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Annual Give Guide
Click here to give! No, being a nonprofit doesn’t mean that the organization can’t “make” money. And it certainly doesn’t mean that they don’t need money. In fact, these organizations—from the Alzheimer’s Association to Warm Springs Community Action Team—probably need your money more than any for-profit company because what they are “selling” and what they…
Pacific Power is Done with Dam
Huge news: Pacific Power, the utility company that owns the dam which creates Mirror Pond, is calling it quits on the leaky, 103-year-old dam. Here is an excerpt form PacifiCorp’s press release: PacifiCorp has determined that it would not be cost-effective for its customers to make the investments needed to continue long-term operations at the…
Tickets for Hendrix 70: Live at Woodstock TONIGHT
Who wants to see Jimi Hendrix absolutely wail on guitar tonight? We don’t have tickets to a live Hendrix gig—obviously—but we do have tickets two to a showing of his 1969 performance at Woodstock featuring screaming renditions of “Voodoo Child,” “Fire,” “Purple Haze,” “Foxy Lady” and “Star Spangled Banner.” Presented by the Rockumentary Film Club…
The Return of Broken Bells
A very promising preview of the upcoming Broken Bells album.
Friday Mixtape
Get punked with this week’s Friday Mixtape.
What in the World? Today’s News
Good morning world!Happy Friday…here’s what’s happening today. Today marks 50 years since JFK’s assassination. A sad anniversary for America. The senate voted to reform filibuster rules to make it easier for majority parties to approve nominees. The move is supported by President Obama who has had 21 nominees filibustered or withdrawn during his presidency. In…
Safe Space
Becky Winters is working off a debt of gratitude. In 2001 Saving Grace provided the housing deposit she needed to help her family start a new life in Redmond.
In the Spirit of Giving
The Source’s 2013 Give Guide is on stands now. Featuring nearly forty of Central Oregon’s finest nonprofit organizations, what they do, and what your donation can do to help them help our community. Like this! We’ve put together profiles of some local nonprofit all stars, read them here. And give a little bit! Click here…
City Council Roundup—Nov. 20
Water issues were center stage once again at last night’s city council meeting. During the public work session, council made progress on the Sewer Extra Strength Charge Program—a rate program on hold until December that would charge non-residential customers more based on the strength and flow of their contributions to the sewer system. The Extra…
More Jazz at the Oxford
In the second installment of this year’s Jazz at the Oxford, the King Louie Portland Blues Review is presenting a sampling of some of the region’s most talented blues musicians. At the forefront is Lisa Mann. Singing self-effacing vignettes, Mann is delightful, a playful master of the blues. In her song “Someday,” she talks about…
Who Will Speak for the Fish?
Two weeks ago, the U.S. Forest Service issued a permit for the City of Bend to lay new pipe. The decision was, in golfing terms, a “mulligan.” A re-do, as a year earlier the City of Bend had applied for a similar permit to replace two decades-old pipes with a single, larger, 20 inch diameter,…
Out of Town 11/20-11/28
portland friday 22 Poliça With the exception of 17-year-old New Zealand sensation Lorde, vocalist Channy Leaneagh is the most adorable female musician making it big right now. We’re fairly sure if Lorde and Poliça ever shared a stage our brains would explode from a sheer cuteness overload. Oh, talent too! From Minneapolis, Leaneagh has teamed…
Fresh, Raw and Downtown
Q: How do you know someone is a vegan? A: It's all they talk about! Ha! Right? Okay, I’ll admit: I can be wary of vegans, insecure that they are judging me—and my pro-cow diet. But Salud!, a new addition to downtown lunches—a vegan and raw food café—has won me and the Source staff over…
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Water in the arid American West is a valuable commodity; increasingly so. As cities expand and demand increases, communities are scrambling to figure out how to fairly and responsibly allocate their precious supply. That means appeasing diverse interests—from farmers who thirst for water for their fields, to environmentalists looking to keep fish happy, to kayakers…
Into the Abyss
Rich, black and bold, the 2013 Abyss is back. Last Friday, Deschutes Brewery released its much-heralded Imperial Stout, a groundbreaking 11 percent ABV, 86 IBU brew that has won a number of awards and boasts a perfect 100 “world class” ranking on beeradvocate.com. But, the beer that Deschutes has brewed for years didn’t come easy.…
Old Fashioned but Not Outdated
Cece Valceschini’s long, wavy red hair is streaked with grey. But, as soon as she starts talking about Camp Fire, any signs of age melt away. With a radiant smile and a sparkle in her eyes, she explains the importance of building confidence and instilling the values of community, nature and service in children. “That’s…
By the Light of the Moon
On Sunday, Shanan Kelley spent the afternoon standing knee deep in the Deschutes River's spongy mud banks with a glass of water in one hand and a bottle of Deschutes Brewery beer in the other. She was trying to refill Mirror Pond with a mixture of water and Mirror Pond Pale Ale. Kelley is not…
More Than Just the “Bike Guy”
The office space at Mill Quarter feels almost like the interior of an M.C. Escher drawing: Sets of wooden stairs climb to lofts, and hallways traverse through open-office spaces, and still another set of stairs climbs to yet another office. The space houses several well-known nonprofits—Trout Unlimited, Oregon Natural Desert Association, Cultural Oregon—and it is…
Allie Brosh Reading
“Internet famous” cartoonist, writer and generally hilarious human being Allie Brosh is blowing up. “Hyperbole and a Half,” her web comic and blog attracted the attention of the internet-fiends of Reddit a few years back and now her site generates nearly 17 million hits monthly and her drawings have been converted into coveted internet memes.…
Our Picks 11/20 – 11/18
thursday 21 Hot Buttered Rum with Medium Troy MUSIC—The line “plant a tree on your space ship” from the Medium Troy song “Space Tree” pretty well sums up this show—organic but out there (in a good way). Medium Troy, an innovative and awesome self-described “bohemian dub hop” band from Eugene, opens for Bay Area string…
Putting Passion To Work
Seven years ago, Brenda Komar moved from the Bay Area to Bend. Within a month, she was volunteering at Arts Central. “Suddenly,” says the marketing executive, “I was on the marketing committee.” Komar is the co-founder of Tricycle Creative, a local ad and branding agency. Sitting at Backporch Coffee, Komar speaks frankly and passionately about…
Mirror Pond Ad Hoc Committee:
It was the best choice, really. After an internal vote, which was followed by a tie-breaking vote and jokes about Jeopardy theme music, the Mirror Pond Ad Hoc Committee settled on three citizen members (from a pool of 11 applicants) at last Wednesday’s Mirror Pond Committee meeting inside the Bend Park and Recreation District office.…
A House Divided
Two weeks ago, in a somewhat muddy 4-3 vote, Bend’s City Council approved a $30 million water treatment facility, an important puzzle piece of a larger project, a $69 million modernization of Bend’s water delivery and treatment infrastructure. At its core was a debate about whether to use membrane filtration technology—essentially, a high-tech sieve—to keep…
One Day at a Time
MONDAY 11 Okay, we’ll admit it…we now can appreciate and love buck-toothed hillbilly Miley Cyrus. Sure, we’ve had our differences of opinion in the past… remember when she tried to convince us she had been smoking salvia? Oh girl, please. And while she may not yet be the perfect feminist dreamboat, we’ve been gazing at…
Letters 11/13 – 11/21
Beyond 9-94 and 9-96 Investing new Transient Room Tax revenue in tourism promotion, emergency services, and the arts will enrich and strengthen our community and local economy. The Source suggested that we think about what we could do with revenue from additional TRT increases. What about investing in the natural amenities that bring all those…
Fall is Fun
First thing’s first: Bend’s junior cyclocross racers are absolutely. Killing. It. Cameron Beard, Colin Dunlap, Javier Colton and Lance Haidet—none older than 18—have raced near or inside the top 10 in a number of the northwest’s ultra-competitive Cross Crusade series races which, participation wise, are the largest cyclocross races in the world. To put their…
Welcome to the Jungle
Disappointingly competent, 2012’s The Hunger Games…well, at least it got the basics right. It was a fine adaptation—totally, forgettably, blandly fine. So it’s a pretty excellent surprise that its sequel, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, is an order of magnitude better: Catching Fire will please whatever it is that Hunger Games fans call themselves (Hangries?…
Freedom on Two Wheels
There’s something uniquely liberating about riding a bicycle, a fact that is not lost on Wadjda, despite the fact that she has never ridden one. But that doesn’t stop the free-spirited Saudi 10-year-old and namesake of the 2012 feature film Wadjda from devising schemes to raise money for the forbidden item. Whether by selling handmade…
The Arc of an Artist
Requiring little more than something personal to say, good enough acoustic guitar skills and a coffee shop to sing in, the singer-songwriter is as commonplace in America as the aspiring actor. In 2005, California musician Brett Dennen was one of many—Amos Lee, Brandi Carlile, James Blunt to name a few—who released debut albums hoping to…
Born to Rock
Once upon a time there was a mugger in New York City who spent his time learning guitar at Julliard, rocking out on stage in front of a giant penis-shaped bird and making television show cameos on par with Clint Howard appearances in film. OK, that’s a slight exaggeration, but not a story without some…
