terry Gilliam, is not exactly a Heath Ledger movie. He's hardly in it. And while it's natural to eagerly await the scenes in which…
The Bend Barrio: Say 'Hello' to Nouveau Peruvian-Mexican food at Hola!
Since opening in 2007, Hola! has become a mainstay for consistent Latin cuisine. With a menu that features traditional dishes from Peru & Mexico and an extensive tequila bar, Hola! offers authenticity without overkill, relying on fresh, hand-made dishes and a casual, fun dining experience. From tableside guacamole ($9), to shaker-size margarita portions ($7-10), and…
The Bend Barrio: Say 'Hello' to Nouveau Peruvian-Mexican food at Hola!
Since opening in 2007, Hola! has become a mainstay for consistent Latin cuisine. With a menu that features traditional dishes from Peru & Mexico and an extensive tequila bar, Hola! offers authenticity without overkill, relying on fresh, hand-made dishes and a casual, fun dining experience. From tableside guacamole ($9), to shaker-size margarita portions ($7-10), and…
Teaching the Punks to Dance: The Redwood Plan, with a lively attorney at the helm, bring dance-punk down from Seattle
Lesli Wood, her short, asymmetrical hairstyle streaked with fire engine red, is rarely still on stage. She claps, she jumps and, now, with her new band, The Redwood Plan, she dances. After a decade spent at the helm of Seattle punk act Ms. Led, Wood is now wrapping up her first year with The Redwood…
Darwin At COCC
As a professional biologist, Jay Bowerman can probably be excused for taking a purely non-political perspective on his latest endeavor, a nearly yearlong series of lectures on Charles Darwin and his landmark work on natural selection and the accompanying theory of evolution. A former president and executive director at the Sunriver Nature Center and Observatory,…
Past the Coolers, Up the Stairs: Tew Boots Gallery takes art to the second level
Through the Bond Street Market's door, past the buzzing coolers and the bottles of beer and soda they dutifully keep cool, there's a hairpin turn that leads up a staircase lined on one side by a row of ascending paintings, some featuring the increasingly recognizable iconography of emerging Bend artist Alex Reisfar. At the top…
Our Picks for 1/13 – 1/21: Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Thomas Jefferson and more
Problem Stick, The Dirty Words friday 15 It's a match made in distortion pedal heaven when these two local rock bands join forces to fuzz up your brain at the newly revamped Mountain's Edge. And if the wrecked sounds of Problem Stick don't do it for you, check out front man Morgan P. Salvo's film…
Take This Plan And Shove It: DLCD gives Bend's growth plan a formal rejection
It's been five plus years in the making and it's apparently going to be at least a few more months – if not years – before the proposed urban growth boundary expansion in Bend is finalized. The city got the formal rejection letter earlier this week from state land use regulators at the Department of…
Behind the Lens: Local teen filmmakers tackle C-SPAN's StudentCam Documentary Contest
“It's the biggest amount of joblessness anyone's ever seen and it's affecting a lot of people and businesses. Also, Bend is one of the worst towns when it comes to the economy.” Such sentiments have been tossed around in conversation for a couple years now, but it might come as a surprise to learn that…
Destructive Morons
There are no astrological indications that 2010 is the Year of the Destructive Moron, but here in Oregon this week we made a damn good case for such a declaration. Only a destructive moron would be ripe with sort of Voldemort-like evilness required to leave a pug puppy in a plastic garbage bag on the…
The Same Old “Death Tax” Lies
The United States enacted the federal estate tax in 1916, and conservatives have been trying to get rid of it ever since. Over the decades they've propagated an astonishing array of half-truths and untruths, such as labeling it “the death tax.” (Rest assured that you can die anywhere in the United States without having to…
Letter of the Week: Don't Deny Inmates Correspondence
This week's letter comes from alert reader Tricia Knoll who makes a good case for not restricting inmate correspondences as several Oregon county jails are considering. Thanks for the letter Tricia. If you're ever in the neighborhood, drop by the Source for your bag of free coffee courtesy of Lone Pine roasters.
Recently The…
Gay Rights Are Everybody's Rights
It's so simple! The Constitution, Amendment 14, Sec. 1, states that all people have “equal protection under the laws.
Are You With Conan? Late Night Chaos at NBC
As you may have heard, Conan O’Brien, the host of The Tonight Show released a somewhat funny, but mostly serious statement today announcing that he will not accept NBC’s offer to move to 12:05pm to accommodate the terribly nice but less-than-hilarious Jay Leno and his self-titled show. In the wake of the announcement it seemed…
