These United States tonight at the Silver Moon…and there’s a new Pearl Jam album out
Tuesday nights typically aren't the most fun times of the week, but tonight is an exception. These United States, the much-talked-about folkie indie rock band from a combination of Washington, DC and Kentucky, is landing at the Silver Moon Brewing Co.
A Job Well Done
Every so often a Bend citizen comes up with an idea that he or she feels will benefit the community and sets about their task quietly and effectively. They work the system the right way not making demands or braying in the press but with civility, working in an organized fashion making sure that…
Dealing With the New “Slacker” Economy
The Wall Street Journal has published a first-rate piece on Bend's economic debacle, using it as a microcosm for what's going on nationally. The story (pretty long, but well worth reading) begins by describing anecdotally how the collapse of Bend's economy has created “slack” – a gap between the economy's productive capacity and what's actually…
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DJ Barisone is Leaving Town
After years of providing the backbeat to some of Bend’s best parties, DJ Barisone told me this morning that he’s leaving Bend for Portland, where he will continue to pursue his DJ career. Just last month, Source readers voted Bryan Barisone “Best DJ” in our annual Best of Central Oregon issue, a distinction he’s definitely…
Wood = Good
editor’s note: Due to a website snafu this post didn’t get up last week. So if it feels a week late, there’s a reason.
Stupid Tricks Season Winds Down
Now that the summer tourist season has passed, we head into what the tourism people like to call the “shoulder season”. That’s shoulder, apparently, as in the link between the big summer and winter arms of tourism.
Fighting the Socialist Menace of 1961
Our local daily newspaper offers a great editorial rant this morning about an impending socialist menace, warning ominously of “the specter of a vast and sprawling federal bureaucracy [that] is too horrible to contemplate.” Is the editorial attacking liberal health care reform ideas like single-payer or the “public option”? Nope – it's attacking federal aid…
A Fall Folkie Favorite
There’s something comforting knowing that every year on the second weekend in September the Sisters Folk Festival (SFF) will take place. SFF is more than a music festival for many regulars.
A Fall Flokie Favorite
There’s something comforting knowing that every year on the second weekend in September the Sisters Folk Festival (SFF) will take place. SFF is more than a music festival for many regulars.
Mild-Mannered Merkley Turns Into a Tiger on Health Care
A freshman senator is expected to defer to his seniors, make no waves, and rise to address the chamber only on such controversial topics as the virtues of motherhood and the flag. But not Oregon's Jeff Merkley, who came across as a bit of a Milquetoast during his campaigns but has become one of the…
A Sports Icon Fondly Remembered
Years ago when I aspired to become a professional tennis player, I worked at a Colorado resort hotel’s tennis facility. My job included cleaning the place, gathering balls for the pro during his lessons, playing with resort guests who needed a partner and stringing rackets.
Go see “Cabaret” immediately
The entire Source staff headed to the Tower Theatre last night for the opening night performance of Cat Call Productions’ performance of Cabaret. All I can say, is go see this musical.
A Sports Icon Fondly Remembered
Years ago when I aspired to become a professional tennis player, I worked at a Colorado resort hotel’s tennis facility. My job included cleaning the place, gathering balls for the pro during his lessons, playing with resort guests who needed a partner and stringing rackets.
The Kitzhaber Bandwagon Gets More Crowded
Barring something totally unexpected, it looks more and more like John Kitzhaber will be the once and future governor of Oregon. At a press conference yesterday the former two-term Democratic governor announced he's picked up a slew of endorsements from prominent state Democrats, including Treasury Secretary Ben Westlund, Superintendent of Public Instruction Susan Castillo and…
Out of the Pigeonhole: The big year and big sound of Deer Tick
It's noon on a Monday and John Joseph McCaully III, riding in a bus somewhere between Colorado and Washington says, “We're basically trying not to die.” The tour bus carrying the 24-year-old McCaully and the rest of his band, Deer Tick, has some sort of exhaust leak, or so says McCaully, who seems hardly worried…
In Deep At Typhoon
My dad, who still doesn't understand why anyone would want to forgo hamburgers, lives by the motto: If it's green, it's trouble; if it's fried, order double. I've been meaning to get his take on items that cross both barriers: like vegetable tempera or the crispy-friend vegetarian spring rolls my husband and I devoured with…
How Larry and His Flask spent their summer
Normal 0 0 1 164 936 The Source Weekly 7 1 1149 11.1282 0 0 0 Sometimes, when my iTunes shuffle stops upon a Larry and His Flask tune, I start thinking: “I wonder where the hell those dudes are right now.
Shrinkage Isn't Always a Bad Thing
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At Least Someone Has A Sense of Humor
For months I’ve held out hope that somebody someplace would retain a sense of humor in the wake of the on-going battle over health care. There had to be a person who fell midway between the mentally unbalanced Glen Beck and his followers and uber righteous liberals.
Spend an Enchanting Night on Guy J. Jackson's Tintar Isle
“Who at least doesn't want to visit someplace beautiful?” questions the Stubby Motherlover, the song-singing, 30-fingered creature, one of many captivating characters to make an appearance in Guy J. Jackson's Tintar Isle. Jackson, a consummate storyteller, recently moved back to Bend after performing original material for three years in England. In a riveting hour and…
Around the Hood: Hut-to-Hut Adventure
My first hut-to-hut mountain biking trip was 18 years ago in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado and the La Sals of eastern Utah. The seven-day, six-night, 215-mile trip from Telluride to Moab stuck in my mind as one of my best adventures ever. But, I hate to do the same thing twice, so…
Sisterhood of the Traveling Tire Iron: Secrets, solidarity and sluts attempt to resuscitate slasher genre in Sororiety
With a slew of horror movies saturating the market lately the genre is getting overworked. Initially, Sorority Row follows almost all the '70s drive-in rules but then morphs into cheesy wisecrack one liners, a trait started in the late '80s when horror flicks took a turn for the worse with tongue-in-cheek horror clichés. With an…
A Love Less Ordinary: Even Michael Cera's cuteness can't save Paper Heart
Charlyne Yi is the kind of girl you'd like to be friends with, meet for dinner on the weekend and hear her observations on LA life. She is not, however, the kind of girl to follow around with a camera. Nor, despite my affection, would this reviewer turn up on her doorstep one day and…
Got Crabs? 48 hours in Winchester Bay
My name is Alice. A-L-I-C-E. And I'm a craboholic. It started so innocently. A friend of a friend makes an annual Labor Day weekend trip to the Coast to go crabbing with family and friends. Do I want to join? Sure, why not? A couple days of good company, ocean air and a civilized crab…
Got Crabs? 48 hours in Winchester Bay
My name is Alice. A-L-I-C-E. And I'm a craboholic. It started so innocently. A friend of a friend makes an annual Labor Day weekend trip to the Coast to go crabbing with family and friends. Do I want to join? Sure, why not? A couple days of good company, ocean air and a civilized crab…
CD Review – Anastacia: Grains of Sand
Singing Through the Hourglass Anastacia Grains of Sand
The region got its first taste of Anastacia's Grains of Sand this winter when she and her band won the Source's music video contest for the album's title track and now it seems the full release keeps the soulful energy of that cut going for the entirety…
Our Picks for 9/17-9/24: Cabaret, Finn Riggins, Blue Turtle Seduction
Cabaret through saturday 26 Thursday night kicks off a two-week, six-show run of this musical that's set in 1929 Berlin and centers on an American novelist who falls in love with a Cabaret singer. This just might be one of the most innovative theater ventures we've seen in Bend in quite a while. Check back…
Inside The Safety Net: Volunteers in Medicine fills in the gaps of an ailing health care system
Class opens with a taste test. “¡Me gusta!” one woman exclaims to another after spearing a bite of vegetables with a fork. A chorus of Spanish erupts. It's Tuesday evening and things at Volunteers in Medicine are, literally, heating up. Wafts of grilled veggies drift throughout the clinic from the conference room where a colorful,…
The Incurable Goose Plague
Let us consider Branta Canadensis, the Canada goose. In many ways it is a noble bird.
Obama's Salmon Plan
Another key issue and another key concession from Obama. No we're not talking about the backpedaling on gay marriage or universal health care.
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire Swayze's curtain call, murder in the Ivy league, and more!
The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from the Adirondack front porch where U.
Government Can Be Good
This week's letter comes from Wayne Bredtze who politely reminds us that something has been lost in all the screaming about a socialist take over of the health care industry. Now if we could just get rid of those pesky death panels.
Where's The Liberal?
The new conventional wisdom is that Obama is losing the independent voters that helped elect him. The polls show he's too liberal, we are told.
Thanks For The Good Work
I'm writing to give kudos to Holly Grigg Spall for the excellent review she did on “Steel Magnolias” at the 2nd Street Theater. For the first time, we got to read an actual review, one that reported on the direction and how the actors did their roles and the set, etc.
The Real Beef With Obama
So, I'm looking through this Obama speech, trying to find the part that says, “Children, obey your government,” or “Government = Good, Free Enterprise = Bad.” Not finding that, I began searching for subtexts that could undermine private initiative and encourage government dependence.
Who's A Patriot Now?
During the 8 years of the Bush Administration, Republicans told Democrats they were un-patriotic, un-American and didn't support the troops if they questioned or didn't support the President. The same thing applies to you, Joe Wilson, if you don't support President Obama YOU ARE UN-PATRIOTIC, UN-AMERICAN, AND YOU DON'T SUPPORT THE TROOPS.
Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe Coming to Bend 10/4
Normal 0 0 1 131 752 The Source Weekly 6 1 923 11.1282 0 0 0 I heard yesterday that Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe is coming to Bend on October 4 at the Domino Room.
