Cuts Hit California's State Parks
In a move to help shore up its finances, the state of California is closing 70 state parks at a cost savings of $22 million. It’s a shame given that the list of closures includes several personal favorites.
Bon Iver Is Back
In 2008, the music world was treated to one of the most impressive collections of songs ever recorded in Bon Iver’s debut album For Emma, Forever Ago. That was later followed up with the haunting EP, Blood Bank.
La Pine Fatal Car Accident Victim Was Also a Local Musician
The impact of James Palmer’s passing in a car accident near La Pine on Friday evening continues to ripple through the Central Oregon community — including our local music scene. Palmer, a 37-year-old La Pine Fire District captain, was also known as the drummer for local blues rock outfit Heleos.
Century Man: A conversation with ultra runner Jeff Browning
Jeff Browning started trail running competitively in 2001 and is one of the premier endurance trail runners in the country. With gold, pirate-style earrings dangling from both ears and a tattoo on his forearm, Browning doesn't fit the image you might have of the stereotypical “jogger,” but then again, what Browning does bears little resemblance…
The Jogger’s Guide to Running: After six years, I've realized I'm not a “runner.” But I still run.
I am a runner. Or at least I run. I'm not sure what exactly makes one a runner as opposed to someone who runs. Maybe it's the super tiny shorts or sexy calves. I'm not sure, but what I do know is that for the past six years, I have been running. I've also been…
Less is More: Stepping into the barefoot – or almost barefoot – running fad
I admit it; I've always been a slow runner. A few years ago in the Dual in the Desert duathalon, I was beaten by every man, woman and child who showed up that day except for two women that were chatting as they walked the final leg of the course. And they were gaining on…
Bend’s Prowling Cougar is No More
Yesterday, a friend sent over this photo that he snapped while walking near Brookswood Blvd. There was plenty of cause for alarm as a cougar — likely one cougar — had been seen throughout the southwest part of Bend and Deschutes River Woods.
Run-away Running Gear: The latest in shoes, socks and everything else you need to get running
Bend is still an undiscovered runner's paradise. From sprinting up Pilot Butte to exploring the Deschutes River Trail, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of exciting options. Whether you are training for a marathon or simply jogging for fun, here are some locally available gear choices that will keep you looking and feeling good.
Craft…
Summer Race Guide: From marathons to 5Ks, a sampling of summer competitions
Happy Girls Half Marathon and 5K Run Sunday May 29 This is the first year of this female-specific Memorial Day weekend run along the Deschutes River to benefit the Kids Center. Also includes a girls 1.5k run and an option for a two-person team. Visit happygirlsrun.com for registration information. Three Sisters Marathon Saturday, June 4…
Central Oregon's Running Groups
Certain types of people are lone wolves when it comes to running. They prefer to, huff and puff in private. Then there are those who are driven by the pitter-patter of feet running along next to them. For some, group running satisfies a need to chitchat mid-run, and for others being surrounded by other people…
Fueling the Fire: Because PowerBars taste like cardboard
Once upon a time, long, long, ago, I was a competitive distance runner. It was 1998, everyone was listening to something called The Backstreet Boys, and I thought that Powerbars were the key to success. My pre-race diet consisted of a bucket-size bowl of pasta and marinara sauce, followed by a purple PowerBar that tasted…
ONDA Open House Tonight to Announce 700-Mile Trail
The Oregon Natural Desert Association is holding an open house tonight (5:30pm-9:30pm) at their new location in the Old Mill Marketplace (50 SW Bond St., #4) to make a big announcement.
Two State Senators Push to Raise Oregon’s Speed Limit
In a press release sent out today from the offices of Oregon state Senators Jason Atkinson (R-Central Point) and Bruce Starr (R-Hillsboro), the two lawmakers say they want to raise Oregon’s speed limit. They are looking to raise the speed limit on highways and interstates to as high as 75mph for passenger vehicles and 60…
The Traveling Camera: Mexico
Every year it’s the same story in Bend. People complain about the cold.
Letter Carrier Food Drive on Saturday
I just opened my mail box to find a plastic bag. At first, I thought someone had place a piece of trash in my box, but then I remember that this Saturday is the Stamp Out Hunger food drive.
Win Decemberists or Death Cab for Cutie Tickets
If you haven’t picked up a copy of this week’s print edition of the Source, would recommend doing so, because you could win some tickets to the upcoming Decemberists or Death Cab for Cutie shows. All you have to do is scour the paper for a hidden lyrics to each of these bands.
Win Tickets to See Franchot Tone at Three Creeks Brewing on Saturday
This week in our continuing Three Creeks Brewing Co. giveaways we’ve got tickets to see Franchot Tone up for grabs.
Win Tickets to See Opio, Aplus, Knobody and other hip-hoppers
One of the more interesting indie hip-hop shows we’ve seen this year, the More Bars in More Places Tour 2, is coming to the Domino Room on Friday night. On the lineup are several Bay Area hip-hop stalwarts like Opio, Aplus, Knobody, as well as Bend’s own Cloaked Characters and other performers.
Take Your Ball and Go Home: The Lakers get swept from the playoffs, then take off their shirts
Well, L.A. Lakers, you win some and you lose some. And when you lose some, you apparently start body-slamming people in an attempt to embarrass your soon-to-retire coach. Rarely has such a hyped team of reality television stars and veteran players flamed out so badly in the NBA playoffs. The Seattle Sonics (they don't exist…
Trailing Off: An impromptu exploration of Smith Rock's trail running opportunities
Bend is home to arguably some of the best trail runs in the world as well as the best trail runners. While the running scene in Central Oregon might often be overshadowed by its flashier and faster cousin – cycling – Bend is known nationally as a great place to train, compete or plan a…
Who is John Galt? Who Gives a Crap?: Atlas Shrugged's tea party flops hard
Near the end of this movie, to relieve the tedium, I started thinking about what could have been done to save it. And I came up with the answer: Ragnar the Pirate. The name Ragnar the Pirate appears in a newspaper headline at the beginning of the movie and he's mentioned in passing later on,…
Thunderous Blunders: Thor proves the comic book is better than the movie
I'm calling BS. I know my Mighty Thor and he did not have a beard. Nor did he look like some kind of male model lumberjack hunk. As his mortal alter ego, he was the kindly Doctor Blake who walked with a cane, but when he pounded that sucker to the ground, he turned into…
Nipples No More
In a week filled with crappy season finales, there is one TV show that I hate – yet “hate” to see go. Yes, this week brings the final episode EVER of Smallville (CW, Fri May 13, 8 pm). As a young TV columnist, I grew up with this hilariously operatic teen drama featuring postpubescent hunky…
When Aliens Attack… Again: Saving the world in Crysis 2
The aliens attacked while I was on a submarine. My marine squad was getting ready to go into New York City when the ship started shaking. Walls collapsed. Electronic equipment exploded. Along with most of my squad, I swam out of the escape hatch and surfaced in a nightmare. The Statue of Liberty was smoking…
Tumalo Creek To Host Huge Demo Day
If next week’s PPP serves as final confirmation that you definitely need a new boat, you might want to get down to Tumalo Creek Kayak and Canoe the day after the race. The Bend boat specialist is hosting a massive demo day on Sunday, featuring some 150 different models of kayaks and canoes.
Local Talent: Howard Schor on his new play, D's Place
“My play is mythic more than seedy. I see D as a cross between Mary Magdalene and Don Corleone,” says Howard Schor, co-founder and executive director of the Bend Experimental Art Theatre (BEAT). A veteran theater producer with more than 30 plays to his credit, D's Place, written and directed by Schor, will debut at…
Udderly Delicious: Cada Dia brings local farmstead cheese to Prineville
The Sullivan family, owners of Cada Dia Cheese in Prineville, make farming look easy. In fact, Pat Sullivan doesn't even consider himself a farmer. “I'm not a real farmer,” Pat explains, chuckling as he cleans equipment in the cheese-making facility he and his family built from scratch just two years ago. “I look at the…
Shake It Like You Mean It: Local bar and restaurant vets team up for a fashionable fundraiser
If you're like me, the whole right-wing effort to defund Planned Parenthood made you want to bang your head against your cubicle, or down a stiff cocktail. Well here's your chance to make good on that notion (the cocktail that is, not head banging). Longtime collaborators Chris Lohrey and Erica Reilly are teaming up with…
More is Better: The prolific, ear-pleasing sound of Tyler Fortier
This year, Tyler Fortier will release three albums. Actually, if you include the live disc he's preparing, he'll actually have four full-length discs coming out before we hit 2012. In an age when bands are considered to be working at a hectic pace if they put out one album every two years, this is almost…
Bill Callahan – Apocalypse
Bill Callahan started out in the early '90s as more of an experimental musician, partnering his lyrics with dissonance and odd instrumental choices, slowly building his melodies over multiple albums and eventually recording in a proper studio with other musicians. Since ditching his stage name (Smog), Callahan has been on a course of personal questioning.…
Out of Town 5/11 – 5/19: The Slants, The Raveonettes, Trampled by Turtles, 12th Annual UFO Festival
portland wednesday 11 The Slants Described as “Chinatown dance rock,” The Slants have gained plenty of attention with their controversial name, but explain they are proud of who they are. The band came together over a shared love of The Faint, Depeche Mode and New Order which might make them seem like new-agey wusses… until…
Our Picks for 5/11 – 5/19: Last Band Standing, D’s Place: Opening Night, Cicada Omega, Mosley Wotta, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers and more
COCC Student Art Exhibit & Juried Show thursday 12 Last week, you very well may have seen some great pieces of art during the First Friday art walk, but expand your art-viewing scope a bit and take a look at some of the hidden artistic treasures to be found up on the hill at COCC.…
Squat Till You Puke: Notes from Bend's barbell-bending underground gym
It was necessity, that mother of ingenuity, that prompted Brian McLaughlin to start a private gym 10 feet below street level in a former furniture shop with no windows or sidewalk visibility. A mental health counselor by trade, McLaughlin needed a place where he could pursue his other interest, competitive weight lifting, after his south…
High Noon for Open Government
When a new sheriff rides into town the locals sometimes can get riled up, especially if the old sheriff's been there a long time and the new sheriff has a different way of doing things. That's the situation John Kroger finds himself in. Kroger was elected in 2008 to succeed Hardy Myers as Oregon's attorney…
100% Fresh Straight Poop – for Best Results Use by 05/12/11
Monday, May 2 Osama, The Aftermath: US officials say “mother lode” of intelligence seized from compound where Navy SEALS killed Osama bin Laden last week; “hundreds of people” examining contents of computers, thumb drives, etc. … Meanwhile Rush Limbaugh belittles the exploit, says President Obama almost botched it and staged it as re-election ploy. Way…
This Week’s Number: 251
That's the number of species that the Department of Interior and the Fish and Wildlife Service have pledged to evaluate over the next six years for Endangered Species Act protections. The pledge is part of a settlement with one of the key litigants in a series of cases brought against the federal government over its…
Take Time to See the Roses
I preface this letter by saying: I am a big music fan. I know how sweet it can be to bop through the park listening to your own private soundtrack. Recently while walking through Drake Park I witnessed a bald eagle dive bomb a flock of ducks, nearly getting one. The duck got away and…
Round and Round
Is Measure 9-83 the best that planners for the City of Bend could come up with to try to hold onto the inflow of taxpayer cash set to expire next year? Did one of the planners take a course in college entitled “Traffic Circles 301” that he, or she, really, really liked? I would vote…
Don't Subsidize Poor Planning
Infrastructure First does not recommend voting yes on 9-83 (Bonds for Transportation, etc.). These bonds do not pay for badly needed maintenance of existing roads. They are directed primarily at improving the eastside for UGB expansion and growth. The ballot description is very different from the plans exhibited by the engineering department this winter. The…
Gottlieb Will Listen
It has been my pleasure to come to know Justin Gottlieb, the candidate for Director, Position 2, Bend Parks and Recreation District. I am an enthusiastic volunteer in his campaign. Justin, I think, represents the very best of an emerging generation of young people, which – despite enduring more than its share of desperation and…
