Knopp and Hauser To Debate Downtown Tonight
Former House Majority Leader and Central Oregon Builders Association President Tim Knopp will be at the Deschutes Library tonight with Democratic rival Geri Hauser for a League of Women Voters forum. The two are running for Senate Seat 54 that is currenty held by Bend’s Chris Telfer who was defeated by Knopp in the Republican…
Bend Residents for a Sensible Noise Ordinance: Meeting Tonight!
If you haven’t been paying attention, music venues have come under increased pressure after a new noise ordinance was passed this summer. HOWEVER, at the last city council meeting on Oct.
Culture Club
Celebrate Saturday by attending one of the many cultural events happening in Bend today spanning dance, film, art, literature and music. The Warm Springs Tribe celebrate their cultural heritage with a Native American Flute performance, dancing and a salmon bake at the Lodge at Suttle Lake.
Redmond to unveil new public sculpture amid arts fest Saturday
Redmond officials will cut the ribbon on their latest public art installation a 35-foot-tall sculpture, dubbed Thoughts of Flight, tomorrow as part of the city’s Passport to the Arts Event. Thoughts is one of fourteen public artworks currently on display in downtown Redmond, six of those pieces, including the latest addition are on loan to…
Aerial View of Colorado Whitewater Project
Nicely shot video from BPTA on the upcoming parks bond. Worth looking it just to see the superimposed their CGI take on the Colorado Street improvements, including safe passage for floaters, the whitewater play park and fish “estuary.
Win Tix to TGR’s Dream Factory on Saturday
We’ve got two sets of tix to Teton Gravity’s latest ski epic, Dream Factory. Log onto our FB page, tell us why you should get our tix and share the Post with your friends to qualify.
Friday Night Break Down.
What do you get when you combine two girls nights out, christian rock, crazy eights, eleven eyes and a brewtal breakdown? A kick-ass Friday night in Bend, that’s what. Not one but TWO girls night out events are being held this evening benefiting two fabulous local non-profits The Central Oregon Council on Aging and Healthy…
Source Party This Weekend at Old Liberty Theater
Beer. Wine.
County’s Top Planner Named to U of O Team
The University of Oregon has tapped Deschutes County’s top planner to join its public policy management advisory team. Lelack who overseas all current and long-range planning for the county is the only planning director on the council and the only member from outside of the Willamette Valley.
Terrible Buttons at The Horned Hand
Even though I chose to feature Communist Daughter in last week’s issue of the Source.
So Many Ski Movies! This weekend and beyond, go see ’em—they’re good!
There’s no shortage of ski films slated for screenings in Bend. Lucky! On Saturday, TGR’s 2012 release The Dream Factory is showing at the Tower (8pm, $12).
Election Update: Candidate Forums
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~George Jean Nathan Gain the insight you need to make thoughtful choices this November by attending one or more of the election events and candidate forums scheduled this week.
Treasure Our Treasures
This coming Saturday, tens of thousands of Americans will celebrate Public Lands Day by volunteering their time to help maintain and improve public parks, rivers and wilderness areas. It is the nation’s largest single-day volunteer event to support America’s public lands and guarantee they remain available for future generations. Here in Bend, we are lucky…
An Open Letter to a Fellow Motorist
To the Older Gentleman in the Volkswagon Passat, 3rd St, 7 pm, 9/21. I’ll try putting this here, as I don’t think you’re the Craigslist R & R type. Really, really sorry I was driving like an a-hole (white and blue Ford truck, full of firewood). You had every right to honk at me for…
Sack the Scabs
A travesty. An atrocity. An abomination. A disgrace. A debacle. A fiasco. Those were just a few of the more printable descriptions applied to Monday night’s NFL contest between the Seattle Seahawks and the Green Bay Packers, destined hereafter to be known as The Game That Will Live in Infamy. In case you didn’t catch…
Bee Afraid: The mysterious case of disappearing pollinators
All seemed well that late winter morning when Bend resident Allen Engle headed out to check on his hives. The chill in the air held a hint of spring, the ducks flew overhead returning north and Engle was ready for his bees to rouse themselves out of their winter torpor. A shocking sight awaited him…
StrikingWhile the Iron is Hot: Parks district says now is the time to invest
If there was a silver lining in Central Oregon’s real estate bust, the Bend Park and Recreation District was wrapped in it. While developers hemorrhaged red ink and defaulted on real estate deals, the park district was quietly leveraging the war chest it amassed in the boom years to scoop up high-value properties at near…
Our Picks For 09/27-10/04
Terrible Buttons with Communist Daughter thursday 27 An up-and-coming group of fun-loving folk deconstructionists from Spokane, Terrible Buttons makes dark and celebratory songs that bounce down the road like a ramshackle musical sideshow. Former Friends Like These front man Johnny Solomon opens the show with his groove-ilicious new band, Communist Daughter. $5. 21+. 8 p.m.…
The Road Home: Bend singer and songwriter Chris Beland heads back to California but leaves us a new album
Six years ago I met a guy named Chris Chabot. In the time between then and now, the guy known for his heartfelt one man acoustic guitar and harmonica shows in Bend has found a father, changed his name and come into his own as a powerful songwriter. In fact, if you’ve heard live music…
All the Little Lights By Passenger; Label: Nettwerk
The latest release from troubadour and Brighton United Kingdom native Mike Rosenberg, who records under the moniker Passenger, is an amusing British folk album that uses jaunty, string-laden ditties as a vessel for heartfelt themes. Though Rosenberg now lives in Sydney, the merry banjo and graceful guitar on All the Little Lights make the kinds…
Live Music PSA: Helping you navigate the world of live music both in Bend and beyond
The ability to listen to music in your car or your home, even as you walk around town definitely has its merits. But millions of people strongly prefer to hear their music another way—live. We here at the Source want to help facilitate your journey into the magical world of live music. To that end…
Gringo’s Welcome: Authentic Street-Style Tacos and Mexican Markets in Bend
Searching for hard-to-find ingredients like cactus or tamarind? Trying to feed a family of four on a $20 bill? No worries! Although still undiscovered by most, Bend does have a handful of true-to-Mexico taco joints and three Latino markets. So whether you need pasilla peppers for posole, or a quick and delicious bite on the…
Little Bites: Noi Opens in Former Typhoon! Location: Too soon to call it the best Thai in town?
Bend’s newest Thai restaurant, which opened this week for dinner and lunch in the old Typhoon! location downtown, has raised the bar. The Seattle-based Chaiseeha family leased the building earlier this summer and has combined art shipped directly from Thailand with items purchased from Typhoon!. We stopped in for lunch on Tuesday. The space Noi…
Little Bites: Fresh Hops: Come and Get ‘Em!
Every year, just as September draws to a close and autumn begins, brewers across the Northwest get the call that they’ve been waiting for all season—it’s hop harvest time! Come get your damn hops! And so starts the annual pilgrimage of brewers to the Willamette Valley and Yakima, Wash., to gather the recently harvested hops…
Fungus Among Us?: Drought conditions have made early mushroom hunting difficult
Saturday sucked. I spent four hours pedaling my mountain bike, slowly, over trails that are usually dotted with king boletes this time of year. Last year, I filled my Camelback with the tasty mushrooms in less than two hours. This year—not a single goddamn one! Am I doing something wrong? Apparently not, according to Linda…
Calling Linda Carter: BendFilm doc explores the chronic absence of female superheroes in comic book literature
Oakland, Calif., documentary filmmaker Kristy Guevara-Flanagan’s Wonder Women!, the untold story of super heroines, is one of the documentaries defining BendFilm as a festival not just for features, but ideas. Former Source staffer Josh Beddingfield caught up with Guevara-Flanagan in California: the Source: Your previous film, Going on 13, followed the lives of four young…
Backseat Driver: Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis gives us paranoia
Cosmopolis might be Cronenberg’s most personal film and that is pretty scary. The guy who brought us Rabid, Scanners, The Fly, Videodrome and History of Violence (to name a few) has gone back to the high tech stuff that fueled his version of William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch and his film Crash—not the Oscar winning one…
Mac & Cheese Pizza? VOTE NO!
For some weird reason, I’ve never been invited to moderate a presidential debate. The first of three debates between President Obama and “Golden Mittens” Romney is scheduled for this coming Wednesday (6 pm PST/9 pm ET, all major networks), and if I were asked to moderate, I’m purrrr-etty sure I’d have a lot to offer!…
Everyone Play Along Now: TERA adds but doesn’t transcend multi-player game landscape
The landscape for massively multi-player games (MMOs) contained some new additions in 2012, but only a few of those were high-profile titles. TERA, from En Masse Entertainment, is essentially an Asian-designed game with some changes to reflect the tastes of the North American audience. While the character and world design sports some unique elements, what…
The Last Big Eddy Run: A cautionary tale
It seemed easy enough. I’d guided rafts through the Big Eddy stretch hundreds of times, I thought, as I sat in my little yellow kayak above the rapids. And I’d kayaked plenty of class IIIs and IVs. But none of them were so thoroughly lined with lava rocks as sharp as these. All summer long,…
New Downtown Shop to Peddle Skis/Bikes/Beers/Coffee from former gallery
It’s official—the lovely city-owned historic building formerly known as the Mirror Pond Gallery will soon have a new tenant. Bend’s David Marchi, an experienced mountaineering, heli-ski and cycling guide, is opening Crow’s Feet Commons, a backcountry ski/boutique bike shop that will also serve coffee and beers in The Rademacher House, which was the former home…
Kiss of the Spider Woman
The busy arachnid outside your window is doing good work This, Oh, Best Beloved, is my favorite time of year—our back yards are full of Charlottes, aka the orb weaver spider. If truth be known, we could not get along as well as we do on this beautiful Old Earth, without all the Charlottes and…
Forest Service To Close Tumalo Falls Area Immediately: Agency says city needs room to stage its surface water project
A controversial city water project west of Bend will result in the immediate eight-month closure of the Tumalo Falls Day Use Are beginning tomorrow, according to a joint news release sent just today from the city of Bend and the Forest Service. Several popular hiking and biking trails in the area, including the portions of…
