The Fire Photos We Couldn’t Fit in the Paper
Last week we sent a writer to the Warm Springs fire. She talked to fire management officials, Bureau of Indian Affairs officials, wildland firefighters and community members. Then she wrote a feature for this week’s issue (on stands late tomorrow!) about what she saw, heard and learned. She snapped a lot of photos. Below are…
Teaser For This Week’s I Luv TV: SHARKNADO!
This week, our favorite I Luv TV columnist, Wm.™ Steven Humphrey, reminds us that next week is the best week of all the weeks, it’s Shark Week! He also reminds us that the only thing cooler than a week of sharks is a tornado full of them. Here’s the trailer for the SyFy commissioned B-horror-flick…
Community Bill of Rights
We’re not sure whether this is grab the pitchforks-and-torches meeting, or a more pleasant let’s-help-each-other-out-with-their-vegetable-beds, this evening is intriguing “Community Bill of Rights Workshop.” Paul Cienfuegos identifies himself as “the West Coast’s leading community rights activist” (although his website doesn’t do much to explain that claim; er, 1000Fires.com) and says he will explain how local…
New Lead in the Case of the Disappearing Bees
Much has been made of the troubling spike in bee deaths and resulting scarcity of the industrious little pollinators. The bee-shortage, which we wrote about two weeks ago (See: Bend’s Buzzing), is a big deal because A. bees pollinate 40 percent of the food we consume, and B. that’s $30 billion worth of crops. Scientists…
Music Editor Ethan Maffey’s Hat Trick
Our music editor Ethan Maffey is famous! He and his wedding party are the front page of the Goorin Bros. Hat Shop webpage! Lookin’ good Maffey. Angela Raines, our cover artist for next week’s paper happens to work at Goorin Bros. on 23rd St. in Portland. What a coincidence! Here is one of her bunny-centric…
Shirley, You Can’t Be Serious?
Attention passengers, this is your captain speaking. I have turned off the fasten-your-seat-belt sign (‘cause its Friday!). We are currently cruising at an altitude of 3,623 feet. Attendants will begin offering in-flight service shortly. Entertainment and cuisine offerings include fresh honky-tonk from Son Volt and comestibles from the Cascade Culinary Institute paired with a variety…
Friday Mixtape!
Mayer Madness this week!
Nerd Alert!: Fight Club to have Graphic Novel Sequel
Author Chuck Palahniuk (Portland resident with a disturbing imagination and a knack for fiction) announced at this weekend’s Comic-Con that everyone’s favorite split-personality duo, Tyler Durden and Jack ofFight Club, will return in a sequel to the book/movie in the from of a graphic novel. Palahniuk’s first, and most comerically successful novel, Fight Club was…
Sign Up for Same-Sex. . .
It is time: Get your signature on the record as supporting same-sex marriages. On Friday, Basic Rights Oregon has a statewide roll out of their signature campaign (well, in Portland, Eugene, Bend and Ashland; no word about La Pine). Stop by and give your signature and/or pick up petitions to gather friends’ signatures. Or, heck,…
Did the fire look at you?
With fires to the north and south, the Source has sent out writers to report back from the front lines. Those stories will appear in next week’s special “fire prevention issue.” In the meantime, our recommendation for movies about firefighters: Gold medal: Backdraft (1991)— A family of square-jawed Chicago firefighters (including William Baldwin) struggle with…
All Day Long
Finally craft brewers have figured out that not every beer has to be so heavy that it's one-and-done. Oftentimes, a light, easy-drinking, “give-me-another” makes more sense. (Plus, better for business, am I right?) Enter the simple session ale, this summer’s beer du jour. Hood River’s Full Sail Brewing has been making Session Lager (5.1%, 18…
Summer Reading
OK, only one is actually about bees, but the other two have “bee” in their names. Give us a break: It's summertime. Little Bee, Chris Cleave (2005) Chris Cleave’s first novel, Incendiary, about a bombing in London, was released the same day as an eerily similar bombing. The coincidence catapulted him to fame, and to…
Our Picks 7/24 – 8/1
wednesday 24 Alive After Five MUSIC—Check out the feature (pg. 8) for more on the relevancy of free shows in Bend. Then, get out and see one. LeRoy Bell of LeRoy Bell and His Only Friends (all two of them) has written soft-rock billboard-topping hits for luminaries like Elton John. Sounds like: a less douchey…
Mining Rush?
Until recently, as other states, to the dismay of environmentalists, cashed in on their natural resources like coal, precious minerals and underground oil fields, Oregon seemed quietly removed from such industries and debates. But suddenly, Oregon is in the fray, with several major projects to extract and ship natural resources in the works: For the…
There is no free concert
It was 4 pm and the temperatures were pushing 100 degrees. But that didn’t seem to discourage anyone: The grassy knoll at Les Schwab Amphitheater was crowded; a few hundred concertgoers gathered on a patchwork of red, gray and blue blankets. Some sheltered under umbrellas while others shuttled between their sun-warmed beers and the nearby…
Mountains out of molehills
Talk about creating potential from paltry: What was once an unused tract of dirt and grass beside and behind Seventh Mountain Resort’s tennis courts is now a dynamic bike park playground. Ever since it was created nearly a month ago it has attracted riders of all skill levels, from gapers to certified huckers and ages…
AirBnB roped into city tax
AirBnB and other informal services through which homeowners rent out their homes have remained largely unregulated by the same agencies and rules that govern hotels. But as those rental have grown in numbers (and market share), so has grown cities' interest in taxing them. Last Friday, the city of Bend issued a press release announcing…
Midlife Memoirs
In Falling Cars and Junkyard Dogs—a collection of short memoirs—alt-country band Son Volt front man Jay Farrar paints a truly heartfelt picture of his classic American upbringing and his wonderful parents. He shares some of the earliest memories that influenced him to become a musician. “I was [in St. Louis] until 1970,” writes Farrar. “……
One Day at a Time
MONDAY 15 Let’s start by checking in on the “First Family of Monstrosities”: the Kardashians! As we know, Kim and Kanye West’s new baby North West is going to be the worst thing that’s ever happened on this planet ever. Why? Because now the Kardashians have something new to exploit. Example: Instead of focusing on…
Letters 7/17 – 7/25
Dogs and people I'd like to direct this to the small, yet vocal, group of dog haters in this town, even though I know that they probably will be the least likely to read what I am going to say. It is now a proven, unarguable, fact that if it were not for dogs our…
A Day in the Life
Fruitvale Station starts with an ending. In cell phone footage, all shrieks and shaking, we see the final moments of Oscar Grant—a 22-year-old black man from Oakland who became, long before we mourned for a boy named Trayvon Martin, a symbol of society’s profound struggles with race, police brutality, and privilege. It is a few…
Swayze Summer Continues!
In 1982, Francis Ford Coppola had just wrapped up the first—and most important—decade of his career. He bounded through the Godfather trilogy and, in 1979, earned his third Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for the era-defining Apocalypse Now, a movie in which a brooding Martin Sheen serves as the main vehicle for a…
Out of Town 7/24 – 8/1
portland friday 26-sunday 28 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [abridged] William Shakespeare wrote 37 (arguably 39) plays in his lifetime. Each one averaged around 3,000 lines, and could be performed, on average, in about three hours. That makes for around five full days of material if performed back to back. Luckily for the ADHD…
Corn, Four Ways
Grilled Sweet Corn Corn is one of the cheapest and easiest vegetables to prepare, which is why it makes an appearance at darn near every summer barbecue. The problem is, most backyard chefs botch it by under or overcooking, neglecting to use salt and butter, or grilling after shucking; no, no and NO! The ancient…
TONIGHT! Tom Vandenavond at Blue Pine
The former Player’s Bar and Grill hosts the timeless smoky vocals and rambling guitar of Tom Vandenavond, tonight at 8 pm. Here is a taste of what you’ll get for NO COVER CHARGE to compliment your dinner and drinks. One of the first Horned Hand productions since their closure in late June, Vandenavond played the…
Swayze Summer Round II: The Outsiders
Last week’s inaugural Swayze Summer film screening was a hit! At the Source’s showing of Point Break we had hawaiian shirts, ratty blond wigs, Widmer beer and a whole lot of hooting and hollering during the sky diving scene (the first one). FREE entry got attendees a FREE raffle ticket and some lucky Swayze-lovers went…
