Newspaper on the Radio
Did you catch the Source Weekly’s Editor Phil Busse on 92.9 FM last week? Every Wednesday at 9:30 am, Mr. Busse will be offering a sneak peak at the upcoming week’s newspaper (on stands later Wednesday afternoon) and choosing three tracks that represent this week’s Source! Here’s a sample of last week’s segment courtesy of…
The Gold Rust CD Release Party at Palate
Tonight, Palate Coffee Bar (643 NW Colorado Ave., NOW SERVING BEER!) will stay open late to host a live performance from local acoustic duo The Gold Rust. Click HERE to link to the Gold Rust’s full album. Show starts at 7 pm, $5.
Better Living Through Music: Tijuana Panthers
For Tijuana Panthers’ second full-length album, the band decided to work with Oregon-based producer Richard Swift (yeah, the guy from The Shins). What results is a rougher sounding offering than the band’s 2013 Semi-Sweet. The forthcoming Wayne Interest finds the L.A. band picking up the pace for the track above, “Cherry Street,” and dealing with…
Friday Mixtape! The First Day of Sasquatch.
Get ready for Sasquatch! Here’s all the day one music.
Artist Alex Reisfar on OPB
Native Oregonian, former Bendite and Source cover artist, Alex Reisfar, represents the voice of pacifism in the centennial celebration of poet William Stafford. Read the full article on OPB here. To learn more about Alex Reisfar, tune in to Oregon Art Beat on May 1 at 8 pm. and May 4 at 6 pm.
Better Living Through Music: Tobacco
Tobacco, a one-time member of Black Moth Super Rainbow, has been issuing electro-influenced hip-hop albums for the last six years. And his pending release, Ultima II Massage, has been trickling out onto the Internet over the last several weeks, track by track. The latest cut to make it our way, “Father Sister Berzerker,” which was…
Penalty Flag
It is important to note an insight that threatened to eclipse our considerations in this decision—that is, we have some sincere concerns that Flaherty potentially stepped out-of-bound for election laws, which are straightforward and unbending that an incumbent should not use any resources from his publicly-funded office to support his campaign. We were first tipped…
Slaughter Fodder
Among the many harrowing tales of discovery and misadventure that originated during the great western migration of the 19th century, few are as legendary as the Donner Party, a stranded group of pioneers who turned to cannibalism for sustenance. In a new reimagining of the fateful journey, local author Duncan McGeary adds a supernatural edge…
Teaching Without Tech
A young boy stands at the grain mill, cranking the handle repeatedly, though there are no grains in it. He seems entranced by the simple, repetitive motion, and the low-tech task—closer to a 19th than 21st century activity—holds his attention for a solid 10 minutes, while his parents listen to the kindergarten teacher at Bend’s…
Blemished, A Musical
2nd Street Theater is now in the business of taking chances. When Maralyn Thoma first opened the theater, its slate of shows leaned toward safer fare, like Greater Tuna and Dracula. But when the space fell into dire financial straights several years ago, they threw caution to the wind and started experimenting. With Evil Dead:…
Fill ‘Er Up!
Last week, in a Portland wine shop, a jovial Sen. Ron Wyden announced that he had barked, and that the federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau had backed down. At issue was whether restaurants, taverns and convenience stores could sell wine in growlers and other containers—like many currently do for beer. Over the…
Our Picks 4/30-5/8
thursday 1 Particle Fever FILM—If you really believe that you have something better to do than watch a movie documenting the beginning of time—and hear a lecture from one of the particle physicists who was part of the Large Hadron Collider re-enactment of the Big Bang—um, can we say, God complex? Sponsored by Sisters Science…
Letters 4/22-4/29
IN REPLY TO (“YES ON FIRE LEVY” 04/24) And yet I haven’t heard of a single house burning down or dude dying of a heart attack, because the fire department didn’t arrive fast enough. Am I wrong? — Anonymous Editor’s Note: Actually, yes. In an August 15, 2013 article, “Canary in a Coal Mine,” we…
Night and Day
The endorsement for the District Attorney is an easy choice. But it is not that one candidate is dramatically more qualified than the other. It is an easy choice, because the candidates are so differently qualified for the office. In fact, whom you chose is as much a personality and political test for yourself, as…
True Grit
The perfect day for Meredith Gentry is heading out to the North Fork Trail on Bend’s westside with her mountain bike, shooting past Tumalo Falls and rocketing back down the Farewell Trail. Gentry said it’s a challenging ride, but the scenery is more than worth it. Four years ago, the Austin transplant started Grit Clinics…
Circuit Court Judge Position 5
On Monday, Circuit Court Judge Barbara Haslinger’s docket included a litany of DUII cases, a sex abuse case, as well as a credit card fraud and identity theft case. She’ll be leaving all that behind and stepping down after this election cycle. With her docket being such a mixed bag, we believe that Thomas “TJ”…
Cool Spidey Story, Bro
Remember 2012? That was the year we got the Spider-Man reboot no one really asked for. To be fair, Andrew Garfield’s nebbishy Peter Parker was an improvement over Tobey Maguire, and the addition of Emma Stone (as Spidey’s girlfriend Gwen Stacy) was critical, because YAY everything Emma Stone. And yet? It was still roughly the…
Modern Moms
Published in 1946, Dr. Benjamin Spock’s Baby and Child Care was second only to the Bible for overall sales for the subsequent 52 years, until 1998 when sales began to slip, coinciding with the advent of the Internet and, soon after, apps. Dr. Spock was the first pediatrician to popularize psychoanalysis for children, and to…
Film Events
See More Seymour We begin our tribute to the great American actor Philip Seymour Hoffman with Almost Famous, a movie about rock and roll with one of the greatest, rock-and-roll soundtracks ever and Mr. Hoffman playing the greatest rock-and-roll critic ever, Lester Bangs. May 7, 7pm. Old Stone Church, 157 NW Franklin Ave. Free. Happy…
Pixels vs. Pages
It’s bedtime and my 5-year-old son Gus is searching for his favorite book. Our nighttime ritual, prompted by the scores of parenting manuals I read when he was just a baby, is our favorite time of the day. I’ve learned from both experts and experience that developing a love of reading is an important aspect…
String Theory
The cell phone service is cutting in and out as the Steep Canyon Rangers roll down the highway in their home state of North Carolina. Between headlining its own tour, serving as the backing band for comedian and banjo virtuoso Steve Martin and musician Edie Brickell for an average of 50 dates a year, and…
The Source Suggests
Thunder Egg Consort Slicing open the hard exterior to reveal the gorgeous luminous innards of classical music, pianist Monica Ohuchi, violinists Anthea Krestonand and Kenji Bunch, and cellist Jason Duckles have traced the globe playing music. Each artist has their own unique and impressive resume, degrees from Juliard among the accomplishments. The four musicians all…
May the Fourth Be With You
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, rebel rockers Galen Marek, Dash Rendar and Corran Horn (even their names sound intergalactic) joined forces to become the dark-sided scourge of the universe, a doom-core metal band that sings only about Star Wars. With a high midi-chlorian count and a penchant for sampling dialogue,…
Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace
Last August just days before the ever-popular Michael Franti show, the Les Schwab Amphitheater announced that it would close and monitor the east bank of the Deschutes River—a popular spot for concert poaching. In 11 concert seasons, it was the first time it had taken such measures to regulate freeloaders. In an effort to better…
Out of Town 4/30-5/8
portland friday 2 Hip Hatchet Portland transplant Philippe Bronchtein studied dance and music at Middlebury College, and the influence of the former on the latter is clear. His simple folk music has a perpetual motion akin to circular breathing. The push and pull of his deep, rich and slightly gruff voice as it crescendos and…
Republican primary for County Commissioner
Experience as an elected official and a varied background in business qualifies incumbent Tony DeBone, of La Pine, as the Republican primary choice for Deschutes County Commissioner. DeBone took over his current post in 2011, at a time when the county was struggling to shake off the recession, and since then, has done a steady…
Dazed and Opinionated
Tasting four of Bend’s most expensive beers is great fun, and it is best done with four of Bend’s most active beer geeks. These were not all the expensive beers available in town, nor all the beer geeks, but it proved the perfect balance of strong beer and strong opinion. Joining me for this tasting…
An I for an iPad
Technology has infiltrated not only children’s home lives, but the classroom as well. Hundreds of schools across the nation, including eight in Central Oregon, have implemented iPad test programs that replace traditional textbooks, printed worksheets and study guides with Mac products, creating a classroom where teachers are more likely to ask students to open an…
The Ghost of Pigments Past
A tinge of nostalgia creeps through the collected works of Portland oil painter Anna Magruder. The sepia-tone portraits, the skewed facial proportions and the knitting together of animal and human mark her work. But it’s not a sadness or wistfulness for the past that inspires Magruder’s storytelling painting style, it’s a fascination with her subjects’…
Showing Your Face(book)
On a lot of mornings, Ericka O’Campo starts her day checking Facebook before her 2-1/2-year-old son wakes up. “Sometimes I do get sucked into it a little too much and my husband will say that I’m a Facebook addict,” said O’Campo, president of the MOMS Club of Bend, an organization affiliated with a national support…
Road Warrior Meets A River Runs Through It
After The Road won a Pulitzer Prize in 2005, critics thought Cormac McCarthy had the final word on post-apocalyptic literary fiction. They didn’t see Peter Heller coming. In The Dog Stars, a national bestseller that appeared on multiple “best of” lists when it was released last year, Heller employs all the tropes of the popular…
MusicfestNW 2014 Lineup is Pop-Lovers Dream
After considerable changes to the festival’s setup (condensing to two days and now holding shows exclusively at Tom McCall Waterfront Park), Willamette Week has announced the official 2014 lineup. MusicfestNW is Aug. 16-17. The focus is defiantly indie-pop goodness with synth-pop crew Future Islands, mashup master Girl Talk, indie golden boys Spoon and sistery pop…
