If you don't know Bobby, You don't know Jazz: Legendary saxophonist Bobby Watson be-bops into Bend this weekend
Imagine you're a young jazz saxophonist, fresh out of college and living in Manhattan. The year is 1977: John Travolta is dancing at the discoteque in Saturday Night Fever, America is swept up in three-piece suits and neck scarves, and you have just landed a spot in Art Blakey's Jazz Messangers, a group that's been…
Central Oregon’s Best Restaurant?
For the past several weeks the Source staff has been making itself busy with the production of this year’s Dining Guide, which you can find on stands the week of April 26. Part of that work includes identifying a short list of candidates for our annual restaurant of the year designation.
Best Music of 2012: Yellow Ostrich
Though technically released on a limited basis in 2010, Brooklyn loop engineers Yellow Ostrich’s debut album The Mistress made nearly every list of top albums from 2011 (including mine). Now, just a year later, one of the most creative outfits making music today, are back with their sophomore album Strange Land.
Hot Buttered Rum and Cornmeal: Win two free tickets to Tuesday’s show!
We just love to give stuff away these days. This time, we’ve got two tickets for the Hot Buttered Rum and Cornmeal show on March 13 at the Century Center (sponsored by GoodLife Brewing, so get your pre-show pints there, ya hear?).
What’s in Your Hamburger Meat?
If you saw or read the recent gross-meat news story that ABC broke on Wednesday, we’re here to tell you that not all hamburger meat has the “pink slime.” Gerald Zirnstein, former United States Department of Agriculture scientist, told ABC that “70 percent of the ground beef we buy at the supermarket contains something he calls ‘pink…
Bend-O-Bento wants you to help Japan
Sunday marks the one year anniversary of the massive earthquake that hit northeastern Japan, triggering a devastating tsunami and leading to the meltdown of a nuclear powerplant. About 20,000 people were confirmed killed or are still missing.
Tower Theater Turns 72 with the Marx Brothers
Celebrate the Tower Theater’s 72nd birthday tonight with a showing of the Marx Brothers classic, A Night at the Opera. The Tower will be honoring 1940’s pricing so you can see the flick for only 25 cents! A freaking quarter! Why not get down there!? Get a dose of good old fashioned slapstick from the…
I Think We’re Alone Now
I Think We’re Alone Now is a documentary about many different things, but primarily about loneliness and how easy it is to turn that feeling of isolation into obsession. The film follows two individuals and their decade long infatuation with the 1980’s pop-star Tiffany.
Trapping Opponents Petition for Tighter Rules
Responding in part to concerns raised by Central Oregon dog owner, a coalition of environmental and animal rights groups have called on the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to tighten trapping rules, requiring that all trappers be required to check their traps every 24 hours. Currently Oregon trappers are required to check traps set…
Topnotch bluegrass at Horned Hand tonight
Full disclosure- we really like The Water Tower Bucket Boys. That’s why we’re telling you to get yourself down to The Horned Hand tonight to check them out.
Battle of the Books
With rain in the forecast for next week, you might be looking for a clever new book to curl up with. Lucky for you The Morning News has just released their match ups for the 2012 Tournament of Books, an NCAA-style battle that pits fiction against fiction and highlights 16 of the year’s most acclaimed, loved and…
Oregon’s Top 10 Consumer Complaint List, or What People Fall For
In honor of National Consumer Protection Week Oregon Attorney General John Kroger released Oregon’s Top 10 Consumer Complaint List. There are some obvious and repeat offenders on the list, like telemarketing, an activity that most everyone will agree is a pain in the ass.
The Women’s Issue
With this year’s Women’s Issue, we went in search of Central Oregon females who are breaking away from the societal conventions that somehow still exist in 2011. We found a premiere female motorcycle racer, a great-grandmother who has decided to chase down her musical dreams and a group of women making some of the best…
Pliny the Younger? Ticket required.
It may be a first. We’re so beer crazy around here that The Platypus has decided to pre-sell tickets for eight ounce pours from a keg they think will draw a crowd this Sunday.
Flaherty Cleared of Wrongdoing
Deschutes District Attorney Patrick Flaherty can sleep a little more soundly now that an criminal investigation into allegations that Flaherty misused a grand jury process to settle a political score has found no wrongdoing on his part. Flaherty made it clear that the Oregon State Police investigation, undertaken to determine whether or not he was…
Full Sail on Brewing the Perfect Barrel-Aged Beer
Cool video about the barrel-aging process at Full Sail. Fire it up, kick back with a beer of choice and count down the days until the Little Woody (Aug.
Don't Open the Door to Discrimination
The Chamber Commerce of Bend wants the world to believe that we are a progressive city that is a great place to do business. I wouldn't disagree with that at all – until there is support for businesses that openly discriminate and set us back a few centuries in their thinking. A recent article in…
The Good Ol' Days
Before revisionist history in the 21st century, the Founding Fathers were considered deists. After the writing of the Constitution and fighting the war for independence, they returned to their mansions, whiskey stills and the raping of their slaves.
The Republican War on Women
Republicans like wars. Iraq I and II, Afghanistan, and now (potentially) Iran – they've been gung-ho for 'em all. But now they've embarked on a project that's ambitious even by their standards. They've declared war on half the population of the United States. The female half. It started when Catholic hospitals and other institutions complained…
Short Session Not Ideal: Legislators agree it must be re-tooled
Midway through last week, I gassed up my car, turned on the four-wheel drive and pointed myself toward the snowy Santiam Pass and Salem. It was a chance to put myself in the shoes of the legislators from Central Oregon who've made this drive almost every week since the beginning of February when the state…
Woman Of The Year; Jen Burgess Thompson: Cancer Survivor
The day after being diagnosed last August with aggressive ovarian cancer at age 36, Jen Burgess Thompson gathered up her two young sons, some friends and her husband. They drove to Mt. Bachelor and made a movie. In it, the stunning blond runs through a golden field of wildflowers with her sweet and handsome sons,…
Wonder Women: Five women tell us how to dominate
Tara Reynvaan, Sport Climber Age: 25 Day job: Social Media Coordinator at Ruff Wear Hometown: Bend Female Inspiration: Alizee Dufraisse. “She's totally fearless and definitely a proud climber.” Most radical moment in your sport: The most extreme thing that's ever happened to me is when I fell upside on a sport climb. On my way…
Central Oregon’s Most Influential Women: From every area of our community-politics, business, philanthropy, sports and the creative arts-these women are powerful examples of what it means to live strong everyday
Name: Chris Telfer, 62 Day job: Certified public accountant and state senator Areas of influence: Oregon State Senator for District 27-Bend, former Bend city councilor, former chair of Bend Urban Renewal Agency, former chair of the Bend-La Pine Schools budget committee, founding organizer of numerous Central Oregon nonprofits, chair of Oregon and national Episcopal Church…
Tattoo You: Mum's Tatoo's Angela Kephart found a career and a calling in body art
Angela Kephart was 12-years-old, homeless and living on the Portland streets when she got her first tattoo – a small heart on her left index finger that was given to her by an amateur tattoo artist with a makeshift needle. Kephart recalls that she was standing on the balcony of the Kent Motel above a…
Country Divided: Frankie Ballard and Rehab highlight the divergent styles of country music
There are two distinct sides to the country music coin. On one side is Rehab, a country hip-hop band whose new single, “Woho by the Hoti,” featured in the No. 2 spot of their February album release Gullible's Travels, is a catchy song outlining the wonders of a fortuitously close spatial relationship between their hotel,…
Polecat to Bend: It's Time to Dance; The return of Washington's musically diverse group Polecat promises a foot stompin' good time.
It's doubtful Bellingham's Polecat is trying to put chair manufacturers out of business, but if they continue booking shows at the current rate of 100 per year, their infectious, jig-inspiring brand of fiddle-laden music will certainly reduce the demand for places to rest your backside in favor of dance floor space.
Downtown Fusion: Five Fusion opens for lunch, and Boken reminds us why it's still so sexy
Historically, there have only been a few options for Asian cuisine downtown, especially at lunchtime. And since Typhoon closed, we're down another spot. But we are lucky to have two other options in addition to the Toomie's standby: Boken, in the breezeway on Brooks Street, and Five Fusion on Wall, which only recently started serving…
Back to Fun-damentals: John Carter gives even familiar sci-fi material a spark of energy.
If you've spent any amount of time as a professional film critic, you get used to a few common rejoinders. We all know exactly what unhappy readers think about our thwarted real career goals, and the various contracts we've clearly signed in blood with residents of the underworld that robbed us of our capacity for…
On Shaky Ground: Party movie Project X takes the documentary approach to new depths
Not to be confused with the 1987 Matthew Broderick movie of the same name, in which military-trained monkeys act like people, 2012's Project X finds people acting like baboons. The film is basically Superbad gone turbo without any of its charm. Nerdy high school seniors Thomas, Costa and JB, (Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper and Jonathan…
Blame Game
News flash: Republicans are dumb. And not just dumb in the way people who still watch American Idol are dumb – Republicans are deeply, instinctively dumb.
Under Pressure: Snow and sun mix for a perfect weekend of turns and touring
I'd like to thank both high and low-pressure systems for working together to bring us some perfect late season weather. Depending on where you were, between one and four feet of snow fell in the mountains, as well as Bend, and hung around because of the low temperatures. Even Mt. Bachelor announced the snow level…
Amanda’s is the New El Caporal West
You may have seen the above sign and thought, “what happened to El Cap?” Well, nothing, really. Other than a new sign and maybe a menu-update, which is not yet complete.
