Better Living Through Music: Shabazz Palaces
Patrick O’Brien Smith/Sub Pop Whose snake is this? A few Source staffers were cold chillin’ downtown last weekend and were privy to a boatload of Digable Planets getting pipped in over the soundsystem. Good times, right? But it just made us curious about what Butterfly, one of the group’s MCs, was up to. In 2011,…
Portland Ranked Nation’s most Courteous Drivers
For the second year in a row Portland has been ranked among the nation’s most courteous drivers. The Driver’s Seat Road Rage Survey measured behavior, observation and attitudes related to “road rage” as reported in America’s biggest cities. No word yet on how Portland’s bike community ranks. Our guess is not as well.
Where’s Casey Kasem?
Casey Kasem, yes, as in the radio announcer and cartoon voicer, is missing! And he may be in Warm Springs. Okay, that last part is largely conjecture, but Kasem has vanished, as his family fights over him. The 82-year old has dementia. Apparently, his wife does not want his children to take over control -…
What in the World?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Wake up, Bend. It’s time read, so get ready to learn something. Better Bikes: It’s still more than two months away, but Chicago’s Minimal, the Bike Design Project and a few other players are attempting to design the the perfect bike for urban environments. Bend might not count…
Better Living Through Music: Lykke Li
Ok…I know it’s beautiful and sunny outside today…the weather is too lovely for listening to sad songs, but I’m sharing some tragic tracks anyway. Take this springtime! Swedish songstress Lykke Li isn’t keeping it light and fluffy with her newest album, I Never Learn . The indie-pop is fit for the worst break up of…
COCC to hold judge candidate forum
As we move closer to the May 20 election, another opportunity to hear from candidates vying for Deschutes County Circuit Court Judge, Position 5 is coming up at noon on Tuesday. The Associated Students of Central Oregon Community College have set up a discussion between candidates Thomas “TJ” Spear and Randy Miller. So, take a…
Weekend Round-up!
Slam poetry and chickens? Why not, if you’re looking for something to do in Bend this weekend. The Annual Chicken Coop Tour is presented by Cowgirl Cash and a great opportunity to learn about urban(ish) chicken farming. Grab your tour booklets at Cowgirl Cash, CE Lovejoys, Newport Market, and High Desert Ranch and Home for…
Friday Mixtape! Sasquatch: Day Two
Keep planning the ideal SASQUATCH! schedule.
LSA Q&A
Here is a short list of what we learned at the Q&A session for the Les Schwab Amphitheater on Wednesday evening. —>There will be no chairs and blankets allowed at the Jack Johnson or Dave Matthews Band concerts because the venue had to sell 8,000 tickets to make those shows profitable. With that many patrons…
City Council Round-Up
Last evening’s City Council meeting was a relatively sedate affair, despite two significant issues being OK’d by councilors. After a few proclamations were read—everything from commendations for local builders to recognition of Yom HaShoah—they got down to it. — An agreement worth about $1.1 million with Portland’s Angelo Planning Group to work on Bend’s Urban…
Better Living Through Music: OOIOO
Anytime a band works to incorporate a gamelan influence (a strain of Indonesian percussion that winds up sounding like a bunch of ringing bells) in its work, there’s good reason to take a listen. Marrying that Eastern practice with what can only be described as the outer reaches of avant-rock, Boredoms drummer Yoshimi P-we helms…
Film Exposure
The photographs in Finding Vivian Maier draw your curiosity immediately; the film attempts to frame them. Finding details the landmark uncovering of now-deceased photographer Vivian Maier’s secret archives—more than 100,000 images that document the streets of New York, Chicago, South America, rural France, and beyond in the latter half of the 20th century with an…
Grey Area
The lack of independent small-scale music venues has been a chronic problem for the burgeoning Bend music scene. Almost exactly a year after the infamous Horned Hand shut down amid noise ordinance and zoning controversy, Bend will loose another DIY concert outlet. Pakit Liquidators, the 17-year old junkyard that has been hosting shows since last…
The Earl of Sandwich
An enticing red picnic table has appeared on the lush green patch of lawn outside of Pine Mountain Sports at the corner of SW Century Dr. and SW Colorado Ave. Nestled along the wall of the business is an innocuous-looking white cube, housing Bend’s newest food cart. Hot Box offers a short, but specific menu…
Source Suggests 5/7-5/15
The Source Suggests Karla Bonoff and Jimmy Webb With a recording pedigree springing from the ’60s L.A. folk and rock scene, Karla Bonoff and Jimmy Webb are best known for contributions to other artists (i.e., writing songs for The Fifth Dimension, Carly Simon, Bonnie Raitt). But they are stepping out from behind the scenes, and the…
Bombs Away Boneyard
Thanks largely to the runaway success of RPM, Boneyard has never gotten around to offering small packaging. They only keg. What will likely surprise most Boneyard fans is that they actually make other beer styles. Styles that are not IPA (gasp!) and have occasionally been left out of rotation, so more RPM could be brewed.…
I’m Gonna Be (3,000 Miles)
While many bands move to Portland to bolster their career—it is known for fostering some of the best artists in the country—roots soul singer Redray Frazier moved for love. Frazier—a Keb’ Mo’/Ben Harper hybrid who sports the emotion-riddled blues of the former and roots tenderness of the latter—had been immersed in the vibrant music scene…
When it’s Good, it’s Good
The first time I call Buddy Wakefield, I get his voicemail. “This is Buddy,” says the familiar, melodic baritone I’ve heard deliver devastating poems that twist from hilarious to downright tragic. A week earlier, I had received a to-the-point email in a response to an interview request: “Just call,” it read, in its entirety. And,…
Good Day Sunshine
Susy Sun has a particularly ironic name. After all, she lives in Seattle, a city with a gray cloud ceiling that lasts through nine months of the year. And that’s not the only incongruity: Her particularly squeaky-clean pop outlook contrasts with the rugged, folky alt-country that is at the heart of the Seattle indie scene…
Coop Conspiracy
The iconic NW Galveston Ave. turkey is missing? Shut the cluck up. No bull. Two weeks ago, Giving, the approximately 25-pound bird that marked the corner of NW Galveston Ave. and NW Federal St., was stolen (thieves allegedly cut the wire pen and abducted city council woman Sally Russell’s bird). Here are the Source’s conspiracy…
Out of Town 5/7-5/15
seattle friday 9 Laughter and Reflection with Carol Burnett The queen of the variety show (a precursor to the modern late night show and sketch comedy shows like “Saturday Night Live”), Carol Burnett was a trailblazer for women in entertainment. The actress and comedian accumulated 23 Emmys during the Carol Burnett Show’s run, forcing all…
Our Picks 5/7-5/15
friday 9 Blemished, a Musical THEATER—Blemished, a Musical was the winner of the 2nd Street Theater’s innovative Playwriting Platform, which encouraged local authors to submit works for full production. Written by Bendite Katelyn Alexander, Blemished tells the story of an ex-cabaret singer adjusting to life as a preacher’s wife. 7:30 pm. 2nd Street Theater, 220…
Election Time. Vote Often!
U.S. Senate (Democratic Party): JEFF MERKLEY This is a slamdunk. Merkley has proven to be an impressive advocate for reasonable forest service policies and has been outspoken against NSA’s surveillance programs. U.S. Senate (Republican Party): JASON CONGER There are a number of candidates running in the Republican primary for Senate who haven’t made a statewide…
Policing the Campaigns
In spite of what seems like obvious campaign violations, as of press time, no one has filed a complaint with the Secretary of State Election Division about apparent fouls by incumbent District Attorney Patrick Flaherty—including the person most affected by them, his opponent John Hummel. “I’m not saying I want him to get away with…
Sports Are So Gay
On Saturday, the National Football League will most likely choose its first openly gay player, Michael Sam, a star defensive lineman from the University of Missouri. It will be a landmark day in both sports and in gay equality, not only because the professional leagues of hockey, basketball, baseball and football are massive commercial industries…
Citizen Watchdog Isn’t All Wet
Spencer Dahl, a longtime Bend resident, may like the meandering current of the Deschutes River, but he is not sitting idly by letting the debate over what to do about the river, Newport Avenue Dam and Mirror Pond just take its sweet time. He is out there trying to actually guide the conversation and make…
Letters 4/30-5/6
IN RESPONSE TO “NIGHT AND DAY” (5/1) Since when does not being “media friendly” (the Source referring to Flaherty) qualify as a negative? When politics in Bend is all about being “friendly” to the right people, it allows all sorts of transgressions. This seems like the editors are expressing too much of their personal reactions to…
It’s an oddity, but true
Oregon author and hiking guru—and, yes, he deserves that title—William Sullivan has traversed nearly every inch of Oregon, and now is headed for Deschutes County for a little show and tell. For the past quarter-century and with his collection of guide books (and even historical fiction on airline hijacker D.B. Cooper), Sullivan has mapped out…
New season, new developments
While three Oregon MTB XC races have been held around the state this spring, on Saturday, the Chainbreaker XC MTB Race is set to unofficially usher in the beginning of the Central Oregon mountain biking season. Now in its 17th year, the fun-spirited and challenging race has accumulated enough cache in the mountain biking community…
They’re Baaaaaack!
A month ago, Turkey Vultures, AKA buzzards or TVs, began winging their way north from their long (and very wise) winter stay in the southern climes, like the Sacramento Valley. If you want to shorten Turkey Vulture, (Cathartes aura), the official birding world acronym is, TUVU (not to be confused with TOFU, a paste that’s…
Parallel Parkouring
Brick Mansions is the American remake of a 10-year-old French action movie where people jump around a lot. District B13 was made at the dawn of cinema’s parkour craze in 2004, while Brick Mansions arguably represents its dusk. For the remake, French jumpy man David Belle reprises his supporting lead role from the original film, joined…
HUMP! Tour in Bend on June 5
The epically funny, touching and fully erotic amateur porn film festival started by Dan Savage in 2005 is on tour! The collection of films will be making a onetime appearance Bend—the smallest city by far to see a HUMP! tour stop—on June 5. The sex-advice columnist, who writes Savage Love for weekly papers across the…
