For the Technologically Inclined: Ruby on Ales Conference Comes to Bend March 24 & 25
When I first heard about the Ruby on Ales conference at McMenamins, I instantly thought it had something to so with the brewery’s tasty brew Ruby Ale. On the contrary, Ruby on Ales is a single-track conference focused on the Ruby programming language and hosted by Northwest Ruby, Inc. For those of us who aren’t…
Governor Kitzhaber’s Lunch Date With Central Oregon
The lunch-spot of choice today seemed to be the Riverhouse Conference Center, where Governor John Kitzhaber addressed a couple hundred local business leaders and community members as the keynote speaker at the Economic Development for Central Oregon annual luncheon. “Oregon is open for business,” Governor Kitzhaber proclaimed, enthusiastically beginning his address to Central Oregon. In…
Owsley Stanley, the Acid King, Passes on
It’s one of those six degrees of separation things. Reading the obit of Augustus Owsley Stanley III, I immediately flashed back (bad pun) to the sixties, life in Berkeley, Owsley as the world’s leading manufacturer of LSD and some connection to him I couldn’t quite put my finger on. Trying to come up the connection,…
Brandi Carlile Set to Play in Bend on May 5
For the third straight spring, Brandi Carlile is coming to Bend and playing a show at the Tower Theatre. The show is slated for May 5.
Geekology: iPad part deux
The intended goal of our Portland-area trip this past Friday was to bring two local 12-year old fashionistas face-to-face with the wares at the recently opened outlet for Swedish retailer H & M. That location just happens to be in that most American of American places, The Washington Square Mall in that that oh-so-suburban community…
Video from Franchot Tone’s Performance at Velvet on Saturday Night
Nights like Saturday night in Bend always make me feel extremely fortunate to live here. Based on the quality and variety of live music alone, we live in a great music community.
Get Old Timey at Tonight’s (not so) Secret Speakeasy Party
OK, I’m not supposed to tell you about this (not true), but there’s a secret (it’s really not that secret) party going down in Bend tonight. The Speakeasy, as the party is known, is hosted by Source columnist Columbine Quillen and her fellow party purveyor Erica Reilly and has a Prohibition-era theme to it.
“Stuck in the Middle of Bend”: A Song About the REAL Bend, Oregon
I’m not sure if you had this forwarded to your inbox already, (I’ve got it from a couple different people today) but this is a must listen for all Bend residents new and old. The song, sung to the tune of Stealer’s Wheel’s “Stuck in the Middle with You,” but the chorus is modified to…
New Shows Announced: Devil Makes Three, Baseball Project, Rev. Horton Heat and more
This week I’ve been slammed with announcements of new shows heading into Bend in the weeks and months to come. And this is super cool.
Kayo's: The Marilyn Room
This is the first installment of the Source Weekly's new “Lounge Lizard” column in which our intrepid writers set out in search of a nearly lost art form: The Classic Cocktail Lounge. Trust us, they are here among the microbreweries, sports bars and dance clubs. You just have to look to find them. Know a…
Out of Town, Microcosmos, and the Lounge Lizard debut on Tsweekly.com
We’ll be the first ones to admit when we’re slacking. No Microcosmos online in Beer Town USA? That’s our bad and we’re going to start making up for it. And we’re not stopping with the most fun column to research (when else do you get to drink beer on the job?). Beginning this week all…
Benefit for Erin Zurflu Tonight at the Century Center
As is always the case, the Bend music community is rallying tonight to help one of their own. Tonight’s Breathe EZ Concert at the Century Center is a benefit for Erin Zurflu, one half of the longtime local acoustic outfit, The Erins, who was recently diagnosed with a tumor in her lung.
Woman of the Year – Possibilities with a View How Lawnae Hunter is changing Central Oregon's economic future
When Lawnae Hunter moved to Bend, she wasn't expecting to challenge the status quo. A former waitress and single mother who attended community college in Aptos, Calif., Hunter worked her way up the real estate food chain and developed the largest real estate company in Central California, Hunter Prudential Realty. The company was eventually sold…
Who's the Chick on the Drums?: Lindsey Elias is leading the way for the region's young female musicians
Lindsey Elias is 24 and has been a rock drummer for a full decade. She has one hell of a stage presence and it all comes in one surprisingly small package. Watching Elias and her 105-pound frame push out the power and speed of an enormous male drummer is really something to be seen when…
Swimming Through a Sea of Plastic Bags: Sara Wiener at Sara Bella Upcycled creates useful, environmentally friendly products out of trash
If you walk beyond the showroom at Sara Bella Upcycled, which is currently located upstairs above O Mo Mo in the Old Mill District, you will likely see a sea of plastic bags. Sara Wiener, owner of Sara Bella Upcycled, swims through the bags, creating one-of-a-kind products including tote bags, wallets, aprons, wine carriers, belts,…
Why Should Women Have the Vote? Why Not?: A history of women's suffrage in Central Oregon
The question seems ridiculous today but only 99 years ago, in May 1912, the Bend women you see in this picture met on the steps of Drake Lodge to voice an answer to that question. Oregonians defeated measures to legalize the vote for women five times between 1884 and 1910. By 1912, on the verge…
Riding High: Miki Keller Makes Women's Motocross a Serious Sport
Motocross, the sport featuring people riding souped-up dirt bikes around a muddy track and flinging themselves off of jumps, doing tricks like the “superman,” has been growing in popularity since it was introduced in the United States in the 1960s. Today, some riders are as popular as rock stars and those at the top of…
Ageless Songs: Sure, she's 79, but that hasn't stopped Harriet Dickson from returning to her music
Harriet Dickson has plenty of stories. She can tell you about the time she performed on a radio show in New York when she was just six years old, or when she survived civil war in Iran, or the years she spent as close friends with Sammy Davis Jr. But now, at 79 years old,…
Women Making the Best Beer in the Region… To Name a Few
The Homebrewer Name: Maura Schwartz Age: 51 Occupation: International Development Consultant Beer-ography: Schwartz started brewing about six years ago after flirting with the idea for years. She won second prize at the Eugene Beer Festival for her first homebrew, a pale ale. After that, she was hooked. Schwartz, who has graduated to an all-grain system,…
Deschutes Brewery Continues Eastward Push: Now in South Dakota
Whenever I reconnect with a long-lost friend and tell him where I’m living, he’ll almost certainly respond by saying something along the lines of, “Oh Bend. Yeah, that’s where Deschutes Brewery is, right?” Well, that phenomenon isn’t going to die out anytime soon, especially with Deschutes announcing today that their push into the Midwest has…
Watch our video for a peek inside the Bend Table Tennis Club
Here at The Source we know how to use our words. Every once in awhile we try to use more than just words by bringing a visual component to our stories using video. Last week we brought you video of Bend’s youth billiards league and this week we peek inside the Bend Table Tennis Club…
Got Your Fresh, Piping Hot Straight Poop Right Here
Monday, March 7 Peace feelers? “The Wisconsin 14,” Democratic senators who fled state to prevent vote on union-busting bill, say they're willing to talk with Gov. Scott Walker – but won't come home just yet … You gotta problem wit dat? New Jersey's in-your-face Gov. Chris Christie voted most popular politician in America in Quinnipiac…
American Workers Can Learn From Gaddafi
As Muammar Gaddafi (sic) loses his grip on Libya, one wonders how he was able to hold on for so long. For most of the people living on Earth, the name Gaddafi is synonymous with Libya. So how'd he do it? Divide and conquer, that's how.
Oregon Drug Bust of the Week: Meth is Gross
Super duper gross. Just look at it.
Out of Town – 3/9 – 3/17: Joshua Radin, Disturbed, Devo, and Eugene Irish Cultural Festival
portland thursday 10 Joshua Radin You may not immediately recognize his name, but if you're someone who watches just about any show on primetime TV you've probably heard Joshua Radin's music before. The acoustic folk-pop singer-songwriter has had 75 placements in film and television.
Beer To Go: Bend's Cycle Pub
MicroCosmos didn't make it down to WinterFest this year due to prior contractual obligations, but we heard tell of a magical traveling beer bar on wheels aka the Bend Cycle Pub, which made its 2011 debut during recent festivities. If you haven't yet seen or sampled the Cycle Pub, it's the 16-seat, people-powered bar/tour bus.
Bend's Gypsy Table Tennis Club Comes Home: Settled into a downtown location, the club readies for second-annual tourney
The only real experience I have with ping-pong is the kind in which you throw the balls into cups of beer in an effort to get drunk faster, which I guess is technically beer-pong – not ping-pong. During my college years in the good old Black Hills of South Dakota, there were weekly beer pong…
Snow Therapy at Dutchman Flats: How to treat the late-winter blues with outdoor exercise
Endorphins, sunshine and inspiring views — always a sure recipe for lifting me out of the winter blahs. I've always been addicted to the rush of fresh oxygen and the healthy buzz I get from working up a sweat in the outdoors. It admittedly keeps me sane and helps me work through things, stimulates creative…
What's a Jimmer? The quiet, white awesomeness of the nation's seemingly invisible leading scorer
Even if you're a Sportscenter loyalist and fancy yourself a devoted college basketball fan, there's a good chance you've never actually seen this Jimmer Fredette guy play. Sure, you've seen a few highlight reels of the BYU guard tossing in shots from three rows deep in the stands, but you've never actually seen an entire…
Ode to Packy and Dr. Matt Maberry
Last week, I had the great pleasure of writing a book dedication that was – like my last column on the Vandervert Family – another “labor of love.” Pat Maberry, wife and companion of my dear old friend Dr. Matt Maberry from my OMSI/zoo days has with the help of author, Michelle Trappen, developed a…
Love and Other Adjustments: Adjustment Bureau stirs up a melting pot of genres at hyper speed
The Adjustment Bureau is a sci-fi action thriller, love story and parable all rolled into one and writer/director George Nolfi combines all the elements to tell a somewhat balanced story. Based on Phillip K. Dick's 1954 short story, “Adjustment Team,” about an insurance salesman who learns that he's a puppet on a string controlled by…
Slow Motion: Mars Needs Moms may capture motion, but it doesn't capture much that's real
Here's the irony of motion-capture animation, one that Mars Needs Moms only serves to reinforce: For a technology that's intended to make animated humans look more real, it sure hasn't been used to tell stories that are more human. When Robert Zemeckis pioneered the idea for a feature-length film in The Polar Express in 2004,…
The Charlie Sheen Network
First of all, it should be noted that Charlie Sheen – if he's still alive – is making me look bad. Not to brag, but I've been doing this “banging hookers/guzzling liquor/snorting goofballs” shtick for the last 15 years – and yet has a single producer from Good Morning, America asked ME for an interview?…
A Kick in the Balls: Bulletstorm is a solid shooting gallery without any pretext
It took me all day to shoot a monster in the balls. Well, I shot a lot of monsters in the balls, but it took me all day before I was coordinated enough to start kicking their sharp-toothed zombie heads off after they scrunched up their faces and clutched themselves in pain. To win the…
The Rainmaker closes, Tuesdays with Morrie Opens and Aida sings its way into your heart
With spring just around the corner, the winter theater season comes to a close, making way for a new season of plays and musicals to get you in touch with your cultural side. The Rainmaker 2nd Street Theater presents a warm and romantic comedy that celebrates love, resiliency and the magic of belief in something…
New Kid in Town: From the ashes of El Cap Sisters comes the cozy Los Agaves
A new amigo on the block, Los Agaves Mexican Grill in downtown Sisters has ignited the area's restaurant scene with an inventive take on familiar, south-of-the-border fare. Sporting the flowering green agave plant on their signs and menus, the famous herb from which tequila is derived, owner and head chef Jimmy Fernandez welcomes old friends…
Little Bites: Pilot Butte Drive-In Eyes Westside – Lease Negotiations ongoing; Pine Tavern re-opens
Bend's king of burgers, Pilot Butte Drive-In, which also happens to feature a mean breakfast menu, is tentatively planning to open a new location on Bend's westside. Owner Bill Falconer told The Bulletin that the eastside dining stalwart is in the process of negotiating a lease somewhere near South Century Drive and could have a…
The Traveling Camera: The Crossbill
Birds have a strange sense of humor. They always pose for you when they know you have a cappuccino in your hand and the camera far away.
Brews and Guitars: The Mother Hips are making beer and excellent throwback rock
Of all the things Tim Bluhm could be excited about, beer doesn't seem like it would be at the top of the Mother Hips front man's list. But on a Monday afternoon amidst discussion of the rootsy rock band's 20th anniversary, a forthcoming box set and a new studio record, he spends some time chatting…
Adele – 21
When you put out a cover of an insanely popular song – especially a beloved one that's been danced to at weddings and cried over after breakups – you're announcing yourself, in a way, to the world. And with Adele's cover of the Cure's “Lovesong,” the British girl that swept the Grammys in 2009 soars…
Our Picks for 3/9 -3/17: Breathe EZ Benefit Concert, Sunny Ledfurd, 9th Annual Grin and Bear It Run and more
Breathe EZ Benefit Concert and Silent Auction Thursday 10 We told you about this benefit show last week for Erin Zurflu, and even provided a gorgeous photo of her, but it's worth mentioning again that this show will help raise money for Zurflu, who has been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in her lung. Check…
The Phony Budget Crisis: The answer to America's fiscal woes is one we refuse to consider
Everywhere you look, from the federal government to the states to your hometown, budget crises abound. Services are being slashed. Politicians and pundits from both parties tell us that the good times are over, that we've got to start living within our means. It's a lie Two case studies have made news lately: California, where…
Flaherty's Prosecutorial Crusade
Zeal, in general, is a fine thing in a district attorney. We want a DA who goes after the bad guys with vigor and single-minded intensity. In his first couple of months on the job, though, Deschutes County District Attorney Patrick Flaherty seems to be channeling most of his zeal into going after county employees…
This Poop Is Guaranteed Straight or Your Money Back
Monday, Feb. 28 Terminally delusional: Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi tells reporters: “All my people love me.
So, Was That Just a Press Conference?
After receiving a notification late Tuesday afternoon when we were rushing to wrap up last week's issue, we made sure we had a reporter down at the district attorney's office on Wednesday morning for a press conference about.
Don't Believe the Hype: Worker solidarity can win economic justice
There's a joke circulating around the Internet that goes something like this: A corporate CEO, a union member and a tea partier are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies. The CEO takes 11 cookies and wolfs them down. Then he turns to the tea partier and says, “Watch out for…
4 Peaks Music Festival Returns for 2011
I just got word from festival organizers that the 4 Peaks Music Festival will be going down once again in 2011. The two-day event is slated for July 15-16 at the Rockin A Ranch in Tumalo, the site of the 2007 and 2008 editions of the festival.
