In A Mellow Tone: Sundays at the Northside
On any stormy, gray faux spring Sunday, nothing beats the blahs like going to hear some live music. And live it is at The Northside Café on Boyd Acres Road with jazz from 4 p.
East Bend Branch of Deschutes Public Library Opens Today
East Siders looking for a good read no long have to make the trek all the way downtown to check out a variety of books. Today, the highly anticipated East Bend branch of the Deschutes Public Library opened adjacent to The Forum Shopping Center, across the street on Dean Swift Rd.
Brandi Carlile’s Show in Bend is Sold Out
I tried to warn you, and maybe you listened and snagged tickets to Brandi Carlile’s show at the Tower Theatre. Hopefully, because the show is totally sold out.
You’re Invited to Our Party…With Cheap Beer!
Now that I’ve got your attention with the promise of cheap beer, I would now like to promise you some cheap beer. Not cheap beer, really, but good beer at cheap prices.
Mt. Bachelor Hits 500 Inches of Snowfall for the Season
At some point last night, Mt. Bachelor received its 500th inch of snowfall for the season.
Woody's NCAA Bracket Blues: Started fast and falling just as quickly
Every year, I promise myself never ever to pick any of the extremely over-rated Big East teams on my NCAA basketball tournament bracket. But I succumbed again this year and picked Pitt to go to the Final Four.
Beer and Chocolate tonight at Deschutes Brewery
People like chocolate. And people, especially in Central Oregon, like beer. Tonight, the two come together at Bend’s most venerable brewery, Deschutes, for a five course feast, each course featuring – surprise, surprise – chocolate, paired with a Deschutes Brewery beer. Tickets are $70 and can be purchased here. I’ll be covering the event and…
Meet Robin Fox
Past 83Music Featured Friends have generally focused on people doing amazing and creative things who also happen to have a love of great music. This time, our friend Robin Fox (@radioladiorobin on TWITTER), is actually living and breathing her love of music every single day sitting behind a radio mic in Bend Oregon. As the morning show…
Video of The Mother Hips From Last Night
There were plenty of people out in downtown Bend last night for St. Patrick’s Day and it seems by 9 p.
Anybody See a Leprechaun?
OK, I know you’ve probably seen this, like a gazillion times, but given that it’s St. Patrick’s Day, I must follow my annual tradition of sharing this clip.
It’s St. Patrick’s Day: Check out the Bend Fire Pipes and Drum Band
Your friends and coworkers are dressed in bright or perhaps overbearing shades of green (except the people in my office of course — everyone is dressed quite dandy today) and that’s because it’s St. Patrick’s Day.
Hungry Like the Wolf: Red Riding Hood takes a bite out of the classic fairytale
It seems that recreating classic fairytales has become one of the latest trends in Hollywood moviemaking. Last year, Tim Burton took on the fantastical Alice in Wonderland, and instead of following the beloved original storyline, created a sequel. Now, Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) directs Red Riding Hood, shifting the story to tell of a not-so-little red…
Sliding Snow: Some avalanche information is better than none
It's been a year since Wesley Amos, a 28-year-old man from La Pine who loved the exploring the backcountry on his snowmobile, was killed when he was caught in an avalanche near Paulina Peak. Amos was riding on a slope frequented by snowmobilers that historically has been stable. Still, on that day the weight of…
Footage of Empty Space Orchestra in the Studio
As I’ve mentioned a few times on this blog, local instrumental space rockers Empty Space Orchestra have a new self-titled album on the way (it’s due out in May) and I’ll be the first to tell you that it’s radically awesome. (I got a sneak preview listen to it recently).
Boy! Potheads Are Sensitive!
I Love Television™ reader Karly from Oregon writes: “Your 'Ten MORE Reasons to Dislike Miley Cyrus' [March 2] was so hateful. Are you so poor a writer that you must resort to gross-out ass humour? Sad. And us medical marijuana users couldn't care less what you think of pot smoking. Again, an awful lot of…
My Bracket Sucks: Everything I think will happen during the NCAA tournament
Let me clarify one thing before we get started with the NCAA Basketball Tournament: A lot of the stuff I predict won't happen… or won't happen how I want it to. Or it will happen, but I'll miss it because I have a stupid job that makes me sit at a stupid desk without a…
Normal Embarrassing People: Cedar Rapids is indie quirkiness in top form
Miguel Arteta (Chuck and Buck, Youth in Revolt) deserves credit for being the only director to yank a decent performance out of Jennifer Aniston in the past decade with The Good Girl. In Cedar Rapids, he provides a straightforward story about a fictional Wisconsin town, Brown Valley, and the heroic turn of its dweeb insurance…
Black in Bend: Ahjamu Umi's new novel tackles the issue of race in Central Oregon
We don't talk about it. We, at this newspaper, don't often write about it.
No Translation Necessary: Boken proves that Bend knows its Japanese bar food
Michael Murphy's take on a Japanese “Izakaya” restaurant isn't what you'd expect from a chef who is collaborating with Justin Cook, the owner of Bend's popular westside sushi house Kanpai. Murphy and Cook opened Boken last month in the former home of The Downtowner just off Mirror Pond Plaza. As you might expect, the execution…
Irish Whiskey a Go-Go
There will no doubt be a disagreement this week about what the better man drinks, Jameson or Bushmills. It's a timeless argument that merits some attention in honor of St. Patrick's Day. To wit, it is rare that a Jameson drinker will toss back a Bushmills and I have never seen a Bushmills connoisseur toast…
The Big Get Bigger
It's official. Deschutes Brewery is ready to launch its first major expansion in more than a decade, adding two new buildings and five fermentation tanks that will boost Bend's flagship brewery by 105,000 barrels per year.
Funk for the Masses: Celebrating Mardi Gras with the New Orleans funk masters of Galactic
It's a Friday afternoon in New Orleans and Jeff Raines is taking it easy. Well, kind of. He's playing with some musicians that night somewhere downtown, but compared to earlier that week, things are pretty tame. You see, Raines is only two days removed from Ash Wednesday – three days from Mardi Gras – and…
The Traveling Camera: Smith Rock in Winter
This weekend we had a photo workshop at Smith Rock State Park. Smith Rock holds a special meaning to me.
Earth: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1
When Dylan Carlson released Earth's first full-length, Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version in 1993, he and Dave Harwell took Sabbath riffs and deconstructed them into an unforgiving dragging force. This album would go on to spawn a legion of metal subgenres, most notably, drone metal. After two decades, Earth 2 still inspires sludge metal…
This Week Out of Town: Girl Talk, Warpaint, Good Charlotte and Lucy Wainwright Roche
portland Thursday 17 Girl Talk If you're getting bored of staying at home and watching your roommate play around with his laptop, perhaps it's time to check out Girl Talk, (aka Greg Gillis) who plays around with his laptop professionally, for crowds of people. Specializing in electronic mixing and mashup remixes, Girl Talk turns out…
St.Patrick’s Day(s) Picks
Green Card Party thursday 17 Head down to Amalia's for a free “green card” (yeah, we get the joke… it's a Mexican restaurant) that gives you the right to purchase beers for a mere dollar and receive other food discounts. The party features a performance at 7pm by local funny man Jim Mortenson, the winner…
What Happens in Wisconsin… Facing similar budget woes, Oregon prepares to tackle its own union issues
Adalia McDonald is bracing herself for the coming storm. A unemployment specialist in Bend, McDonald, like a lot of state employees, isn't sure exactly what her job or her paycheck is going to look like next year as the legislature prepares to take up a budget that continues to hemorrhage cash amidst the recession-stricken economy.…
Great Vibes: Jazz at Joe's 29th concert soars
Three decades ago, a 21-year-old jazz drummer named Chuck Redd appeared in Bend as part of the Charlie Bryd trio at a gig at the now defunct Pat and Mike’s restaurant upstairs at 916 Wall Street. Byrd was responsible in great part for bringing bossa nova from Brazil to America. Pat and Mike’s was a…
Whisnant and Conger Pander to the Tea Partiers
Like a drunk going back to the bottle, Republicans can't seem to stop themselves from returning to the same “family values” issues the party has been obsessed with at least since the reign of President Bush the Elder. In Washington, with the economy still slumping, the Middle East exploding and other urgent problems waiting to…
This Land Is My Land
Can anyone tell me who that “IDIOT” is who's been on TV and going around the state telling everyone how wonderful Bend is and come on, move right in, we want more people here? Well I got to tell you, I've been here since 1954 and I promise you another person moving into Bend will…
Gimme Snow Shelter
Editor's note: This letter comes in response to a recent Guest Commentary, Dog Owners Deserve Equal Opportunities, 2-23, from DogPAC's Kreg Lindberg.
Nice letter. I share your desire to create a dog-friendly snow-play area larger than what exists at Wanoga. It's a shame that it's temporary and can't be expanded. You don't say why that…
We're Already Too Many for this Earth
While I appreciate Emilie Marlinghaus's excellent letter in defense of Planned Parenthood, unfortunately she is mistaken when she says, “we are rapidly exceeding Earth's carrying capacity.” Reputable scientists have suggested that earth's carrying capacity for humans that will allow all the other animals and plants a healthy existence, instead of going extinct, is about 2…
Humpy Is Just a Hater
Editor's note: The following letter was submitted to Wm. Steven Humphrey, the Portland-based author of the syndicated column, I Luv Television. To read Mr. Humphrey's reply, turn to his column on page 22, which he has dedicated to Ms. Drake-Lusby. Dear Steve, Perhaps if more people called you “Dear” you wouldn’t be so angry…do you…
Win Two Tickets to See Tone Red on Saturday at Three Creeks Brewing Co.
Beginning today The Source will be giving away tickets to upcoming concerts at Three Creeks Brewing Co. in Sisters.
Homebrew on Tap Again in Oregon
Homebrewers rejoice. It’s officially safe to share your beer, again.
Ozomatli Coming to Bend on Cinco De Mayo
Yeah, it looks like it. According to the C3 Events Facebook page, the cross-cultural band, which mixes hip-hop, rock and Latin sounds into one big party, is booked to play a big outdoor show at Amalia’s in downtown Bend on Cinco de Mayo.
