Best Movie of the year! (So far)
Can we talk about Matthew McConaughey for a bit? Okay, we can talk about him all day long if you want.We are in the middle of watching an extraordinary career arc. For a while, the once-promising career seemed to be sagging into mundane, easy-to-digest but forgettable films (How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days,…
Drinks at Crow’s Feet Commons Patio, Now Year-Round
Now with beer. Goodbye shady skids, hello patio wining and dining. It’s official—beers are now being served in the plaza in front of Crow’s Feet Commons downtown. According to owner David Marchi, who leases his historic building from the city, he recently signed a separate lease with the city that allows for beer and table…
Music for Mondays
This week’s Monday is actually a Tuesday, but we’re still going to launch our new weekly blog entry, Music for Mondays. We’ll suggest a song, album or new release to rid you of the beginning of the week blues. This week: The National, Trouble Will Find Me. Music for Mondays: The National, Trouble Will Find…
PHOTOS: A Taste of Sasquatch
Sample some photos from the Sasquatch Music Festival
A Musical Memorial Day Weekend
Holy rock n’ roll! The music lineup for this long weekend is too good to be true! It may not be Sasquatch! (follow the Source for our music editor Ethan Maffey’s coverage of the festival) but here are some of the amazing shows that will be going down in Bend over the next three days.…
Oklahoma Tornado Survivor Is Reunited With Her Dog
May 21, 2013: A woman whose home was flattened by a deadly tornado in Oklahoma City was reunited with her dog as a CBS News crew recorded an interview with her. The dog spent three days in the rubble under the house, but emerges uninjured from the debris.
SOUND Editor at Sasquatch
Can’t go to Sasquatch? Here are links to all the action.
Friday Mixtape!
Rap fan? Rock fan? Two Friday Mixtapes await your Memorial Day BBQs!
Central Oregon Beer Week(end) Rages On
Woohoo! Central Oregon Beer Week is up and running with all kinds of specials, tastings, tap takeovers and more! The opening night party at Worthy Brewing was a blast with tons of delicious brews and the pretzels, oh the delicious pretzels! Here are events for the next few days that the Source recommends. TONIGHT! Thursday…
Be Cool: Trail etiquette reminders from COTA
Last night, at the Bend Bicycle Film Festival (which was awesome and well-attended), COTA rolled out its “Trail Love,” campaign… The Central Oregon Trail Alliance is an important group; it keeps our trails in tip-top shape. Those trees blown over by winter storms and blocking trails? They don’t move themselves—thank COTA. Those blown-out corners on…
No Worries, Bro
Sammy Carlson does what he wants. The 24-year-old professional freeskier has become so successful that his day-to-day job, which he loves, is simple: get better at skiing and ski tricks. And if he wants to get his bros together for a competition that boasts a $20,000 prize purse—well, he can do that, too. On Saturday,…
Super Summer Swill
Summer is an important time for beer. In the oppressive summertime heat, a light refreshing ale can be critical in the wake of any sweat-soaked activity, from lawn mowing to 100 miles of bike riding. The mark of a great summer beer is its ability to be consumed en masse and still float comfortably atop…
Prime Directive Achieved!
Every generation, it has long been said, inherits the incarnation of Star Trek it most deserves (actually, I don't think that's true; I'm pretty sure I'm making this up). The original TV series, immaculately conceived in a campy manger nearly 50 years ago, arrived dripping with American optimism and ham-fisted Cold War and racial allegory.…
Patio Season!
Bend offers a patio choice for every mood of summertime, whether it's basking in sunshine, dew beading on a pint glass, or snuggling under a pincushion of evening stars, warming with a whiskey. Crow’s Feet Commons, 875 NW Brooks St. An ideal spot to sip a coffee overlooking Drake Park and the Deschutes River. An…
Gran Toretto
There are going to be jokes about Fast & Furious 6 that go like this: “But if I didn’t see Fast Five, will I be able to follow the plot?” Haha, good one! Also: No, you won’t, idiot. Because Furious 6 relishes in the kind of meticulous soap opera usually only seen on Mad Men…
Locally Grown Radio
Historically, radio has represented its sense of place better than other forms of media—consider iconic shows like the "Grand Ole Opry" and "A Prairie Home Companion," or even music itself, often labeled the Seattle, Minneapolis or British scene. But over the past 15 years, radio, more than any other medium, has undergone a rapid consolidation…
D-bags on Parade
The Hangover’s “trilogy” is the cinematic wet dream of guys who wear backward baseball caps and call their friends “brah.” It is lazy and douchebaggy. I scoff at the movies because I am a snobby feminist killjoy, and they make it so easy by being obvious in their contempt of the female audience. (Or maybe…
Little Bites: A Time to Reap
When the construction business came to a screeching halt several years ago, Duane and Julie Schiedler, owners of Miracle Acre Farm off Brosterhous Road, saw business for their custom cabinet shop dry up. That’s when they opened Celebrate the Season with the intention of selling garden structures—like their handmade chicken coops and greenhouses. “We tried…
Typing is Hard
Every day someone tells me, “Wm.™ Steven Hump-Me? You got it EEEEEEEASY. All you do is sit around on your spectacular honey-baked ham and watch TV! I call that: EEEEEEEASY.” Well, it’s not so EEEEEEEASY! I thought this TV criticizing gig would be the EEEEEEEASiest job in the world—until I discovered there’s a considerable amount…
Rancher’s Delight
An hour and 40 minutes into the cracked high desert northeast of Bend, eight miles past the barely recognizable “town” of Antelope, sits the Imperial Stock Ranch, surrounded by chapped canyon landscape, rife with tumbleweeds. A century ago, this was a bustling center of commerce. At its core was Imperial Stock Ranch, established in 1871…
Summer Music Arrives
Endless Fantasy Anamanaguchi Dream.hax The 2013 version of music from a 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System—as conceived by Brooklyn chiptune rock band Anamanaguchi—packs a ton more oomph than the elementary bleeps and bloops that Mario saved Princess Toadstool to when we were kids. To create the electro-rock on its debut album Endless Fantasy, Anamanaguchi pipes live…
For Art's Sake
In an epic WTF failure of the modern education system, only one-third of Oregon public schools provide coursework in the visual arts. This in spite of compelling evidence that arts education increases academic performance, motivation and social and critical thinking skills—skills like self-expression, creativity and patience, which are particularly significant for nontraditional students, like those…
A (Sound) Bite of Cake
Members of Cake visit and post on their Webpage more frequently than a teenage girl—an endearing quirk for an established band, especially, in an age when the social media profiles of iconic bands are most often run by third-party entities like record labels and publicists. And for a band with left-leaning political views, the Sacramento…
Our Picks 5/22 – 5/30
thursday 23 Ellison Army & Ale Apothecary BAND & BREW—Paul Arney, owner of The Ale Apothecary, makes the best damn beer in Bend, and on Thursday (in the name of Central Oregon Beer Week) he’ll come down from the hills to explain how he does it, while pouring samples and selling bottles to discerning beer…
A Blank Canvas
The 2011 Sigur Rós film for the double live album Inni depicts the unconventional Icelandic rock band—known for an ethereal-sounding bow guitar—in antique black and white, using odd camera angles to generate ghostly imagery. Lead singer Jónsi Birgisson is more a falsetto specter than performer. Frame by frame, the resulting movie manifests as an hourlong…
Open for Debate
How tall should buildings be along the river in downtown Bend? The public will get another chance to say after the Bend City Council reversed course last week on an earlier decision. Last month, after very little public discussion, the council voted 4-to-3 to allow variances to a 35-foot height limit for some buildings on…
Out of Town 5/22 – 5/30
portland friday 24-saturday 25 Patton Oswalt No drunken heckling necessary, Patton Oswalt’s standup is sharp and relevant. Sure, he is remembered for a kitsch role on “King of Queens,” but he is also an original member of the Comedians of Comedy Tour, a vocal opponent of the George W. Bush administration and champion of geek…
The Forgotten War
In pictures on Facebook, Aaron Prescott appears like many 24-year-old men—healthy, tanned and smiling. On April 16, he posted a picture of a gleaming electric guitar in a plush case with the title, “my new girlfriend.” Two days later, he added a photograph of his dog in a car’s passenger seat, tongue lolling; the caption…
These Slippers Are Made for Walking
On Tuesday, Bend and two other cities were designated “Walk Friendly Communities.” The program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, recognizes community efforts to increase non-car travel. While not comprehensive evaluations, such recognitions are an accurate measurement of Bend’s efforts to be sustainable—environmentally by weaning from car travel and socially by bringing more people…
One Day at a Time
MONDAY 13 We start this week with a subtle message from Lindsay Lohan, currently serving a court-ordered sentence in the Betty Ford clinic: “LET MEEEE OUTTA HEEERE!!” As reported last week, Lindsay was desperately avoiding rehabs that might take away her beloved Adderall prescription (which she claims soothes her attention deficit disorder), and sure enough,…
Letters 5/15 -5/23
In reply to Drake-tastic (Chow 5/16) Nice article on the Drake, Erin, but one clarification. Although it was once home to a restaurant operated by the same owner of Mexicali Rose, that venerable eatery was located on Third and Franklin, whereas Baja Norte was in the Drake space prior to El Jimmy’s. I know this…
INTERVIEW: Insane Clown Posse
Detroit Michigan’s Insane Clown Posse haven’t backed down from anything in their lives. And they won’t start now.
The Challenge of Legalizing Pot
Maybe you forgot, but our neighbors to the north voted to legalize pot last November. Along with Colorado, Washington has made the possession and consumption of marijuana legal for individuals over 21 years of age. As you can image all the pot heads up there in WA were over joyed at the prospect of pot…
Farewell Trail Work Event 5/23
It’s snowing, I know, but I also know you own a big old fleece jacket, so put it on and help keep mountain biking in Bend the best in the country! Bend is know for having some of the most active and experienced trail builders in the U.S. so come out this Thursday lend a…
