Win Tickets to See Mickey Avalon in Bend!
The Source Weekly and BeNT are giving away two tickets to see famed Hollywood glam-rapper Mickey Avalon at Bend’s Domino Room on June 10th. All you have to do to win is tell us something glamorous about yourself in a comment below! We’ll pick the winner tomorrow afternoon.
Enduro Mtn. Bike Racing Comes to Bend
The Euros are into Enduros, thus it was only a matter of time until Oregon got on board with the downhill-centric, stage-race format. Bend is the first stop of the 2012 Oregon Enduro series, now in it’s third year, and will host the five-stage, two-day race on Saturday and Sunday.
Cascade Lakes Highway Opens Tomorrow
Bikers, hikers, fishermen, sunday drivers and all lovers of our high lakes country, tomorrow is a very good day. Cascades Lakes Highway will open for the summer season at noon tomorrow, June 1! Keep in mind that the road will probably still be icy.
Lives on the Line Photos
Hey all, We’re working quickly to get the pieces from the Lives on the Line exhibit onto our website. Technical issues are gumming things up but we’ll get them posted as soon as possible.
Deal Will Save Redmond Call Center Jobs
Just weeks before more than 500 T-Mobile employees in Redmond were set to join the ranks of the Oregon unemployed, another cell phone company has inked a deal to take over the call center, potentially preserving many of the jobs. Consumer Cellular, a Portland-based carrier, announced Wednesday that it will be taking over the T-Mobile…
Got Mutt? The Source wants your dog for an upcoming issue
Bend’s reputation as a dog friendly town is one that’s been well earned. By some accounts Bend has a per capita dog population that rivals any other town in the country.
Women Still Waiting on Our Rights
As a veteran of the feminist movement I have always stated that the song remains the same for women. I have come to believe that after all the marching, sign holding, sit-in-ing, media-reported statements of, “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,” we achieved one thing. Did we punch and break…
Dear Selfish Jerk, ….
I ride a bike sometimes and I also walk my dogs responsibly on a leash and pick up after them so we can all enjoy the river trail, but, here’s to the rude mountain biker I encountered today: Could you please announce in a voice that is audible that you are behind me on the…
Schools Aren’t the Problem
Shawn Blount’s article concerning the elimination of chocolate milk and presumably other flavors of sugar-sweetened milk in schools is rational. However, if sweetened milk is eliminated, the question becomes how many children will voluntarily drink plain milk. My guess is not many, and they would then switch to other more sweetened drinks. If all sweetened…
Prineville’s Green Apple Farm
They call it a “server farm,” but Old McDonald would never recognize it: acres and acres of tall racks full of high-speed computers, humming away 24/7 so that you can upload a picture of your new puppy to Facebook or download the latest Rihanna album from iTunes. It’s truly a marvel of modern technology, but…
Night in the Life: Seven hours on Bend’s thin blue line
It’s 7 p.m. on a recent Sunday and I’m in the women’s locker room of the Bend Police Department watching a petite blonde in her 30s prepare for an eight-hour shift. Juli McConkey straps a small gun to her ankle, a handgun to her waist, some kind of knife to her other ankle, and then…
Our Picks 06/01-06/07
First Friday Art Walk friday 1 There’s the art, there’s the walking—what’s not to love? We strongly recommend visiting the Oxford Hotel to peruse the Lives on the Line exhibit we profile in our Culture section this week. While you’re there take a listen to Christian Lindquist on the harp and check out his custom…
Putting the Punk Back in Bend: Three acts reviving local rock n’ roll
Wild Eye Revolvers Pierced and tattooed, cracking beers and lighting up smokes while sitting on the floor of their gutted van, Wild Eye Revolvers explains their sound as “thrashacana,” a term I’m sure they made up. It means something like punk rock with a mandolin with a banjo. You’ve probably unintentionally heard them play before.…
Local Food Matters: Put your money where your mouth is
It’s 11:00 a.m. on a hot and sunny Monday. I pull into Rainshadow Organics farm in Lower Bridge outside of Terrebonne to meet with owner Sarahlee Lawrence, who has been hard at work since daybreak. Potatoes are planted, Brussel sprouts and kale are coming up in the garden, and the cover crop in the big…
Tool Time: Tinkering led Bend’s Scott Holmer to revolutionize the ski tuning biz
Scott Holmer has always been a tinkerer. Back home in his native Minnesota he built three boats to help him navigate the land of ten thousand lakes. So it only made sense that Holmer would eventually apply his restless mind to his first love, downhill skiing. The father of two successful racers, including a son…
Kialoa Paddles: A Hawaiian tradition meets a Bend lifestyle
For Dave Chun the name Kialoa represents a memory of time spent with his father. Chun saw the name on the side of a racing sailboat as a child growing up in Hawaii and it stuck with him. He didn’t know what it meant, but he liked the name and the memory he associated with…
Commute Options Week
Commute Options Week-Renowned Speaker! June 21, 2012 11:30-1pm St. Charles Medical Center Building a Better Bend, City Club of Central Oregon, Commute Options, Oregon Environmental Council, 1000 Friends of Oregon, Transportation & Growth Management and the Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association present Richard Jackson, MD, MPH Chair of Environmental Health Sciences, UCLA.
Riding High: An area craftsman explains why his unique cycling accessories are important to the local economy
A few years back, Ben Lewis’ girlfriend came home with a hip Chrome messenger bag. It was voluminous and durable yet simple with just one large flap, some Velcro and a couple of internal pockets. Lewis took one look at the mass-produced bag and declared, “I can make that.” Two vintage Singer sewing machines later,…
On Top of Her Game: From Brooks Street to Hollywood Boulevard with Bend’s Nashelle
If you were hanging out in the grocery line last week, you might have noticed that the Kardashian sisters are fed up with their mom, as the May 21 issue of In Touch magazine told us in all capital letters. What you probably didn’t notice was the little necklace Kourtney Kardashian was wearing—a classy gold…
Spindrift: Keeping It Local and Hands-Free
If you’ve spent time outside in Bend when the weather is nice, you know that dogs are prevalent. People here like to get out and be active, and many of them like to bring their dogs with them. But sometimes it isn’t very practical to have your dog on a leash, yanking your arm out…
Lives on the Line: Building community one art exhibit at a time
The list of names of local women profiled in the Lives on the Line event at the Oxford Hotel this Friday is a who’s-who of some of the most interesting and inspiring women in Bend. It includes Reverend Heather Starr, who shepherds Bend’s Unitarian congregation and whose partner is genderqueer; Amy Fraley, who started a…
End of the Rainbow: Crooked River Rainbow Trout—Three Ways
The brilliant white plates were a stark contrast to the colorful food that my fiancée Kristen and I had just placed atop them—food that we had worked hard to acquire and as a result were even more excited to consume. The rainbow trout we’d caught earlier in the day did not disappoint. It was so…
Little Bites: Two new restaurants to open in downtown Bend: Jewish style-deli back on Franklin and Jackalope makes the big move
You’ve probably heard that Letzer’s, the Jewish-style deli known for its sandwiches with a baseball-sized serving of meat in the middle, closed doors awhile back. But, a new pastrami hook-up has stepped up to the plate and we’re psyched to try Pastrami Old World Deli when it opens downtown for First Friday. “The food that…
The Guilded Age
If you made it through Central Oregon’s inaugural craft beer week without running across a tasting or some other beer-related promotion, then you probably stand to lose your beer connoisseur credentials. In fact, it was hard to darken the door of any self-respecting taproom without running into a meet-your-brewer event or a food pairing special.…
On the Beaten Path: Chernobyl Diaries follows horror movie aesthetics 101
Oren Peli has ruined my movie-going experience one time too many. The dude responsible for the Paranormal Activity atrocities has had me running screaming down the aisles in disgust rather than fright. But now Peli has nearly redeemed himself by producing and co-writing the screenplay for Chernobyl Diaries. This flick is nowhere near as bad…
Peace, Love…Aliens?: MIB are back with diminishing returns.
It’s been 10 years since Men in Black 2 came out, which is long enough for me to have completely forgotten every single detail of it (other than remembering Biz Markie played an alien in it). I don’t think anyone was really asking for another Men in Black movie, but as one of the world’s…
TV Trailer Park!
There are three great inventions of the modern era: 1) Totino Pizza Rolls. 2) Corporate sponsorship of crappy television columns [Thanks again, Totino Pizza Roll company!], and 3)… the internet! Now, I’m old enough to remember the dark days of humanity before the internet was born. For example, if I needed to publish a “fact,”…
Dungeon Crawl: Diablo III is a rehash, but that doesn’t mean it’s not fun
To borrow a line from a song from bygone days, “everything old is new again.” It seems that retro gaming is alive and well…and its name is Diablo III. For those who remember Diablo II, well, D3 is the same game—sort of. Graphics have been updated, the story has some changes, but by and large,…
Fun in the UGB: Keep your recreating local and get rad in Bend’s city limits
If you think you have to travel outside the city limits to recreate, well, think again, sucka! Look around! We live in Bend for a reason! Aside from dog parks and breweries, we are also lucky to have impressively close and convenient opportunities for outdoor entertainment. Sure, we’ve got Smith Rock, the Upper Deschutes and…
Sasquatch 2012 Recap (with all the photos)
I’m exhausted. I’m also a little sad that my fourth consecutive Sasquatch Festival is over. This was my first year attending the festival as media and I’ve got to say that working the event is way more tiring than merely attending the event. Finding time to hang out with friends, jump from stage to stage to…
