Free Beer!
Okay, so maybe that’s a little misleading. But Tyler and the gang over at Silver Moon are discounting pints of Bandlands Bitter this afternoon as part of ONDA’s Badlands Bash at the pub.
Number One Reason to Have Kids: So you can make them recreate “Scarface”
No, I’m not serious. Well, not that serious.
Short Takes: Alley, Sizemore and the Redmond’s Road to Nowhere
Republican Allen Alley, running for governor of Oregon, is attacking the way things are done in .
Final Four: A victory for fans outside of New Yawk
Easily the best thing about this year's Final Four is the absence of a New Yawk team, or some other big East Coast metro college team, and all the attendant hype that they invariably get from Dickie V and all the talking head experts on ESPN who refer to the game being played as “basketbawl”.…
Video of Norman and The Dimes From Saturday Night’s Portland Indie Invasion
On Saturday night in the newly refurbished Old Stone Church, some of the most honestly awesome rock music I’ve heard in Bend in quite some time was being played. Sure, this was the Portland Indie Invasion, which our paper sponsored, but that’s not weighing into my opinion.
Pinback Returning to Bend July 8
Things just keep looking better and better for the summer music scene here in Bend — and doubly so now that it’s been announced that progressive popsters Pinback are playing the Domino Room on July 8. The band played a sold-out show at the Domino in February of 2007, but haven’t been back since.
Teamwork: On Becoming a Pilot Butte Greenwave Hoops Fan
After close to 40 years of participating in, writing about and photographing individual self-propelled sports, I recently developed a passion for a team sport. Not any team sport.
Playing God: Latest God of War serves up the gore gleefully
It's almost impossible for any God of War-type game to distinguish itself – even God of War III. The first game's formula, featuring hordes of enemies and weapons swinging in all directions, has been copied so much (and sometimes so well) that it has pushed the designers of God of War III to try a…
Win Tickets to the Portland Indie Invasion with The Dimes, Norman and Tortune
In a move to bring more indie rock to town, The Source and Lay it Out Events have put together the Portland Indie Invasion at the Old Stone Church, a show on Saturday night featuring three quality acts from PDX, including The Dimes, Norman and Tortune. If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s our feature…
Toto Needs A Place, Too
The Old Mill Dog Park is a great addition to the city of Bend. However, it has a design flaw. Since there is no dedicated small dog play area, large and small dogs are forced to share the space, and often, their play is dangerously rough. The park is large enough to partition a safe,…
Bragging Rights: Thirty years of bracketology
It started just over three decades ago when a friend and fellow sports nut asked me who I thought would win the NCAA basketball tournament. I told him.
Over the Top and Off the Deep End at The Bulletin
The first thing I turn to after I bring in my copy of The Bulletin every morning is the editorial page. I never know what kind of inspired idiocy I’ll get to read as I eat my Cheerios.
Strings Abound: The Portland Cello Project plays tonight for free
Forget everything you know about cellos. Did you do that yet? Even Yo-Yo Ma? How about your time in the elementary school orchestra? Memory wiped clean? Good, because you need to realize that a group out of Portland has decided to make the cello — actually a whole s-load of cellos — cool.
Signs of Spring: Daffodils, white legs and PPP entry forms mark the season
This weekend came in like a lamb and went out like a lion, fitting for the first weekend of spring in Central Oregon. After a gray El Nino winter, I think everyone in Bend went bonkers on Saturday when it was sunny and 71 degrees. It was hard to choose what to do that day,…
Repossess This! Harvesting organs reduces Repo Men to the sum of its bloody parts
Sharing nothing in common with Alex Cox's 1984 punk-rock-crazy Repo Man yet more aligned with Darren Lynn Bousman's 2008 film Repo!: The Genetic Opera, this Repo Men has some wit, violence and gore, but also some problems. Like Saw VI, this film provides commentary (albeit only at surface level) on the current health care debate.…
Dead People's Court
Guys, I should TOTALLY be a judge on one of those daytime courtroom shows! You know, like Judge Judy, or Judge Joe Brown, or Judge Judgey McJudgerson? I'd be all sassy (and possibly black) and smackin' down the witnesses with snappy quips such as, “Hey! Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining…
Suffer Little Children: Michael Haneke asks: “Where do little Nazis come from?” in The White Ribbon
Funny Games director Michael Haneke's loudly lauded black-and-white drama, The White Ribbon, isn't a film to be enjoyed. It's not exactly a film to be endured, but it is closer to that end of the entertainment spectrum. Bob Dylan once said to a Time magazine reporter who asked if the audience at the concert was…
Little Bites: In Case You Missed It: A recap of our recent restaurant reviews
RED DRAGON One of the area's many American-style Chinese food hotspots, Red Dragon serves up enormous portions of favorites like Monoglian Beef and General Tso's chicken. Chef Casey Chan, a native of Hong Kong, prepares dishes with Szechuan, Hunan, Mongolian, Cantonese and American roots. While it's not fine dining by any means, Red Dragon is…
In Case You Missed It: A recap of our recent restaurant reviews
RED DRAGON One of the area's many American-style Chinese food hotspots, Red Dragon serves up enormous portions of favorites like Monoglian Beef and General Tso's chicken. Chef Casey Chan, a native of Hong Kong, prepares dishes with Szechuan, Hunan, Mongolian, Cantonese and American roots. While it's not fine dining by any means, Red Dragon is…
Sandwich Me ASAP! Redmond's only beer café does it all
I should have listened when my mother told me not to judge a restaurant from the sidewalk. But I didn't. Instead, I learn these lessons at my own expense. The most recent discrimination cost me countless lunches at an award-winning cafe. Readers of yours truly, The Source Weekly, voted Cross Creek Cafe “Redmond's best lunch…
Sandwich Me ASAP! Redmond's only beer café does it all
I should have listened when my mother told me not to judge a restaurant from the sidewalk. But I didn't. Instead, I learn these lessons at my own expense. The most recent discrimination cost me countless lunches at an award-winning cafe. Readers of yours truly, The Source Weekly, voted Cross Creek Cafe “Redmond's best lunch…
Toss Your Textbooks Aside: Let The Dimes be your historical audio guide
On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Johnny Clay is eating lunch and he feels like it's about to start raining. He's on a break from his job fixing printers for Hewlett Packard in Vancouver, the gig that keeps him occupied when he's not serving as lead singer and songwriter for Portland's indie folk-pop outfit, The Dimes.…
Laughing by the Seat of His Pants: Cash Levy decides Bend is the place for his improvisational humor
One wouldn't think that mentioning the anatomy of an extinct animal could offend anyone, but comedian Cash Levy learned otherwise when he told a joke in one of his shows that included the phrase “pterodactyl scrotum.” A couple just couldn't handle the fact that he'd made such a comment and voiced their concern. Perhaps they…
The Slackers' Chilled-Out Greatness
There was a time when the Slackers album, The Question, would spend weeks at a time in the car stereo. The record is a pure recreation of authentic Caribbean ska music, not dressed up in punk accouterments, as was the case with so many other “ska” bands that were on the airwaves in the mid-1990s.…
Recordings you need to hear that you may have missed: Freakwater – Old Paint
Freakwater Old Paint Released: 1995
Janet Beveridge Bean and Catherine Ann Irwin both have roots in punk, but when they play together as Freakwater (backed by bassist David Gay) the result is stripped-down country music with Appalachian influences and vocal harmonies that'll make you weep. Old Paint brushes through a variety of emotions that everyone…
Our Picks for 3/24 – 4/1: Portland Cello Project, Cool Nutz, Cash Levy, Portland Indie Infusion, Nershi-Law Duo and more
Portland Cello Project wednesday 24 Yeah, OK, the notion of a bunch of cellos on one stage might not sound terribly cool, but trust us, it is quite cool. This crew of cellists from their namesake town is playing a free show in which they combine their string talents Captain Planet style to give us…
Mission Critical: A mislabeled fish species might be the best chance to restore the upper Deschutes
For an apex predator that can grow up to 20 pounds or more, range over hundreds of miles and has been called the river wolf, the bull trout has had a tough time of it. First, there's the name. The trout-looking fish with bright orange spots and a brown torpedo-like body is really no trout…
Trashy Problem, Classy Solution
Like the large intestine, trash receptacles are something you don't pay much attention to when they're there, but you sure miss them when they're gone. Thanks to the financial hole the City of Bend has dug itself into, downtown trash receptacles almost went away. Thanks to the Downtown Bend Business Association and Bend Garbage and…
Ain't No Party Like A Tea Party: Cuddly mustaches, Freemasons and Anna Nicole's millions
The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from an ER, demanding universal care for a dangerous mind and ravaged liver after uploading Or Bust's 100th episode (all in under a year) on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly. That Didn't Hurt…
America The Divided
I have sat long enough scratching my head in dismay as I listen to very angry people scream about taking back the government. I watch a woman's face distorted in rage scream, “Go back home!” to a group of Mexican-Americans who are attempting to talk to their congressman. Politicians, rather than decry this type of…
For The Love of Mary
Hey editor in charge and, or, chief. This new article by Mary Sojourner… this person knows how to write and write well, as in spelling. What is she doing at the back of your weekly, so full of ads that you even put a half page next to hers? You don't have many writers in…
