New Music for Wednesday
Looking for some new catchy, dreamy summer jams? Try Smith Westerns new album Soft Will, out June 25 but streaming now on NPR. Perfect, Bowie-esque bike riding music from the Chicago threesome who brought you the 2011 garage-pop break out Dye it Blonde. Aren’t they cute little guys? Smith Westerns’ new album is an evolution…
Clegg Checks In After More Than a Week on the ODT
ONDA Remember reading this story about Sage Clegg, the Bend hiker who was taking on the 750-mile Oregon Desert Trail? She’s now more than a week into her trip (just passed through Paisley). Don’t forget to follow her via her photo blog at onda.org. Clegg is the first to tackle the long-distance trail that was…
Spork: Now Open on Newport Ave.
Good news—more delicious food now available on Bend’s westside. After a soft opening on Saturday (following a friends-of-the-restaurant party on Friday), Spork, the godfather of Bend’s food cart scene, is now open full time inside a permanent location on Newport Avenue (in what was Fox’s, the short-lived pool hall). We ate there on Saturday and…
Go Beavers!
It is hard to be a Cinderella team if you don’t claw your way back!After a disappoint start to the NCAA Championships (i.e,. they lost their first game), Oregon State Beaver’s clobbered Louisville (11-4) and now (on Wednesday) play Indiana. Stay tuned! Keep those bats warm, Beavers.
LSA Announcement: Los Lobos & Los Lonely Boys
Another announcement from LSA.
Deja Vu: Bend Makes Another Best Beer Towns List
Surprise! Bend is at the top of another list of the best cities for beer and breweries. This time the honor is bestowed by nerdtraverl.com. We really, really do. Here’s what they have to say about our hop-head city: Bend, OR While Portland may be the popular beer town of the moment, true beer-lovers should…
Worst Wedding Toast EVER
I just spent the weekend in Maine at a very elegant wedding. Every toast was well crafted and simultaneously heartfelt. Of course, though, we had to share our “worst toasts” stories. My story about my friend’s grandfather (drunkeningly) confess an affair usually wins, but this time it was blown out of the water.Some Boston friends…
Cold Brew Coffee: My New Favorite Thing About Summer
Had a delicious cold brew coffee this morning from Palate (643 NW Colorado Ave.) Not being a huge coffee connoisseur, the barista explained to me that cold brew isn’t just an iced coffee. It’s a specialty brewing method using cold water to reduce acidity and harsh flavors that permeate when ice is added to coffee…
TONIGHT! Tha Dogg Pound
That’s right, as in D-O-Double G. As in Snoop Dogg affiliates. Tha Dogg Pound—Daz Dillinger and Kurupt—is playing the Domino Room tonight at 8:30 pm ($15-25). And you know what, they’re actually pretty damn good—even with out Snoop Dogg Lion. Codiac AKA Yakavetti, a southern Oregon rapper, opens the show.
Friday Mixtape!
Coyote Spirit Festival and 4 Peaks, all in one playlist!
My Favorite Use For GoPro Yet
Portland’s hip five-piece crew Radiation City have released a new video! Shot entirely with GoPro cameras, this music video is worth six minutes of your day. Look familiar? The Cathedral of Junk, located in Austin, Tex. reminds us of a better organized Pakit Liquidators.
Now on the Web: Summer Guide
Great News! Our Summer Guide in now on the interwebs. This year we explore the theme, “My First…” You can read stories from seven different writers, HERE. Camping, concerts, romance, road trips and baseball—it’s all in the Summer guide. Get comfy and read up—the weather may suck today, but summer will be back tomorrow. Prepare…
PHOTOS: Greenwood Street Gallery Continued
Here are more photos form the already defunct Greenwood Street Gallery, a rouge art project brought to you by a collective of local street artists. If you missed the briefly hanging art display last week, read the Source’s article about street art, and enjoy the images below. Thanks to LaLa for sharing these awesome photos!…
BREAKING: Sasquatch! Music Festival to Expand
There’s music news… and then there’s this.
Hiking for a Higher Cause
It’s 9 a.m. and Sage Clegg is already worried about where her water is going to come from. She’s worried because she’s in the Central Oregon desert, it’s hot and, later in the day, she plans to walk across an extended section of dusty, exposed flats. The day before, at Sand Springs, she enjoyed refreshingly…
My First: Love of the Game
Let’s call it the female Field of Dreams effect, a transitive property: My dad loves baseball. Ergo, I love baseball. While dad and I have had our clashes, in the world of strikeouts and batting averages, dirt and dugouts, we understand each other effortlessly. April through September: Baseball season was always daddy-daughter time in the…
Stranger in a Strange Land
“Superheroes are the copyrighted property of big corporations,” comics writer Alan Moore recently told the Believer. “They are purely commercial entities; they are purely about making a buck. That’s not to say that there haven’t been some wonderful creations in the course of the history of the superhero comic, but to compare them with gods…
Staff Summer Favorites
Wet, Hot American Summer (2001) With tube socks pulled all the way up, this spoof should be on the top 10 funniest movies ever. Early in their successful and very funny careers, Janeane Garofalo and Paul Rudd (in shorty shorts) play counselors at a summer camp doomed for destruction. Slapstick and clever sketch comedy and…
Obsidian
Obsidian Baths Label anticon “I might walk upright, but then again, I might still try to die,” Will Wiesenfeld whispers on “Worsening,” the opening track on Obsidian, his second album recording as Baths. He bemoans against eerie broken glass electro beats cutting into the pillowy softness of his voice: “Where is God when you hate…
Outdoor Vibes
Healing Powers: The two-day Coyote Spirit Festival in the south-central Oregon town of Paisley, is as much a therapeutic treatment as it is a camping music festival. Set among the reportedly healing waters of Summer Lake Hot Springs and featuring a venue called “The Devotional Dome,” the Coyote Spirit Festival blends hoovy-groovy things like laughter…
Journey to the Orient
Forget about Dennis Rodman’s goodwill tour of North Korea; that was nothing more than tabloid fodder. Portland’s giant marching band MarchFourth (M4) just returned to the states after completing a two-week U.S. State Department-sponsored exchange to improve relations with China. As unconventional as it may seem to have an American marching band playing at universities…
Sipping is for Suckers
The Second Annual Mixology event will blockade three blocks of Minnesota Avenue, filling the street with booths from a few dozen distilleries and providing three fully staffed bars with some of the sharpest bartenders in the region. But this is not Mardi Gras (leave the beads at home, hussie); a satellite to Bite of Bend,…
Out of Town 6/12 – 6/20
portland wednesday 12- sunday 16 Portland Pride Week Our neighbors to the north have jumped on the same-sex marriage choo-choo train; time to show those Washingtonians that Oregon supports equal rights, too! But don’t just go to Pride 2013 out of spite that Washington is more socially advanced. The event is going to be a…
Es Verdad Mas Tacos: Check out these staff favorites!
Taco Bell started earnestly enough, as a single food stand in Southern California. It was post-World War II California, and McDonald's and In-and-Out Burgers were beginning to peg the highways with quick food stops, and Glen Bell, a 23-year-old former Marine, thought tacos could give an ethnic alternative to hamburgers. At the time, he owned…
My First: Summer in Bend
In late September last year, I moved to Bend. I arrived for the last eight days of summer. Sunflowers, daisies and jasmine were in bloom; the high desert sun never seemed to set; and the streets and river trails were overflowing with leftover Abercrombie & Fitch models—tan, lean specimens showing off their sun-kissed bodies. It…
Batter, Batter, Swing!
When we first meet Henry Skrimshander, one of the charming-but-flawed characters in Chad Harbach’s debut novel, The Art of Fielding, he is a scrawny hayseed. A talented shortstop in South Dakota, Henry, like most teenage athletes, dreams about playing in the major leagues. It seems, however, as if Henry is more destined for the blue-collar…
My First: Whitewater Kayaking
Two years ago, I showed up at Paradise Campground on the McKenzie River for my first private whitewater kayaking lesson. Coincidently, it also was my first blind date—with the instructor. A few days earlier, I had been bellyaching to my coworkers how badly I wanted to learn to paddle on the McKenzie; as luck would…
Endless Canvas
Write a friend’s phone numbers on your arm and give them a blank check for bail, just in case. That’s what multi media artist J.F., a thirty-something ex-Miami resident, tells me and a group of a half dozen eager Bend artists outside Thump Coffee. J.F. is a street artist who has lived in Bend for…
My First: Concert
In 1991, grunge rock was formally introduced with the release of two giant albums; Nirvana’s Nevermind and Pearl Jam’s Ten. By 1994, bands like Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and Sonic Youth were playing on every teenager’s Walkman. But just prior, in 1993, remnants of what had been the prevailing music trend—the hair band—were making a…
Our Picks 6/12 – 6/20
wednesday 12 Bend Elks BASEBALL—Few events say summer like the local baseball club's home opener. The Bend Elks, our collegiate summer baseball team, is taking on the Cowlitz Black Bears of Longview, Wash. And if Wednesday night doesn’t work out for the Elks (24-30 in 2012), there’s always Thursday and Friday—three consecutive home games! 6:35…
Summer Guide!
My dad is an ear, nose and throat doctor. I have a certain pride in him and his work. My sister even followed in his footsteps; I refer to her as the heir to the allergy empire. But the respect for doctors—in particular allergists—did not start well. When I was 4 years old—about the same…
To Log or Not to Log
Editor's note: This editorial was sent in response to a hot-button topic: logging. And, specifically, to a letter last week, "Notice: Popular Recreation Forest Near Bend Slated for Logging" (6/6). Two and a half years ago, the Forest Service began planning the 25,700-acre project on the western side of Bend. A dedicated group of community…
My First: Road Trip
My first summer road trip as an adult of drinking age was to the San Juan Islands in Washington. At the time, I was living in Seattle. Kurt Cobain had just died. As a rule, road trips are about the journey. My BFFs Molly (Juliette Lewis), Char (Winona Ryder) and I (a young Bette Midler)…
Making Room for Art
In terms of public spending, Bend’s arts community is like the kid who, perhaps unfairly, is picked last when teams are chosen for the recess kickball game. Which is strange considering the important role arts play in the region. Think concerts at the Tower Theatre, First Friday, roundabout art. Yet, as far as public funding…
Summer First: Getting Started
Although the neoprene-suited kayakers and cyclists zipping around our rivers and roads may look like League of Justice superheroes, at some point everyone needed to take their first step, their first bike trip, cast their first fly. The area offers a remarkable selection of beginner classes. Tie on the Fly River Borne Outfitters' fly-fishing classes…
One Day at a Time
MONDAY, JUNE 3 For the love of all that’s holy…can someone please take away Amanda Bynes’ Twatter account? For example…CASE IN POINT 1: After famously twattering she would like rapper Drake to “murder her vagina,” she’s apparently changed her mind, writing “Drake has the ugliest smile, ugly gums uneven teeth ugly eyes.” (For those just…
Letters 6/5 -6/13
Department of Corrections We screwed up! In last week's print edition (June 6) we incorrectly stated that the letter, "Notice: Popular Recreation Forest Near Bend Slated for Logging" was written by Kevin Larkin, district ranger for the Bend-Ft. Rock Ranger District. The letter was written by Karen Coulter of Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project. –Editors I would…
TONIGHT! Bend Elks Opener
The Bend Elks 2013 opening game is going down, TONIGHT! The team takes on the Cowlitz Black Bears of Longview, Wash. According to the Elks webpage, it’s going to be a good game. The Elks currently lead the WestCoast League in Batting Average (.312) but face a Cowitz team with the lowest ERA in the…
RDM to LAX Starts Tomorrow
American Airlines will operate direct daily service from the Redmond Airport to the Los Angeles International Airport starting Thursday June 13 with a CRJ-200 aircraft with 50 passenger seats. Departure from RDM at 8:10 am return flight from LAX arrives at 8:55 pm. Flight time 2 hours and 15 minutes. It’s official! RDM to LAX…
