A Conversation with 12 Year Old Self
Wouldn’t you like to be able to talk to yourself in 20 years? Or maybe talk to yourself 20 years ago? Well this man has done just that… kind of… After creating a video of himself, at age 12, asking his future self some questions, he hides the tape away for 20 years. At age…
100 Riffs, A Brief History of Rock N’ Roll
Check out this rad video of Alex Chadwick, of the Chicago Music Exchange, playing 100 recognizable guitar riffs in ONE TAKE. Find out which of your co-workers is the most musically inclined by turning on the video, and trying to name as many riffs as possible without looking at the subtitles. On top of having…
Beer of the Week: Claymore Scotch Ale
It’s not a local beer, but it’s AVAILABLE locally, it’s from the American West and it’s good. Better than caber toss. In case you’re not up on your Scottish vernacular, a claymore is a medieval two-handed longsword. While it didn’t take two hands to hoist this 7.7% ABV brew, the Great Divide Brewing Co. beer…
Required Watching for Cascadians
To begin your venture into the Cascadian woods, here is the documentary Pickaxe: The Cascadian Free State Story, which follows activists in their efforts to halt logging at Warner Creek, a federally protected forest in Oregon. Required watching for any true Cascadian. “Following a suspicious fire in 1991 that cleared the land, Congress suspended environmental…
We NOT Major! Kanye, et al. in Bend a Fantasy?
Kanye West in Bend aint nothing but people gold diggin’?
We Major! Kanye to Appear in Bend!
Kanye West to dig for gold in Bend!
Nike is a No-Go
Just Not Doing It (In Bend) Nike is not coming to Bend. Oregon State Senator Tim Knopp, of Bend, sent an email to local journalists, politicians and economic leaders this afternoon delivering the news. “As we anticipated I heard back from NIKE and their expansion is going to focus on metro area sites for the…
Cascadia week on the BENT Blog
This week, the Tin Pan Theater will be hosting three showings of the locally made film, Occupied Cascadia , by Devin Hess, Mel Sweet and Casey Bryan Corcoran. Check the Source on Wednesday for the full story about the film, and it’s makers. Until then, you can stay in the Cascadian loop on our BENT…
EarthCam Offers Cool Views of MLK Memorial
You may not have time to volunteer today with Volunteer Connect, Bend’s main MLK-related event, but you can still take a moment to remember the man with a trip to his memorial via EarthCam. EarthCam has woven time lapse photography into a short movie of the creation of the MLK monument in D.C., which was…
Lifespan of Local Lance Memorabilia?
Late last week, Lance told Oprah what we already knew: that he won all seven tours by doping and then lied about it. While Lance continues to get hammered for his less-than-genuine responses during the Oprah interview, we’re left wondering, what will his legacy be in Bend? How many breweries, doctor’s offices, bike shops, etc.…
Friday Office Party!
The return of the Friday Office Party!
Weekend Roundup 1/18-1/20
It’s Friday, Friday, Friday and even Rebecca Black’s terrible music can’t ruin that! Get out and enjoy these fun events over the weekend. Backcountry Film Festival, McMens, Friday. Friday 18 Pitchfork RevolutionHave you been to The Belfry yet? It’s sweet. Blackgrass and traditional Bluegrass. All ages. $5. 7 p.m. The Belfry, 302 E Main Ave.…
Steering Committee to Get Serious about River Fix?
UPDATE: The images below were created by mirrorpond.info, a site run by Old Bend Neighborhood Assoc. They were not created by the Mirror Pond Steering Committee, as originally reported. The Mirror Pond Steering Committee (MPSC) mirrorpond.info just posted the following images, depicting the Deschutes River NOW and what it COULD look like as it flows…
Source Twitter Feed Prompts KTVZ to Grill City Councilor
It was a good ol’ time in the town on Wednesday night at the swearing in of three new Bend city councilors and the election of Jim Clinton as mayor. The mood was a little raucous in the audience and up on the dais where the councilors spoke their minds out loud and, in one…
Who’s the Hottest? Lust List Survey 2013 Now LIVE!
Hottest bartender? Hottest hipster? Hottest musician? Take our fun survey! It’s short and awesome. Here’s the link to LUST LIST 2013. We’ll run all the winners, as voted by YOU, our lovely readers, in our annual Love Issue, on stands Feb. 7. Voting closes at midnight on Jan. 28, so get to it! HOT!
BREAKING! Growler Filling Station to Open on Galveston
I guess it’s beer day around here… Growler Phil’s (get it? growler fills? But it’s “Phil’s.” Clever.), a brew-tap power house, is opening inside of Primal Cuts Meat Market on Galveston Ave. The filling station, which should open in early March, plans to have 30-34 taps of beer. Co-owner Marta Boelens said they’ll pour the…
Beer of the Week: Descender IPA
Great label too. Paperless! This is a great beer. Great because at 70 IBUs, it’s a balanced NW IPA. GoodLife didn’t fall under the we-must-make-the-hoppiest-damn-beer-you’ve-ever-tasted spell that seems to have afflicted so many fine brewers in our region. I’ve been on an IPA break since summer. For me, fall is fresh hop season, which gives…
Propping up LOFT
Pat Gundy, operations manager at Living Options for Teens, wants people to know that at LOFT, the show is going on. This is big news considering the governmental screw-up that cost LOFT $200,000, or 75 percent of their annual budget. Gundy has been working double overtime, he says, to raise funds for the westside teen…
Johnny McVenture, TOWARD BACHELOR AND BEYOND
Cross-Country Skiing For a great workout, go to the Meissner Nordic Community Ski Trails. They groom for skate and classic skiing on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. But if adventure is what you’re after, slap on your fishscale skis and get off the groomed path. With touring skis you can break trail en route to…
And Justice for All
Marrying a gay rights group with a local workers union makes total sense to Yaju Dharmarajah. Dharmarajah is one of the masterminds behind Central Oregon Social Justice Center, a new meeting area in downtown Bend that houses everyone from Human Dignity Coalition to United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 555 to immigration attorneys Hecht…
Snow Go in C.O.
Paulina Lake Lodge To enjoy the 333,000-acre snowmobile playland, stay here overnight in one of the 14 snug cabins (heated with wood stoves!) or just make the lodge your stopping place for a warm meal in the cozy restaurant. For an extra layer of adventure, the lodge is snowbound inside the Newberry Crater National Monument.…
Where the Sun Don’t Shine
If we must be subjected to boundless political advertising, we should at least know who's paying for it. That's the reasoning behind Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden's efforts to tame the political big game unleashed by the Citizens United ruling handed down two years ago Monday. When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment…
Johnny McVenture, NEAR CRATER LAKE:
Diamond Lake Ice Fishing Strap on snowshoes and a life jacket and test your luck on Diamond Lake. In the dead of winter, the lake is typically covered by two inches of solid ice with a topper of any number of inches of compacted snow. Use extreme caution, but if you’re lucky, you can angle…
The Real Solution to School Safety
The tragedy in Newtown, Conn., last month really hit home for our family. My 15-year-old stepdaughter and her mother live in Danbury, Conn.; my husband and I anxiously awaited more information when the news broke, and (I am ashamed to say) we breathed a sigh of relief when we learned that it was not a…
Johnny McVenture, BACK TO CENTRAL OREGON:
Snowshoe at Hoodoo Snowshoeing is hard. But it’s also a lot of fun because it’s easy to do with others. And it’s not nearly as expensive as skiing. After you’ve been out a couple of times, sign up for the Hoodoo Snowshoe 4k fun race. The race is at night so you’ll be navigating the…
One Day at a Time
MONDAY 7 France is currently under siege from a scourge far worse than the great Parisian herpes outbreak of 1987. That’s right, preggo Kim Kardashian and her bamboozled baby-daddy Kanye West are in Paris. Today the loathsome pair were spotted spending oodles of francs at fancy-pantsy boutiques and dining at the uber-posh L’Avenue restaurant. Before…
Johnny McVenture, EASTERN OREGON:
Grab a pint at Terminal Gravity Brewing Enjoy handcrafted brews from the cabana-turned-brewery public house in the tiny town of Enterprise. The pub, which lies adjacent to the brewery grounds, has been offering up brews since 1996. Try the IPA— a copper-colored ale with hints of grapefruit and caramel, or the winter seasonal Festivale, which…
Letters 1/17
HELP OVERTURN CITIZENS UNITED AT THE NEXT CITY COUNCIL MEETING On Feb. 6 at 7 p.m., the Central Oregon MoveToAmend.org affiliate will petition the Bend City Council to place a proposed resolution on the May ballot. If passed by the electorate, this resolution supports an Amendment to the Constitution and adds to the groundswell of…
Religious Rider
In the late '70s Dennis Heater threw fat tires on an old single-speed road frame and, in doing so, created one of the world’s earliest mountain bikes. Off-road cycling became an immediate passion. Nearly a decade later, after years of racing and bicycle upgrades, he found himself in the middle of a 100-mile race with…
America, F***, Yeah!
Too soon? Too soon for a kickass political action movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden? It’s been less than two years since a black-ops team of elite American soldiers executed the purported mastermind of 9/11, without any sort of due process, on the sovereign soil of another nation. Or maybe it’s not too…
Backcountry, Baby
The Bend Backcountry Alliance is hosting the eighth annual Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival at McMenamins this week and you should go. Erik Johnson, who has been a part of the BBA for the past four years, said the seven short films that make up this one-night fest will give audience members the thrill…
Psychos “R” Us
I’ve recently come to the unpleasant realization I might kind of just possibly maybe kinda sorta be a psychopath. I arrived at this determination in two ways: 1) I re-read a year’s worth of my TV columns, and 2) Wikipedia told me so. According to the definition on the “psychopathy” page, “Psychopathy is a personality…
Daybreak, The Cancel
Daybreak The Cancel Ukraine has had a little cultural obsession with trying to be more like America, from what I can tell. They smoke American cigarettes, watch American TV shows and try like hell to make American style music. It’s just that, typically, Ukrainian music plays off sounds buried deep within our country’s past. One…
Music Discovery Guide Part II
People love getting recommendations for cool new things. Increasing your clout among friends is as easy as turning them on to an awesome new restaurant, hot spot or electronic device. The same goes for passing along kickass music. That’s where our music discovery guide comes in. Anybody can turn on a radio station or Pandora…
To Market
It’s hard to imagine the undeveloped plot off Lava Road, between NW Arizona and Colorado avenues as a bustling, commercial hub. The three-acre lot is one of the few remaining bits of wild West in old Bend, a lot that along with the visible smoke stacks, reminds passers-by that the Old Mill was once filled…
Friday Office Party!
If you follow BENT, our daily blog, you’ve probably noticed that on Fridays, we post an office party playlist on Spotify. Past installments have included the latest album from pop duo Matt & Kim, a “Then and Now” look at R&B groups whose members attempted solo careers, and some of the hippest music being made…
Doing Dr. Pinckney Justice
Named for Dr. Orde Pinckney, a local theater staple and professor at Central Oregon Community College from 1955 to 1996, the Pinckney Center for the Performing Arts was, at one point, a cornerstone of Bend culture. The versatile theater hosted regular performances from the Magic Circle Dance Theater and COCC Theater Program through the late…
Out of Town: 1/16 – 1/24
Portland friday 18 Denver, Widower and What Hearts Denver is a seriously American band. Bald eagles, empty whiskey bottles, and the good ol’ red, white and blue permeate their traditional Southwestern country, along with killer harmonica riffs and slide guitar for days. Seattle-based Widower is just days away from releasing his new album, and if…
Our Picks for 1/16 – 1/24
Life Cycles thursday 17 The DVD of Life Cycles is one of three movies the Source’s bike racing expert has in his house. To quote our editorial compadre, “It’s beautiful.” A winner of numerous film festival awards, it’s a must-see for any mountain biker or anyone who just plain loves a well-shot film. 21+. $5.…
Johnny McVenture, IN BEND
Johnny McVenture (pictured below) loves winter. More than that, he loves DOING STUFF in winter. McVenture, tireless in his quest for Oregon’s best, has traveled all over the state in search of the most exciting, action-packed and scenic winter activities. From Nordic skiing in Central Oregon to hot springing near Toketee Falls, to beer drinking…
Best DUI Stop Ever (VIDEO!)
All over the Internet right now: And for all you haters saying it’s fake, I’d like to point out that it originally appeared in a documentary called Reno 911. So, it’s pretty real.
