This Weekend’s Music Lineup
What to do this weekend.
Guys and Dolls Onstage This Weekend
If you’ve never seen a production of Guys and Dolls, go ahead and do yourself a favor and check out the version being presented this weekend up at Summit High where BEAT is putting on the show. The shows, directed and choreographed by Mary Kilpatrick, begins tonight with a 7pm performance and continues with two…
Bend Names Canada Goose City’s Official Bird
In a press release this morning, the city announced that beginning today, the Canada goose will now be recognized as the official bird of Bend, Oregon. “While there has been some debate as to the merits of this species’ presence in our parks and public areas, its hard to ignore that, at the very least,…
Some UConn Fan Just Called and Threatened Me With Violence!
Sometimes people call newspaper reporters to say, “Hey, nice job on your article!” But most of the time, they call and say things like what I just heard from a guy who dropped me a line about 10 minutes ago about this week’s Left Field column. “Do you know anything about UConn basketball?” he asked.
A Taste of Summer at 900 Wall
After a long winter hibernation, the chairs and tables are again popping on downtown sidewalks and restaurants are dusting off their lunch specials in anticipation of spring and summer crowds. One of the first to jump back into the game is 900 Wall, which revived its seasonal lunch menu this week.
A Woman on her own Path: Shelly Futch Anderson
As an artist, Shelley Futch Anderson doesn't think she fits into the Bend art scene. She's been involved with PoetHouse Art, but has a few years on most of the artists there. On the other side of the spectrum, her work has a more contemporary feel than that of her peers. Anderson creates oil paintings…
Intelligent Design: Stuart Breidenstein
Stuart Breidenstein likes to say he creates “jewelry for weirdos.” But if that's the case, then Bend has more than a few weirdos drooling over his unique creations: masks made of metal and leather, round-eyed aviator goggles and pendants with polished trapezoids of ebony and moveable gears. Breidenstein's work gathers different media – from wood…
Style of the Stylish: Alicia Renner
Packed into her tiny workspace in the rear of the PoetHouse Art space in downtown Bend, Alicia Renner has a rack full of clothing she's recently completed. To her, it's art, but art that you can wear.
“Some people can make things that look like you can buy them in any store, but I like…
New Music Video for Culver City Dub Collective by Bend’s Rage Films
Here’s a fun little local music fact: Franchot Tone, the singer songwriter who’s recently started playing around town with his own band, is also a member of the popular SoCal reggae band Culver City Dub Collective. The band recently shot this music video, directed by Rage Films’ Sky Pinnick, showing the band enjoying the sunshine…
New Mom, New Painter: Sarah Hubbard
Looking at her work and knowing how quickly it's been selling off the walls of local stores and galleries, you'd likely never guess that Sarah Hubbard once almost failed a high school art class. “Yeah, I know, how do you fail an art class? I guess I was always into artistic stuff, but not really…
Win Tickets to See Leif James at Three Creeks Brewery on Saturday Night
Last week you may remember we gave away tickets to see Poor Man’s Roses at Three Creeks Brewing Co. in Sisters.
Behind the Scenes of the Source Fashion Shoot
It was a cold March day in Bend when I went to photograph Alicia Renner for the Source's arts and style issue (which is out on the streets now). After getting some easy shots of her in her studio where she designs and sews her cloth, Mike, the arts and culture editor, suggested a shot…
An Open Letter To Superintendent Wilkinson
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Central Oregon Homeless Count Numbers Released: More homeless children than ever
At a press conference today at the Deschutes County building in Bend, organizers from the Homeless Leadership Coalition announced the results of the annual homeless count, which took place on January 27. In all, the coalition — made up by a number of regional agencies and volunteers — counted 2,271 individuals in Deschutes, Crook and…
I'm Your Huckleberry: From dawn till dusk with the Mt. B ski patrol
It's 8:15am. Snow safety supervisor John Millslagle's ski patrol radio crackles, a voice comes through, “30 seconds on the cornice… ” Standing near the edge of the west ridge of Mt. Bachelor's Summit Bowl he turns toward me and shouts over the noise of the wind, “You're going to want to plug your ears and…
Bald Eagle No. 629-15689: The story of a gunned-down national symbol
Some years back – at least five, anyway – somewhere in the Northwest a blessed event took place high up in a bald eagle nest. After patiently taking turns incubating an egg for 35 days, mom and dad eagle watched their offspring slowly emerge from the cracked eggshell, flopping exhaustedly in the huge, grass-lined nest…
“Small” Basketball in the Big Time: Don't think Butler vs. VCU in the Final Four is the greatest thing in sports history? Well, you're kind of a jerk
For all of you who started paying attention to college basketball sometime at the end of February and are getting all pissy because there are two teams from outside the sacred circle of the BCS fraternity in the Final Four, you really need to shut up. Stop calling into sports talk radio shows (no one…
Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Sucker Punch lives up to its title
Unfortunately, Zack Snyder, the guy who brought us the fast-paced Dawn of the Dead redux and the intriguing Watchmen, has softened to PG-13 territory. I went into the widely anticipated Sucker Punch wondering, will this film deliver or not? The previews looked promising. The premise of Catholic-school-meets-Victoria Secret girls fighting demons, dragons and kicking ass…
Time Travel Done Right: Gyllenhaal and company somehow make Source Code work
Yes, there’s a certain validity to the pitch-meeting shorthand that would describe this science-fiction thriller as “Groundhog Day meets Quantum Leap” – but that doesn’t detract from what it manages to do right. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Capt. Colter Stevens, a military pilot who awakens disoriented in the middle of a strange experiment: He has been…
Thanks for Putting a Damper on March Madness, Frontline
Actually, this report from last night’s edition of Frontline was a startling, if not shocking, look at the business behind the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament. While this year’s tournament has been crazier than just about any year prior, the report outlined the big money behind this sport.
Intervention
Guys… gather round. It pains me to say this, but it's time to stop ignoring the problem staring us in the face, and actually do something to stop it. Otherwise, we're just enabling this type of behavior, right? Okay, so we're all in agreement; we need to act on this NOW, correct? Good! Now steel…
Channeling Johnny Mac: Building a better tennis moustache is this easy
I don’t need no motion-sensitive, 3D TV to be me – a 6’2″ redneck tennis star, complete with handlebar moustache, scruffy mullet, a stringy set of muscles and some serious fans. I decided to get the plain old ordinary Xbox 360 version of Top Spin 4 so that I could see what kind of game…
Art on the Hill: Bill Hoppe on a decade of art on the campus of COCC
It's the first day of the spring term and Bill Hoppe's office on the bottom floor of Central Oregon Community College's Pence Hall is nearly as messy as the construction that's snarling uphill traffic on the expansive campus. Files and papers cover most of his desktop and there's little floor space not occupied by boxes…
Spring Theater Productions Have Sprung in Bend
Thus far, 2011 has proved to be a thriving year for the Bend theater scene. Tuesdays with Morrie goes into its final week, closing on Sunday, April 3. The Bend Experimental Arts Theatre brings the Broadway classic Guys and Dolls to the Summit High School auditorium this week. As time goes on, the theater scene…
Chocolate is the New Black: Deschutes Brewery proves that chocolate goes with everything
Deschutes Brewery has developed a well-deserved reputation not only for its beers, but also for its classic, well-executed pub food. But a few times a year, Deschutes offers a dining experience at the brewery's Mountain Room that goes beyond burgers and IPAs. The most indulgent of these events, the Chocolate Beer Dinner, sounds like a…
Lady's First: Support your local lady mixologist
Four nights drinking in San Francisco, seventeen bartenders – only one of them with two x chromosomes. Perhaps part of it is that I went to a lot of hi-falutin cocktail lounges where they have unheard of spirits and bitters infused with bug parts. Almost every one of these bars had its version of the…
Boneyard's Suge Knite
The latest addition to Boneyard's growing family of beers – a 14-percent imperial stout, dubbed Suge Knite, and pronounced just like the infamous gangsta rap producer – is the Evander Holyfield of ales: a serious heavyweight. Inspired by another oversize stout, the Dark Lord, from Indiana's 3 Floyds brewery, with whom Boneyard Brewmaster Tony Lawrence…
Out of Town 3/31 – 4/7: My Chemical Romance, A Day to Remember, Pete Yorn and Ben Kweller, Henry Rollins
portland friday 1 My Chemical Romance On their newest album, released in November, My Chemical Romance takes it back to their garage rock roots. Their lyrics are sure to get you pissed off with just about every aspect of society, then band you together in inspirational anarchy that will make you want to rage, but…
Ice Cube: Renaissance Man – The many, many faces of a creative, hip-hop genius
How do you go from posing for pictures with an assault rifle, rapping about gangbanging and belonging to one of the most profane (yet pioneering) hip-hop groups of all time to a producer of family-friendly comedy? To get an answer, you'd have to ask Ice Cube, because he's done all of that. The former N.W.A.…
Jay Tablet – Put it on The Tab
For the past decade, Jay Tablet (real name: Joseph Taveres) has been a key player in the Oregon hip-hop scene as half of Cloaked Characters, along with Rory Oneders. But now, Tablet is breaking out on his own with his first solo disc, Put It On The Tab. Here, Tablet keeps the upbeat Cloaked Characters'…
Common Table To Host Earthquake Relief Dinner
Bendites can help Japan's Earthquake victims by simpling raising a fork at Common Table this Sunday. The downtown restaurant/non-profit is hosting a fundraiser dinner featuring Japanese cuisine prepared by local Japanese women.
Common Table To Host Japanese Fundraiser Dinner
Bendites can help Japan’s Earthquake victims by simpling raising a fork at Common Table this Sunday. The downtown restaurant/non-profit is hosting a fundraiser dinner featuring Japanese cuisine prepared by local Japanese women.
Former Ernesto's Spot to Reopen As Pub and Brew Shop
The owners of The Brew Shop, aka the homebrew shop on Division, have signed a lease for the iconic Ernesto’s building on Third Street. Owner Tom Gilles said he and his partners signed a lease earlier this week that will allow them to open an expanded brew shop and basement pub in the Ernesto’s building…
Our PIcks for 3/30 – 4/7: Juniper Grass Music Festival, Art Walk, Budo Fights, Ice Cube, The Baseball Project and more
Juniper Grass Music Festival wednesday 30 It's already been two years since the president signed the Wilderness Bill that created the Oregon Badlands and now it's time to celebrate that victory with a night of rootsy music. Appearing at this show, which benefits the Friends of Oregon Badlands Wilderness, are the bluegrass tag team of…
A Low Blow to the Death With Dignity Act
For 17 years the opponents of Oregon's landmark Death With Dignity Act have taken a beating every time they tried to fight it. But like a punch-drunk boxer who doesn't know when he's licked, they just keep wading in and swinging. Oregon voters passed the pioneering legislation handily in 1994 in spite of a scare…
Your Fresh Straight Poop Hot Off the Presses
Monday, March 21 Out of the woods? Head of US Nuclear Regulatory Commission says Japanese are “on the verge of stabilizing” wayward reactor as power is restored to two of six units … Fire from the left: Liberal US Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) says President Obama's decision to intervene in Libya without congressional okay “would…
We're All Cowboys Now
At some point in their lives, all little boys want to be cowboys. Most grow out of it.
You Don't Make Friends With Salad
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The Best Use of Our Dollars?
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Hola! Sunriver is Open
It was a Monday night, but that didn’t stop busloads of Bendites were shuttled down to join Sunriver snowbirds to open the latest Hola! location in the space formerly occupied by Trout House. Fans of the Eastside and Old Mill locations arrived in droves thanks to co-owner Marcos Rodriguez's Facebook post.
The Ascetic Junkies In Bend Tonight!
“People get ready.
