Bend-Rooted Band Adventure Galley Makes Finals of Toyota Music Contest
If you haven’t had enough with music competitions in the wake of the three-month Last Band Standing, here’s another one you can cast your vote in — the Toyota Music Rock the Space contest.
Featured in the finals of this contest is Adventure Galley a band that began its career in Bend before heading over…
Summerfest: the sights and sounds of downtown
There are so many reasons to love Bend's annual Summerfest. Remember Summerfest? It's the fest that looks like all the other fests but has more “art” and less food.
Walden's Shifty Stand on Jobless Benefits
Chuck Sheketoff of the Oregon Center for Public Policy put an amusing post up on Blue Oregon today twitting Greg Walden for his somewhat inconsistent stance on unemployment benefits. “Remarkably, Congress went on a July 4th vacation unable to muster the votes necessary to extend unemployment insurance benefits,” Sheketoff writes.
Bend Summer Fest Music Schedule
So, it appears there have been some changes to the Bend Summer Festival music schedule since we put together the Picks page for this week’s print edition. Here is an updated roster of what’s going on at which stage this weekend in downtown Bend.
92.7FM Bumps Up the Dial to 92.9
If you tuned into 92.7FM — or 92/7, as the station labeled itself upon taking to the air back in 2006 — you probably heard something that sounded like alien robots talking over remixed popular rock songs.
July Birthdays in Central Oregon
Is it just me or does every weekend host a different festival, sometimes several at once, in Bend and surrounding areas? I mean, there was Hullabaloo and Bite of Bend back to back, there was Artisphere before that, and a True North Parenting celebration squeezed in somewhere. Between all of these events, what’s a girl…
Good News: The Bulletin Adds a Columnist
I turned to the Local section of this morning’s Bulletin to discover something I hadn’t seen there in many years and never expected to see again: a local columnist. Lily Raff, whose column will appear twice a week, spent six years as a reporter for The Bulletin and recently completed a prestigious Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship…
Keep Moving: Freemont trail beckons, other opportunities abound
Hot weather and dry trails are going to be the norm now. While the snow is quickly melting away from the remainder of the summer trails, the mosquitoes are advancing as well. Trail runners and mountain bikers would do well to keep moving and avoid these bloodthirsty insects. Repairing a flat tire or stopping for…
All About Bend! 50 things this Phoenix resident learned about Bend by being here for 67 hours
1.Before arriving in Bend, my knowledge of Oregon consisted of Pac-10 athletics and the Oregon Trail computer game I was mandated to play in fifth grade. 2. At no point is one presented the option of fording a river when traveling to Bend. 3. The Redmond Airport requires passengers to walk on the tarmac. 4.…
River Parks Have a People Problem
So here is an idea: Instead of goose birth control or gassing the birds, how about people STOP FEEDING THEM. Geese are migratory animals that should move from one place to another. One of the major reasons they stay and reproduce like rabbits is because our society cannot get the idea into their heads that…
Hey Little Smoky: Sisters latest summer visitor has caused a stir
That devil-may-care brown (black, really) bear is still hanging around Sisters, and, unless it keeps a lower profile, no good is going to come out of it. It showed up about three weeks back, poking its nose into people's backyards looking for handouts and driving the local dogs nuts. By its size and behavior, it…
Look for the Glimmers: Ch… Ch… Changes
This is my 100th column for the Source… and my last. Look for changes in your favorite paper – new formats, new material. Two years ago, when I accepted this writing gig, I thought, “Well, I probably have ideas for three or four columns.” I really wasn't sure what I'd do after that, and I…
Celebrating Summer: NW Urban Grill menu offers an eclectic mix of summery dishes
Two summers ago Fireside Red was my go-to for happy hour. With one of the largest decks in town and views of the Old Mill and the Deschutes River, my colleagues and I would frequently close shop a bit early to score one of the tables on the deck. Fireside Red closed last Spring and…
Little Bites: It's So (Big) Easy: After Staccato and Cork, Riverside's revamp
Those in the loop have probably already heard that Bourbon Street Bend, 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…
On a Bender: The elements go haywire in The Last Airbender
Director M. Night Shyamalan became a Hollywood success with the hauntingly supernatural Sixth Sense in 1999 before stumbling badly with critical disappointments like The Village and The Happening, and now The Last Airbender, which again veers far from his earlier success. It doesn't help that he's hamstrung himself with the subject matter; this family-friendly adventure…
Let's Talk Twilight… I Mean, Television!
For reasons unknown, I'm often accused of using this television column to talk about anything except television. First of all, the name of this column is “I Love Television™” not “I Write About Television™” (although that's an awesome name for a television column, isn't it?). Secondly, there are other things in this world besides television,…
Freedom: wild riders, impatient driver
After a Fourth of July morning mountain bike ride a friend and I drove from the Skyliner's trailhead to Bend Brewing for a beer. Beer imbibed, we got in the car and headed east on Oregon Street only to encounter a huge mob of bicyclists filling the entire width and length of Bond Street.
A Man at Work: Almost 30 years after “Down Under,” Colin Hay is now singing about the American dream
In a way, Colin Hay has lived two musical lives and most people came to know him during that first life when he was the front man for the iconic Australian band, Men at Work. Yes, the same Men at Work that informed the world in 1981 that they had come from the “land down…
Our Picks for 7/6 – 7/15: Pacific Northwest Polo Invitational, The Rob Show, The Aggrolites, Bend Summer Fest and more
Pinback Presents: The Rob Show thursday 8 You probably are wondering why the name of this show has changed over the past week. Well, here's what happened: This was supposed to be a show featuring the two Pinback collaborators, Rob Crow and Zach Smith, who were going to play the band's songs with programmed tracks…
Green Machine: Is Bend big enough for two land-use groups to harvest the necessary funding?
When 1000 Friends of Oregon opened an office downtown in April, it doubled the land-use watchdog establishment in Bend. The well-funded Portland-based group has for years had a nominal presence in Central Oregon, but its office represents a renewed push in Central Oregon.
The organization brought on two paid staff members, including an attorney, and…
The State of Oregon vs. the Big Bad Wolf
The wolf has always gotten bad press. To early Christians he was a symbol of evil, or even the Devil himself (in contrast to Jesus, the “good shepherd” protecting the flock). In folklore, from werewolf legends to tales about the Big Bad Wolf who harassed the Three Little Pigs and the wolf who almost ate…
Goose Hysteria
It's hard to list the number of important subjects that have gone virtually unnoticed in this city, which is all but defined by its political apathy. War in Iraq: Sorry I'm late for Happy Hour! Massive oil spill in the gulf: Thanks, but I just topped of my tank! Foreclosures at a new record high…
Bend's Goosegate Ruffles Feathers in Canada
I knew Bend’s mass Canada goose execution would cause consternation among local animal lovers, but who could have guessed it would touch off an international incident? Okay, that’s a slight exaggeration – but some Canadians are seriously pissed off about it. “Canadians shocked by Ore.
Batten the Hatches
The author is eating delicious geese, swept-up from Drake Park and gassed, just the way he likes it. Definition: Kafkaesque Independence Day is obviously over, as Pfc. Bradley E. Manning is facing criminal charges for “leaking” 2007 video of one of our Apache helicopters killing 12 civilians in Baghdad, including two journalists working for Reuters.…
All the World's a Stage
The World Cup started in… Bend. Yes, downtown Bend and more precisely at Cafe Sintra on June 11th where a room full of fan/customers braved the 7 a.m. chill to watch the opening match. After that, I jumped on a plane and flew to my home town of Santos, Brazil to continue along with other…
Don't Trash Westside
Recycling Deschutes County leaders have shown their complete lack of environmental responsibility when they recently announced that they would be shutting down the West Bend – Simpson Road recycling depot on July 31st due to revenue/funding shortfalls. Hundreds of west Bend residents who recycle and used the nearby depot will now have to make a…
A Dead Goose Isn't A Good Goose
I was in my local paint store recently and I heard a woman very crassly say, “It's too bad the city didn't know those goose nests were in that little pond — they would have poisoned them all.” When she left, the nice gentleman behind the counter assured me the city did not poison geese.…
Last Band Standing: The Correct Results
OK. So we all know by now that Mosley Wotta won Last Band Standing last Thursday.
