Phish at the Gorge? Yup.
There's probably going to be a mass exodus of Bendites come Memorial Day weekend when the Sasquatch! Music Festival takes over the Gorge Amphitheater up in Central Washington. But come August 7th and 8th, there should be another line of vehicles heading north as legendary jam band Phish returns to the Gorge for the first…
A New Look at the Numbers for Destination Resorts
Central Oregon LandWatch has come out with a detailed study of the fiscal impacts of destination resorts, and resort developers and advocates aren't going to like it one bit.
Frame Wranglers…It’s Funny as Hell
Local filmmaker Chris Kas, who works at Rage Films, but is also the brains behind a project called "Frame Wranglers" a fake reality show about a documentary team that goes looking out looking for fabled creatures, often with little success — other than making you laugh your face off. Tomorrow night (Friday) Kas is showing…
Dr. Telfer Prescribes a Band-Aid
State Sen. Chris Telfer has put forward what she's billing as "a community-based solution to the health care crisis." It looks to us like an idea worth exploring - but whether it's the "solution" is another story.
Pit Bulls Got The Shaft
Because we don't take it personal when people call B.S. on our WTF?!, we're awarding this week's letter prize to Staci Bowen who makes a strong case in favor of the much maligned pit bull. Thanks for reading and responding, Staci. You can pick up your prize, an Old Mill pint glass, at our office…
Hope Is Real
I just read an article re: Obama with reference to Dr. Sam Vaknin. Whoever wrote this article seems to think the American people are a bunch of sheep who can be led by one person, or persons, without any struggle. This is absolutely not true. What the author seems to forget is that there is…
Being is Believing
I still believe. In a culture gone mad, calling right wrong and wrong right; calling good bad and bad good, I still believe.
The Ski Slope Samaritan
Just wanted to say a huge Thank You to whoever found and turned in my skis in the Sunrise parking lot on Sunday. I was distracted and absent minded and left them laying next to my car.
Equal Rights Aren’t Special Rights
The inimitable editors of Bend's daily have mocked and name-called California supporters of gay marriage with, "A temper tantrum in support of gay rights." The support group had put together what the editors called a "snarky statement," "Day Without a Gay." I can't say it's my favorite, but did it deserve "a temper tantrum" and…
A Guinness Alternative: Local brews to celebrate the Irish Holiday
We all know St. Patrick's Day is marked with pints of Guinness, Irish Car Bombs and lots of Irish whiskey.
Gone to Look for America: A deep inspection of the country departs from Bend in a shag-covered RV
“She needs a name.” This is what Brad Lockwood says as he’s standing in a driveway halfway up Awbrey Butte staring at a 1979 Ford Econoline RV. He takes a long look at the 22-and-a-half foot vehicle and lights a Lucky Strike cigarette as snow flurries land on the upturned earflaps of his hunting hat.…
Our Picks for the Week of 3/11-3/18
Empty Space Orchestra, Monk friday 13 Haven't heard much from Empty Space lately? Well, that's probably because the instrumental wizards have been locked in some sort of subterranean recording facility working diligently on their new disc, Big Bang. This is one of the band's only shows before their CD release party on May 6 and…
CD Review: MV & EE with the Golden Road
Drone Trailer Dicristina Stair Records
While ravenous movers and shakers devour Animal Collective's Merriweather, and the long list of other January/February releases (Antony and the Johnsons, Andrew Bird, Bon Iver, A.C.
The Other PPPs: PPP, R2R, Ski to Sea and G2G
Take a number.Pole Pedal Paddle is only 10 weeks away. It's time to start thinking about your training program. But the most important training technique of all, in my opinion, has nothing to do with heart rate training zones, lactic acid removal, 40-30-30 diets, intervals, overdistance or visualization. It's specificity. In other words, the best…
A Video Collector’s Nightmare: I’m moving and it sucks
Moving… it's a video collector's nightmare. I am now in the process of moving across town and in my day I bought out five, maybe six video stores. That may sound outrageous, but I needed those movies to produce Onslaughts.
What's an Onslaught, you ask? Well, I take lesser-known movies and combine clips of action,…
Keeping a Watchful Eye: Watchmen scores and falls flat on a grand scale
Go ahead…The making of Watchmen was besieged with controversy and problems from the get-go. Producers fought over rights, writer Alan Moore took his name off the project, lawsuits flew-it was a messy Hollywood legal battle on a grand scale begging the question: would it ever be released? With Zack Snyder (Dawn Of the Dead redux…
Cocktailing: Bars in Hospitals? Why Not?
It is no secret that we as a nation are struggling with how to make healthcare affordable and available for everyone. The Republicans are afraid that after the socialization of their beloved banks that the state might try to subsidize health insurance too. But fret not, there is a business opportunity to be had that…
Cocktailing: Bars in Hospitals? Why Not?
It is no secret that we as a nation are struggling with how to make healthcare affordable and available for everyone. The Republicans are afraid that after the socialization of their beloved banks that the state might try to subsidize health insurance too. But fret not, there is a business opportunity to be had that…
The Jackalope Grill: Northwestern cuisine that’s haute but never haughty
Elk medallions and blackberries, Jackalope style. Although the Jackalope Grill has been open a little more than three years, there's something very enduring and lived-in about it. You'll find no scene or gimmicks here. You can expect the old standards in the background to be playing at low volume, the crowd to be civilized, and…
Highly Unorthodox: Goodbye Dyna are doing things ass backwards and loving it
Dyna by candlelight.Three-fourths of Goodbye Dyna have gathered at the Source offices on a Friday afternoon, all of them with the ruddy faces that can only mean one thing on a sunny March day in Bend: they just got off the mountain. The emerging local eclectic rockers admit that they've just finished up their first…
Bars in Hospitals? Why Not?
It is no secret that we as a nation are struggling with how to make healthcare affordable and available for everyone. The Republicans are afraid that after the socialization of their beloved banks that the state might try to subsidize health insurance too.
Bars in Hospitals? Why Not?
It is no secret that we as a nation are struggling with how to make healthcare affordable and available for everyone. The Republicans are afraid that after the socialization of their beloved banks that the state might try to subsidize health insurance too.
The Jackalope Grill: Northwestern cuisine that’s haute but never haughty
Although the Jackalope Grill has been open a little more than three years, there's something very enduring and lived-in about it. You'll find no scene or gimmicks here. You can expect the old standards in the background to be playing at low volume, the crowd to be civilized, and the service to be professional and…
The Jackalope Grill: Northwestern cuisine that’s haute but never haughty
Although the Jackalope Grill has been open a little more than three years, there’s something very enduring and lived-in about it. You’ll find no scene or gimmicks here. You can expect the old standards in the background to be playing at low volume, the crowd to be civilized, and the service to be professional and…
The Drinking Age: It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It
The conservative members of the Taxpayer Association of Oregon held a wingding at Dorchester last week, and one of the surprises was the overwhelming consensus in favor of allowing states to lower the drinking age.
Wayne Krieger’s Crazy Bike Tax Bill
We don't know why, but some folks just don't like bicycles and the people who ride them. Maybe it's resentment directed against the cyclists' perceived "elitism" for choosing two-wheeled self-propulsion over a Dodge Ram 3500 Quad Cab 4×4 with the 345-hp Hemi V8. Or maybe it's the silly Spandex shorts.
Anyhow, there's a lot of…
Chinese Democracy: Evangelicals vs. God, Pelosi’s knife and more!
"The Chinese used poles in an attempt to snag the Impeccable's towed acoustic array sonars," said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman, reporting on the standoff between the USNS Impeccable and five Chinese military and fishing vessels on Sunday. The event ended with seamen on the USNS Impeccable turning their firehoses on the crews of the Chinese…
