Pickathon is On…and on and on and on
The Oregon summer music festival for the NPR crowd, Picakathon, has secured 10 more years at its current location outside of Portland on the beautiful and wooded Pendarvis Farm. Pickathon.com 2014’s lineup continues a tradition of combining incredible folk acts with a variety of big and small name bands from LA punks rockers X to…
State of Wonder, OPB’s greatest radio show! And, what, free tickets for a show in Bend?
State of Wonder is a gem of a NPR show. Produced by OPB, and hosted by April Baer—an indefatigably curious journalist—the show digs into the personalities of those making the arts in Oregon. (Arts in a wide definition, and encompassing interesting, engaging and relevant peeps, not the hoity toity types). Why am I telling you this? Because you…
River Rim Coffeehouse Changes Owners and Name
New owners for south Bend coffee shop. Same great music.
Friday Mixtape!
A timid start to summer music…
Deschutes County’s Top 10 Future News Stories
This morning, representatives from Deschutes County, the City of Bend, Bend La Pine School District and Bend Park and Recreation offered their perspectives on local issues at the Bend Chamber of Commerce State of the Community Address. While the event focused on victories won and challenges faced by the various government bodies (the Urban Growth…
Newspaper on the Radio 6/11
Editor Phil Busse chats with Mike from 92.9FM about the Source Weekly’s Summer Events Guide and the mermaid featured on our cover. The Who – “Summertime Blues” Phil talks up intern Lucy Ausman’s profile of rodeo star Bobby Mote as well as the profiles of local productions of Sweeney Todd and Communicating Doors and lets…
Whip It Good
I finally figured it out: the quintessential element absent from most theatrical productions. This mystery element is simple: a time-traveling dominatrix! I never knew I was missing it until I watched a rehearsal of Cascades Theatrical Company’s Communicating Doors. But now that I’ve seen it, I know that a bit of batshit insanity would make…
Central Oregon Wildflower Show
If you find yourself hiking through Jefferson Park, Fryrear Canyon, up in the beautiful wilds of Broken Top, through the foothills of the Cascades or birding among the sagebrush and juniper, you’ll also find yourself knee-deep in the great diversity of Oregon’s wildflowers. If it’s your first time to experience this colorful wildflower show (which,…
Our Picks 6/12-6/19
friday 13 Sisters Rodeo RODEO—Sisters is celebrating its 74th annual rodeo, AKA “The Biggest Little Show in the World.” From Xtreme Bulls and rodeo clowns to wild mustangs and bareback riding champions, this event is the epitome of the Wild West Show. Celebrations continue all weekend and include a parade, a buckaroo breakfast and live…
I’ll Be Your Mirror
Much ado has been made about Anthony Lane’s recent skin-crawling New Yorker profile of Scarlett Johansson—a weird up-skirt shot of a character study that reads like a grad school application to Esquire. Ostensibly meant as a preview for her role in Jonathan Glazer’s remarkable new film Under the Skin, the 50-something Lane jizzes poetic over…
Tapped
For those receiving City of Bend services, water and sewer rates are about to go up. Just how high will be determined at the upcoming City Council meeting on June 18. The reason for the controversial increase are somewhat invisible infrastructure improvements, such as the Environmental Protection Agency-mandated membrane filtration system. City Manager Eric King…
Good Ol’ Rummy
Donald Rumsfeld was the Secretary of Defense for the half-decade that included September 11 and a couple of wars you might have heard of. But before that he was a Nixonian power player and NATO globetrotter. So it makes sense that Errol Morris would follow up his enormously powerful The Fog of War—which profiled another Cold…
Summer Events Guide
Planning a great summer is not easy work. In fact, it has taken us two complete issues to just provide listings of recommended events: Two weeks ago, we published our annual Summer Music Guide with suggestions for shows and festivals in Bend throughout the summer, and in every direction from here—in Portland, Eugene and Ashland.…
Out of Town: 6/12-6/19
portland saturday 14 Mystery Box Show Bedtime stories—emphasis on bedtime. A group of storytellers share their best tales of woe and wonder under the sheets and everywhere else things get sexy and strange. More than just a voyeuristic kiss and tell, these brave souls range from bestselling authors to sex industry professionals. Unscripted and totally…
Happy Hours Are Here Again
For a town that needs little more than a clock striking five o’clock (or, really, the noon hour whistle) as a reason to raise pint glasses of craft brews with friends, Bend residents still scheme an awful lot to justify even more sipping—or chugging—of the town’s central export. The crowning jewel of these schemes is…
Fields of Fabric
Quilts are generally considered more of a craft than an art. But local quilters like Sheila Finzer are working to change that perception. “Most people think it’s your grand- mother’s quilt,” she says, “but it’s not.” She continues, “I started out making traditional bed quilts like most people start out with, but over the years…
There’s a New Chef in Town
Early this year, Ingrid Rohrer moved to Central Oregon with her husband. Her story isn’t uncommon: Her husband likes to hunt and fish, and they both wanted to get away from city traffic. The change—and the opportunity to take over as head chef at the upscale restaurant 10 Below—also was a chance for her to…
Street Fair Stylings
Friday, June 19 – Sunday, June 22 What the Festival (WTF) Can’t make it to Burning Man? A close second, WTF is an eclectic blend of music, movement, performance, and visual art—all with an emphasis on high quality and free-flowing creativity. WTF earns its moniker in the best possible way. And if you work up…
A Nibling of the Area’s Food Events
Monday, June 23 – Friday, June 27 Bite Week Back for its second year, this five-day smorgasbord of tastings, nutrition classes, chef’s dinners and cocktails competitions is more food-centric events than you can shake a fork at. It really is a summit—like the G8 of the region’s best chefs (if “g” stood for gastronomical)—but unlike…
It’s in the Music
Either Provo, Utah, band Desert Noises willfully chooses not to share too much during interviews or the only way lead singer Kyle Henderson and his bandmates actually know how to express themselves is through harmony laden, dusty rock tracks with boyish themes and seasoned chops. Alright, there could be a third option: the band’s publicist…
Awash in Beer Events
Thursday, June 19 Fermentation Celebration Imagine the joy of the first discovery that a long forgotten beverage actually can actually get better with age. Channel that thrill of discovery with hundreds of your closest friends (because who isn’t a friend once you’ve had a couple?) at the Fermentation Celebration. Give thanks for the abundance that…
Source Suggests 6/12-6/19
Stay Gold First Aid Kit | Columbia Records Swedish sister duo First Aid Kit has a very peculiar way of crafting classical sounding American country tunes despite calling Scandinavia home. The third studio album from Johanna and Klara Söderberg, Stay Gold, out this week, continues their nod to tradition born out of influences that include…
Walking on Water
One by one, novice stand-up paddle boarders ease their boards onto the chilly Deschutes River. “If you’re going to try to stand up, you want to do it here or wait until you’re further up the river,” Sue Fox shouts from the water’s edge. She’s leading a group of newbies through a two-hour introductory class.…
Out of the Hammock and onto the Trails
Wednesday, June 25 (last Wednesdays, monthly through September) Pickin’ & Paddlin’ The ultimate Wednesday summer evening. Seriously. Other towns dream of this sort of event: Free demos of kayaks and watercraft at an easy-flowing river just a stone’s throw away, and fun-spirited Americana bands (starting with fast-picking quartet of The Blackberry Bushes) starting in the…
Home is Where the Art Is
Bend native Gavin Douglas is an actor. A real one. The kind of actor that does not remember why he wanted to act in the first place because it’s what he has always done for as long as he can remember. “I did a play in kindergarten, and then did one every year because it…
Hold the Line
So often—and by its very nature—firefighting is reactionary. But with the Two Bulls Fire, there also has been an impressive show of some of the precautionary measures taken to manage forest fires, on several fronts. The foremost being the prolific use of social media. As the fire spread, so did the city’s public information efforts.…
Letters 6/6-6/11
IN REPLY TO “SAFETY IN THEIR SIGHTS” (6/5) Sad that people are so paranoid that they believe more guns=safety. —Check Malley Chuck Malley—Did you read the article? I would agree if that was the case—it’s about education. As an educator I can tell you our SROs are doing a lot more than just carrying guns—They…
Not the Same as Mexican
Frida Kahlo is not the same as Georgia O’Keeffe. Oh sure, their paintings may have the same vibrant colors contrasting with some of the same stark, blocky images, but the artists are clearly separated by cultural differences and influences as defined as the border between the United States and Mexico. Likewise, it is important to…
What a Wild Ride It Has Been
“All goals start out as dreams, I suppose,” explains Bobby Mote, a professional rodeo rider. “If I’d told people when I started that I wanted to be where I am now, they might’ve laughed at me.” And where he is, a cowboy from the small Central Oregon town of Culver, is an impressive four-time World…
Three India Pale Ales, Please…
Settle down, Hop Heads. Sometimes a simple beer is just what hits the spot. Sometimes it feels like brewers are constantly chasing trends. And, too often pale ales are ignored in this hyper-experimental climate. Wacky new recipes are fun and important, but so are the classics. Moreover, pale ales are great because they are about…
Go Here: 6/12-6/19
Go Here! Although the dry high desert may be more associated with, well, desert, and dry rock formations like Smith Rock, tucked into the Cascades and throughout Central Oregon there are gems of lush waterfalls. Here are three to jumpstart summer: Tumalo Falls With easy access to the biggest and most impressive waterfall along Tumalo…
Cannibal: The Musical
Sweeney Todd is just your average comedic/dramatic thriller about vengeance, insanity, murder and cannibalism. Yeah, as if that’s a genre! Actually, Sweeney Todd has always been one of the weirdest—and most enduring—shows ever to grace the stages of Broadway or the West End as it swings wildly between camp, comedy, drama and outright horror. Part…
The Art of Growing Up
If the meticulously crafted sound of art rock maven St. Vincent is the equivalent of a measured stroll through the Louvre in Paris, then the wildly aggressive baroque music of Phoenix band Emby Alexander sounds more like an ill-supervised field trip of feral urchins scattered through the museum’s halls with abandoned wonder. And, in much…
