Dear Lazy Trees, Thanks for Falling Down
An open letter to the trees in my backyard: Hey trees, I’m really sorry that you got so loaded with wet snow yesterday morning that you had no other choice but to drop all your branches on my lawn and break my fence and God knows what else. I love having my entire backyard full…
Death By Water?
One of the more fascinating bad consumer product sagas of recent memory has been that of sports water bottles. That’s as in bottles that don’t contaminate the water that’s put into them.
Expert: Bend Bubble Was Inflated by Fraud
The conventional local wisdom blames the Bend real estate bubble and bust on greedy people (mostly from California) buying homes they couldn't afford and borrowing against their equity to buy boats and Hummers and fancy vacations. But according to real estate fraud expert Richard Hagar, there was a different culprit: Crooks.
Speed, What Speed?
55 or NothingWhat with school is back in session you’d think drivers would be slowing down. That’s simply not the case.
Pepper Rocks the Domino Room
Last night's temps may have been near-freezing, but that didn't keep the young people of Bend from breaking a hardcore sweat and moshing like it was 1995 last night at the Domino Room's sold-out Pepper show. Packed to the point of possible injury, Bend rocked as hard as ever to the reggae-spank rock styles of…
Flu Vaccine Supply Short of Expectations
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 With the swine flu inflicting its second fatality in Bend, according to this morning’s Bulletin, worries about getting vaccinated in time will ratchet up another notch. But the swine flu vaccine hasn’t arrived here yet, and meanwhile vaccine for the “regular” seasonal flu may be hard…
Video From the Clumsy Lovers Show
Music fans in Bend don’t easily forget. That’s why when Vancouver, BC’s bluegrassish party band Clumsy Lovers played the Silver Moon last night—despite not having played in town for at least three years—fans remembered that this band used to rip it up here in town.
Local Non-Profits Represent in Oregon Business Ranking
Local non-profits made a strong showing in a new ranking of the best charitable and other not-for profit organizations in Oregon. Deschutes Public Library cracked the Top 10 in a list of the state’s larger organizations (75 or more employees), weighing in at number five in a list that was otherwise heavily dominated by…
Nice Perk for Brewery Workers: Free Bikes
Workers at an Ashland brewery and restaurant who agree to do some of their commuting by bike get a nice incentive – a free bike. Writing for Greener World Media, Stephen Linaweaver reports that on a Labor Day weekend trip to Ashland he learned that in late August the Standing Stone Brewery started offering a…
Video from last night: Yard Dogs Road Show
The Yard Dogs Road Show filled the Domino Room last night with plenty of fog, zany music, trombones, lasers and at least one fan wearing stilts for a show that melted the barriers between theater and rock music. For the first time in my tenure here in Bend, there were chairs on the floor of…
Skip The Standing O Please
The band had barely mastered three chords and the lead singer brought new meaning to singing flat. Yet when all was said and done and their set was finished,they got a standing ovation. In fact every act, good, bad or indifferent, at a recent music festival got a standing O. In one case,…
Inside the Universe: The soul, funk and faith of Karl Denson
“You don't see Clark Kent and Superman at the same time, do you?” asks Karl Denson from his home in San Diego, the city where he's lived for the past 15 years. He's talking about the difference between the saxophone and flute master's two bands, the Greyboy Allstars and Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, the latter…
Recreational Drugs: Scientific support for addiction
It's Monday morning and I'm sitting at my computer. According to Doug Weber, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Pendleton, “For the whole area, today is going to be the last nice day in the current forecast.” The equinox came and went last week, daylight is waning, and it could be snowing in…
Albino Birds: The brass tax when it comes to white birds
This is the time of year when birds and other wildlife unlucky enough to not have their normal colors become very noticeable, such as “leucisitic,” “albino” and “partial albino” forms. These unfortunate victims of a quirk of nature lack their natural colors that would normally protect them from the energy of our sun, keep them…
Let Them Eat Cake: Vogue editor Anna Wintour gets photoshopped in The September Issue
There is nothing in The September Issue that could be described with the normal documentary vocabulary. Director RJ Cutler does not probe, investigate, expose or provide much insight into the world of Vogue. What we get instead is an entertaining effort in rebranding. The fashion industry has taken the blame in recent years for a…
Back To The Future: Surrogates' thought-provoking subject matter self-destructs in 10, 9, 8…
The concept of Surrogates might sound good, after all it's based on a graphic novel by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldel. Unfortunately, at the hands of the gang behind Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, it misfires, turning into a slow-paced, bland fiasco. This Disney fairy tale/sci-fi thriller plays out like an episode of Law…
No Joking Around: Arkham faithfully recreates the franchise's noir feel
The Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane – or just Arkham to the good citizens of Gotham – is the semi-permanent address of some of the world's most celebrated criminals. The Penguin, Two-Face and The Riddler have all made the crumbling madhouse-mansion their home at one time or another. And most of them have…
¡Si, Estamos Abiertos!: Mexican markets spice up Bend's culinary scene
For a relatively small place, it's impressive how well Bend replicates the benefits of big city living without any of the hassle that usually goes along with it. Per capita, Bend probably has more musicians, artists, galleries, readings and performances, microbrews, bars, gourmands and restaurants than most large urban areas. And while a backyard of…
¡Si, Estamos Abiertos!: Mexican markets spice up Bend's culinary scene
For a relatively small place, it's impressive how well Bend replicates the benefits of big city living without any of the hassle that usually goes along with it. Per capita, Bend probably has more musicians, artists, galleries, readings and performances, microbrews, bars, gourmands and restaurants than most large urban areas. And while a backyard of…
Feeling So Good!
Been on vacation lately and thought you were feeling so much better for the much-needed rest and relaxation? Or could it be you spent a week downing blended drinks where there's a heap of anti-depressants in the drinking water? Why cities are afraid to post results of what's mingling in their municipal water supply is…
Rooted at the Revival
There was a moment at the Bend Roots Revival on Saturday night as Mosley Wotta was rhyming over the sounds of Empty Space Orchestra when Sound Check looked around and thought, “Damn, this is kind of crazy.” Not the bad kind of “crazy,” but the sort of wow-there-are-is-a-ridiculous-amount-of-people-here-just-to-see-local-music sort of “crazy.
Look Who's Evil Now: Evil Dead gets a comedic makeover from the 2nd Street Theater
Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead (1981) was the first horror movie that had me falling out of my theater seat laughing. It was so gory and funny at the same time. It seems that co-directors Chris Kas and Sandy Klein have a similar intention with their production of Evil Dead: The Musical at the 2nd…
Our Picks for 9/30 – 10/8: Evil Dead, Art Hop, Knobody of Hieroglyphics
Evil Dead: The Musical Opening thursday 1 Check out our preview of this comedic adaptation of the classic horror romp in the Culture section of the paper. Blood, guts, chainsaws and dance number! What else could you ask for out of your local theater community? Plays October 1-31, Wed – Sat. at 8pm, Sundays at…
Settling the Score: Legislators get their “green” cards, Metolius campaign gets a nod and more
OLCV Gives Telfer A Failing Grade Central Oregon's first-term legislators emerged on the opposite end of the spectrum on environmental issues, according to the legislative scorecard released this week by the environmental policy watchdog group Oregon League of Conservation Voters (OLCV). The non-profit has been tracking the votes of individual legislators on environmental policy issues…
Pahlisch's Belated Dog Park Bitch
On its website, Pahlisch's Deschutes Landing development describes itself “as the next step in authentic Northwest living” with “unparalleled views of the Three Sisters Wilderness, the historic Old Mill District, and the heart of downtown Bend.” Apparently, one prospective buyer thinks his unparalleled view would be ruined by the sight of – how gross! -…
Sidewalk Bikers
Here's a clue, because you obviously missed all the other ones. If you look down and see small horizontal lines across the pavement, if everyone around you is on foot, if you see store fronts on one side and cars on the other, you may be on a sidewalk.
The Land Of The Free: Polanski comes home, McVeigh exhumed, Facebook polls, and more
The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from a Peanut Festival (where else?), wondering about allergies and, more so, the Polish sausage he just inhaled, on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly. Osama, You're Next! So maybe he did have sex…
Size Does Matter
In H. Bruce Miller's recent article “Shrinkage Might Not Always be a Bad Thing,” he states, “Is a little shrinkage necessarily a bad thing? Certainly not for the schools. The overcrowding problem will be eased. Teacher/student ratios will improve and there'll be more of everything from library books to pencils to go around.” Hmm. Well,…
Cook Those Geese
I have the perfect solution to Bend's overpopulation of geese (I call them flying rats) Shoot them, clean them, and donate them to the hungry. Geese taste pretty good and with all the homeless people we have, and people needing food from the food banks, why not? This would help solve two problems, an overabundance…
Local's Come Out For Cancer Research
Imagine telling someone their disease is too uncommon to invest in research for treatments and cures. Somehow, that just doesn't add up. Every life counts. Bend-area residents who believe no cancer is too rare to care came out in full force last Saturday for the 2nd Annual Oregon Walk for a Cure. The event at…
Let Beck Shine A Light
I try to look at your publication on a weekly basis. I can't recall reading about an avowed Communist, Van Jones, from Oakland, Calif., whom President BO tabbed as his “green” czar. It's also known that Jones signed a document holding the United States government responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Fortunately, guys like Bill O'Reilly…
Person People Heads out on Rocky Mountain Tour
Normal 0 0 1 125 717 The Source Weekly 5 1 880 11.1282 0 0 0 There’s hasn’t been much noise out of the Person People camp, at least locally, for a bit now, but that doesn’t mean the hip-hop project hasn’t been hard at work.
