Jack White to Play Edgefield on Aug. 27
Has everyone seen this?!?! This afternoon the Edgefield in Portland announced that indie-rock virtuoso Jack White will play its outdoor venue on August 27. Tickets go on sale this Friday, June 27 at 10 am. White’s most recent album “Lazaretto” came out in mid-June to solid reviews from critics. The album sold 40,000 copies on vinyl in it’s first week making…
Bend’s Summer Music Matchup Round I
When the Source office talks summer music, things tend to get pretty heated. We are so serious, in fact, that we’ve put together this Final Four-style bracket for the biggest names playing in town this summer. No, we don’t want to know who you think will draw the biggest audiences, put on the best gigs…
What in the World
Remember how we were totally relieved yesterday that Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, the Sudancese woman once sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her Christian faith, was released from prison? Well, turns out she was re-arrested while she and her U.S. citizen husband and two children were trying to leave for the United States. While we can all be…
Central Oregon Gets Gay for Pride Week
Central Oregon’s LGBT Pride Week kicked off Sunday with a BBQ and picnic in Farewell Bend Park and continues tonight with events for all ages and inclinations. Here’s the rundown of all the ways to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Central Oregon Pride (as well as the Bend’s non-discrimination ordinance) and the 45th anniversary of…
What in the World
The U.S. Supreme Court has released decisions in three cases, including Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA, in which it ruled that, while the Environmental Protection Agency was getting a little big for its britches it should still be able to tell 83 percent of greenhouse gas emitters to clean up their act. The Sudanese woman sentenced to…
Tibetan Monks Visit Bend
As a part of a special project of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, a group of Monks from the Gaden Shartse Dokhang Monastery in Tibet will be speeding two weeks in Central Oregon sharing their culture, practices and paths of peace and compassion with locals. From June 15-June 29 the Monks will put on events hosted by local…
City Appoints Bend Police Chief Jim Porter to Permanent Position
City Manager Eric King announced today that he appointed interim Police Chief Jim Porter to a permanent position as head of the Bend Police Department. Porter stepped into the interim role after the firing of former Chief Jeff Sale, who was removed from his position following the sex scandal involving then Public Information Officer Lt. Chris Carney. “Upon…
Deschutes County is #1. But perhaps not why you want, or think.
In a survey entitled “Where guns are easier to find than knowledge,” the Washington Post points out the Deschutes County has the highest and “most lopsided” gun store: museum ratio, at 7 to 1.
To Catch a Fire Starter
From the second story porch of their home on Tumalo Reservoir Road, Veronica and Les Hudson watched as the fire in the forested area on the other side of Bull Flat raged, jumping from hill top to hill top, burning through ponderosa pines like they were match sticks. As firefighters set up a base camp…
Letters 6/12-6/18
BADLANDS BADASSES Are you one of the people that go out to the Badlands Wilderness area to destroy trail signs, damage information kiosks or otherwise wreak havoc? If so, you are doing more damage than you realize; not only wasting a lot of good work volunteers and dedicated BLM staff have contributed, but you are…
Stop It!
Three days after a school shooting in Newton, Conn., a grim-faced President Obama presented a national address, during which his mood wavered between sad and angry. Twenty children and six adults had been shot dead by a deranged man. And that shooting came at the end of a year when there already had been seven…
I’ve Never. . . Worked Out With the Navy SEALs
The first time I played the popular drinking game “I’ve Never,” I was a high school sophomore, and instead of taking shots, we kept score with sugar packets at the local Shari’s. The game appealed to me for two reasons: 1) I got to learn other people’s secrets, and 2) I almost always “won” because…
Brain Man No Die
When asked about the content of Brainman No Die, Morgan P. Salvo (aka, Wayne Newcome) tells me: “It’s a horror/slasher/comedy paying homage to the Grade-B driven horror flicks and all the Grade-Z exploitation films of the ’60s and ’70s. It’s basically a twist on the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story with the romance of…
Water World
The Subaru Outside Games kick off this week, an invitation for everyone from the entry-level to professional outdoor enthusiasts—the casual hiker to the expert mountain bike racer—to exercise Bend’s greatest natural resource: the outdoors. The games take shape by land and water, and for the less athletically inclined, offer concerts and chances to drink one…
Go Here! 6/19-6/26
Go Here! It is probably easier to find a view of the Cascade Mountains than trip over your own feet. But finding a full panoramic view—360 degrees and spinning—is one of the most rewarding finds in Central Oregon. What better way to welcome summer than taking in the whole range after hiking or biking up…
Consider Your Back Yard Pollinators
What follows, dear readers, is hard stuff to take, but it is vital that everyone who has a garden or lawn to take into consideration. YOU can make a difference in your own backyard, and put a stop to those elements that are making Earth a dangerous place to live. There is no longer any…
Let’s Do it Again
Hollywood is littered with the decaying carcasses of failed sequels. But 22 Jump Street—the follow-up to the implausibly funny 21 Jump Street starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum—not only overcomes “the curse of the sequel,” it laughs in the curse’s face, shoves it down the stairs, and laughs some more. Then it feels bad about…
Jazz Hands? Or SAD HANDS?
Like television shows, young adult fiction, and the cherished toys of our childhoods, no popular Broadway musical is currently safe from film adaptation. Hey, no complaints from this repressed musical theater nerd over here; I love all of them. Even the ones that aren’t as good as they should be. Segue to: Jersey Boys. Jersey…
Out of Town 5/18-5/26
ashland sunday 22 The Two Gentlemen of Verona Director Sarah Rasmussen flips the script of the classical all-male portrayals of Shakespeare’s works with fully female casts in Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona. It may be the oldest romantic story in the book—boy meets girl, boy meets best friend’s girl; betrayal…
22 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
In three years, as many restaurants have occupied the familiar space along the back stretch of SW Century. Two years, Players, a longtime dark and dingy bar, closed its doors. A year, Blue Pine cleaned the space up, let some sunlight in and optimistically opened a gastropub, with an impressive menu and specials like a…
A Top Ten Book About Oregon
“The Sisters Brothers” is as much as a historical fiction as Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is an examination of the slave trade—which is to say, the book is an unvarnished and macabre take on that space between civilized and uncivilized lives in a specific period of American upheaval. One that is as much about its…
Local “Bud”
The most common misconception among non-beer drinkers is that lighter beers taste less “like beer.” This is good for Bud Light, but not for the people drinking it. Often, these folk only have beer socially and try to minimize the impact of drinking something they don’t like. The problem with this approach is that beer…
What the Weekend!
Half-naked pool party in the eastern Oregon desert with a kickass soundtrack? Yes, please. The third year of What the Festival—affectionately known as WTF! and held at the Wolf Run Ranch in Dufur, a small town on the backside of Mt Hood—combines an excellent EDM heavy musical lineup with the addition of hot dishes that…
Australian-American and Fiction-Journalism
Geraldine Brooks, who joins the OSU-Cascades Camps Low Residency in Creative Writing MFA faculty this summer, is a Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, but that genre really is too confining. Her four books are each a fiction, but each is also exhaustively researched, and often inspired by an actual historical event. No surprise that the…
Our Picks 6/19-6/26
thursday 19 Peak Summer Nights JAZZY—Get up close and personal at the Bend Athletic Club courtyard with foursome Medski, Scofield, Martin & Wood while they perform their genre-bending jams influenced by jazz, funk and “avant-noise,” among other musical currents. The band produces danceable beats built on improvisation—a perfect soundtrack to a summer evening. 5:30 pm.…
Pregaming for the Town-Gown Showdown
Crossing guards stationed outside the Bend Police and Municipal Court building assisted a slow but steady stream of visitors as they made their way across NE 15th Street from the parking lot by Lava Lanes. Inside the courtroom, a sea of neon green and orange clad concerned citizens packed into the room, standing along the…
Successful Failure
Singer Ed Thanhouser has a great deal to say, and not just with the music he writes and records with a merry band of artistic collaborators as Ed & The Red Reds. The most notable morsel resulting from his compulsion to share is without a doubt, his latest EP, The Liar’s Dream, a warm and…
Source Suggests 6/18-6/26
The Source Suggests by Ethan Maffey 4 Peaks Music Festival June 20, 21, 22 Rockin’ A Ranch $135 at bendticket.com It’s in Bend’s backyard, it features some of the best string band, bluegrass and—this year—funk around, and it’s also an impeccably run event. The 2014 edition of the 4 Peaks Music Festival features jangly tunes…
All Work and No Play is Not the Human Way
Humans are the perfect blend of the ant and the grasshopper. Our summers are filled with hard work during the day, but by late afternoon we swing lazily from hammocks and suck blended drinks through straws. Of course, some of us are more ant than others. Well, toiling ant, get ready to dance to the…
Bites for Rights Raises Funds for BRO in Bend
If you haven’t taken your lunch/coffee/dinner break yet, let us make a few recommendations. Today is Bites for Rights, which means that participating restaurants are contributing a portion of their proceeds to Basic Rights Oregon the statewide LGBT rights org—when you eat there today. Despite the recent marriage equality victory, there’s still work to be done to secure full equality for lesbian,…
Win Tickets to Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood TONIGHT!
We have 2 tickets for tonight’s Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood concert at the Athletic Club of Bend. Just share this post on Facebook and comment that you have shared it and we will pick a random winner this afternoon. You must be able to pick up your tickets at the Source office downtown before…
City Water and Sewer Rates Will Increase in October
City Council voted 4-3 tonight to increase water and sewer rates by 5 and 9 percent effective October 1. The rates were anticipated to increase as of July 1, but Mayor Jim Clinton and Councilors Sally Russell, Doug Knight, and Jodie Barram expressed concerns about hitting ratepayers with the increase before the October 15 end of irrigation…
Newspaper on the Radio 6/19
The Source Weekly’s editor Phil Busse talks Two Bulls Fire investigation, summer solstice music and What the Festival (festival) with Mike from 92.9 FM. Listen to the issue review every Wednesday at 9:15 am or stream at 92.9 online. And don’t forget…TONIGHT! Our final installment of the See More Seymour film tribute, Boogie Nights, 7…
Criminal Intent
According to the National Fire Protection Association’s 2014 “Intentional Fires” report, from 2007 to 2011, an estimated 282,600 intentional fires were reported to fire departments annually. Outside or unclassified fires accounted for 75 percent of these incidents. One in five arson cases were cleared by arrest or exceptional means, and two out of five of…
