Maceo Parker vs Trombone Shorty: What to do tonight?
As I wrote about in last week’s print edition, tonight is one of the funkiest in recent memory. That’s because funk and jazz legend Maceo Parker is playing the Tower Theatre and up-and-coming horn player Trombone Shorty is out at the Sisters Folk Festival Winter Concert Series with his funky band, Orleans Avenue.
Monday Short Takes
Jeff and Marci Beagley, members of a faith-healing cult in Oregon City who let their 16-year-old son die without seeking medical care, were sentenced to 16 months in prison last Wednesday. Rejecting the defense’s plea for leniency, Clackamas County Circuit Court Judge Steven Maurer said the grisly history of the Followers of Christ Church demanded…
Preparing the Way for Theocracy?
They say a man is known by the company he keeps. If that’s true, some of the folks that state legislature candidate Jason Conger hangs with might say something troubling about him.
Dispatches: Is Palm Springs the new Joshua Tree?
Editor’s note: Frequent Source contributor Bob Woodward has been on the road for several weeks travelling and vacationing in California. Expect to see new posts to his blog by next week.
Poor Man’s Whiskey Return to the Domino Room Saturday Night
After selling out the Domino Room in October for a show that featured the Bay Area band’s front-to-back Americana recreation of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, Poor Man’s Whiskey is returning to Bend on Saturday (3/13) for another show at the same venue. This time around, PMW is playing a show featuring its…
Music Documentary, “Playing For Change” Tonight at the Domino Room
One of our Picks of the Week in the last print edition was sending you in the direction of the Domino Room tonight where Bend’s community radio station, KPOV (106.7FM), is screening the documentary Playing For Change.
Adding Up the Costs of Dropping Out
The laws of probability allow even a blind hen to occasionally find a kernel, and the right-wing Cascade Policy Institute to occasionally produce a valuable piece of research. The institute has come out with a study titled “Oregon’s High School Dropouts: Examining the Economic and Social Costs” that lays out some startling and disturbing facts…
Riverhouse Kayak Race Returns
A whitewater park in Bend may still be a few years out, but that isn’t stopping paddling enthusiasts from celebrating their sport this month. Paddlers announced this week that they are preparing to host the second annual Riverhouse Run slalom championships on Sunday, March 28.
Local Middle School Student Takes 3rd Place in CSPAN Video Contest
In January, Source staffer Anne Pick wrote a feature story about the CSPAN StudentCam contest, which put cameras in the hands of local students and asked them to put together a video that dealt with pressing national issues. Several area students submitted videos and now the winners have been announced.
Food On The Go
Spork, the restaurant with no home but lots of homeys and the coolest graphic design support of any Bend eatery, is back on Century Drive this week serving up its brand of eclectic and savory meals from the Skjersaas parking lot. Catch breakfast lunch or dinner at the Airstream enclosed kitchen between 8 a.m. and…
Get Off That Killer Couch! A day in the elements with Arlene Blum
Did you know that your couch could kill you? Yes, that inviting haven ofcomfort in your living room could actually be overstuffed with carcinogens. Every day, your friendly sofa may be burping off deadly gases and cancer-causing dust may be gathering on your lovely wool carpet. Go flip over the cushions on your couch right…
Little Bites: Food On The Go
Spork, the restaurant with no home but lots of homeys and the coolest graphic design support of any Bend eatery, is back on Century Drive this week serving up its brand of eclectic and savory meals from the Skjersaas parking lot. Catch breakfast lunch or dinner at the Airstream enclosed kitchen between 8 a.
Predator and Prey: The plight of the salamander
A few years back, I had the pleasure of attending the annual meeting of the Oregon Chapter of The Wildlife Society. Among the papers presented was one titled “The Effects of Stream Crossing Culverts on the Movements of Coastal Giant Salamander (Dicamptodon tenebrosus).” Essentially, the researchers were interested in the role of culverts in the…
This Means War!
Now hold on just a second there, Mr. Tom Brokaw (noted former anchorman and author of the best-selling book The Greatest Generation)! If you ask me, I think it's bullpoopy of you to single-handedly decide that the people who fought in World War II are going to be forever known as “the greatest generation.” I…
Who'll Stop The Rain?: Cinematic presentation drowns Heavy Rain
I knew Heavy Rain was going to be an artsy game as soon as it instructed me to take a piece of paper and fold it into an origami bird. Shortly thereafter I got to see a man's naked ass. By the time the game's female shower scene happened – with the camera swirling around…
Down the Garbage Hole: Tim Burton brings us a most un-wonderful Alice In Wonderland
Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland is a film so half-assed, so slap-dash, so unbearably boring that I can't even care enough to fully concentrate on writing this review. I am distracting myself with the Oscars – and finding even the interpretative dance sequence to the soundtrack of The Hurt Locker miles more entertaining than the…
The Righter and the Wronger: Flying bullets dispense final justice in Brooklyn's Finest
Going into Brooklyn's Finest I didn't expect something special, but I came out somewhat amazed at how bland it really was. It's a lame attempt at combining Training Day and Crash that comes off like a mediocre television crime drama. Finest begins with an ominous black car silhouetted in front of a New York cityscape,…
Race Is On for Westlund's Job
The scramble to succeed Ben Westlund as state treasurer is on, with four candidates entered in the competition by Tuesday’s filing deadline. Bend’s Chris Telfer announced her interest almost as soon as the news of Westlund’s death broke.
Generous Portions and Good Fortunes: Getting into bed with Red Dragon
As teenagers, my friends and I became known by name at the Chinese Buffet in our upstate New York town. There, we followed a ritualistic fortune cookie reading in which we'd tack on “in bed” to the end of our fortunes, making each experience a memorable one, and the buffet rotation felt almost like a…
Generous Portions and Good Fortunes: Getting into bed with Red Dragon
As teenagers, my friends and I became known by name at the Chinese Buffet in our upstate New York town. There, we followed a ritualistic fortune cookie reading in which we'd tack on “in bed” to the end of our fortunes, making each experience a memorable one, and the buffet rotation felt almost like a…
The Funky Old and the Funky New: Maceo Parker and Trombone Shorty blow their horns across the entire region
On Tuesday night, two men will be blowing their horns here in Central Oregon and both will be getting terribly funky. One specializes in the saxophone while the other favors the trombone but their styles both weave through the realms of jazz, soul and, again, the funkiest of funk. There are plenty of other similarities…
Quasi – American Gong
Quasi American Gong Kill Rock Stars Records
All along – when Janet Weiss and Sam Coomes weren't busying themselves with Heatmiser and Sleater-Kinney and the Jicks, or being married and then being divorced – they were Quasi. So when they do occasionally choose to wear their Quasi pants, fans freak. On American Gong, Quasi's eighth…
Off the Wall, On the Street: The delightfully low-brow art of Dana MacKenzie
Sitting on a couch at the Bendistillery Martini Bar, Dana MacKenzie sips from a Rogue Dead Guy Ale as he points up at his artwork on an adjacent wall. He's giving a deeply detailed account of his two pieces and revealing some of the inspiration behind the work he placed on the wall just a…
Our Picks for 3/10 – 3/18: Tuck and Roll, Pato Banton, Local Flavor, Maceo Parker, Brandi Carlile and more
Tuck and Roll CD Release Party friday 12 Over the last year we've watched as Tuck and Roll got tighter and tighter with their local shows and now they've got a full-length album, Time To Run, to showcase their delicious punk rock licks and NOFX-style harmonies. While poppy punk is the crux of the disc,…
Bend For Haiti Concert Announces Lineup
It’s been in the works for more than a month now, but the lineup has been finalized for the Bend For Haiti concert to take place at the Tower Theatre on March 19. The show is the culminating effort led by Reed Thomas Lawrence, the local pop rocker who will come out of relative live…
Sleep, Stretch, Ski: One woman's search for satisfaction in Central Oregon
I'm no Elizabeth Gilbert, and when my life changed dramatically a few years ago I didn't set off for Italy to eat, India to pray, or Indonesia to find love. I didn't have the money or the resources. My husband died in September 2006 and it took me six months to put one foot in…
Ben Westlund: A Life Lived Well
If somebody designed a prototype of the perfect politician, it would be a lot like Ben Westlund. And we mean that as a compliment. Westlund had all the natural gifts that go into making a great politician – an outgoing, gregarious personality, a remarkable memory for names and faces, a ready way with words. But…
How To Defend Big Ben: Grilling Roethlisberger, the insurance racket, soft drink taxes and more!
The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from D.C., marrying his new pal Gary for a goof, on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly. Kettle said “Say What?” to the Pot “The reconciliation rules have never been used… ” repeated Orin…
Two Slippers are Better Than One
Two weeks ago, in a fit of irony overload, we gave Chris Telfer a mock glass slipper instead of the real one that we reserve for those folks in the community who continue to unravel the mess that former OLCC Regional Manager Jason Evers left in his wake. Initially disappointed by Telfer's seeming lack of…
Studs Are Just Duds
Well I did it! Took my friend Joe's advice and got a set of studded tires. I thought he should know being an ex-highway patrol how safe they would be. Could hardly wait till the snow would fly. Finally it snowed and out I went to try my new tires. The snow was fluffy and…
Together We Can
Who are these naysayers? Where is the heart of this city. Bend is now a city.
Rate Increase Doesn't Add Up
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I read about Pacific Power's proposed 20-percent rate hike. Cry because that's a heck of an increase for a lot of people already struggling with bills, and laugh because they will probably pull it off. Rebuilding a company's infrastructure by buying new equipment, for example, is…
