Video from Sara Jackson-Holman’s First Bend Show
Sara Jackson-Holman, the 21-year-old Bend native who suddenly rose to national prominence after Expunged Records came across her demos on MySpace last year, finally played her first local show last night at the Oxford Hotel. With a near-capacity crowd on hand that was full of family and friends, Jackson-Holman took the stage and played a…
Real Estate: Nothing to Wave the Flag About
You know the real estate news must be grim if even The Bulletin can't find a way to put a positive spin on it. Bend's daily newspaper reported this morning that a record number of notices of default were filed in Deschutes County in the first six months of 2010.
Fossilized: back for more bluegrass
What a difference a year makes. Last year temperatures hovered around 100 during the day and were in the 80s at night during the Wheeler County Bluegrass Festival in Fossil.
Waste and Fraud: Walden Goes After the Big Game
Eastern Oregon's own Rep. Greg Walden and a couple of other Republican congressmen have unleashed their righteous wrath on a federal program that helps low-income folks heat their homes.
Mosley Wotta Wins Last Band Standing Bend
After 12 weeks of preliminary, semifinals and now the finals round, a winner has been crowned in the first-ever Last Band Standing Bend competition and his name is Mosley Wotta.The local hip-hop hero, known for his larger-than-life stage presence and high-minded lyrics, takes home a big bag of goodies worth some $30,000, including a 15-passenger…
Bob Dylan and John Mellencamp’s Addition to Amphitheater Schedule Is Pretty Rad
Once it finally got started, this summer has been pretty rad musically. I’m talking about the Band of Horses explosion that kicked off the “summer music season” and then killer sets this past weekend at the Bite of Bend, but now there’s more on the horizon.
Bourbon Street Bend — a taste of the French Quarter coming soon!
Those in the loop have probably already heard that a new restaurant with a New Orleans theme is set to open in the Staccato location by mid-July. I had a chance to sit down with owner Gavin McMichael (also owner of The Blacksmith Restaurant) to find out more about this soon to be new addition…
Bend's Geese Waddle That Last Mile
Get ready for a major outbreak of wailing and hand-wringing from animal lovers: The Bend Metro Park and Recreation District sent geese to the gas chamber this week. On Tuesday, Park & Rec rounded up more than 100 of the Canada geese that infest Drake Park, put them one at a time into what The…
Kill Them!
Kill them! Yes, kill them! Surely that is the answer (isn't it always?) these procreating, defecating, yin-yang residents of our clipped, fertilized, poisonous and gorgeous green grass in Drake Park. I mean, my God, they're not even American! They're Canada geese.
Rolling Riverside
Changes are also afoot at Riverside Market, which got a pair of new owners in the form of Jon and Melanie Gaino. The husband and wife team have already made some cosmetic changes and other tweaks to the popular neighborhood gathering space, which was filled with soccer fans on a recent weekday to watch a…
To Love and Be Loved in Return: Twilight’s Eclipse proves to be the best of the series
Hundreds of pre-teen and teenage girls, moms, a few boyfriends (who were dragged kicking and screaming, no doubt) and a plethora of twenty-something's who know better than to love Twilight, but do anyway, stood in line outside of Old Mill 16 on Tuesday night for the midnight premier of The Twilight Sage: Eclipse. The weather…
Repeat Offender: Central Oregon's bad-boy Top Chef defends his title
Another Top Chef Competition at Bite of Bend has come and gone, leaving delicious memories in its wake (and for us judges the residual heartburn and sunburn that go along with them!). For the first time, we had a repeat champion, Kokanee Café's Roscoe Roberson, this time sans cowboy hat and black eye.
Smoked and Grilled Satisfy your summer BBQ cravings
Baldy's Barbeque $$ 235 SW Century Dr. 541-385-7427. Who knew some of the best barbecue to be had was in Central Oregon? Baldy's unpretentious, powerfully flavorful, award-winning approach to down-home dining is pretty much unparalleled in these parts. Whether it's hickory-smoked beef brisket, chicken, pulled pork or baby back ribs that tickle your fancy, you're…
Breaking Bread News: Come on Bend, let's get baked
While Bend is famous for its vast numbers of coffee roasters and coffee shops, dunk-worthy pastries are often harder to find. But when found, that perfectly moist muffin, that flaky-buttery croissant, or that corn-crusted caraway rye loaf tastes as if it must have been sent from above. What's really going on? Hard working pastry chefs…
Bikes Everywhere: Racing, beating the odds and riding to work
Time trial bikes, tandem bikes, hand bikes, mountain bikes, cruiser bikes. Bikes were everywhere in Bend last week. Unless you're a party pooper living on Skyliners Road or a worker for the ODOT maintenance crew, you probably agree with me, the more bikes the better! Despite the efforts of Skyliners Road residents to rid themselves…
ODFW Fishing Report for the Week of July 1
BIG LAVA LAKE: rainbow trout Anglers are having excellent success with rainbow trout. The fish are in great condition ranging in size from 11 – 16 inches. CRANE PRAIRIE RESERVOIR: rainbow trout, brook trout, kokanee, largemouth bass. Fishing at Crane Prairie continues to be a Central Oregon high point this season. Anglers are having very…
Take You Higher: Get high to escape the dreaded dust
So it appears that summer is finally here in Central Oregon. There's a noticeable change in the air and on the trails. Routes that were snow-blocked through June are opening in places and the coming of The Dust is nigh. Make sure to bring plenty of water when you go out to combat the heat.…
King For A Day: Despite lack of access, author gets the dirt on DreamWorks rise and fall
DreamWorks was monstrous, misfit, and idealistic. The upstart studio was the progeny of three industry giants: director Steven Spielberg; record company mogul and billionaire David Geffen; and Disney animation head Jeffrey Katzenberg, the driving force behind the idea to make a new studio from scratch. DreamWorks began building on a lofty foundation. At the Oct.…
Back to the Old Days: The Wheeler County Bluegrass Festival provides a slice of small-town charm for the Fourth of July
A few minutes past noon, the parade takes shape down by the courthouse. Vintage cars line up behind a group of 4-H kids, the county princess arrives on horseback in full cowgirl regalia, war veterans mount a flatbed trailer attached to a tractor and an artfully restored pioneer-era stagecoach is pulled into place. Once organized,…
In With the Old: Lives and deaths intertwine in Please Give
Here is one of those movies that will make you want to go straight out and rent the rest of the writer-director's work. It will make you excited at the prospect of mining Nicole Holofcener's whole back catalogue, and wonder why you never took notice of her name before. The thing is, she makes the…
The Cruise Identity: Knight and Day is celluloid proof that movie stars suck
An endlessly cute, incoherent and ridiculous espionage action-comedy, Knight and Day stars Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz as Roy Miller and June Havens, a pair of cartoony humans hopping from plane crash to car chase to helicopter to train to motorcycle chase to bull stampede. Cruise plays a secret agent with whom Diaz becomes entangled…
Now with 100 Percent Patriotic Content
AMERICA! The country in which I receive a paycheck! AMERICA! The country in which I can say whatever I want about my employer without fear of termination (unless I'm General Stanley A. McChrystal). AMERICA! The country where certain newspapers stupidly refuse to pack their Fourth of July issues with an insane amount of patriotic content.…
Breaking Bread News: Come on Bend, let's get baked
While Bend is famous for its vast numbers of coffee roasters and coffee shops, dunk-worthy pastries are often harder to find. But when found, that perfectly moist muffin, that flaky-buttery croissant, or that corn-crusted caraway rye loaf tastes as if it must have been sent from above.
Smash, Bash and Crash: Personalization fuels ModNation Racers success
“My kids are hooked on ModNation Racers,” a friend recently e-mailed me. “They love anything where you get to create your own character.” ModNation Racers is a go-kart racing game similar to the ones that have made the Mario Kart series a success. Because everyone is pretty much zooming around the tracks in custom-designed milk…
Little Bites: Repeat Offender: Central Oregon's bad-boy Top Chef defends his title
Another Top Chef Competition at Bite of Bend has come and gone, leaving delicious memories in its wake (and for us judges the residual heartburn and sunburn that go along with them!). For the first time, we had a repeat champion, Kokanee Café's Roscoe Roberson, this time sans cowboy hat and black eye. In a…
A Winner Emerges: After three months, Last Band Standing is ready to crown a winner – here are the finalists
Every Thursday for the past 11 weeks, 400 or more people have been loading into Boondocks where upon entering they're handed a red (or sometimes yellow) raffle ticket – you know, the kind that are awarded for skee ball prowess or can be redeemed for entry into less-corporate movie theaters. It's with that ticket that…
The Autonomics Shed “Youth” Label With Solid EP
Before his shift as a cashier at Fred Meyer begins on a Friday morning, Dan Pantenburg takes some time to chat about his main love, his band, The Autonomics, one of Bend's most promising rock acts and one that's found a bar following despite the fact that none of its members are of legal drinking…
Mike Patton – Mondo Cane
It was 1990. I was 9 and on the TV I watched as Mike Patton, the lead singer in Faith No More, was flopping on the stage like a fish as his band finished playing “Epic” behind him. He seized and convulsed and stared dead-eyed at the ceiling. Who would have guessed that guy would…
Our Picks for 6/30 – 7/8: Last Band Standing Finals, Eric Tollefson & the World’s Greatest Lovers, The Autonomics, 4th of July, Pinback and more
Last Band Standing Finals thursday 1 After a three-month marathon of preliminary rounds, the finals of Last Band Standing have finally arrived. Empty Space Orchestra, Hot Tea Cold, KleverKill and Mosley Wotta go head to head to see who will win the $30,000 bundle of prizes, which includes a touring van. See the Sound section…
'No Thanks' Heard For Forest Welcome Center: A proposed Forest Service welcome center proves the first fight for Sen. Wyden's outdoor recreation committee
I thought there must be a way to tap the full recreation potential of Central Oregon and create a model that could be replicated in other parts of the country. So, two years ago I asked recreation leaders in Deschutes County to look at how recreation could add value to its recreation assets, creating the…
The More Things Change: Twenty years after Valdez we've learned little
When the Exxon Valdez oil tanker struck an Alaskan reef in 1989, leaking 11 million gallons of crude into a marine ecosystem, Greenpeace ran ads showing the ship's captain, Joseph Hazelwood, with the message: “It wasn't his driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours.” The ads scolded: “The spill was caused by…
The Room Tax Chiselers
We've seen businesses perform some amazing acrobatic feats with numbers, but the cast of Cirque du Soleil couldn't top the stunt that Wayne Purcell, Brett Evert and some other Bend hotel owners are trying to pull off. About 10 years ago, when the city decided to raise its transient room tax to 9%, the hotel…
America the Fat: Our booming national waistline, Justices free handguns, Cheney's black heart and more!
EDITOR'S NOTE: After last week's column regarding kief suppositories and questions over President Obama firing General Stanley McChrystal, the Source Weekly was forced to fire Mick McMenaminuses. Kief suppositories may exist, but the demand sparked after Mick's mention overwhelmed international markets; meanwhile, questioning the President of the United States is simply unAmerican. We wish Mick…
Wanna Ride My Crazy Bike?
If you were down at the Bite of Bend, you probably ate some delicious food, got your mind blown by the dual sonic explosion that was Rubblebucket followed by March Fourth Marching Band and you also may have paid $5 to try to ride a wacky bike for ten feet in the hopes of winning…
Letter of the Week: Stick To Non-Lethal Goose Control
This week's letter comes from Foster Fell, local goose champion, who makes a good case for staving off the goose execution in Bend. Thanks for the letter, Foster. We appreciate your taking the time to put your thoughts down on paper – so much so that we're hooking you up with a bag of coffee…
I'll Have Some Car-Bike Peace, Please
Today, I'm a disgruntled cyclist making the case for peace on the road. The epic saga of car vs. bike has raged on for centuries (right?) and has left in its wake unnecessary stress, turmoil, dented bumpers, cracked frames, injury, death and sadness. Recently, I've been markedly endangered while riding my bicycle by a car,…
We're All Geese At Heart
I am writing to congratulate the Bend Metro Parks and Recreation District (BMPRD). Their staff does an amazing job. Those beautiful parks, the varied recreation programs, and the wonderful special events put on by this great organization I would argue are major contributions to the outstanding quality of life we all enjoy. I would particularly…
Bend Does It Right
I am getting married in Bend this July and decided on Be Bop Biscotti to provide the favors for the wedding guests. When I went to pick up my order I was very shocked to find they had included a few extra boxes. When I called them to tell them about the extra boxes, they…
