Rad Bend Beer Video on Korean TV
Earlier this month a team of TV news reporters from Korea swung through town to check out our beer scene. Gary Fish, Eric King, Doug La Placa, Larry Sidor, the Cycle Pub and a whole bunch of locals you’ll recognize make cameo appearances.
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See Obama TV Roundhouse Kick to Romney
Buckle up. It appears the presidential campaign season is officially underway in Oregon.
Blast From The Past: TV’s “Mr. Wizard” taught kids with tough love
Children’s television wasn’t always the crap most of it is today. When I was growing up we had sweet shows like Double Dare, You Can’t Do That On Television, Snorks, & even educational stuff like Don Herbert’s show, Mr.
Chris Horner on the Tour: Running scared and a strong finish
Local boy and veteran of the peloton Chris Horner, 40, finished the Tour a very respectable 13th, 19 minutes and 55 seconds down from winner Bradley Wiggins. Horner’s strong riding helped RadioShack-Nissan secure the teams classification overall win.
Tour de France – Round up!
The 2012 Tour de France will forever be remembered as the year of the British! It’s a little overwhelming just how dominate the Brits were at this years tour. Not only did Bradley Wiggins become the first British rider ever to win the Yellow Jersey, his countryman Chris Froome took second.
Oregon’s Amazing Night Skies, Courtesy of Brad Goldpaint
Local photographer Brad Goldpaint is earning some accolades this week form MSNBC (soon to be just NBC) for his captivating portraits of the Oregon night sky. Goldpaint recently compiled some of the images that he has gathered over the past three years at places like Tumalo Falls, The Three Sisters Wilderness and Crater Lake into…
Tower Theatre Releases New Line-Up
The Tower Theatre released its 2012/2013 season line-up this week with a range of types of performances from Celtic dance to a Coen Brother’s film festival. Here’s a quick list of our favorites:
The Producers Musical, Sept.
The lights go down in Aurora
It’s all over the news now and the internet. The President has made a special address and showings of The Dark Knight Rises are being cancelled across the country.
Obama To Visit Oregon Next Week
President Obama will be in Portland Tuesday for a speech and a pair of private fundraisers, according to his campaign. The visit is part of a four-state Western swing for the President who will also be in Washington, California and Nevada next week.
Tasty Treats from the Downtown Farmers’ Market
Every Wednesday, one of my routines is to head downtown to the farmers’ market. For many of us sharing a strong love of farm fresh food, it is an exciting day.
AirLink is not to Blame
It has recently been reported that AirLink is unwilling to offer reciprocal coverage for members with neighboring emergency air ambulance service. In fact, the Source gave both Airlink and Life Flight “the Boot” last week for failing to strike a reciprocal agreement. However, the situation is more complex than the two companies reaching an agreement…
Rein In Kitties
In response to the article on “Time for Cat Management,” I totally agree with the author. It’s time to impose cat licensing and consequences for the owners of free-roaming cats. In our neighborhood, we have a cat that kills birds at my birdfeeder, digs holes and poops in my yard and induces my indoor only…
Merkley vs Wall Street
Let’s hear it for Jeff Merkley. Any of you who watched the testimony of big time Bankster Jamie Dimon [JP Morgan Chase CEO] to the Senate Finance Committee should be proud of our Senator. The Republicans on the Committee, especially Jim DeMint of South Carolina were so cravenly obsequious it was nauseating. DeMint seemed ready…
Gender Politics Begins with Language
In response to Bill Hause’s list of injustices (Letters, 7-12) to which men would be subjected if there had been Founding Mothers, they would also experience, on a regular basis, various subtle and insidious ways that our language and use of words serve to “keep men in their place” in today’s culture. Perhaps most rampant…
The Failed Drug War
It’s more than three decades since a blazer-bedecked stick figure of a first lady admonished Americans to “Just Say No.” Believe it or not Americans have actually been heeding Nancy’s advice as of late. According to some of the recent figures, Americans are using fewer hard drugs than in recent years. Methamphetamine, the scourge of…
Justified Homicide?
On Saturday night, June 24, Shane Munoz had been drinking. The brown-haired, brown-eyed, 33-year-old who’d lived in Bend most of his life was hitting up a few places downtown. He’d been to the M and J Tavern and then to Silver Moon, according to staff there. After he was served a pint at the brewpub…
Our Picks For 07/18-07/26
Oregon High Desert Classics wednesday 18-sunday 29 If you missed the Prineville horse races and the Chucker’s for Charity polo match last week, this is your chance to see beautiful horses in action this summer. Two weekends of hunter/jumper competitions draws both professionals and amateurs who will have you holding your breath as they dart…
The Best of Bandcamp: Get in on the ground floor with these sell-it-yourself bands
So maybe iTunes threw you a bone and upped your sampling time to 90 seconds a song. Even then, there is no way you can truly sink into an album before you buy it. And with iTunes in the pocket of mainstream music, forget about discovering something unique or paying a fair price for a…
It Came From the Mountains: Colorado band Big Head Todd & The Monsters reap the benefit of hard work and risk taking
The best adjective for Big Head Todd & The Monster’s 20 plus year career might be found in the title of their latest collection of original songs—Rocksteady. The rock band has steadily released an album roughly every two years, toured like clockwork and remained friends through it all. Since their early days as a college…
Bending The Trend: Believe it or not, this town is getting healthier
When I was 18, I had a solar-powered smoothie cart here in Bend. Every morning I’d wheel my cart off the trailer hitch of my ’87 Four Runner, push with all my might to get it up the sidewalk ramp, then lift the solar panels into position. Next to Starbucks downtown by the bench with…
Mixing it Up: Old Mill’s Savory Spice Shop brings salvation to the kitchen
Not long ago, I was faced with the dilemma that so many of us contend with regularly, the question of what to cook for dinner. Being a chef should exempt me from such difficulties; but having two kids that do not always agree with my avant-garde creations, I do get stumped. Inspiration is what I…
Pint Sized: For some craft brewers, smaller is better
It’s the classic entrepreneur’s dilemma – how to turn a passion into profits. It’s a question that many homebrewers are apparently pondering. For industrious home brewers wanting to test the waters of production with an investment in the $5K – $25K range instead of the minimal $50K involved in starting a larger brewery, nano brewing…
Darkest Knight: There are no heroes in our Gotham City
This may be the darkest, the grimmest, the most depressing summer popcorn movie ever. It is not summery. It is not popcorny. There is no adventure here. There is no escapism. There is only grinding reality to be endured in the harsh mirror it holds up to us in the audience. For there can be…
Hire a Ninja
Craigslist does not have a “ninja wanted” section. DID YOU KNOW THIS? Now, maybe they don’t have this problem in Japan—I don’t know, I haven’t checked Japan’s Craigslist, which I assume is called Takumislist or something—but my point is that thousands of ninja are currently unemployed because we, as a nation, aren’t putting these highly…
Mad as Hell, And Laughing it Off: Inside Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO drama, The Newsroom
Jeff Daniels storms out of the glass-walled conference room for the fifth time in 25 minutes. Apparently, Nancy Grace can do that to a man. Take after take, her Southern-fried commentary on the Casey Anthony murder case has been blaring on multiple television monitors around the set of a TV newsroom, and her “Oh, God,…
No To Be de-Feat-ed: Remembrance rides, radical runs and paddling purgatory
The day when the Tour des Chutes occurs is always Gary Bonacker’s favorite day of the year. This year, however, the popular cancer-benefit bike ride was without its biggest proponent. Bonacker, the founder of the event and co-owner of Sunnyside Sports, remains in the Intensive Care Unit, suffering from seizures caused by a brain tumor…
Banding Together: When raptors roam, airports call on specialists before a fatal encounter
Bird strikes that damage, or cause serious problems to aircraft, are nothing new, or particularly rare. A flock of Canada geese struck the engines of a commercial airliner, turning it into a glider. Fortunately, the man upfront was a trained glider pilot and instructor who knew what to do to make a safe landing in…
Pitbull Will go to Kodiak, Alaska
Apparently, Pitbull wants to be sure they sell bearspray at the Kodiak Walmart ‘cause he’s going there to perform after that city’s Walmart got more than 70,000 likes on Facebook in a recent Walmart social media campaign. The population of Kodiak, which is the largest island in Alaska, is only about 13,000.
Lightning Strike Hits Bend Home
A small fire was reported at a Bend home last night after it was struck by lightning around 2:15 a.m.
Indian Country
Shooting Indian Country during our Photo Workshop in South Dakota was a dream come true. After all those early mornings with spectacular sunrises in the Black Hills, together with fellow Photographer David M.
Opening Arguments Heard in Bray Case
Opening arguments were made today in the trial of accused rapist Thomas Bray. Bray, a former instructor at Central Oregon Community College, has been accused of various sex crimes by two women, one of which was his student at COCC.
