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What in the World?
A roundup of the weekends highlights: Do you really think Gov. Christie Traffic-Gate will affect his presidential chances? Jon Stewart disagrees, in what is perhaps the most apt coverage about how New Jersey Gov. Christie will be affected by revelations that his staff retaliated against a mayor who wouldn’t endorse him. Summary: This whole thing…
TONIGHT! Backcountry Film Fest
A handful of the year’s top human-powered backcountry films are screening TONIGHT at 7pm, Volcanic Theatre Pub. Though we’ve heard the $10 event is sold out, if you get there early you may be able to capitalize on some no-shows. 2013 Winter Wildlands Alliance Back Country Film Festival Trailer from Backcountry Film Festival on Vimeo.
Friday Mixtape!
Women songwriters.
Brothers and Sister, Allman Brothers Cover Band Review
A review of last night’s McMenamins Free Show: Allman Brothers cover band, Brothers and SisterBy Richard Sitts, Source copy editor Richard Sitts Brothers and Sister It was a school night in 1971, and I was a junior in high school, living in a town of about 11,000 in southeast Kansas, a long ways from most…
New Music Video From AMZ Productions
Local movie-maker Jesse Locke and AMZ Productions just released a fan video for the Adventure Club remix of Flight Facilities’ song “Crave You,” and it will totally trip you out, man. The video stars local model Brittany Dixon who was on the cover of the Source for our Fall Fashion issue!
A Facility for All Seasons
On a recent Friday, I watched nearly two dozen peewee football players form tight huddles, each on opposite ends of a green Astroturf field inside one of the two Cascade Indoor Sports buildings. In a fit of giggles, the offensive team, in yellow pennies, unleashed an unorthodox trick play that can best be described as…
A Hawk by Any Other Name
You’ve probably seen those little “hawks” that perch on power lines. Well, they’re actually falcons, and, from my experience, they’ll eat anything. You have to agree; the other day—at 15-degrees below zero—I watched a healthy-looking adult female perched on the power line just east of Sisters, in the process of gulping down what appeared to…
Future Sex, Love Sounds
Old people love Village Inn. Love it. For starters, nothing about the place has changed since 1958—and at a certain age reliability itself becomes of chief importance. Over Christmas, I busted my fantastic 88-year-old grandmother out of her retirement home and then floored it to Village Inn. Where, over lunch, she leaned over her tomato…
Make Room for the Premier Award Ceremony
Two days before Christmas, and just in time to qualify his latest film, The Wolf of Wall Street for this year’s Oscar Awards, director Martin Scorsese hosted a screening for members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts, the governing organization that has handed out Oscars each year since 1929. Although the film has roundly…
Watch these Movies
Rockshow: Paul McCartney and Wings In 1976, Paul McCartney was peaking, again. It wasn’t a decade earlier, when adolescent girls screamed so hard that they fainted, but by the mid-’70s McCartney had moved on to more conceptual projects when he and the band Wings took on a 31-stadium Wings Over America Tour—his first in the…
Master of Funk
There’s a good reason why Bendite Gabe Johnson not only represents several funk bands as a booking agent and concert promoter, but also busts out driving dance guitar beats in his own funk group Elektrapod; he’s got it bad for the genre. “I personally gravitate to funk music because of how it makes people feel,”…
Thrice as Nice
With nine solo albums between them—nine rich, rustic and, more importantly, successful solo albums—Laurie MacAllister, Abbie Gardner and Molly Venter already have combined strong individual skills into sentimental harmonies and poetic bluegrass as Red Molly. The proof that collaboration was a smart move, even with already fruitful careers, will be showcased when the group plays…
We Choose You
With the battle cry, “I choose you,” Pokemon characters awaken their strengths and super-abilities, and head into battle. What better proclamation to make when considering our elected officials—and asking them to play out their strengths. In the coming months, leadership in Central Oregon will undergo some significant changes; nothing major, but potential changes in Deschutes…
Out of Town 1/1 – 1/9
portland friday 10 The Builders & The Butchers The only comparable voice to that of Ryan Sollee—singer of the Builders and the Butchers—is the froggy power of Colin Meloy, singer for another Portland mainstay, The Decemberists. The B&B’s 2013 album, Western Medicine, is a chaotic folk whirlwind with deconstructed drum work, cowboy waltzes and bluesy…
Lasso the Moon
“Same great beer, same sh**ty location,” chimes a choir of (partially bleeped) patrons at the end of Silver Moon’s new radio ad. Oh, Silver Moon: You are too hard on yourselves. With a tap list full of award-winning standards, seasonal selections and even a barrel-aged treat or two, the beer is better than it has…
Winter Beer Face-Off
Last weekend a few buddies and I did what we do almost every holiday season and that’s drink way too many high-alcohol winter seasonals in an effort to find the year’s best. The process is simple: a blind head-to-head taste test with multiple rounds determines the winner. Appoint a non-participant to pour beers and fill…
Wait, Wait! Don’t Throw That Out!
Jacobim Mugatu’s final runway campaign in Zoolander appears to be mostly constructed from slick garbage bags, an in-the-gutter look that is unlikely—except when it is not. Enter stage left: Bend’s Rubbish Renewed trash fashion show. “My favorite part is the innovation,” said show founder Amy Anderson. “People take everyday materials and transform them, leaving you…
Our Picks 1/8 – 1/16
thursday 9 Necktie Killer MUSIC—One of Bend’s best bands, the horn-heavy ska rockers Necktie Killer, are on a tear. If you missed all of the many December shows, well, that’s sad. But don’t cry, the seven-man crew is back in 2014 with a free show for all y’all. 7-10 pm. McMenamins, 700 NW Bend. Free.…
Town Hall Talks
Facing reelection in November and with a number of Republicans champing at the bit to challenge the first-term senator, Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) made a stop at Bend’s Central Oregon Community College last Saturday for a town hall. It is all part of his 36-county tour around Oregon. Although Stanford and Princeton, where Merkley received his…
Shiver Me Timbers
Twenty-five years ago, what is now known by its shorthand as the “Spotted Owl debate” brought to a close an important chapter in the Pacific Northwest’s history. In the afterglow of that debate, in 1994, the Clinton Administration adopted the Northwest Forest Plan, federal guidelines that provided more protections and considerations for long-term ecological health…
One Day at a Time
MONDAY 30 Previously in One Day at a Time…awkwardly aging douchebag Justin Bieber (winner of our annual “Absolute Worst Person in the World Ever” sweepstakes) announced to the world in a radio interview that he was retiring from the music biz. YESSSSSSS. Naturally, sources close to his terrified reps claims Das Biebs was simply making…
Letters 1/1 – 1/9
In reply to “Bend on Ice,” (outside, 1/2) Actually, Ashley’s oldest student is 65. That would be me. I certainly agree that it would be nice to have a full size rink in town. I also think the proposed design is totally foolish and I fear it will fail so badly that it will and…
Rise Up Declares Last Show at Pakit Until Spring
NOOOOOOOO!!! Today, Rise Up International, the arts organization that has been booking excellent concerts at Pakit Liquidators (including a rocking New Year’s day show with Larry and his Flask, Hopeless Jack and the Handsome Devil, Dirty Kid Discount and the Slaughter Daughters), announced via Facebook that next Saturday’s Black Pussy show will be the last…
VIDEO: Local Mountain Bikers Shred Mt. Bachelor on (limited) Snow
With minimal snow and the Dirksen Derby course still up, Bend’s Kirt Voreis and Carson Storch took to the hill for a studded-tire smack down. Local photographer and videographer Pete Alport was on hand to shoot.Way to make hay, fellas.
