4 Peaks Spring Fling Video
The organizers of the 4 Peaks Music Festival said that they were using the Spring Fling tour with Poor Man’s Whiskey and Blue Turtle Seduction as a method of gauging the level of interest folks had in the festival before making plans for any sort of summer event. Well, The Blender hasn’t heard how the…
Walden Finds His Misplaced Sense of Outrage
Talking to Greta Van Sustern on Fox News the other day, Rep. Greg Walden said he thinks Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner should resign because of the AIG bonus mess.
Pushing Through: Steve Kimock revs up his Crazy Engine
Nice barn!One way to describe Steve Kimock's career is that he became well known for being unknown. Why? Well, once upon a time, Jerry Garcia called Kimock his favorite unknown guitarist, and, as you'd expect, Kimock became exponentially less "unknown" soon thereafter.
Kimock isn't exactly a household name even today. Rather, he's sort of…
Lars Loses National Radio Spot
Lars Larson, Oregon's answer to Rush Limbaugh, won't be on national radio any more - at least not for a while.
Who Killed the Bonus Cap? Wyden Wants to Know
Oregon's own Sen. Ron Wyden is at the center of the hurricane of populist outrage over the millions in bonuses raked off by executives of bailed-out AIG.
Imagining the News Without Newspapers
When The Wandering Eye got his first job as a cub reporter, everybody was saying newspapers were becoming extinct. Forty years later, it looks like they were right.
A Drop In The Bucket: Critics say state water laws won’t protect Metolius if resorts proceed
The Metolius goes rushing by.Whether the Metolius basin is a place where you admire spring wildflowers, attempt to catch elusive bull trout, run or ski trails through old-growth ponderosa stands, kayak the river or set up a tent at its banks, most people can agree that there is just something undeniably special about the area.…
Concealing Oregon’s Concealed Weapon Permits
Oregon's open public records law was a fine idea when it was enacted in 1973. Over the ensuing 35 years, though, special interests have carved out so many exceptions that the law now has more holes in it than Bernie Madoff's account books.
And as if that isn't bad enough, the state legislature wants to…
Cheney Vs. Reason: The return of the Veep, AIG bonuses, and Other Stimulating News
So Very Stimulated
Missing robot. Reward offered if found.Hear that? The sweet sound of shovels clunking at frozen ground from sea to shining sea - Obama's $787 billion Stimulus Bill is in full effect! Only the murmur of the mob giggling in backrooms, divvying cement contracts and dead fishies, can overwhelm the anxious silence as…
How Can We Avoid It?
This week's letter comes from Ben Groeneveld who sends a restrained take on his recent collision with a car while bike commuting. The issue of bicycle and pedestrian safety remains a serious one in car crazy Central Oregon, and falling gas prices aren't likely to do anything to increase awareness efforts. So thanks for the…
Avoid the Stereotyping
I'd like to comment on last week's WTF about Pit Bulls. Pit Bulls have been given an undeserved reputation due to irresponsible owners. I am the first to concede that Pit Bulls were not bred to be lap dogs. A number of other species have been bred for attack dogs and in fact are responsible…
Let’s Buy Bachelor
What Bend should do with our share of the Obama money: buy Mt. Bachelor and run it as a non-profit. Pay all the employees and officers a fair wage, but run it as a non-profit so that the lift ticket, equipment rental, and concession prices can come way down - lower than any other ski…
Keep Your Mouth Shut
I have been an avid Source reader for the five years I have lived in Bend, but after reading your WTF article on the Pit Bull ban in Oregon I won't be picking up your paper any longer. Since you stated that no one in your office owns a Pit Bull I think your statements…
Pit Bull Piece Was Biased
I read the WTF? in the latest issue of The Source. As a pitbull (sic) owner, obviously I, or the rest of us RESPONSIBLE owners (sic), am not going to like that write up. As a journalist, what are you doing taking sides? If no one on your staff owns a pitbull (sic), fine, but…
Climbing for a Cause: Jonathan Fessler heads to Nepal, camera in hand
Heading for the peak…Last Friday afternoon, Jonathan Fessler was working busily to finish up some editing work on local television commercials. But in a little more than two weeks later, Fessler will be in Kathmandu, Nepal and prepping for a climb of a 20,000-foot peak. It's a quick change, to say the least, and not…
Fun in the H2O: Solid or liquid, take your pick
Team "Learning to Fly" flew through the Hoodoo SnowathalonGiven its nickname, the High Desert is not exactly known for its water-based recreational opportunities, but it's one of our little secrets. What's cool about springtime here is that you can usually take your pick between solid or liquid, even in the same weekend. Last Friday, the…
Take a Right: Relying on brute force Revenge-spree remake lacks substance
YOU WAVIN' TO ME?From the remnants of what was one of the most offensive, sadistic and warped revenge flicks of the '70s, the grimy remake of The Last House on the Left limps into theatres. The 2009 version gives us a gruesome yet watered-down film, rendering it completely unoriginal in every way.
Wes Craven directed…
Kroger Wades Into Central Oregon Water War
Oregon Attorney General John Kroger is wading into the murky mess surrounding the Crooked River Ranch Water Company.
Art This is Not: Sketch comedy troupe proves YouTube is not meant for the big screen
DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? OH RIGHT…When you fork over nine bucks for Miss March, you're signing up for graphic viewings of explosive diarrhea, deformed male genitalia, animals pissing into champagne glasses, abuse of coma patients, jokes about epilepsy, jokes about epilepsy combined with fellatio, racist stereotypes, and about two dozen more isolated attempts at eliciting…
Micro Cosmos: We’re International, Baby
A tip of the hat and the glass to local brewer Tonya Cornett who has been invited to be a guest brewer at Britain's J.D.
Micro Cosmos: We’re International, Baby
A tip of the hat and the glass to local brewer Tonya Cornett who has been invited to be a guest brewer at Britain’s J.D.
Fireside Red: Reignited and brighter than ever
Firesid red-back in the game, back on the plateThere were a lot of disappointed diners back in December when word got out that Fireside red's brief but bright flame would be prematurely extinguished. The deluge of closings downtown didn't help dispel the rumors. But as management insisted all along, a couple of months later from…
Fireside Red: Reignited and brighter than ever
Firesid red-back in the game, back on the plateThere were a lot of disappointed diners back in December when word got out that Fireside red’s brief but bright flame would be prematurely extinguished. The deluge of closings downtown didn’t help dispel the rumors. But as management insisted all along, a couple of months later from…
The Wine Shop & Tasting Bar
Happy hour can mean many things in this town, from your standard $2 tacos and half-price drafts to special small plates at some of Bend’s finest restaurants. But of all the happy hours I’ve taken advantage of (and there have been a few) the one at the Wine Shop & Tasting Bar on NW Minnesota…
Scot’s Folk
Huge in Scotland.We've already learned over the past few years that the Sisters Folk Festival means business when it comes to booking and their Winter Concert Series is no exception. Just this year, we've already seen Sisters Folk wrangle in traditional bluegrassters Steep Canyon Rangers as well as emerging folk stars Jeffrey Foucault and Kris…
MDC: Rocked Against Reagan
Punking it old school.If you think punk rock got political during the G. W. Bush administration, you're way off. For example, let us introduce you to MDC (whose initials stand for the superbly offensive - to some - Millions of Dead Cops), a band that was rocking against Reagan for crying out loud.
That's right,…
Bringing the Peaks Indoors: Poor Man’s Whiskey and Blue Turtle Seduction lend 4 Peaks a hand
Poor Man’s Whiskey: Just another five bricks in the wall…It won't be outside. And it won't be summer. You won't be able to bring your own lawn chair and you also won't be able to walk back to your tent when it's over. There won't be anyone selling veggie burritos and you won't be advised…
Our Picks for the Week of 3/18 – 3/26
American Nobody w/Anastacia thursday 19 This guy, whose real name is Brian Granse, turned some ears when he breezed through town in February. Now, he's back again and kicking off another Central Oregon jaunt with this show in Sisters with Anastacia. Hey, did you hear she won the Source/Far From Earth Films Music Video contest?…
