Snoop Dogg Proposes TV Show to Find “America’s hottest hood artists”
For all you Snoop Dogg fans who cannot seem to get enough of your favorite rapper, you may get the chance to see him on TV weekly. Snoop Dogg has proposed his own TV show, which according to Paste Magazine, will find “America’s hottest hood artists.
Central Oregon’s Breweries Take Home Medals at North American Beer Awards
At last weekend’s North American Beer Awards Bend’s brewing contingent made a strong showing with four of our breweries taking home medals from the annual competition that featured more than 1,000 entries. Deschutes Brewery took home a total of four medals, including a gold medal for its Dissident which took top honors in the Flanders…
Build Bend’s Budget
Bend City Councilors have all but put the final touches on next year’s budget, but you can still take a stab at putting your own fiscal blueprint together with an online calculator developed by the city that lets average citizens call the shots. The online tool is similar to one develop by an advocacy group…
10th Anniversary of the Dirty Half
Sunday, June 12 will mark 10 years of the Dirty Half. Will anyone beat Max King this year? Last year King won the trail half marathon in 1 hour, 11.
Free Photo Presentation on Lakota and Crow Indians
Tomorrow night (Saturday) Source contributing photographer Christian Heeb is opening the doors to his Cascade Center of Photography on the westside of Bend for a presentation on his photography of the Native Americans of the plain states. Heeb has compiled these photographs over the last eight years for various books and magazines and will be…
Dear Bend: A Plea For Summer
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Dear Bend, I know we’ve had this talk before. I even thought we had worked this out when we had that great day last month.
Free Bike Rodeo For Kids on Saturday
The Deschutes County Sheriff’s office is putting a new twist on rodeos. Offering children ages 4-12 the chance to participate in a Bike Rodeo.
Parrilla Opens a Food Cart
Parrilla Grill, the much-loved wrap and burrito purveyor on the west side of Bend is now taking its delectable goodness on the road to join the exploding local mobile food movement. Calling their food cart Parrilla Satellite, the mobile food project may open on Monday and will be located on Third Street next to the…
Bend City Council Votes to Continue Affordable Housing Fee
It seems that Bend’s city councilors did the right thing Wednesday night — sort of — in regard to the affordable housing fee attached to new building permits. Some background: Any builder seeking to do what they do, must get a building permit. Since 2006, a fee has been attached to the permit (one-third of…
MusicFestNW Announces Lineup: Band of Horses, Iron and Wine, The Kills and more
I apologize that I’m a day late getting this out to you, but it might be due to the fact that I’ve been busy salivating over this newly released lineup for Portland’s MusicFestNW. We mentioned this festival in the Summer Concert Guide a few weeks ago, but the lineup had yet to be set in…
Japanese haiku is coming to downtown Bend so sharpen your pens
I have never understood the unbridled fervor and devotion some people feel for haiku. Those tiny, strange little poems that haunted me through school, the three-line, 5-7-5 syllabic count, the attempt to express an intangible idea about nature.
Unclear on the Concept: The Hangover once again squanders its potential
Whatever your feelings are about the original 2009 The Hangover, let's all agree on this: As a basic comedic premise, it's pure genius, because it wasn't obviously a comedic premise at all. Put a bunch of characters in an unfamiliar location with no idea how they got there or what they did along the way,…
Oh, the Irony: The product is the message in Spurlock's latest indirect expose
What's more ironic: That Morgan Spurlock, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary Super Size Me, sets out to make a documentary about product placement by funding the film entirely with product placement, or that the products hinder what the film could have been? Maybe that was the point all along. Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie…
Scone Wolf
Look, guys! In case you haven't noticed, I have some opinions about things! For example: scones. Who was the freaking idiot who invented scones? THEY'RE TERRIBLE.
Stroke Yourself: Paddling events in Central Oregon Summer 2011
It is safe to say that Bend's paddling community is one of the strongest and most diverse in the country. From the hordes of stand-up paddleboarders, to the expert raft guides, to the whitewater kayakers making their daily runs down Meadow Camp, Bend loves to paddle! This summer there are plenty of opportunities to get…
The Void: I went four days without sports and now I'm lost
Last weekend, rather than absorb my typical diet of basketball from my couch or baseball atop a barstool (where I would have almost certainly found myself engaged in an argument with a stranger over the obvious benefits of the designated hitter), I went to a music festival for four entire days of rock and/or roll…
ODE Employees Cleared in Hayes’ Contract Case
The four state employees who were suspended last year over accusations that they had steered a consulting contract to John Kitzhaber’s girlfriend, Bend resident Cylvia Hayes, have been officially reinstated. The Department of Adminstrative services announced the four workers, all employees of the Oregon Department of Energy, will return to their jobs after an independent…
The Cardio Challenge: Eating big at the newly revamped D&D
Club D&D Bar and Grill, or more affectionately, “The D,” is a playground for both celebration and self-destructive tendencies. The drinks are stiff. The food worships at the altar of protein and massive proportions. The D features charming juxtapositions like wall-to-wall oversized flat-screen televisions looming over what must be one of the last remaining cigarette…
The Desecration of Hidden Forest Cave: Vandals hit one of the region's most treasured caverns
When some ignoramus trashes one of our natural or historical treasures, it's an insult to us all. That's what happened recently at Hidden Forest Cave, one of our more unique natural features in the Deschutes National Forest. They all but ruined it. Like most of the lava caves we have in this part of Oregon,…
Of Wood, Words and Hip-Hop: The many talents of Hurtbird's Ryan Hayes
Ryan Hayes is about to head out on an 11-day tour with his band, Hurtbird, but he's not spending this particular Thursday morning packing or making sure the Portland band's set list is ready for the road. Sure, that might be on his to-do list, but at the moment, he's in the middle of building…
Bend’s Ellen Waterston on OPB’s “Think Out Loud”
Tomorrow morning, Ellen Waterston, a local author and executive director of The Nature of Words will appear on OPB’s radio program, “Think Out Loud.” She’ll be reading and discussing her most recent book, Where the Crooked River Rises, a collection of essays from her experiences out here on the high desert.
New Brews: Prineville gets a pub and other headlines from around Central Oregon
A little more than a year after luring Internet darling Facebook to its small town, Prineville is targeting other data centers and has two prospective companies are looking at the area, The Bulletin reported this past week. The newspaper quoted City Manager Steve Forrester as saying that negotiations were far enough along with the companies,…
Republicans' Stall-and-Strangle Tactics
There aren't many issues that Democrats and Republicans can agree upon these days. It's one of the reasons that our two-party system is so often mired in indecision and partisan gridlock even as our state and our nation face challenges that are among the greatest in our collective history. Still there are a few areas…
This Week’s Number
5.1% That's how far home prices dipped across the country when compared to the first quarter of 2010.
Free Sasquatch Downloads
If you didn’t make it to this year’s 10th anniversary edition of the Pacific Northwest’s favorite outdoor/camping music festival, or even if you went but want to relive some of the outstanding moments it had to offer, you’re in luck. Thanks to the folks over at NPR and KEXP, you now have the ability to…
The Freshest, Most Wholesome Straight Poop Served Weekly
Monday, May 23 Back to the Ould Sod: President Obama – uh, make that O'bama – arrives in Ireland for state visit, has pint of Guinness at local pub, performs a few Riverdance moves. Yes, I made the last bit up … At least 122 confirmed dead, 1,500 missing after Sunday's ferocious tornado in Joplin,…
Think Before You Spend
A big Thank You to the Source in bringing such an important matter to the forefront of all who love Central Oregon and live, work, and play here. Many of us moved to Central Oregon to play on such a wonderful playground with some of the most friendly people anywhere. Some have moved here because…
Respect For Other Creatures Is Absent in Central Oregon
Doug “Hayduke” Peacock once said to me, “We're not going to make it simply because that which evolves does not persist without the conditions of it's creation.” I was reminded of this while on a dog walk in Shevlin Park where I was confronted by several dozen screeching fourth graders from High Lakes Elementary School.…
The Summer Concert Scrooges
I am writing because I was down at the Old Mill this past weekend during the concerts, and was shocked and upset at how patrolled that area has become on concert nights. What used to be a fun community event – the Les Schwab Concert Series – has become very unfriendly to pedestrians, cyclists, and…
