Blood, Bunkers and Beauty: Cool Talk Tonight by Outside Correspondent
Totally lucky Bendite Tim Neville, who routinely goes on assignment and reports back to the New York Times, Outside and other excellent publications, will give a presentation tonight at The Environmental Center about his recent trek into the alps of Albania, Montenegro and Kosovo. These beautiful mountains and valleys there were the the backdrop to…
Website allows you to customize your own recipes!
While searching for a recipe for Mexican style pork shoulder online, I came across this super cool website. Yummly.com allows you to choose recipes according to how you want to eat! While you browse all the beautiful food pics, this website lets you customize your choices by what you want to eat, the time it…
New Music Roundup: Video Edition
Get in on some new music via video!
Yeah, Yeah…We Get It—Bend Beers in Cans
Yesterday’s news. Dear local media,Thanks fur (hiccup) jumpin on the canned craft beer (hiccup) story that we ran in NOVEMBER. We’re glad GoodLife started (hiccup) canning as planned. These thangs is (hiccup) delicious.luv,the Source
Sarah Palin’s New “Thought Provoking” Book About Christmas
AP Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor, is working on a new book and it’s called “A Happy Holiday IS a Merry Christmas.” Palin said this about her book: “This will be a fun, festive, thought provoking book, which will encourage all to see what is possible when we unite…
Complete Guy on a Buffalo Collection
Because we love you… Episode One Episode Two Episode Three Episode Four
Certain foods can stifle your sex life?
We all know certain foods are bad for your good health, but some foods can actually put the brakes on your sex life too! Read this iVillage article and learn how trans fats in crackers and chips, growth hormones in processed cheese and mega amounts of sodium in canned soup can lead to bad news…
Girl Fight!
Check out this week’s culture section for a story about Bend’s lady boxers. We didn’t have room to run them in the paper, but here are some rad old pictures we found of early 1900’s female boxers. More history on women’s boxing here. We also dug up this crazy video of a girl fight! These…
New Music From Pickwick!
Stream the new album from Seattle’s Pickwick.
Waldo Lake Decision to Come Out of Salem on Wednesday
Today the Register Guard reported this: Advocates who want to ban seaplanes from landing on Waldo Lake are organizing a carpooling effort to head to Salem on Wednesday for a hearing on a bill banning motors on the lake. But critics of the bill also are making themselves heard. Senate Bill 602, sponsored by 36…
Family Kitchen To Reopen Tuesday
Family Kitchen, an organization committed to serving the nutritional needs of the hungry, was forced to relocate after the Trinity Episcopal Church was severely damaged in one of seven fires set on Wednesday, March 6. Church members and volunteers, however, were back distributing food Thursday night. Several people asked how they could help and this…
The Source at SXSW
SXSW here we come! SXSW. Austin, TX. I’ll be in Austin starting on Wednesday covering the event, and I can’t wait to relay all of the fun to our readers via the interwebs! Below is Fred Armisen’s 1998 guide to SXSW, the festival is looking a bit different these days with over 2,500 performers at…
Weekend Roundup 3/8-3/10
March: Weekend 2 of 5. It’s going to be a good one. Friday 8 Mmmm. Beer. White House Beer PartyPregame for the weekend with the Source and a delicious Honey Porter, the same as the Pres. drinks in the White House! Toast to all things Obama! Read more here. 5 p.m. 70 SW Century Dr.…
Friday Mixtape!
A fantastic Friday Mixtape is here!
FRIDAY: White House Beer Party at GoodLife! Come!
White House Beer Party with Wilderness$3 pints! 5 p.m. Friday, March 8GoodLife Brewing Co., 70 SW Century Dr. Tomorrow we get try the White House Honey Porter, a presidential brew made especially for us by GoodLife Brewing Company. We got a hold of the White House’s original recipe and passed it on to GoodLife—kind of…
Oz the Great and Powerful uninspired
What I keep hearing in my head is: Escape from Oz. I had no trouble keeping the title straight before I saw the film. But apparently the mere act of watching—and it was pretty mere—has infected me with a desire to be somewhere else, much like most movies that come out just after the Oscars.…
A Brief History of Timberlake
Professional dreamboat Justin Timberlake will be hosting AND singing on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live (NBC, Saturday, March 9, 11:30 p.m.), so you may now commence squee-ing. SQUEEEEEEEEE!! However! Don’t you dare forget that I’ve loved Justin Timberlake FARRRRR longer than anyone. What follows is a brief history of Justin Timberlake, as told by someone…
Mutual Friends
Mutual Friends BOY Nettwerk Records The debut album Mutual Friends from European duo BOY is the musical equivalent of a chick flick. Not the obvious kind of tomfoolery like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, but more like the lighthearted seriousness of The Notebook. OK, I know way too much about these movies.…
Friday Mix Tape
Scan our QR code and take a journey that begins with the sinister 2007 track “Bullets” by Tuung. From there relive the era of acid wash jeans with “Don’t Save Me,” a modern take on '80s pop from Haim. Travel to the land of forgotten Canadian alt-rock with Montreal’s Unicorns and its 2004 song “I…
Shark Attack
The cover of Brooklyn electronic music artist Eliot Lipp’s 2012 album depicts a shark eating a wolf eating a rabbit eating a snake. The carnage seems to be the perfect metaphor for his approach to the music industry. Be the eater—not the eaten. And In this equation, being the shark means constructing imaginative beats that…
Listen Local
I know we write a lot about bluegrass. But it's popular right now for a reason—people like to get rowdy and listen to good stuff while they do. It doesn’t hurt that whiskey is tasty. I mean, no writer is talking about music you can sip vodka to now are they? So, it doesn't hurt…
Out of Town 3/6 – 3/14
portland Electric Six thursday 7 Spending a night with Electric Six means dancing until there’s a fire in the disco. The after party is dancing until there is a fire in the Taco Bell. Jack White was rumored to have sung backup vocals on their song “Danger! High Voltage” back in 2003, at which point…
Do You Know Where Your Food Comes From?
Bette Fraser cares where your food comes from—it’s her job. Her business, The Well Traveled Fork, covers all aspects of the food scene in Bend from cooking classes to culinary tours to catering. She is personally dedicated to supporting local businesses, farmers and producers of food available right here in Central Oregon. I made a…
Little Bites: Worth a Trip South
On the southeast side of Bend, just off Knott Road, is one of the best little gems in town—Farmer Brown’s farm stand. There’s no sign showing the name of the market. The owners don’t advertise the business around town. And the place is only open eight hours a week in winter. I first heard about…
Read a Book
A Better Way to Live Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Greenblatt revives the Renaissance Last year Stephen Greenblatt won a Pulitzer Prize for his nonfiction book "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern." In it, Greenblatt outlines how Poggio Bracciolini, a 15th-century humanist, saved important heretical writings that helped give rise to modern thinking. Such works, like…
Our Picks for 3/6 – 3/14
Stephen Greenblatt thursday 7 AUTHOR—The Harvard professor and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "The Swerve", explains how a couple of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers paved the way for the modern age. Atoms colliding in space, not intervention from the gods—this was a heretical explanation back in the day! Oh, it still is? Crazy.…
A Family Apart
Every morning on the walk to her bus stop near Pilot Butte, Karleen Ramos gets a phone call. It’s her mother, Liliana Ramos, calling from Tijuana to wish her 12-year-old daughter a good day at school. “The other kids say, 'What are you doing?' And I say 'Talking to my mom,' "said Karleen Ramos. “She…
End Lawmakers’ Conflict of Interest on PERS
Oregon legislators considering changes to the Public Employee Retirement System face a moral dilemma. Economic events have made terms of the PERS package highly favorable to beneficiaries and increasingly burdensome to public employers, which must cut payrolls to meet PERS obligations. In deciding how to vote on reforms such as those proposed this session, lawmakers…
One Day at a Time
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25 You know you want it, so stop playing coy: Here’s more gossipy Oscar scoopage! ITEM! Cheating Twilight skank Kristen Stewart hobbled down the red carpet dressed in an ill-fitting Reem Acra gown and crutches under her arms. WHAT WAS UP WITH THAT? According to Us Magazine, and their behind-the-scenes bigmouth Anne Hathaway—who…
The Bulletin’s Switcheroo on SWIP
The Bulletin has recently become Bend’s cheerleader for the $70 million project to pipe and treat creekwater. All the cheering in the world won’t overcome the federal injunction that halted construction in October. Nevertheless, Bend’s daily is urging city councilors to forge ahead without allowing public input (Bend Should Stick with Water Plan, Feb. 20,…
Trail Work Party At Redmond Radlands
Do you like sweet new trails? Of course you do! But trails with flow don’t build themselves, so get your ass out to Redmond this weekend and lend a hand on Saturday morning. The Central Oregon Trail Alliance is organizing a trail-work event to help flesh out the trail system at Radlands, aka the Northeast…
Hard to Fly Right
“Hey Jim,” my email read. “How about a Source article describing the nature and intent of winter flies? They come into our houses—fly slow and stupidly and do not feed—and within a day or two, they die. When they keel over, they seem almost completely dehydrated and they actually crumble to dust and body parts…
New Music From Javelin
The new album from Javelin is getting mixed reviews. Here’s my take.
Bend’s Ian Boswell Kicking Ass at Paris-Nice
Boswell crashed hard yesterday, but is soldiering on. Today Ian Boswell (Team Sky) successfully finished stage 3 of the 7-stage Paris-Nice road race, considered by most to mark the real beginning of the European racing season. Here’s Boswell on today’s stage, which was won by another American, Andrew Talansky (Garmin-Sharp). It ain’t easy over there.…
TONIGHT! Outlaw Country at The Horned Hand
This is a great line:”I ain’t crossing over from no punk rock scene, I ain’t no hillbilly hippie, cause real country music is all I sing.” -Johnny Outlaw and The Johnson Creek Stranglers The Johnson Creek Stranglers are a REAL country band, as evidenced by the line above. If REAL country is your thang, go…
March for ONE Oregon Bus Tour
Yesterday, the Rural Organizing Project, Causa Oregon, PCUN Farmworkers Union and the United Farmworkers kicked off the March for ONE Bus Tour in Bend. The event’s goal is to unite rural communities behind immigration reform, restore driver’s licenses and champion fair treatment for all immigrants. 50 Oregonians hopped on a bus that will travel through…
