Dusty Rhodes and the River Band Return to Bend July 25
Just as I was planning a quick trip over to Portland in July to see Dusty Rhodes and the River Band, I got word yesterday that the rootsy/soulful Anaheim indie rockers were making a stop here in Bend on July 25 at the Silver Moon. The last time the sextet was in town was about…
The Hag: Spending Sunday night with Merle
Too often, as they ease into their septuagenarian years, many a great musician falter. They simply skate by playing as few licks as possible and work hard trying to sing, and too often muffing, the lyrics.
Hank III – Tonight at the Domino Room
If you made it out to see Merle Haggard last night, you can continue your streak of days attending outlaw country shows by making it down to the Domino Room tonight for Hank III. We profiled Hank III in this week’s issue, talking to the grandson of the country legend about lots of things, including…
Wet and Windy: wandering around in Astoria
There's something about this town with its marine climate mélange of fog, mist, rain and wind that makes me feel good. It could be an inherited sense of belonging in foul weather delivered genetically by my Welsh and Scottish antecedents.
Mapping the Ins and Outs of Migration
Forbes magazine has posted a fascinating interactive map showing, county by county, where Americans moved to and where they moved from. One rather surprising fact: More people still seemed to be moving into Central Oregon than out of it – at least as of 2008.
On the Trail of Ales, Frauds and Fools
Now THIS is my kind of hike: Visitors to Bend this summer will be able to travel “The Bend Ale Trail,” a tour of eight local craft breweries. “Known throughout the world as one of the top outdoor recreation meccas, Bend, Oregon has now also emerged as one of the premier craft brewery capitals of…
Jason Evers: The Movie — Part One of the Blockbuster Screenplay
Because someone is probably already working on the Lifetime Original Movie about the Jason Evers (or Doitchin Krasev, if you like to challenge yourself when it comes to pronunciation) scandal, which continues to pump out one awesome headline after another, the Source has begun production of our own film: Jason Evers: The Movie. We’d like…
No Frills Grill: Baldy's BBQ secrets revealed just in time for summer
Lets face it – almost anyone can grill a burger. You need only marginally better grilling skills to grill chicken (even less if you plan to eat all that blackened chicken skin), but to create a great rack of ribs is a culinary challenge. It takes time and patience to prepare this tricky cut of…
City to Hoteliers: Pay up!
The cash-strapped city of Bend is preparing to send a collective six figure bill for overdue room tax charges that the city believes it has been shorted by a number of local hotels, including the Riverhouse. The city of Bend released the final figures from its recent audit of six Bend hotels showing that the…
Mosley Wotta Debuts New Album: “Wake”
After a long production process, Mosley Wotta, Bend’s well-known and omni-present MC, is releasing his first full-length album, entitled Wake, this week. He’ll be rolling the disc out (and likely performing cuts from it) at his semifinal appearance at Last Band Standing tomorrow night at Boondocks Bar and Grill.
They're Gonna Put Me in the Movies! A movie is being made in Sisters and the locals want a part
The life of a movie extra is filled with life-changing moments of revelation while arranging Cheetos and M&Ms at the craft service table waiting for the cameraman's eighth lens change in the last hour. Or, you may shine everlasting on the silver screen wielding an eggbeater as I did in my student film debut. Thanks…
Step into the Artisphere: Music and visual art collide at this massive creative event
When Brad Bailey stopped by our offices and said he was planning a “big art and music event,” we weren't quite sure what to expect. He said he wanted to bring local musicians and artists together for a colossal showing of Bend's talent, but plenty of people say they're going to do things like this,…
I'm Not Lost … I am exploring
Do you have a theme song? Mine is by singer/songwriter Jana Stanfield. The chorus goes like this: I'm not lost, I am exploring. Life is an adventure worth enjoying. Though I may not know where I'm going, I am not lost, I am exploring. The way I figure it, I've never been lost, because here…
Use Common Sense as Riding Opportunities Expand
Know Your Boundaries The urge to explore is irresistible to some people, but COTA recommends caution when encroaching upon this moving boundary. Crossing large snow drifts and negotiating downed trees can force you far off the trail where it is easy to lose your bearings. Even with modern conveniences such as Spot GPS, help can…
Confounding War Porn, Anyone? The A-Team gets a tone-deaf reboot
The A-Team is a creepily bizarre weirdo of a movie that'll wreck your day. Eager to see it because you whiled away happy childhood hours watching Hannibal, B.A., Face and Murdock don disguises, build wacky tanks, flip cars and help with problems no one else could help with? Well, what you'll get movie-wise is a…
10 Reasons to Dislike Miley Cyrus
Reason #1! Her teeth look like someone knocked them out with a jackhammer, and then shot them back inside her mouth using a T-shirt cannon. Reason #2! Watching an episode of her long-running Disney Channel TV show, Hannah Montana, is like experiencing a production of A Midsummer's Night's Dream by the Royal Shakespeare Company -…
Where's Ralph Macchio when we need him?: Everything is kung fu and irritating as hell in The Karate Kid
In remake world where all dreams come true and sentimentality reigns supreme, comes the 2010 version of The Karate Kid. I assume there was karate in the original (I never saw it or its sequels) but this one is devoid of any – or, as Jackie Chan says, “everything is kung fu.” If 12 or…
Failure To Engage: Lost Planet sequel never finds its way
Lost Planet was a straight-ahead shooter that distinguished itself with its large, harsh landscape. Set on the snow-covered planet of E.D.N. III, the game made survival precarious. It was only by battling the native life forms and dominant government that I was able to scrape together the energy required to keep myself from freezing. The…
No Frills Grill: Baldy's BBQ secrets revealed just in time for summer
Lets face it – almost anyone can grill a burger. You need only marginally better grilling skills to grill chicken (even less if you plan to eat all that blackened chicken skin), but to create a great rack of ribs is a culinary challenge. It takes time and patience to prepare this tricky cut of…
Left Behind
I just spent a week in Canyon Country in Utah staring at pictographs from hundreds of years ago and it reminded me that it is human nature to leave our mark. At our bar, it usually seems to be upon the men's bathroom paper towel dispenser, which I am now thinking taunts men who are…
Hank Done it His Way: Country music's most likely heir, Hank III, remains an enigma
It probably comes as no great surprise to the fans of Shelton Hank Williams, aka Hank III, that the artist who confounds country music conventions and tours on a split personality country-metal bill, does things his own way. Whether it's sticking up his middle finger at Nashville and its most hallowed grounds, the Grand Ole…
The Black Keys: Brothers
Nonesuch Records What gets me about these two-person bands – the White Stripes, Jucifer, Juanita & the Rabbit – is how big they can sound. And on their new album (the band's sixth), the Black Keys don't just sound big. They sound like a goddamn orchestra.
Our Picks for 6/16 – 6/24: Artisphere, Bend Elks Opening weekend, Merle Haggard and The Strangers, KPOV Birthday Bash and more
Last Band Standing: The Semifinals thursday 17 After two grueling months of preliminaries, we've finally reached the semifinal round of Last Band Standing. Performing for a slot in the final showcase are Tuck N Roll, Elliot, Hot Tea Cold, Blowin' Smoke, Still Fear and Mosley Wotta (who will be releasing his brand-new CD at the…
Backyard Chickens: Why your neighbor might have a poultry farm in her backyard
The sidewalk that lines the north side of Galveston Avenue on the westside of Bend is one of the more well-traveled stretches of pavement in the city – moms pushing strollers, workers heading downtown, and, of course, those ambling to and from bars and eateries. Now, many of those pedestrians stop right around 12th Street,…
Park It!: ONDA's prevails on the John Day, Harney's windmills and more
A decade-long battle to protect endangered Columbia basin steelhead habitat in the John Day Basin got legal recently when a federal court judge ruled that the U.S. Forest Service is not properly administering its grazing allotments on the Malheur Forest. Judge Ancer Haggerty's opinion upheld most of the claims brought against the Forest Service by…
Poll Stunner: Dudley Leads Kitzhaber by 7
The conventional wisdom said that John Kitzhaber, a popular two-term former governor running in a heavily Democratic state, would have a cakewalk to a third term. But suddenly he finds himself in a horse race.
A Tale of Two Gushers: Obama looks for an ass to kick, Arkansas's tragedy and a mystery in Carolina
The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from a breakfast table, eating Jimmy Dean and drinking Tea Party, watching grown men chase a ball around a field on TV, for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly. Kicking the Mule As President Obama spends…
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The Three Stooges and Their Destination Resort Routine
It's good to know people in high places. Just ask Keith Cyrus and his family. Cyrus, the descendant of five generations of Central Oregonians, is a member of the Deschutes County Planning Commission. He also is the developer of Aspen Lakes, a tony golf course subdivision near Sisters.
Don't Blame Nosler
Nosler, Inc. has been in the same neighborhood for probably more years than many of the homes. There used to be very little development in that area for decades. But, as with residential buildup around airports and other established industrial areas, cities have allowed residential building without clear thought to exactly how all will be…
Swatting Fleas While Buzzards Circle
On June 7, I attended a presentation titled “You Cut” by our U.S. Representative Greg Walden. Its subtitle was: “A product of the economic recovery group.” While I applaud any politician in Washington, Salem or for that matter Bend who is attempting to lower the cost of government for us citizens, I could not stop…
True Value
Politicians allocate resources to where they perceive worth in order to acquire and hold power for themselves, by buying votes from the greedy, the uneducated and the deluded. A nation directs its resources toward what it truly values rather than what it says it values.
