Big-Ass Ski Competition Comes to Mt. Bachelor in May
The Sammy Carlson Invitational is coming to Mt. Bachelor on May 19.
Portland String Trio The Bottlecap Boys at the Tower Theater
This last Saturday night, Bend favorites The Ascetic Junkies performed at Tower Theater for the first time.
How Drunk Were We?
Here’s an interesting glimpse into Bend’s drinking habits. According to the Bend Police Department, most St.
Boondocks is Gone Bust: You’ll have to find somewhere else to grind
Boondocks is no mas, at least come the end of the month. Everyone’s favorite place to recreate MTV Spring Break will be closing March 31.
Century Center Revamps Website
The Century Center has a new website (still under construction) so be sure to check the events calendar for upcoming goodness. Since its opening the Century Center has quickly become a favorite concert venue in Bend.
Remember Quarterflash? Win tickets to see Rindy and Marv Ross!
Yeah, they had that awesome song, “Harden my Heart.” Remember? If you need help breaking down the video’s complexities, see Mike’s previous blog on the subject.
T-Mobile: Economic Promise and Reality in Redmond
When Redmond leaders announced roughly eight years ago that they landed T-Mobile’s call center and more than 300 jobs with it with a combination of tax breaks, cheap land and labor, it was an economic development coup on par with Prineville’s wooing of Facebook, or at least it seemed like it in the pre-social media…
Live, From the Mt. Bachelor Open Forum
…Where’s there’s a long line for the free Deschutes. Actually, this forum should be very interesting, given Bachelor’s new spring operating hours and the recent Community B.O.
Keep Your Pooch Primed: Pet Express giveaway!
How’s your pet doing in all this spring muckety-muck? Make sure he/she/it is well cared for, especially through all of this weird, Central Oregon weather. To help y’all out, and because we love critters, we’re giving away two (2!) $25 gift certificates to Bend Pet Express.
Mt. Bailey Cat Ski Video
Cool video segment from Source columnist Sebastian Foltz that he shot on a recent spring trip with Mt. Bailey’s crew.
This Is No Drop in the Beer Barrel
Bend has become famous for two things: beer and the Deschutes River. So it's fitting that Bend's biggest brewery – which also takes its own name from the river – has decided to make a significant contribution to the river's health. Last week the Deschutes Brewery and the Deschutes River Conservancy, a nonprofit dedicated to…
Trash For Cash: Neighbors question county plan to tap natural gas potential at Knott Landfill
Dressed in a signature black leather trench coat with a prodigious and graying beard that spills over his collar and down the front of his shirt, Timm Schimke cuts a Grizzly Adams meets Jerry Garcia visage. If he doesn't look like your average bureaucrat, that's because he's not. On a recent blustery March afternoon, Schimke…
Look at Them Now: A homecoming of sorts for three Northwest artists ready to show off their new skills
Call them pop, folk, indie or Americana, just don't call the Ascetic Junkies bluegrass. This Portland four-piece band is at odds with the assumptions that many people make when they see a band featuring a banjo. Moreover, with the recent departure of one of their longtime members, the new lineup is sans banjo, which the…
The Stinking Rose: Unlocking the power of garlic
Garlic was my first love of the kitchen, and totally changed the way I looked at food forever after. I was 12 years old, and my mom's friend was cooking dinner. He was a “real Italian, from New York,” and on the menu that night was linguini and clams, with garlic bread. As he went…
Can-Do: Hop Valley Brewing's Alphadelic IPA
Man, we just love this canned beer revolution. You can take 'em anywhere and they often taste better than their bottle brethren.
Design Dreams: Art meets function in local teen designer's work
The wedding dress in the corner of Northwest Crossing's Sara Bella Upcycled is white and studded with little flowers. The train is about five feet long and billows out behind the dress. That's about where the similarities between this wedding dress and all other dresses end. This one is made from trash. It makes crinkly…
A Strange Week: The weirdness of the NCAA Tournament's first two rounds
Hopefully you're reading this standing up, allowing the resulting couch sores from four days of nearly uninterrupted basketball to heal. Those sores are disgusting, my friend, but I don't blame you for your obsession over this tournament. It's been entertaining without being necessarily fantastic. Engaging, but not groundbreaking. If I were, in the parlance of…
Girl Power: The Hunger Games soars when it focuses on its singular, gripping heroine
Here's what's remarkable and extraordinary about Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games: not all that much, really. Don't misunderstand; there's nothing wrong with it. It's a solid, satisfying read, no crime against literature, unlike other much-adored recent book series we could name. But Collins mines familiar dystopian ground, building around the kind of public-spectacle blood-and-circuses concept…
Unmarried with Children: Friends with Kids bends the formula without breaking it
Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back while simultaneously learning a profound life lesson. Rinse, repeat. That's the timeworn formula employed by every romantic comedy. Some films rest comfortably within the format and fail. (Good Luck Chuck, All About Steve) Others can work within those parameters and create art (Eternal Sunshine of…
Intentional Walk: Gamers can sit out Schilling's first video game foray
Come with me to a strange and magical world. No, not the Kingdoms of Amalur. I’m talking about the real world of videogames – the big business extravaganzas of interactive entertainment. It’s a world that our hero, Curt Schilling, hopes to conquer. Schilling is the superstar pitcher who retired from baseball in order to create…
I'm Gonna Wiki That
If you're anything like me, you no longer have time in your busy life for any donkey plop. That's why I'm willing to share what is perhaps the most revolutionary timesaving device humanity has ever created. It's called… “Wikipedia.” NOW BEFORE YOU GROAN AND ACCUSE ME OF BEING OLDER THAN MATLOCK, LISTEN UP, HALF-WIT. I…
Bent vs. Bent: WTF!!
NBC is stealing out gig.
Nine miles deep: Carving backcountry lines with Cat Ski Mt. Bailey
“The fact that this nine-mile snowmobile access road is the only in and out is a pretty significant safety issue here,” says our guide Ross Duncan over the rumbling engine noise of the snow cat as we travel further and further away from paved road and deeper into backcountry. “From that sno-park it's about 100…
Northwest Wind power projects reach 4,000 megawatt milestone.
Northwest wind farms inched past the 4,000 megawatt mark briefly on Sunday, a mark that many analysts did not expect the industry to reach for several more years. The electrical output, which peaked at 4,039 megawatts around 3 p.
