BendFilm Relocates Office to Northwest Crossing
I just got a press release stating that Central Oregon’s film festival, BendFilm, has moved its offices from downtown Bend (on Irving Avenue) up to the Northwest Crossing Neighborhood. BendFilm will be taking over the space formerly occupied by the BICA art gallery, thus keeping an artistic presence up in that Westside neighborhood.
New Event Tonight at the Sunriver Library: Adult Recess!
The Deschutes Public Libraries have been providing after school craft and game programs for children and teenagers on a regular basis, but until now it seems a certain group has been left out of the fun. Adults now have the opportunity once a month to join others in their community for a night of either…
Jackalope Grill’s Women Tasting Wine is Extra Awesome this Month
Sometimes Bend is flush with dining events, making me wish I had buckets of cash to blow on food and wine. Actually, I pretty much always wish I had buckets of cash, but sometimes the desire is especially great.
Jackalope Grill’s Women Tasting Wine is Awesome this Month
Sometimes Bend is flush with dining events, making me wish I had buckets of cash to blow on food and wine. Actually, I pretty much always wish I had buckets of cash, but sometimes the desire is especially great.
Our (Ridiculous) Predictions: How the Ducks will fare in the BCS Championship
Kickoff is now only a few hours away and we thought we’d wade into the treacherous waters of college football predictions with some (mostly ridiculous) game predictions from the Source staff. Mike Bookey, Arts and Culture Editor: Oregon 82 Auburn 7.
Humane Society of Central Oregon offers Adoption Special for Ducks BCS Game
The latest news in our Duck Watch coverage finds the Humane Society of Central Oregon (HSCO) joining in on the BCS National Championship fever, in a very good way. The HSCO highlights the University of Oregon’s big game by reducing the adoption fee for “yellow” cats and “yellow” dogs to $20.
Everything is better with beer, especially the Olympics
When the regular old Olympics roll around every two years, I think, You know, I really like these world-unifying games, like the decathalon and curling. But I just feel like there’s something missing.
Big Screen Options for the BCS Championship in Bend and Beyond
OK, it’s finally here. For University of Oregon fans (and the legions of other Oregonians who’ve been caught up in the frenzy) the wait for the BCS National Championship is over.
New Driving Move: Sidewalks come into play on Portland Avenue
I know getting to class at COCC on time in the morning and evening is important, but what’s with the latest Bend driving phenomena of sidewalk driving? Here’s how it goes. Around 8 a.
The Big Lebowski Costume Winners
If you weren’t there at the Tower tonight to watch The Big Lebowski with 400-something other people who may have become your new best friends, you also missed an incredible costume contest, which kicked off the weirdly, awesomely, justifiably well-attended (and sold-out) event. Here are a couple videos from the Walter and Dude categories of…
Oregon vs. Auburn: The curfew battle
There are plenty of differences between Auburn and Oregon — for starters, one of the schools is located in Alabama and the other in the Pacific Northwest, and secondly, only one team has LaMichael James. There are other differences too, like, for example, the one illustrated by a USA Today post yesterday that described the…
Latest Music Video from Bend’s FFE Films: “Microchip” by Jah Sun
I was on the set of this video shoot this spring out at Bend’s own Rage Films and now it’s awesome to finally see the final product, directed and edited by Tim Cash of Far From Earth Films with help from Rage’s Chris Kas, Sky Pinnick and others. The song is “Microchip” by northern California…
Hear the Songs of the Rolling Stones Tonight in Bend
Are you a Stones fan? Yeah, thought you might be. Well, you’re in luck because once again the Tart Bistro lobby will be transformed tonight into a music venue for another edition of “Night Under the Covers,” an ongoing local music showcase featuring covers of the work of one particular artist.
The Big Lebowski Screening at the Tower Theatre is Sold Out
This week’s issue of the Source features plenty of material on The Big Lebowski, including this essay in which I brazenly denounce anyone who doesn’t enjoy that film. There’s been plenty of buzz about tomorrow (Saturday) night’s screening of the classic film, which is probably why it was recently announced that the screening is totally…
Ignite Bend 6 Announced
Ignite Bend, the ongoing multi-media event that brings locals up onto the Tower Theatre stage to give five-minute slide show presentations on a variety of topics, has just announced a date for its sixth installation. Ignite Bend 6 is slated for Wednesday, February 9 at the Tower and coincides with Global Ignite Week.
Pagan Jug Band Tonight at McMenamins
For the second straight night, Pagan Jug Band, a Portland-based old timey jug band (duh) is playing at McMenamins Old St. Francis School.
The Big Cheese: Appointing or electing Bend's mayor
Before heading off into the City Council retirement sunset, former councilor and mayor Oran Teater yet again brought up the question of why Bend doesn’t have an elected rather than an appointed Mayor. Teater is absolutely spot on with his question, which is essentially pertinent this week, considering Jeff Eager was sworn in as mayor…
Oregon Ducks Power Ballad on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
As The Source’s only Oregon alum, I find it’s my duty to share with you this awesome video from Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. The video features Sebastian Bach (yes, really) belting out a power ballad for the Oregon Ducks.
Spork’s Next Pop-Up Supper Club This Weekend
Spork is following up their successful two-day December pop-up restaurant with another pop-up this weekend, January 8 and 9. Basically the same deal as before: Spork will take over Cafe Sintra’s space for two nights.
CAN Cancer Needs Your Help to Win The Pepsi Refresh Project’s Grant for Non-Profits
We’ve all been touched my someone who has had or survived cancer. CAN Cancer is a local non-profit that provides assistance in the form of non-medical living expenses (food, lodging, travel, etc.) to Central Oregonians fighting all forms of cancer. The non-profit was established by Wilderness Garbage in cooperation with the Central Oregon Haulers, which…
Spork’s Next Pop-Up Supper Club This Weekend
Spork is following up their successful two-day December pop-up restaurant with another pop-up this weekend, January 8 and 9. Basically the same deal as before: Spork will take over Cafe Sintra’s space for two nights.
Blame Keyser Soze: Dead birds, Crazy Captains and the return of Christine O'Donnell
The author is reporting from a fantastically futuristic place known as “Twenty-Eleven.” 2011 will be so sparkly you'll be sneezing pixy dust. Yes, this columnist has made poor predictions before, including this one from 8/30/10: “Donovan McNabb and/or Brett Favre will die by midseason.” McNabb merely lost his dignity and $70-plus million, thanks to being…
All Good Things: Wasting another perfectly good New Year's Eve on the river
Under the best of conditions, steelhead fishing in Central Oregon, or anywhere for that matter, is an endurance test in which an angler pursues for days, weeks and even months at a time, a creature that is blissfully unaware of its pursuers existence – that is until that one fleeting and magical second when a…
Take Back the Power: The wind turbines story that the industry doesn't want you to hear
No matter what you think about individual wind generators, or so-called, “wind farms,” one overwhelming fact cannot be denied: they’re all bad news for wildlife, especially birds and bats. Yes, the original idea was a good one: cheap electricity from a renewable resource and a way to generate power while weaning us from fossil fuels.…
A Celebration of Sub-Mediocrity: The Seahawks are proudly the worst team ever to make the NFL playoffs
If you're a football fan from Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, Sedro Wooley or, actually, anywhere in the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho or Alaska that constitute the Seahawk Nation*, you stood in front of your television on Sunday night and realized that the miserable season you'd endured with your Seattle Seahawks wasn't over. In fact, you…
Top 10 Reasons Bend Needs a Skatepark
For our annual Top 10 Issue, we polled some of our local people organizations for their personal top 10 lists. My favorite came from the folks of the Division Street Stakepark Project.
Throw Away the Brochure: The newest take on a classic novel leaves Gulliver's Travels a no-thrill ride
This crazy trend to make 3D movies these days only pays off if… let me think… it has really cool freakin' 3D looking things popping out at you. The only thing popping out during Jack Black's insipid new movie Gulliver's Travels were my eyes in astonishment at how bland, generic and totally sluggish the entire…
The King's Speech: Firth and Rush are only two of The King's Speech's considerable charms
Don't hate Colin Firth just because he's playing a real person who overcomes an obstacle in The King's Speech. But don't love him just for that reason, either. Longtime observers of movie awards know that there's a formula for the acting categories, and that one of the surest ways to stand at the podium with…
Lose the Cape!
Dear superheroes of the world: Let's talk “fashion,” shall we? Perhaps it hasn't been brought to your attention, but you look like a goddamn idiot. As I see it, you have only one job: BEATING THE CRAP OUT OF CRIMINALS. However, the uniform you've chosen to accomplish this task seems somewhat counterintuitive. For example, would…
Eating Portland: Five meals in two days in the Rose City
Bend's varied and expanding restaurant scene is commendable for the size and age of our little city. Still, it's hard not to look to Portland, whose food scene is setting the standard for Oregon and the nation. This past weekend, I rang in 2011 by spending 48 hours in the Rose City, eating my way…
All Good Things in Time
About this time of year, I question why it is that bears get to be the hibernators of the great animal kingdom. Wouldn't we all be a lot more fit if, right after Christmas, we homo sapiens took one deep yawn that led immediately to four months of solitude and rest? We'd no doubt awake…
Hip-Hop for Everyone: Champagne Champagne on why there's no such thing as “hipster hop”
Pearl Dragon has some time to talk, but not a ton of time. He's taking a lunch break from his job at a pawnshop in south Seattle, so he calls in and I answer. But I have no idea who he is at first, mostly because his tone is that of an old friend calling…
Swinging Into Spring: Jazz at the Oxford
Marshall Glickman digs jazz. And when it comes to listening to it live, he prefers that experience to be in an intimate club setting. Those are but two of the motivations behind Glickman deciding to organize and promote, in conjunction with Combined Communications, a series of jazz performances by topflight musicians at the Oxford Hotel…
Why We Abide: Thoughts on The Big Lebowski before we watch it on the big screen
Without the Big Lebowski, I would have no knowledge of a White Russian, nor would I know how to make the drink, subsequently enjoy it and mix it every time I found myself in the rare presence of a self-serve bar equipped with vodka, Kahlua and cream. Without The Big Lebowski, I wouldn't remember anything…
Our Picks for 01/05-01/13: The Big Lebowski, Budo Fights, Hood to Coast Movie, BCS Nation Championship, and More!
Empty Space Orchestra Winter Residency From Outer Space friday 7 One of Bend's favorite live acts, the instrumental rocking psychedelic jazzsters of Empty Space Orchestra will be playing the Silver Moon for four different nights this week, beginning with this show featuring opening act The Dela Project. $5/adv at bendticket.com. $7/door. $15/adv for all four…
Muddy Waters: Questions about the city's surface water project persist as Bend plunges forward on a $70-plus million upgrade
For years, the city of Bend staff has garnered accolades for its drinking water quality, its water conservation efforts and ecosystem restoration initiatives. But a much-publicized project to revamp the city's aging surface water delivery system has put all aspects of the city's water management strategy under the microscope. Critics are pushing the city to…
Legislating More Traffic Congestion
Imagine yourself trying to negotiate the traffic at the north end of the Bend Parkway, in the area of the Cascade Village Mall shopping center. (We know it's painful, but please try.) Now imagine thousands more cars and trucks stirred into the mix every day. And imagine that no improvements have been made to allow…
Straight poop from around town and the world
Editor's note: As we usher in a new year and a new decade, we've decided to re-vamp our Upfront column. To our great surprise and delight the decision coincided with the re-emergence of Scoop Lewis, Ace Reporter ™, from self-imposed exile. He's back and ready to give the straight poop on the past week's events…
Local Avalanche Group Is More than Just a Website
In response to Laurel Brauns' Volume 14 Issue 52 article, “Do Your Homework,” first and foremost I applaud the Source for highlighting some of the intrinsic dangers associated with backcountry riding in avalanche terrain and the true necessity of becoming properly educated and practiced in hazard assessment, snowpack evaluation, and companion rescue if your winter…
DogPAC Soft Peddles Trail Impacts
The December 23 issue had two letters saying what a small deal it is to have dogs allowed on the currently ungroomed cross country ski trails. Here is the way it looks to many of us who like to ski.
Goodbye, Wandering Eye
Sad to see the Wandering Eye wander off into the sunset…but I understand. Trying to stay engaged in the toxic environment of what passes for public discoursethese daysis certainly an exercise in frustration akin to beating one’s head against the proverbial wall.
