GWAR at Bend’s Midtown Tomorrow Night – Check Them Out Here with Joan Rivers
If you’re a GWAR fan, or are perhaps merely interested in the idea of seeing the most intentionally offensive and confusingly costumed band in the history of rock and roll, then you’re probably digging through the bottom of your closet, looking for some ratty threads to wear to the show Wednesday night at the Midtown.…
Homer Pulls the Plug on His Bubble Blog
The mysterious proprietor of the BendBubble2 blog – I Hate to Burst Your Bubble, alias Homer, alias Butter, alias Paul-Doh – announced Sunday that after almost three years he’s hanging it up. We have to give Homeboy props for being one of the first, if not THE first, to declare publicly that the emperors of…
The Stars Are Out-local talents shine in film
One of the brighter aspects as we approach the gloom of late fall and early winter was witnessing a Bend born-and-raised actor coming into his own and two local filmmakers continuing to deliver hysterical short ski films. All three talents were on display at recent events at the Tower Theater.
New Moon Rises at Midnight: The latest installment in the Twilight Saga pleases fans by staying true to the book
Hello, my name is Anne Pick and I am a Twilight-aholic. I didn't use to have this obsession, in fact, this time last year I was making fun of my best friend for buying into the teenage vampire pandemonium. Despite my previous disdain for the series, I read all four books (twice) and I have…
Homegrown Music Showcase Tonight: Tons of Bend Acts at the Tower
How much local music can you fit onto one stage? Well, the Tower Theatre is tackling that question tonight with the Homegrown Music Showcase. The show, which we featured in this week's issue, brings together a roster that includes Sisters folkie Dennis McGregor, blues rocker Eric Tollefson, the pop and soul singer Reed Thomas Lawrence…
365 Days of Fraud a Year?
Bend has always touted its beauty, its charm, its “healthy outdoor lifestyle” and its mythical “300 days of sunshine a year.” But we may be on our way to inadvertently becoming famous as something else: the real estate fraud capital of the United States.
Bachelor Pushes Start Time To Noon; Restricts Backcountry-style Hiking
We just got word that Mt. Bachelor has pushed tomorrow’s opening day start time back about three hours from 9 a.
Farewell Second Street: the curtain comes down on a Bend stage
The first time I saw a show at The Second Street Theater was in the Theater’s 2001 inaugural season. I was enthralled.
Walden Goes After the Feds on Swine Flu Mess
Last month Greg Walden caught the H1H1 (“swine”) flu, and he wasn’t happy about it. He also isn’t happy about the way the government handled the swine flu epidemic.
Welcome to Chelm-on-the-Deschutes
In Jewish folklore there is a town called Chelm in which all the inhabitants are complete idiots. Over the years many jokes have been told about the foolishness of the people of Chelm.
Road Trip: With Jimmy Buffett and Dr. Seuss
At the far end of town Where the Grickle-grass grows And the wind smells slow-and-sour when it blows And no birds ever sing, excepting old crows… Is the street of the Lifted Lorax.
Not quite ready to settle in for a long winter, I got first tracks at Dutchman on November 8 and then headed…
Stop the Jazz Invasion
Guess what? No one we know in this region, likes, cares or has any desire to watch the Utah Jazz. Well, not at least since Stockton retired his thigh-bearing shorty shorts and Malone traded his one-hand-only dunks for rifles and shotguns of varying size and purpose. Still, Utah Jazz games continue to mysteriously and inexplicably…
The Meaning of Strife: The Coen Brothers' newest romp lays pathos on thick and humorously in A Serious Man
Somehow, the filmmaking duo that brought us Fargo, No Country For Old Men and The Big Lebowski managed to sneak a movie under the radar that has the feel of an instant art house classic. Simply put, A Serious Man is the best movie I've seen this year. Stemming from all things Jewish, Leave it…
The Water Ouzel: Swimming along with the American dipper
I've been spending a lot more time this fall on the Metolius River than in the past, doing stories on the variety of wonderful river reclamation projects. And in that time I've had the pleasure of seeing several dippers. “What's a dipper?” you may ask. Why, it's an ouzel. The American dipper, Cinclus mexicanus, was…
With A Whimper: Roland Emmerich ends the world, again in 2012
The theory behind Roland Emmerich's latest disaster movie is vaguely interesting. According to the Mayan calendar (gee, that looks so stupid in writing) the world will end in the year 2012. A frighteningly large number of people actually believe this and are busy preparing for the fire, flood and all. An equally vast contingent of…
Hey Mister DeeJay: DJ Hero grinds but never grooves
I don't think of DJs as being particularly heroic. Recently, the best-known examples – DJ AM and Samantha Ronson – have been famous for OD-ing and dating Lindsay Lohan respectively – acts that require a certain fortitude, to be sure, but are hardly heroic. I understand the heroism of guitarists. Guitar Hero gets me standing…
It Came, It Brewed, It Conquered: Three Creeks puts Sisters on the microbrewery map
The most junior member of Central Oregon's league of microbreweries, Three Creeks has quickly made Sisters an important stop on the beer-drinkers' tour. The accompanying brewpub, an oasis in the high desert emerging from the trees as you enter town from the east on Highway 20, almost instantly became a local favorite. While there are…
It Came, It Brewed, It Conquered: Three Creeks puts Sisters on the microbrewery map
The most junior member of Central Oregon's league of microbreweries, Three Creeks has quickly made Sisters an important stop on the beer-drinkers' tour. The accompanying brewpub, an oasis in the high desert emerging from the trees as you enter town from the east on Highway 20, almost instantly became a local favorite. While there are…
Cork gets a makeover and Five Spice nears opening
Look for changes in the downtown dining scene in the next few weeks as Five Spice puts the finishing touches on its menu and prepares for a scheduled Dec. 3 opening on Wall Street in the former home of the short-lived Merenda spin-off, Deep. Down the street, downtown stalwart Cork has unveiled a makeover with…
Cork gets a makeover and Five Spice nears opening
Look for changes in the downtown dining scene in the next few weeks as Five Spice puts the finishing touches on its menu and prepares for a scheduled Dec. 3 opening on Wall Street in the former home of the short-lived Merenda spin-off, Deep. Down the street, downtown stalwart Cork has unveiled a makeover with…
The Neon Warrior: Why Brad Jones could play a rave, your birthday party or with Justin Timberlake
On the cover of his soon-to-be released album, No Strings, Brad Jones wears black sunglasses and his emergency orange baseball cap cocked about 50 degrees off center. It's also worth noting that his shoelaces are the same DayGlo tone of his hat. And another thing: Brad Jones is 38 years old. But 38 isn't too…
Another Gathering of the Locals: Homegrown Music
Yes, it is now almost winter and starting to snow, the mountain is open, there's a frozen turkey in my freezer, but I'm still intermittently suffering from a Bend Roots Revival hangover. It comes and goes, but there are times when I stop and look back on that last week of September and realize that,…
Bend’s 2nd Street Theater is Closing its Curtain for Good
I just got word that, after nine years as a main player in Central Oregon's theatrical world, 2nd Street Theater will be closing for good following the upcoming run of Harvey. From our angle, things seemed to be going well with the 2nd Street, with the theater recently wrapping up a month-long run of Evil…
Our Picks for 11/18 – 11/26: Moon Mountain Ramblers, Too Slim and the Taildraggers, The Ascetic Junkies, GWAR, Renegade Rollergirls
Moon Mountain Ramblers friday 20 It seems that most recent Moon Mountain Ramlers shows are connected with some sort of holiday extravaganza… their Labor Day weekend festival, the recent Halloween Hoedown, and of course their New Year's Eve show next month. But sometimes it's nice to just see a normal Ramblers show in a normal…
The Next Flu: Swine flu is in retreat – but will we be ready for the next attack?
Nobody knew where it came from – or even what it really was. It struck swiftly, and with devastating force. People who were apparently healthy could develop symptoms and die within hours. Entire small villages were wiped out. In Philadelphia, it killed nearly 300 people on a single October day. Before it was over, the…
Jeff Merkley's Cozy Silicon Valley Party
It was just an intimate, friendly little gathering on the Google campus in Silicon Valley. The host was the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. The star attraction was Joel Benenson, President Obama's pollster. Also featured were seven Democratic senators, including Oregon's own Jeff Merkley. It was billed as a “National Innovation Conference.” Attendees at the two-day…
In The Red: Our awesome deficit, Iraq hush money and terror on trial
The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from Great Wall Chinese Buffet, hoping to see Presidents Obama and Hu, on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly.
President Obama is in China for a critical lovefest with President Hu, hoping our allowance…
Glenn Beck's Sideshow
Right-wing Christians have never been comfortable with secularization of Christmas. Nor have they liked the answer that schools and the rest of society came up with in rolling all the Jewish, Christian and secular holidays together and coming up with the more generic and inclusive, a.k.a. The Holiday Season. We have a brother-in-law, for instance,…
Whatever happened to Rahm Emanuel?
As the election of Barack Obama appeared almost certain even before November 4, 2008 leaks about a proposed cabinet began to appear in the press and blogs everywhere. The name of former Congressman Rahm Emanuel, known in the halls of Congress as the foul mouth, “get-it-done” operative, rose to the must-have Chief of Staff for…
Full of Goose Poop
The Bulletin, our ignominious daily newspaper that litters Central Oregon with its classified ads stuffed in plastic bags, now has the audacity to compare the pestiferous, disease-carrying, and destructive alien European starling (Sturnus vulgaris), with our beautiful native Canada goose, (Branta canadensis). In a recent editorial written by someone who apparently has absolutely no knowledge…
