Supersuckers, Steve Earle Coming to Bend
…and in that order, too. The Supersuckers, a hard-nosed rockabilly crew from Seattle who’ve made a few stops in town over the years, have been booked by Random Presents at the Domino Room on Friday, April 9. Fronted by the boisterous Eddie Spaghetti, the Supersuckers were born out of the early ‘90s Seattle scene and…
Ride On: Changes coming at both the Maston and Horse Ridge
The first day of spring tuned out not only to be a glorious one weather-wise but also one that proved a good news day for two local mountain bike areas on BLM lands-Horse Ridge and The Maston Allotment. First to how the good news was delivered.
News from the World of Weird: Clothesline War Continues
Ever wonder what happened to Bend’s Clothesline Lady? She hasn’t gone away or given up – she’s still out there fighting. The back story: More than two years ago, Susan Taylor decided to start hanging clothes to dry on a line outside her Awbrey Butte home.
Big Music Videos in Bend: Jah Sun goes futuristic with Far From Earth Films
Bend doesn’t seem like the place where a high-end music video would be under construction, but that’s essentially what was going on a couple weeks ago at Rage Films’ studio. It was there that Tim Cash from Far From Earth Films was directing the music video for reggae/dance hall star Jah Sun, the pride of…
The Screech Owl Doesn’t…: Let's find these diminutive hooters in Central Oregon
Screech Owl All night each reedy whinny from a bird no bigger than a heart flies out of a tall black pine and, in a breath, is taken away by the stars. Yet, with small hope from the center of darkness it calls out again and again.
– Ted Kooser, Nebraska Poet Laureate
Ted Kooser's…
The NCAA Tournament: Probably the greatest thing ever
Plunk. That’s the sound of your NCAA basketball tournament bracket – which you spent half of your Monday painstakingly completing – hitting the bottom of your trashcan.
Bringing the Benefits of Health Care Reform Home
Some of the Tea Party troops were outside Rep. Greg Walden’s Bend office Monday afternoon to register their opposition to health care reform, marching around and holding up signs saying things like “No Socialism!” and “Obama = Tyranny.
This Week’s Number: 41
That's the percentage of Bend homeowners who are underwater on their mortgages, meaning that they owe more on their homes than those homes are currently worth in the post-bubble real estate world. The number was good, or bad, enough to put our town on the list of the ten most “underwater” housing markets in America,…
State: All Will Be Well in the Garden
“Oregon calls flat unemployment a win,” said the headline in yesterday’s Oregonian. The gist of the story was that although the state lost 1,200 jobs in February, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained the same as in January at 10.
wRite: When Nothing Works
Nun: Do you ever wake up scared in the early hours of the morning? Me (the cop): Almost every night. Nun: And does this fear originate somewhere in the area of the navel. Me: Above the navel, somewhere between the navel and the solar plexus. Nun: And what do you do about it? Me: My…
Bird Nests: A bird's guide to home building
Back in the '50s, a great horned owl was using an old hawk's nest adjacent to the “City 40,” a plot of land the city of Bend used for sewage affluent, and I took a librarian out to see the nest, hoping to impress her with my acumen and coolness. She, however, impressed me with…
Bourne Again: Searching for truth and WMDs gives Green Zone an effective cliffhanger edge
The Green Zone is what action movies are supposed to look like. A suspenseful, high-voltage, in-your-face action drama with a plausible scenario, this may be the best action flick I've ever seen. And if film editor Christopher Rouse doesn't get an Academy Award for his work, there is no justice in this world. With a…
Once More, With Meaning: Edward gets emotional in the melodramatic romance Remember Me
How to describe Remember Me? It's this decade's Cruel Intentions. There's the snappy, self-conscious dialogue and the ambitious plotting and the self-important ending. And, oh, what a self-important ending there is. However, it's not as crass as other reviewers will have you believe and certainly not as tasteless as they are righteously suggesting. It's actually…
Guys… I'm Not So Bad!
I Love Television™ reader Amy Ann writes: “Dear Wm.™ Steven Humphrey: Sandra Bullock rocks!! she does not have a mustache. And she should win best actress award. She has acomplished more in her life then u have. All u do is write stupid columns in a free paper. Get over yourself.” In a similar vein,…
Eat Your Greens: What your grandparents knew about arugula
Every spring, right around daylight savings, my anxiety over cooking winter's hearty greens reaches its apex. I'm eager for asparagus, morels, English peas, tomatoes and corn. Roughly 25 dinners separate winter and springtime in my kitchen. Stores have artichokes from far-flung locales tempting me with spring flavors at designer prices. But if I can make…
Eat Your Greens: What your grandparents knew about arugula
Every spring, right around daylight savings, my anxiety over cooking winter's hearty greens reaches its apex. I'm eager for asparagus, morels, English peas, tomatoes and corn. Roughly 25 dinners separate winter and springtime in my kitchen. Stores have artichokes from far-flung locales tempting me with spring flavors at designer prices. But if I can make…
The Whistler
The act of whistling is akin to the act of talking on one's cell phone in that it's utterly annoying to everyone except the person whistling or chatting. In most public places it's not acceptable to tootle what are in effect high-pitched squawks. You would never hear a two-finger whistle at the library, in a…
It Takes a Village: Reed Thomas Lawrence and other regional musicians play for Haiti
The last time we wrote about a benefit concert for Haiti (Rise Up International's event at the Domino Room), there were predictions that news about the impoverished country and the devastating earthquake that killed so many of its citizens would soon vanish from the headlines. At that time, just a few weeks after the January…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day: The revival of the Harp Hall Social Club
Almost everyone in our offices remembered it was St. Patrick’s Day today and most of us wore green.
Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose: Bridge Carols
Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose Bridge Carols Halocene Music
The newest offering from beloved Portland folkie, Laura Gibson, is a kooky but refreshing little record. Gibson, a warbling, marbly mouthed singer, breaks with her usual style by pairing up with instrumentalist Ethan Rose on Bridge Carols, an album of seven strange and simple songs. For…
Our Picks for 3/17 – 3/25: Bend for Haiti Concert, Renegade Rollergirls, Irish Rovers, John Cruz and more
More Bars In More Places Tour thursday 18 This hip-hop and DJ tour features some big names in the indie game, including Knobody (or Hieroglyphics fame), Germane, The Tones, Dice, DJ Caput live, as well as local rap stalwarts Cloaked Characters. It's going down in The Annex, perhaps one of the most underutilized yet classy…
The Golden Road: Skyliners Road is the Main Street of Bike Town USA – and the epicenter of conflict
There's a push to turn Bend into something called Bike Town USA. And that's not a clever contrivance on the part of the media. Visit Bend, the regional tourism bureau, came up with this name and they plan to make good on the designation, continuing to bring high-profile cycling events to the city this year…
The U of O Jailbirds
A year ago, Jeremiah Masoli was considered a likely candidate to win the Heisman Trophy. Today he looks more like a candidate for an orange jumpsuit. The Oregon Ducks star quarterback, who led the team to the Rose Bowl in 2010, has been suspended for the upcoming season after pleading guilty to burglary charges in…
Move Over Rover: Turd Blossom on Palin, Russia invades and the Vikings get sacked
The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from Dick Vitale's brain, finishing a bracket with Hoyas, Orangemen, Mountaineers and Cardinals in the Final Four (“All Big East BABY!”) on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly. Texas has Textbooks? The Alamo didn't…
Cathedral Rock and Horse Heaven Wilderness Proposals Are A Win-Win
When Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden introduced the Horse Heaven and Cathedral Rock Wilderness Act into Congress, they were responding to the widespread public support for protecting these two areas. This includes the support from a diverse group of stakeholders including the Northwest Rafters Association, the Redmond Chapter of the Oregon Hunters Association, county…
Kick The Tobacco Ad Habit
Words cannot express our disappointment at seeing the full-page ad for Camel tobacco in the March 11 issue of The Source Weekly. Whatever money has been paid to you to display this ad cannot cover over the stain on an otherwise fine publication. Consider the damage done to individuals, families and whole societies by the…
Equal Rights And Gay Rights
How would you feel if your Constitutional rights had not been granted to you for 142 years? If you had been ridiculed, spat upon, beaten, even murdered. If you were discriminated against in housing, the work place, and places like restaurants. If you were told you were “evil” and “a sinner” in the eyes of…
To All The Mechanics I've Loved Before
I was gonna get a card… However due to the random act of kindness recently bestowed upon me, I believe a letter to be more appropriate. I am a single mother living in Bend and my son and I love being part of this beautiful community. We have recently gone through a huge transition in…
