BendFilm: Bending Steel
SHOWS Friday, October 11 @ 3 pm, McMenamins; Saturday, October 12 @ 1 pm, Regal 2 Although there is plenty of flexing and grunting, Bending Steel is a surprisingly soft and intimate story about a 43-year old New York man who decides to become a sideshow strongman at Coney Island. Certainly there are scenes when…
BendFilm: When Ali Came To Ireland
SHOWING Friday, October 11 @ 12:30, Tower; Saturday, October 12 @ 8:30 pm, Regal 2 According to Sports Illustrated, there wasn’t any 20th century figure on whom more ink was expended than Muhammad Ali, the repeat heavyweight champion boxer and one of the most important civil rights heroes of the ‘60s. In more recent years,…
BendFilm: Hank and Asha
SHOWING Friday, October 11 @ 8:30, Tin Pan; Saturday, October 12 @ 10 am, McMenaminsBoth testament to modern communication and traditional courtship, Hank and Asha is an endearing romantic story about two budding filmmakers. The two first meet after Asha, a cute young Indian studying film in Prague, sends a video to Hank, who is…
The Dancing Little Caesars Lady has more Likes on FB than the Source
The beloved dancing pizza saleswoman who boogies daily at the corner of Third St. and Reed Market has more Facebook ‘likes’ than the Source Weekly. With 5,458 likes the Little Caesars Lady has double the likes of “Old Mill District Rock Chucks” (with an impressive 2,412 likes), and nearly five times as many likes as…
Win Tickets to TGR’s New Ski Film, Way of Life
Later this week we’ll be giving away FREE TICKETS to Way of Life, the latest film from Teton Gravity Research. It’s screening at The Tower (8pm, Wed. Oct 2)…but that’s not all! Get to the event and you’ll be eligible to win MORE free stuff. From The Tower:”Prizes from The North Face, Sony, Atomic, and…
TONIGHT’S LIVE MUSIC: Matt the Electrician
Head out to a great venue, for a great concert; tonight in Sisters.
All Hands on Deck: Mark Ransom needs your help!
Lend some labor to Bend Roots Revival
Bend Gets Its Own Oakland Raiders Fan Club
Oakland Raiders fans have a pretty terrible reputation. Fights are common at games—so much so that even home fans are choosing to stay away, which is affecting ticket sales. There was that terrible stabbing incident from a few years back, in which a Raiders fan knifed a Chargers fan during a scuffle. Still, the Raider…
Friday Mixtape!
Our last summer-songs mixtape.
Film Festival kick-off!
I always hated when people introduced me by way of my (famous in allergy doctor circles) dad. “Oh, this is Dr. Busse’s son.” As if I didn’t have my own personality. But, here I go anyway: Dee Snider! The massive-haired Twisted Sister? Well . . his son is a sick mo-fo, in the most glorious,…
Safety Study Highlights Bend’s Traffic Crash Problem
According to a recent Traffic Safety Study, Bend had more fatal car crashes from 2006 to 2010 than other comparable cities. “We have a traffic crash problem in the City of Bend, to put it bluntly,” Police Chief Jeff Sale said at the Sept. 18 City Council meeting, in a brief overview of the results…
In Love with Language
Thirty-five-year old San Francisco singer Tory Ford isn’t sure whether the songwriting she takes on with her band Upstairs Downstairs would impress her old English professors. Clearly, though, the firm grasp of poetic dialogue in the songs she comes up with would at least make some of their heads turn. Take the lyrics for “Parkas…
Wired to be Vulnerable
A song portraying the very personal struggles a spouse goes through when losing a parent is about as forthright as one can get with their musical craft. And that’s just what listeners get with woodsy Austin singer/songwriter Matt Sever, aka Matt the Electrician: the hard truth. Rather than shroud such events in metaphor and vague…
Hostile Takeover
We might not live in Gotham City, but Bend’s downtown is now occupied by a slew of Supervillains in the form of sandwiches. Supervillain Sandwiches, a new lunch spot and deli, took over for local favorite big, bready, East-Coast-style New York City Sub Shop last Tuesday, across Bond Street from Deschutes Brewery. The atmosphere is…
The Last Rays of Sun
Self-Titled Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers Little Sur Records This album is the perfect antidote to an introspective summer (insert heavy listening to Neko Case here). The self-titled release has a peppy vintage-alternative vibe that feels hopeful without being fluffy or obvious. There are Americana, country, classic rock, folk rock and blues influences, but it’s…
Now (But Briefly) Serving: Fresh Hops
Mike White, brewmaster at Old St. Francis School, McMenamins, knows taste buds. “Once people hear the words ‘fresh hop,’ they tend to go for it,” explained White (aka “Curly”). Astute readers may notice that this is our second fresh hop preview in as many weeks. We won’t apologize for redundancy. Fresh hop season is upon…
One Day at a Time
MONDAY 9 Ready for another week of terrible people doing terrible things? Welcome to One Day at a Time! In our shocking, shocking, SHOCKING first story, it seems acquitted murderer George Zimmerman (he of Trayvon Martin fame) is not exactly going to win the “Hubby of the Year Award.” His wife, Shellie Zimmerman, called 9-1-1…
I Wish There Were No Place Like Home
It is safe again to read Model Home, a slyly funny yet tragic novel about the housing boom—and, ultimately, an intimate portrait of a California family that is counted as collateral damage to the housing bust. Written by Eric Puchner, a recipient both of the coveted Pushcart Prize for short fiction and of an esteemed…
Letters 9/11 – 9/19
In reply to “The circus is coming to town, but how?” (Letter to the Editor, 9/19) I just read the letter from Marianne and I would like to say thank you! Elephants in the circus have a terrible life! Even if their handlers aren't using razor sharp sticks to hit them with (which many do…I've…
Sisterhood of the Traveling Swimsuit
It’s no Beaches, but Dixie Swim Club does have a few “Wind Beneath My Wings” moments. I won’t spoil it, but the play follows five women who revive their lifelong friendship by meeting at the same North Carolina, Outer Banks cottage yearly—”no men, no kids, no work, just us.” Over three decades years the women…
Sisters Science Club Symposiums
On Sept. 19, the Sisters Science Club will kick off the 2013 free science symposiums in Sisters, featuring current topics on science. The first of the series presented by OSU geology instructor, Daniele McKay, will be "Volcanoes in Central Oregon: When Will the Next Eruption Occur, and How Will It Affect You?" What a topic…
Art for All
Two weeks ago on First Friday, artists happily painted at Brooks Street Plaza well into the night. Darlene Becker remembers the thumping music at nearby Dojo, and the passing crowds who, at 2:30 am, asked about her work and that of her two nearby comrades, each intently working on their own five-by-six-foot canvas. After Becker’s…
Out of Town 9/18 – 9/26
forest grove saturday 21 Chalk Art Festival Last year, 400 different entries decorated 400 different sidewalk blocks in this vineyard town, turning the gray squares into elegant and colorful masterpiece. Oh, sure, there were a few stick figures and lame chicken-scratched lyrics, but mostly these were entries that would make Van Gogh cut off his…
Our Picks 9/18 – 9/26
thursday 19 Josh Garrels MUSIC—Shows at the Sons of Norway Hall are few and far between, and Josh Garrels’ praise-folk is a perfect fit for the acoustic-prone space. A wholesome churchgoing boy from South Bend, Ind., Garrels makes distinctively catchy praise music with his hazy voice and thematic writing. Loud Harp and A Boy &…
Media Salon: The Business of Beer
There was a buzz in the room last Monday at the Source’s “Business of Beer” Media Salon. And I’m not talking about the dizzy lightheadedness that comes after sipping a few locally made high alcohol-percentage craft brews. Broken Top Bottle Shop was shoulder to shoulder with brewers, beer aficionados and even city councilors proving that…
Lipstick on a Pig
In a deceptively simple administrative change, Oregon residents may soon be able to buy a cold six-pack along with their favorite bottle of booze. Last week, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) approved a policy change to commingle beer and booze, which traditionally have been housed in separate retail outlets—one private, the later managed by…
What the Heck is a Pinckney?
The stadium rows of smurf-blue folding seats in the Pinckney Center for Performing Arts are looking neglected. Half of Central Oregon Community College’s theater seats are folded up, and costumes from some bygone production are draped across others. One lonely wooden chair sits center stage. One of Bend’s few midsize venues, the space is acoustical…
Horner’s Win is More than a Race Result
On Sunday, Bend’s Chris Horner, 41, won the Vuelta a España, a three-week-long bike race through the mountains and valleys of Spain. In doing so, he became not only the oldest rider to win the Vuelta (local papers there dubbed him El Abuelo, or the grandfather), but also the oldest rider to win a grand…
Surfin’ USA
Conway Bixby makes surfboards. It sounds like a dream job and it is, says Bixby, a 31-year-old Oregon native. Shaping, as the practice is called, recently became a full-time job for the Bend resident who spent this summer often cranking out one board a week to fill custom orders. Working at home on his own…
From Mozzarella to Camembert
The lack of originality isn’t The Family’s biggest offense. Actually, there’s something cheerily familiar about its derivative premise: A mob family is on the run after Dad (Robert De Niro) turns evidence against his fellow gangsters. Their CIA agent (Tommy Lee Jones) has placed them in France—just go with it—where they move from one small…
Still the Greatest
According to Sports Illustrated, there wasn’t any 20th century figure on whom more ink was expended than Muhammad Ali, the repeat heavyweight champion boxer and one of the most important civil rights heroes of the '60s. In more recent years, that fascination with Ali seems to have turned to another medium—and one which truly showcases…
How to Walk Away from the Yellow Brick Road
Central Texas has never looked so good, nor has a post-wildfire-ravaged landscape. Filmed over 16 days in freshly burned pine and oak forest, Prince Avalanche is a timely story; if ever there was a visual lesson to the ecological havoc of extreme fires, the backdrop of this movie teaches it with ease. Although directed by…
Cycleboat..WHY DIDN’T WE THINK OF THAT.
Next summer’s peaceful days at the lake, silently taking in the serene natural surroundings are already ruined. A local company, Cascade Cycleboats, is manufacturing the latest in beer/foot-fueled technology, a water-based equivalent to the ever-annoying pedal pub. A press release to the Source explained, As riders pedal on individual cycle stations, together they propel a…
