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Where the Rubber Meets the Road
On it’s face, it’s a pretty quiet little election. Not many candidates (see our Boot on the opposite page), and no hot button measures. But though it may be humble, the May 21 election is hard working. Two major funding initiatives, the 911 levy and the school district bond, test our willingness to pay for…
Beer of the Week: Swill
It’s been decided: This is the beer of summer. Refreshing, low alcohol (4.5% ABV) and lightly sweet Swill is the latest release from 10 Barrel’s brew wizard Tonya Cornett. Officially, the beer is a Berliner-Weisse, a cloudy sour wheat. In Germany, in the 19th century, it was the most popular alcoholic drink in the country.…
Oregon Community Foundation Announces Matching Grant for OSU-Cascades
The Oregon Community Foundation has announced a matching grant for OSU-Cascades 4-year expansion project in the amount of $250,000, with potential to rise to $500,000 by the end of 2014. A press release explained the parameters of the gift: The Oregon Community Foundation has committed $250,000 to OSU-Cascades if the campus can raise an additional…
Saturday May 11 Rocks!
This Saturday is full and overflowing with awesome events around town… Here are the Source’s picks (read, what we’ll be doing) on this epic day. Cluck cluck! Read more about the Chicken Coop Tour here! Vroom vroom. Drink up!
Josh Cordell Wins 2013 Last Comic Standing
Videos of Josh Cordell from all three rounds of 2013’s Last Comic Standing competition
Friday Mixtape!
A Friday Mixtape full of new music!
Teacher Appreciation – Is One Week Enough?
Every year, the first full week in May is devoted to showing our nation’s teachers that we value the time and effort they devote to our children. This year, National Teacher Appreciation Week is May 6 through May 10. But is one week a year enough? Once we’ve left the grades and the school politics…
Mural in the Old Mill!
Check out the progress on the mural being painted on the back of the Les Schwab by Minneapolis artist Erin Sayer! Kolby Kirk Thanks to Kolby Kirk for the great photo.
Overheard
I first started writing for weekly papers 20 years, as an intern for San Francisco Weekly. At the time, to make financial ends meet, I also had to paint houses. It was a tale of two jobs: White collar writer, combing City Hall and the San Francisco clubs for stories, and then putting on my…
Cradle to Grave
Nature doesn’t care how old you are. Neither does Alder Butsch, 11, or Don Leet, 62, two Bend athletes from two very different backgrounds—and eras. Leet, an accomplished mountain biker and co-owner of Sunnyside Sports, was already receiving AARP mailings when Butsch, a sponsored snowboarder, was a bump in the belly. The two may have…
Top Five Most Underrated Moms
History is rarely made by well-behaved single moms. Someone really should make a bumper sticker of that. The Source gives five top choices for our favorite, historical single moms: Sacagawea (1788—1812): While Lewis & Clark & Company complained the whole way westward (Oh, Meriwether, my feet hurt. Oh, William, how much further? Jeez, Meriwether, you…
The race is on
Spring brings with it growing grass, jumping fish and an enduring race between tent caterpillars and their host plants. Seemingly ubiquitous in Central Oregon, the industrious tent caterpillars pitch thousands of tiny silken tents among the upper leaves of awakening bitterbrush throughout the region. Those, oh, best beloved newly hatched tent caterpillars trying to get…
Word to your Mother
Gone are the days when reading the newspaper is a one-way conversation. Oh sure, we have our wonderful blog at the Source, you comment on our FB page and we request tweets from you now and again. But we want to do more! To take us into the 21st century we’re going old school, as…
Armor Wars
Hollywood's bars are, no doubt, full of them: writers and actors and directors who had their time in the spotlight, only to be pushed aside when someone better, sexier, or more successful showed up. Los Angeles is a fickle town, and, the cliché goes, you’re only as good as your last picture. Which is why…
How to get a man into mom jeans
Sure, life as a single mom is as busy as a bee, but that doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be time to make honey. Here are the Source’s tips on where to go and what to say when mama is looking for a one-night daddy or a forever father. The One-Nighter Venue: The Riverside Market Heels…
Crazier Than Jack
The Shining might be the most confounding movie Stanley Kubrick ever made. Ostensibly a horror film, the 1980 movie has its share of problems: It’s overlong, unevenly paced, uncomfortably creepy, and dramatically unsatisfying. It contains an over-the-top performance by a showboating Jack Nicholson, and an unbelievably grating one by a sniveling Shelley Duvall. But, as…
Good Grief, Gatsby
I don’t know if other readers of The Great Gatsby will relate to this, but I tend to almost forget that Gatsby is a novel of the roaring ’20s, full of flappers and fast cars and gin-fueled debauchery. When I think about Fitzgerald’s book, I think about that far-off green light at the end of…
Under the Knife with Chef Joe Kim
Joe Kim, chef at 5 Fusion, grew up in La Pine. Although he was born in San Francisco, his parents divorced when he was 6 and his mom moved to La Pine to raise Kim and his sisters. His mother never remarried, still lives in La Pine and has devoted her whole life to raising…
Stop… Please. Just Stop.
Seriously. Guys. Seriously. Just stop. Stop it, stop what you’re doing… just… STOP. I realize you think you’re doing the correct thing—but in reality? You’re doing the opposite of the correct thing, which is the wrong thing. And as it turns out, you’re doing a LOT of these wrong things. Like what for example? Here…
Werewolves in La Pine
While readers in the other 49 states certainly should enjoy Benjamin Percy’s terse, wryly humorous and wonderfully suspenseful Red Moon, reading the story about werewolves and resistance movements is particularly titillating for Oregonians. Percy was raised in Tumalo and, with precise observations, draws out both the physical and psychological landscape of the region. Aside from…
Download It
If You Leave Daughter Glassnote Songs on If You Leave, the debut album from UK trio Daughter, are the musical equivalent of tearing down a personal fortress. It is an album about unclenching fearful fists. Singer Elena Tonra’s haunting voice is an iron anchor slowly rising from the depths of the sea, eventually turning tracks…
Clucking Awesome
At age 4, Sara Yellich saw her first farm animal slaughtered for food. Living on a 40-acre farm in Minnesota, she and her younger sisters stumbled upon their neighbor, axe in hand, slitting the throats of a flock of turkeys and letting them run themselves around the yard until they bled out. But the scene—like…
Shock Value
Put every taboo slur and sensitive social topic in a blender, leave the lid off and blast that sucker on puree. That’s a beginning idea about what listening to rapper Tyler, The Creator is like. Born Tyler Gregory Okonma, the 22-year-old rapper is still very much like a kid who likes to press his mom’s…
Art in Dull Places
Bend is lucky to have scenic mountain views, an amazing river that runs through the heart of town and striking pine tree forests. But it also has a concrete jungle—places like the industrial portions of Third Street and the parking garage. Those sections of town are not immediately visually appealing. Thankfully, the Tin Pan Alley…
A New Path
The members of progressive bluegrass band Nickel Creek haven’t been together since 2007, but the individual artists are carrying momentum from that band into their solo careers. Mandolin player Chris Thile is turning heads with his new project The Punch Brothers, and fiddle player Sara Watkins is now two albums into a promising solo career.…
Ebony and Ivory
Cormac McCarthy is an author of some of the most prolific—and decidedly American—novels of the last 50 years (All the Pretty Horses, Blood Meridian). Consistently dark and tense, his stories lend themselves to high impac stage and film performances (see Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men, based on the 2005 McCarthy book of…
Broken Down Guitars
The votes placing Bend’s five-piece-alt-rock crew Broken Down Guitars into the winner’s circle of the Last Band Standing competition were counted way back last June—almost an entire year ago. Eleven months later, they finally have something to show for it. Eighteen hours of studio time at Top Secret Records and Productions came with the Ninkasi…
Our Picks 5/8 – 5/16
friday 10 Tyler, the Creator MUSIC— Tyler, the Creator is as talented as he is offensive. Drugs, sex, race and sexual orientation are all fair game for the 22-year-old SoCal rapper. He’s managed three albums in four years, and his most recent, Wolf, earned him a full-page spread in Rolling Stone. Appearing with special guest…
Out of Town 5/8 – 5/16
portland friday 10-sunday 19 The Match.com Monologues Dating in the 21st century is rough. Emails, Googling, Skype, Facebook stalkers, sexting, retweets and online dating profiles all complicate the already mucky courting routine, replacing real-live human interaction with online non-dates, non-relationships and other technological fabrications of love and lust. This can lead to some seriously sidesplitting…
Working Moms
Last week, the charming first lady Michelle Obama was talking on a morning TV show in Vermont when she slipped up and called herself a “single mother.” For the past five years, with aplomb and a decent amount of tasteful fashion, Michelle Obama has balanced her role as a professional public figure and her private…
Music to Their Ears
After a bumper sticker and social media campaign, advocates for live music in Bend finally got scored a victory at a City Council meeting last Wednesday. For the past several months, musicians and live music venue owners have petitioned the council to change several key pieces of a new noise ordinance passed last July. The…
Finding the Family
Being a single mom has been anything but easy for 24-year-old Brieanna Shelton. At Bend High, she found herself a part-time teen rebel, spending days singing in the school choir and doing homework, and nights hanging out in sleazy hotel rooms with dropouts and druggies. By the summer after graduation, she was broke, and an…
Golden Opportunities Squandered
You may notice that this season’s Voter Pamphlet is a bit thin, and that there aren’t too many names crowding the ballot. That’s because, well, apparently the candidates forgot to show up for the party. Maybe they didn’t know they were invited. Of the four open seats on the Central Oregon Community College board, only…
Make It Look Easy
Bringing home the bacon and frying it up in a pan isn’t as easy as baking a cake. Yes, we know, being a single mom is a tough row to hoe. But, to mix metaphors even further, being a single mom can either be a half-empty or half-full proposition. Perhaps you are freed from your…
One Day at a Time
MONDAY, APRIL 29 Is the most terrible relationship in the universe (that of Rihanna and her emotional/physical abuser Chris Brown) on the skids? HA! We should be so lucky. However, there have been some interesting indicators this week, starting with…1! Rihanna makes smoochy faces with random boy on Instagram. Chris responds by unfollowing RiRi on…
Teach Your Children
Shon Rae has a relationship with her two boys, 17 and 19, that other moms would give up grandma’s secret gumbo recipe for. Last Saturday, Rae, an attractive and toned 41-year-old with shoulder-length blonde braided pigtails, explored the rolling, dusty trails west of Shevlin Park with her eldest, who was visiting home on a weekend…
More Letters 4/24 – 5/2
Mt. Bachelor Removing Decades-Old Service Starting next season, Mt. Bachelor will no longer have a season locker room. There are patrons that have had a locker there for over two decades. It will especially hurt older skiers who ride the bus to the mountain, and will no longer have a place to keep their things.…
Put On the Big Girl Pants
“My father taught me: Take care of the people who take care of you,” explained Summer Ramsey. That scratch-my-back-I’ll-scratch-yours motto is both her business ethic and her commitment to her friends and family. A 35-year-old with reddish-brown hair, silver nose ring and a big, bright smile, Ramsey is a mother of two and owns her…
