Josh Dirksen on Fuel TV
Check out Bend's Josh Dirksen on Fuel TV's "Firsthand," a series that profiles the lives of athletes from all sorts of fun sports.
Patterson’s Golden Parachute
Mike Patterson - felon. After two years of intermittent verbal and physical abuse at the hands of her husband, Mike, things came to a head at Mary Patterson's home on the evening of November 5.
Mike, who was at the time Redmond's city manager, had threatened to move out of the couple's home. Mary decided…
Bachelor Charity Event: Neither a Bang nor a Fizzle
The totals are in for the first phase of Mt. Bachelor's new charity event replacing Free Ski day, and while they aren't as bad as critics warned they're not nearly as good as the resort predicted.
Thoughts on Inauguration Eve
The inauguration of Barack Obama almost scares us - not because we didn't support him (we did, enthusiastically) or because we don't have confidence in him, but because the expectations are so high.
Is Central Oregon Experiencing “Shrinkage”?
The Bulletin's top business story this morning is about how many people are moving into Central Oregon and how many are moving out. Predictably, the spin is upbeat.
Getting Kicked by the Kicker
State Economist Tom Potiowsky had bad news, better news and bad news for the state in his report to the Oregon Legislature yesterday.
Clean Pipes
Bachelor got their pipe cut just in time for this weekend's Enter The Dragon competition. The park crew has really been putting in the hours to make all our jumps nice every day, and they groomed the pipe two days in a row which is a first.
Still Punk: Twenty years of doing things the Guttermouth way
Who’s up for a jog?On a Friday morning, Guttermouth front man Mark Adkins talks for more than an hour over the telephone from his home in San Clemente, Calif. about, politics, honesty, distance running, guitar down strokes, Hot Topic stores, paddle boarding, real estate values, self-imposed racial segregation and several other topics related or un-related…
We Don’t Need No Steenkin’ Flower Baskets
The Downtown Bend Business Association wants to force business owners who don't belong to it to pay for it anyway, and that has longtime downtown merchant Duncan McGeary hopping mad.
Walden in the Spotlight
For a minority-party congressman from a rural backwater, Greg Walden is getting a lot of ink these days.
Vote for the Source/FFE Film Music Video Contest
Here they are, the seven finalists for the Source Weekly/Far From Earth Films music video contest. For those not savvy to the contest: here's how it works.
Kroger Wades Into Battle Early
In office for barely 10 days, Oregon's new attorney general, John Kroger, has come out swinging.
Music Video Contest Voting Starts Thursday
Due to technical difficulties, the voting for the Source Weekly/Far From Earth Films music video contest will begin tomorrow, rather than today, as originally posted. Sorry about this, but we promise to have all the tracks posted tomorrow.
January Sun
Our region has been bombarded by sun recently. Unfortunately sun in January usually means ice, and this is no exception.
Micro Cosmos: Skookum Creek Strong Ale
When the guys over at Cascade Lakes Brewing dropped Mirco Cosmos a line about their new winter ale with an offer to send by a sample we didn't hesitate to take them up for, ah, research purposes. And we're glad we did.
Micro Cosmos: Skookum Creek Strong Ale
When the guys over at Cascade Lakes Brewing dropped Mirco Cosmos a line about their new winter ale with an offer to send by a sample we didn’t hesitate to take them up for, ah, research purposes. And we’re glad we did.
Owl Quiz II: Another test of your owl knowledge
Give a hoot.If you are wondering what happened to the second part of our "little" Owl Quiz, the answer is it got too big. So, if you still want to have a good time with the quiz, you'll have to wait until my website, www.northwestnaturalist is up and running, which should be in about a…
Could iNews Save the Newspaper Business?
Everybody else is getting a bailout, so why not the newspaper industry?
Winter Tidbits: A Tri, Give it a Try, Hoodoo and Roos
WINTER TRI Iced up at Bachelor.Some people just don't learn. Which is why it looked like a reunion of Masochists Anonymous when I showed up at the start line for the 2009 USAT Winter Triathlon National Championship last Sunday at the Mt. Bachelor Nordic Center. Most of the faces were familiar from last year's event,…
Purple Dragons, Oh My!: Spyro Dawn of the Dragon
Puff on this dragon.Ever since Mario took the game scene by storm there have been many attempts to steal the limelight from the-little-plumber-that-could, with little success. One exception is Spyro the Dragon.
The first Spyro game was released in 1998 on the original Playstation. The game was a straightforward platform game with Spyro freeing…
Stick That List
In keeping with our newly minted tradition of highlighting the best (and worst) reader call outs for the Letter of the Week, we're spotlighting this nuclear missive from Jennifer Garcia who lambastes assistant editor Ric E. James' "east side garage" rundown from our Top 10 issue. Thanks for the letter Jennifer, you can pick up…
So Long, Farewell…
Hi, I want to thank Bend for giving me an opportunity to explore the countless mountain biking trails in and around Bend. As a biking commuter I will be relocating to California since I can bike commute 12 months out of the year without the worry of iced up bike lanes.
Stillborn: Bonehead evil lurks behind blue eyes
Do you find me creepy?The Unborn is not scary enough to be good and too serious to be "so bad it's good." The flick is a gab-fest generic possession story that goes beyond absurd and way beyond caring if it makes sense or not.
The convoluted mess of a plot doesn't even try to win…
Obama Should Stick To His Guns
While I have a deep respect for Michael Funke and the Gay community, I must disagree with Michael's letter to The Source in which he called for President Obama to rescind his invitation to (pastor) Rick Warren. While I heavily support Gay rights, I also believe that the only way we make changes in this…
The Battle of Peace Bridge
It seems Bend City Council foolishly thought the time had come to dedicate one of Bend's bridges to that most un-American ideal - peace. The "Homeland" (Fatherland and Motherland were taken) is home to less than 5% of the world's population but it spends more on armaments than all the other nations in the world…
Mr. Big Shot
I found it interesting how the settlement concerning the litigations involving the minuscule compensation to KFXO TV by BendBroadband coincided Tuesday evening.
Hong Kong’s Bamboo Makeover
Hong Kong has long been known by locals as one of the Bend's stalwart Asian restaurants offering up consistently solid takes on Cantonese, Szechwan and Mandarin dishes. Locals also know Hong Kong as home to the Bamboo Room, a little lounge around the back of the restaurant through a windowless door that announces "No Minors".
Hong Kong’s Bamboo Makeover
Hong Kong has long been known by locals as one of the Bend’s stalwart Asian restaurants offering up consistently solid takes on Cantonese, Szechwan and Mandarin dishes. Locals also know Hong Kong as home to the Bamboo Room, a little lounge around the back of the restaurant through a windowless door that announces “No Minors”.
Hotter Than Pancakes: Start planning now for local produce this summer
Mid-January probably seems like a strange time to bring up what you're going to eat this summer. But if you were a farmer, growing your own food, you bet you'd be thinking about it now. And if you want to buy into a local vegetable crop, now is the time to do your research and…
Hotter Than Pancakes: Start planning now for local produce this summer
Mid-January probably seems like a strange time to bring up what you’re going to eat this summer. But if you were a farmer, growing your own food, you bet you’d be thinking about it now. And if you want to buy into a local vegetable crop, now is the time to do your research and…
Mr. Westlund Goes Back to Salem: Catching up with Oregon’s new state treasurer
Just days after Ben Westlund was sworn into office as state treasurer, we spent some time on the phone with the Tumalo resident and former state legislator to see how he was settling in and what he had up his sleeve for the days and years to come as one of the state's three constitutional…
An Arrogant Mayoral Selection
Being mayor of Bend is no big deal. Rather than being elected by popular vote, the mayor is chosen by a vote of his or her fellow city councilors. And the position is largely honorific; the mayor chairs city council meetings, but aside from that has no powers beyond those of any other councilor.
So…
The City Shuffle Parsing the council appointment, our snow blog, and the virgin auction
As noted in this week's Boot former councilor and now state Sen. Chris Telfer (R) stuck around city hall just long enough to orchestrate the installation of her hand picked mayor, Kathie Eckman. After Eckman won on a "party line" vote over Mark Capell, Telfer packed her bags for Salem leaving the council to fill…
Get Off My Lawn: Eastwood’s performance drives Gran Torino
I finish things. In Hollywood, there's following convention, defying convention, and then there's Clint Eastwood, who created his own set of conventions, and is now shredding them to pieces in the last decade of a career spanning more than 50 years.
I'm required to say this whenever I review an Eastwood film. That said, Gran…
New for 2009
Our readers know that we've celebrated a recent surge in our local music scene in these pages over the past year or so and we'd like to assure these readers that things should remain strong in 2009. Our evidence, in case you were wondering, lies in the list of new local CDs that are slated…
One for the Vault
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
Cardinology Lost Highway Records At 34 years old, Ryan Adams has achieved a good deal as a musician. From punk roots in a hot North Carolina music scene in the early '90's, he grew into an alt-country songwriter as a founding member of the renowned underground country band Whiskeytown.
Fighting the Winter Blues: Too Slim and the Taildraggers play blues for all seasons
Blues through the fisheye.Tim Langford has seen some of the wildest weather of his life in the recent weeks. More than a foot of snow fell outside his downtown Seattle home, which forced someone to abandon a city bus in front of his house. Not long afterwards he was dealing with flooding from the melting…
Our Picks for the Week of 1/14-1/22
Too Slim & The Taildraggers friday 16 Check out the sound section for more on this longstanding Northwest band that is self-described as "whiskey blues with a southern rock beer chaser." As far as alcohol-based analogies go, this is pretty damn spot on. 9pm. $14/advance, $16/door. Domino Room, 51 NW Greenwood Ave. End of an…
