PICK: Matt Hopper and the Roman Candles
wednesday 8 Matt Hopper and the Roman Candles AMERICANA—On the road for a decade and a half, Matt Hopper and the rotating cast of the Roman Candles pull inspiration from everyone from Tom Petty to The Replacements. His forthcoming album is poised to be a Nashville country classic as opposed to his last release, Husky,…
PICK: Psycho
SCARY MOVIE—What is most remembered about Hitchcock’s 1960 Psycho is a shower scene where a young woman is stabbed. But really, the plot is much more dynamic—about a tryst, embezzlement, and even the death of small towns. Though quaint in the context of current slasher films, it’s not a hair less scary. Tonight’s screening kicks…
PICK: Dropkick Murphys
sunday 5 Dropkick Murphys PUNK—If you’ve ever thought, “You know what this punk song could use? A little bit of bagpipe, an an accordion, and some traditional sounding banjo,” then Dropkick Murphys are for you. The Boston boys behind the hit song from Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award-nominated The Departed, “Shipping Out To Boston,” remains the…
Full Interview, Dropkick Murphys Drummer Matt Kelly
The Source Weekly’s full Q&A with Dropkick Murphys drummer, Matt Kelly. Dropkick Murphys 8 pm. Sun., Oct. 5 Midtown Ballroom, 51 NW Greenwood Ave. $32. Tickets available at bendticket.com Source Weekly: How did you originally get into punk rock? Matt Kelly: I was always interested in it in the ‘80s when I’d see skaters, punks, and skinhead…
PICK: Harvest Dinner
saturday 4 Harvest Dinner FOOD & ART—Harvest is a time for feasting, and The High Desert Museum gets that. It hosts a farm-to-table dinner accompanied by the art exhibition “Painting Oregon’s Harvest” by Kathy Deggendorfer. Chef TR McCrystal of Jen’s Garden prepares a four-course meal paired with Oregon wines. 7 pm. High Desert Museum, 59800…
PICK: First Friday
friday 3 ART—Drinks! Art! Downtown! The local women’s organization MUSE sponsors an appreciation exhibit for the Oregon Equal Rights for Women Initiative, Measure 89, at the Liberty Lounge (how appropriate). Two excellent local bands, Helga and Patrimony, take over the patio at Crow’s Feet Commons and local artist Caroline Cornell shows her stuff at Bishop’s…
Interview: Doug Borwick Keynote Speaker at the Central Oregon Arts Summit
On Monday, Oct. 6, Bend will host the first Central Oregon Arts Summit, a product of the Oregon Arts Commission and the Arts and Culture Alliance’s collaborations. The summit is open to individual artists, arts supporters, arts-related businesses and volunteers, as well as staff and board members of nonprofit organizations. The keynote speaker, Doug Borwick…
PICK: Quick & Easy Boys
MUSIC—The Quick and Easy Boys, as the name suggests, are a fun band. But they also are coolly and calmly talented, with Beatles’ (circa “Octopus Garden”) playfulness, jingling guitar chord, heavy backbeat bass drum, and, oh boy, such great harmonizing—mind you, not your hippie-granddad’s harmonizing where it is just two voices singing at once, but…
Editor’s Note: This week’s issue goes back to school
It was only this summer that I became a fan of reality TV when I started watching “America’s Got Talent.” I was hooked because, unlike other reality TV show, like “The Bachelor” or the granddaddy of them all, “Survivor,” which are simply cat fights and showcase selfishness and triteness, “America’s Got Talent” actually celebrates people’s…
VIDEO: Bend Roots Revival
Some photos and video from Saturday of Bend Roots Revival.
Bend City Council Approves OSU-Cascades Site Plan with Conditions
Following a five-hour appeal hearing, the Bend City Council voted unanimously to approve the OSU-Cascades site plan, with some conditions, essentially upholding the findings and decision of Deschutes County Hearings Officer Ken Helm. Will have more details on the hearing, the decision, and what it means for the future of the university in this week’s…
Hutch’s: Best in the land! Confirmed!
Last week, Hutch’s was crowned with the title as (one of) America’s Best Bike Shops. Congrats, and thanks for keeping our wheels true. From their press release: “Hutch’s Bicycles is proud to announce that we were selected as one of “America’s Best Bike Shops” for 2014 by the NDBA, the National Bicycle Dealers Association. We are…
Five Things to Know About Today’s OSU Appeals Hearing at Bend City Council
The battle over the west-side site for OSU-Cascades’ proposed expansion into a four year campus reaches another milestone this afternoon, as the Bend City Council hears an appeal filed by the Truth in Site Coalition opposing the OSU-Cascades site plan application. The plan has already been approved by City staff and a Deschutes County hearings officer…
Friday Mixtape!
30 Lovable song.
Gov. John Kitzhaber and Rep. Dennis Richardson Debate Today in Sunriver
Gov. John Kitzhaber and Rep. Dennis Richardson will face off in their second gubernatorial debate today at 11 am in Sunriver. The debate, sponsored by the Oregon Association of Broadcasters, will air live on KTVZ (TV), KBND (radio) and C-SPAN (TV and online). To prep, be sure to read our interviews with Kitzhaber and Richardson.…
INTERVIEW: More from Justin Froese
Some more insight into songwriter Justin Froese
Go Here! 9/25-10/2
For so many of us soil-loving, veggie-munching Bendites it’s nearly impossible to think of autumn without also conjuring up images of fall harvest. As days get shorter, leaves turn, and a certain nip greets the air both morning and night, why not get to know your local Community Supported Agriculture program (CSA) by getting hands…
Outside the Box
While Bend has a well-developed and substantial theater scene, there’s still plenty of Neil Simon being tossed around. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, safe theater is theater no less, but as the lust for adventurous theater grows with the town, the time to step out of the Bend theater box is now. Enter…
Mountain Bike Mecca
There are more than 15 bike shops in Bend, hordes of riders, countless trails and trail possibilities, and today mountain biking is a booming industry—equal parts cultural identity and athleticism. But it wasn’t always this way—and the pioneers, really unknowing trendsetters, that put mountain biking on Bend’s map, and Bend on mountain bikers’ maps, celebrate…
Writing Westward
Jess Walter is the bestselling author of “Beautiful Ruins,” a novel that dominated “best of” lists in 2012 and continues to charm readers of every stripe. His latest work, a collection of short stories called “We Live in Water,” illuminates the hard knocks experienced by Pacific North Westerners with stories that his friend, Central Oregon…
Get Spinning!
In a recent letter to the editor, one of our readers pointed out that it isn’t the lack of bike racks downtown that limits bike commuting, but the lack of good, safe pathways for cyclists. Yes, we agree. And, in a final report released by the Growth Management Department released this month, it seems as…
Locavore Musician
Annie Girl and the Flight is an impeccably apt ’90s throwback, a post-grunge, lady-fronted reverb rock band with a lo-fi charm and a smoothness that comes from a lack of forcing music to happen. There’s a swaying proclivity to the band’s songs. Dreamy, bulldozing guitar riffs fill the void left by leisurely tempos and Annie’s…
Letters 9/16-9/23
FREE ENTRY FOR POLITICS Regarding two items in your magazine(?).One is the “boot” article “Show Me the Money” (9/17). You take a focus on [Jodie] Barram as being one of the most active on the [City] Council. Who are you to take away from the other most active? There are six more, you know. Then you…
Fall Arts Event Guide
Fri., Sept. 26 Writing Workshop with Jess Walter Edgar Award winning novelist and finalist for the National book award with give a workshop for aspiring writers. 4 pm. Downtown Public Library. Fri., Sept. 26- Sun. Oct. 5 The Trouble With Harry Bend Experimental Art Theatre takes on one of Hitchcock’s best as members of a…
Fall Fiction Winners
In celebration of autumn rolling in, the Source asked our readers to snuggle up with a pen and paper (or more likely their laptops) and write us a flash fiction masterpiece based on one of three writing prompts: “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” —John Green “She…
Muy Delicioso
Tortilleria Reyes is not just great Mexican food “for Bend,” but great Mexican food for anywhere in the country. While Bend has a few pretty tasty Mexican eateries, most of them are Americanized with fish bowl-sized margaritas and cheese on everything. Reyes keeps it authentic. And that authenticity can be tasted in every bite. Tortilleria…
There Is Only One Rule: Finish!
For Bend Adventure Race, held this weekend, the challenge is to complete a scramble over land and water to reach certain checkpoints—and, ultimately, a finish line somewhere out there in the woods. The rules are both simple and vague: Like a rugged connect-the-dots game sketched across Central Oregon, each team has 30 hours to complete…
Here, This’ll Warm You Up
The history of Deschutes Brewery’s Jubelale, the “festive winter ale” that hits shops and bars every September, is as long as that of the company making it. It is Deschutes’ oldest seasonal beer, launched just a few months after the brewery’s opening in 1988, and it was also the first beer Deschutes ever bottled, with…
Our Picks 9/25-10/2
thursday 25 Jess Walter READING—Probably more defining than a National Book nomination is Jess Walter’s book Citizen Vince winning the Edgar Allen Poe Award in 2005. A Spokane native (and current resident), Walter pens some of the best—and smartest—thrillers in circulation, filled with wry humor, operatic desires and hand-wringing tension. Reading from his latest, Beautiful…
Out of Town 9/25-10/2
portland thursday 25 The Orwells, with Skaters and The Picturebooks The Orwells come from a lineage of what could best be known as “The Illinois sound.” Like Cheap Trick and OK Go, fun, likable and rocking, with thumping bass drums and driving, cascading guitar riffs, and like their Midwestern brethren, they are as tight-knit as…
From Sullen to Pop
Look no further than the jazzy blues standard, “Love Has,” from Justin Froese’s latest album, Fireflies, in order to accurately imagine the bulk of his catalogue, which now spans two full-length albums and an EP. That track—a slinky song that touts fragile vocals and crashing emotion—is something you might emphatically and repeatedly dip your chin…
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Vacation rentals dominated last week’s Bend City Council meeting, with comments from community members and discussion from city councilors spanning hours over the course of the work session and meeting. During the work session, City staff presented three options to address growing concerns over the number of vacation rentals in residential zones, 41 percent of…
Town v. Gown, Round II
The City Council voted unanimously and without discussion at last week’s meeting to hear an appeal filed by the Truth in Site Coalition opposing the OSU-Cascades site plan application approved by a hearings officer in early September. While city staff typically discourage council from hearing land use appeals—preferring to send them on to the Land…
Local Music Update
The annual Roots Festival has become an artistic staple in Bend’s cultural landscape over the last half-decade. Shut down in 2012 for lack of venue, and facing nasty weather in 2013 that almost shut down the arts collaboration, Roots Festival has proved it’s quick thinking and resilient in the face of challenging circumstances. Having held…
The Little Animation Company That Could
Amid a sea of films aimed for the kiddie market, Laika has been able to distinguish itself not only by its mastery of the visually thrilling and time consuming process of stop-motion animation, but also through an embrace of a dark side. Like some of Disney’s earliest features or the anime genius of Studio Ghibli,…
Film Events 9/25-10/2
Untrammeled & The Meaning of Wild Deschutes National Forest and the nonprofit organization Discover Your Forest presents a double feature of films celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. Untrammeled features the Scapegoat and Bob Marshall wilderness areas and focuses on a group of Montana high school students who have never experienced wilderness before.…
Fort Rock
The other day, my daughter Kristin — born in Bend way back in the ’50s, and who went with me regularly to Fort Rock in North Lake County — sent me a text that I had the good fortune of reading while looking at Fort Rock. The quote’s from a book, “1000 Gifts,” by Ann…
