Poor Man’s Whiskey FINALLY Brings “Dark Side of the Moonshine” to Bend
Poor Man’s Whiskey-easily one of Bend’s favorite bands, is returning to Bend this fall, to finally unleash the much rumored, but little seen “Dark Side of the Moonshine,” which is the Bay Area band’s bluegrass interpretation of the Pink Floyd classic. The show is slated for October 24 at the Midtown complex – either the…
True Customer Service
Normal 0 0 1 286 1635 13 3 2007 11.1282 0 0 0 For the past 19 years Carrita Foster has been the personable mainstay behind the check-in counter at the Juniper Swim and Fitness Center.
The Chinese Tire Tariff: WWLS?
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Van Jones: Condemned for Thoughtcrime
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The Bulletin: A Homer For Your Jockstrap
Normal 0 0 1 421 2405 20 4 2953 11.1282 0 0 0 Is it just me or have others noted how our local daily has suddenly become the jock newspaper of record.
New Friday Music: Heart's Roger Fisher at the Silver Moon and Rock N' Roll Adventure Kids at Players
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Back In Black (Welcome back Woody)
Normal 0 0 1 246 1405 11 2 1725 11.1282 0 0 0 We’ll maybe not in black, but longtime Source columnist Bob Woodward is returning as a contributor this week with a new Blog, which we’ve dubbed Off Piste.
Noisy Trains Are an Eastside Bane, It's Plain
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Sound Check: Bend gets sweaty and sexy with Brett Dennen and G.Love
Sexy dancing and crowded clubs. That's what this column will be about this week, because, well those two things are what have been cemented in the mind of Sound Check… and we just can't shake them free. The crowded club side of things stems from Thursday night's incredibly well attended G. Love and Special Sauce…
Give Peace A Chance
The dedication of the Peace Bridge of Bend and celebration of World Peace Day (U.N.
Pretty Good: That's actually the title of Rage's new ski flick
The recent cloudy, windy afternoons and crisp cold evenings have awakened the sleeping bear of desire. The ski and board shops on Century Drive are restocked with the year's new gear and dumping their old inventory in Labor Day sales.
WRite: From the Margins
Being an artist doesn't take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life, it is also bringing you closer to death. But it's no big deal. They are one and the same and cannot be avoided or denied. So when I totally embrace this process, this…
Goodbye, Summer: Hello Cyclocross, corduroy, Elk Lake and sliding scales
Alas, summer is coming to an end. The signs are all here – the kids are back in school, the floaters have dwindled and cyclocross season has kicked off.
Elementary My Dear DS: Diabolical Box doesn't hold many surprises B
Professor Layton is a British professor of archaeology, sort of Indiana Jones in a top hat. As the hero of a trilogy of games (The Diabolical Box is the second to arrive stateside) he's become popular amongst gamers, a group of people who are eager to solve puzzles, the biggest of which is: Since I…
Game On! The Cranksters yank puppet strings in violent psychedelic mess
The writing/directing team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, responsible for the pair of Crank films, deliver an epic cartoon with a messy-mix of politics, corporate greed, mind control, internet porn, gore, bloody violence and wacky ideas. Forcing us to swallow a huge pill, Gamer oddly enough seems to work.Beginning with a title reading, “some…
The Long and the Short of It: Extending Shane Acker's bleak animated 9 improves its action, but not its story
Once upon a time, if you saw a short film, you saw the work of someone who wanted to make a short film. Nowadays, that ain't necessarily so. In 2006, Shane Acker's 10-minute computer-animated 9 was nominated for a Best Animated Short Oscar – but by that point, Tim Burton was already working with Acker…
Pub Grub: Bend's breweries raise the bar on bar food
Anyone who's been in Bend for more than five minutes can tell you that folks around these parts take their beer very seriously. New microbreweries pop up like wildflowers, and the market never seems to get flooded. But for me the best part about a brewery is the requisite brewpub that inevitably pops up with…
Pub Grub: Bend's breweries raise the bar on bar food
Anyone who's been in Bend for more than five minutes can tell you that folks around these parts take their beer very seriously. New microbreweries pop up like wildflowers, and the market never seems to get flooded. But for me the best part about a brewery is the requisite brewpub that inevitably pops up with…
Folk Survives: Sisters Folk is still trucking and here's five acts you need to see
A lot has changed in the past couple of years when it comes to live music in Central Oregon. Venues have opened and closed, we've seen our numbers of summer concerts fluctuate and festivals have come and gone. But standing strong (and largely unaltered) amidst all this change has been the Sisters Folk Festival. Now…
Our Picks for 9/10-9-17: Hill Country Revue, Sisters Folk, HardNox. Xterra National Championships
Sister Folk Festival friday-sunday 11-13 We're going to go ahead and say it: this might be one of the best Sisters Folk lineups EVER! While the pluckers and strummers still support the bulk of the lineup, there are some more adventurous, not to mention big, names at the fest this year. You can read more…
Booked Up: All about the time I tried to update my Facebook page 100 times in 24 hours
It's about 1 a.m. on a Thursday and I'm sitting in my dark living room staring at a cursor that's flashing back at me from the update box of my Facebook page. I start to type, then delete, then type, then delete again. I want nothing more than to leave behind this computer and the…
Parking Lot Screeds
Saturday afternoon shopping at Costco requires patience. The aisles are crowded, the checkout lines long and, as I found out on a recent Saturday, there’s politics in the parking lot.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Video From Portland Show on 9/7
Last week in Out of Town I suggested Source readers check out the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland. In the writeup I promised video of the New York-based trio and I am following through on that promise bringing you not one but three full songs! They sounded amazing, check it out…
Critical Condition: What I learned about America from Jeff Merkley at Summit High
What crystallized at the Jeff Merkley Town Hall, Sept. 1 was that the most pressing healthcare reform issue is actually education.
The Tavern Owners' Video Game Bluff
Here's a dilemma we'd love to have: Say the state has put a machine in our home that spits out money at the rate of $70,000 a year. But later the state tells us it's strapped for cash and can only afford to let the machine dispense, say, $64,000 a year.
Life During Wartime: Politics Afghan style, justice Scotland style, and more!
The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from Brooklyn, where only the dead know, on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly. Fraud in Afghanistan? You're High! Based on over 2,000 complaints and growing evidence of fraud, Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission (located…
Time To Face The Facts U.S. Health Care System Is Terminally Ill
Opinion and conjecture abound on the prospect of changing how to pay for medical care in Oregon and across the U.S.
Beyond a Wake-up Call
Forty-seven years ago Rachel Carson wrote “Silent Spring” warning of the indiscriminate use of toxic pesticides and their effects on our health and the environment. She challenged agricultural methods and government policies.
The Nattering Naysayers
So let's get this straight. Obama's predecessor took America to war under false pretense, citing “weapons of mass destruction” that everyone agrees did not exist, and today's Republicans don't want Obama addressing children because of “indoctrination?” Our previous president preached war against Iraq to anyone who would listen, children, adults, young and old, making us…
Why Single Pay Works
When Senator Jeff Merkley ended his town meeting at Summit High School, I was standing with the microphone man waiting to be the next speaker. In the last five years I have had over $300,000 in medical bills, largely because I was a passenger in a head-on collision that broke my bones in 27 places.
We Do It Harder In Bend
The idea for a Reverse PPP brings to mind the difference I have noticed between the two places I split my time: Bend and Portland. Where else but Bend would something as physically taxing as the PPP cry out for making it harder.
