Customer Service Firing at Sub Pop Records?
A Sup Pop Soap Opera…
Bend Teen with Down Syndrome Makes it to Everest Base Camp
Eli Reimer, 15, from Bend, is back in the states after being the first teen with Down syndrome to reach Everest Base Camp. The Elisha Foundation Eli, his dad, Justin, and six other climbers made the journey to raise money for The Elisha Foundation and children with disabilities. The Reimers trained in the Cascades for…
PSU Creates “The Business of Craft Brewing” program
This could be your beer! Still think you can sneak another brewery in before Bend’s beer bubble bursts? Might want to take a quick timeout for a new certificate program at Portland State University—it’s the state’s latest acknowledgement that beer industry is here to stay. “No place in the US has the concentration of quality,…
Supreme Court Reluctant…WTF!!
Today, the US Supreme Court is hearing arguments over whether California’s gay marriage ban is constitutional. The Chicago Tribune just reported SEVERELY TROUBLING news: The Supreme Court signaled reluctance on Tuesday to rule broadly on the question of the right to marriage for gays and lesbians as the justices heard arguments on same-sex marriage for…
Weekend Headlines!
If you weren’t all over the news this weekend, here are some features you may have missed: 1. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday on whether Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage, violates the federal Constitution. This video explains more about the Supreme Court and Proposition 8. 2. Despite inclimate conditions, both…
Hullabaloo Announces Blind Pilot!
Blind Pilot will play Bend for FREE!
Friday Mixtape!
It’s Indie Friday!
Weekend Roundup 3/22-3/24
Workin’ nine to five is enough to drive you crazy if you let it. Luckily, IT’S THE WEEKEND!!!! Here’s what’s going on: Friday 22 Bend Bikes Kick-Off Event and Fire Pit PartyGet on yo’ bike! Bend Bikes is a new non-profit that seeks to increase urban bicycling in our town. Music by the Boxcar String…
Tea Party Manatee-Riding Patriots
In this video from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, a Tea Party representative fervently defends the Constitutional rightsof Florida’s citizens . . . To ride manatees? The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook
Hopeless Jack and the Handsome Devil Return to Bend
The boys are back in town!The gruesome twosome of Hopeless Jack Beisel and Smilin’ Pete Thomas will be back at the Horned Hand this weekend for their TWELTH appearance in Bend in the last two years. The band takes old-school blues and refinishes the gritty riffs with a veneer of showmanship. They’re simple and they’re…
Skating in Bend is About to Get Better. Maybe.
For nearly a decade the skate community has been looking for a replacement for “Pondy” or Ponderosa Skatepark, which is, by all accounts, an antiquated and run-down community skate zone in Southeast Bend. Now that Bend’s skate community has, finally, gathered enough momentum and found a willing partner in Bend Park & Recreation District, it…
Obama’s Shape-shifting Alien Secret Service Agent
I’m a sucker for conspiracy theories, especially the super crazy ones. So when I read the video title “OBAMA ALIEN demon UFO ghost 666 devil SECRET SERVICE” I was intrigued, to say the least. Is Obama being controlled by alien overlords? I guess we’ll never really know. OR WILL WE? Turns out it’s a video…
Alert taxpayer advocate rings alarm bell
A taxpayer advocate may have just saved Deschutes County taxpayers $2.5 million. Neither an elected official nor a court-appointed auditor, Larry Fulkerson wields the everyday power of engaged citizenship. This wakeful watchdog spotted a suspicious anomaly and barked until it got the attention it deserved. When 911 district Director Rob Poirier asked the county commission…
One Day at a Time
MONDAY, MARCH 11 Well, this explains a lot: “Kim Kardashian Gets a Vampire Facelift.” On yesterday’s episode of the absolutely abysmal Kourtney and Kim Take Miami, Kim showed the results of her so-called “Vampire facelift” beauty enhancing procedure—which looked like someone had rubbed a bloody, skinned squirrel all over her face. According to plastic surgeon…
Letters 3/20 – 3/28
RALLY FOR GUN SAFETY On Saturday, March 23, a peaceful rally will be held against NRA policies at the organization’s fundraiser at the Bend Riverhouse Convention Center. The rally will begin at 2 p.m. The NRA has two major fundraising events, at 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. The first event offers NRA supporters scotch whisky…
Save the hares (and the rabbits)
Before I get going on rabbits and hares, I have to tell you something about the dilemma we have right at this moment; it involves people who like to shoot "rabbits" and the needs of eagles. There is overwhelming evidence that, without jackrabbits, golden eagles are in big trouble. It's as simple as that: Kill…
Now You Know
Bend commits to bike lane infrastructure The city of Bend is starting to take bike lanes seriously. Last Thursday I caught up with Commute Options’ Brian Potwin at a community forum for the recently approved Riverside/Franklin bike/pedestrian project at City Hall. Below are the quick hits from the forum and a look forward. The long-term…
Party All the Time
Provocateur: It’s such a loaded, even lazy term. Sure, it might seem to apply to Spring Breakers writer/director Harmony Korine as much as it would to any filmmaker. After all, he is the guy whose career launched as a teenager with the script for Larry Clark’s incendiary teens-in-trouble opus Kids, and whose output has included…
A Better Way to Die Hard
Sure, I may be a film critic—but I’m also an American. I’ve got my pride in our nation’s accomplishments, and I don’t like seeing its institutions in peril. Which is why Olympus Has Fallen—about an assault by North Korean terrorists on the White House—had me muttering angrily to myself: “Why couldn’t this have been the…
I Love Commies™
You’ve heard of the “cold war,” right? Well, I’m currently having a “hot war”—inside my PANTS. Now, I’ll admit I’ve said some disparaging things about Communists in the past… for example, here’s what I wrote back in 2009 about how we should probably panic because Commies could be the first humans to bone in space:…
Album Review: The Next Day
The Next Day David Bowie Label: Iso/Columbia The verdict is in on the comeback album from the prince of alt-pop rock, David Bowie. The record is formidable and the album artwork foreshadows why. It’s an adulterated reissue of the cover for Bowie’s Cold War masterpiece Heroes. As the title The Next Day and the blotting…
Reggae Opera
The bouncing beat behind reggae dub rock is one recognizable sound that permeates a vast majority of songs in the genre. It’s what a band builds on top of that keystone beat that separates it from the hordes of bands employing the same basic formula. In the case of Santa Barbara pop reggae band Rebelution,…
Out of Town 3/20 – 3/28
portland PDX Bicycle Show saturday 23-sunday 24 Two-wheeling madness takes over Portland at the Pedal Nation 2013 PDX Bike Show. Portlanders are in love with bikes, so the convention should be right at home in the Rose City. There will be demos, an indoor racing track, Hop Works bike bar, handmade Oregon bikes, a bike fashion…
The Heralds of Spring
The snow around town has pretty much melted. The afternoon air is beginning to feel a bit warmer and spring break is just around the corner. These are sure signs that the season is about to change. In my kitchen just a few short months ago I was pouring through recipes for soups, stews and…
Fancy Cowboy Coffee
The third-wave coffee movement is in full force in Bend. Locals take their coffee selections as seriously as they take their bikes and beer. But the world of coffee art, artisan beans and micro roasting is foreign to me. I love coffee. I drink it most every day. But the extent of my palate is…
Our Picks for 3/20 – 3/28
Road to Roubaix thursday 21 MOVIE—The one-day spring classics are gripping. They’re also notoriously difficult. Paris Roubaix, the Queen of the Classics, is coming up. Get psyched for it with this 2008 doc that looks at the passionate racers, mechanics and fans who consider the 160-mile contest one of the world’s most prestigious races. $5.…
Love Wins
On the first day marriage licenses could be issued to same-sex couples in Washington state, Laurie and I headed to our rural county courthouse, expecting a long wait. In Seattle, we'd heard, couples had been lined up at the King County Courthouse since midnight. We pulled up to the courthouse on a gray winter morning…
Pumped
The first person I ever knew to be shot with a gun was Sean Clapper. We were 14. According to the story, he was at Justin Ball’s house after school when Justin accidentally shot him in the spine with a handgun, paralyzing him. He did finally walk again, but only with great difficulty and likely…
COTA Work Party at Phil’s on Saturday
Ruts=not awesome. Yo. So remember when we told you riding at Phil’s was a bad idea because it’s still super soft out there and you’ll leave ruts that will remain all season? Some misdirected souls have continued to do so. This Saturday COTA is hosting a work party to repair the damage. They’ll provide snack…
Biffy Clyro Giveaway! Win the New Album!
Win the new Biffy Clyro album!
SXSW 2013
I’m baaaaack! Pickwick rocking the Radio Day Stage at SXSW. Last week I spent five days in Austin, Tex., my first trip ever to the Lone Star State, enjoying the multitudes of live music that made up South By South West Music Festival. You can check out my live tweets from the week @sourceweekly #briatsxsw…
Last to Leave at Horned Hand Tonight!
Tonight at the Horned Hand, local boys (and girl) Harley Bourbon will be making their triumphant return to the venue alongside Shade 13 and Last To Leave from Reno, NV. Eight members means eight times the awesome. Listen to Last To Leave’s album below. Their folk-punk should be a perfect fit for the Bend scene.…
