PICK: Tony Furtado & Stephanie Schneiderman
MUSIC—The beauty of true vocal harmonizing is that each voice complements and reinforces the other, as does Stephanie Schneiderman’s breathy voice stealthily fill in the twang of Tony Furtado’s riffs and vocals, like an evening fog settling into the valley. 7 pm. Belfry, 302 E. Main St., Sister. $12.
PICK: Larry and His Flask
monday 15 Larry and His Flask MUSIC—Fresh off their European tour, hometown grass-rockers Larry and His Flask are symbol crash, a power chord and a shotgunned beer away from superstardom. With a style mixing traditional roots and punk rock that is all its own, the Flask plays music for lamenting loss, drinking too hard and…
PICK: Redmond’s Festival of Culture
CELEBRATION—Oh, you betcha that Redmond is a melting pot. The annual Festival of Culture is a day-long celebration of that ethnic diversity, with everything from Russian ballet and Salsa-Bachata dancing to Flamenco guitar and the Crook County jazz choir. 10 am-evening. Centennial Park, SW 7th St., Redmond. Free.
PICK: Andre Nickatina
MUSIC—What sets Andre Nickatina apart is that, despite drawing from rap clichés (with predictable songs like “Bullet, Blunts in Ah Big Bankroll”), he, now and again, cleverly twists and contorts those familiarities into masterpiece songs like “Conversations With A Devil,” which relentlessly changes up the beat so that his uniqueness and voice is heard loud…
PICK: Les Misérables
friday 12 Les Misérables THEATER—Quite possibly the biggest theatre production Central Oregon will see this year, Les Misérables rehearsals started way back in January to bring the loudest, longest and most depressing musical about 18th century French social hierarchy to the stage at the Tower Theatre. 7:30 pm. Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall St. $30-$45.…
Wilderness Music Video: Shoot the Moon
Local band Wilderness has released a new music video for the song “Shoot the Moon!” The video is a voyeuristic look into the lives of office-working, forest-partying clown-people, directed and produced by Jesse Locke of AMZ Productions and with with body paint by Natalie Fletcher. Check it out below and see Wilderness perform at the WilderFest Block Party, the fiftieth anniversary celebration…
BendFilm Releases 2014 Festival Lineup
BendFilm has released the lineup for the 2014 film festival—its 11th annual and the first under new Executive Director Todd Looby—featuring two world premieres, one U.S. premiere, jury awards and prizes. In addition to increased efforts to connect with the Central Oregon community year-round, BendFilm is also partnering for the first time with the Confederated…
Craig Wilhelm Loves Bend, Doesn’t Get Recycling
For love of Bend, the recycling was lost? Sitting down to dinner (popcorn) in front of the TV tonight (don’t judge me), I noticed Oregon House District 54 candidate Craig Wilhelm’s new campaign spot. Craig takes us on a walking tour of all the great Bend things he wants to protect. Ah, the mountains! Ah,…
Truth In Site Coalition to Appeal OSU-Cascades Site Plan Approval
Just three days after Deschutes County Hearings Officer Ken Helm ruled in favor of the site plan for the proposed Oregon State University-Cascades expansion in southwest Bend, the opposing Truth In Site Coalition has announced it will appeal the decision. According to a message posted to the coalition’s website, the group “understands the very narrow…
TOP 15 Source Weekly Stories from August
Lately, we’ve been geeking out over Google Analytics. That is, seeing what it is you all enjoy reading most. So we decided to highlight the most-read stories of the last month. Some of the results were no shocker—the Best Of Central Oregon issue and all things local (especially stories about Crow’s Feet Commons) ranked highly.…
Go Here 9/4-9/11
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act which allows for protection of some of the nation’s most stunning and desolate landscapes. What better way to celebrate the wildlands of Central and Eastern Oregon by getting out and experiencing the diverse environments and vistas. Two lesser known areas, the Owyhee Canyonlands and the Greater…
Fire it Up
To demonstrate our infinite love for our favorite food, we would like to start this restaurant review with a haiku: Cheese, sauce, bread, toppings The combination can’t fail Pizza forever According to the National Association of Pizza Operators there are 3 billion pizzas sold in the United States each year; with good reason. Pizza is…
Film Events 9/4-9/11
Sleepless in Seattle It is Tom Hanks week in Central Oregon (as well it should be). Sleepless in Seattle tells the story of a manipulative child that tricks an emotionally distant father into finding the woman of his (cold, drizzle and distant) dreams. Although still mourning his deceased wife, Hank’s precocious half-orphaned child decides to…
Wet, Fresh, Dank, and Local
By the time you read this, the first fresh-hop beers of the season will start to arrive in the bars and tasting rooms of Bend. But there’s something new this year—not only is the beer brewed locally, but some of it features hops grown from a suddenly bustling scene of nearby farms, none more than…
Letters 8/26-9/2
IN REPLY TO “MODERN-DAY DISCIPLES” Thanks, Source, for another great article! While reading this, all I could think of was the correlation with all religions—they are all man-made cults created to control people with fear and manipulation. Sad, really, that due to religion we have the most horrific things going on in the world. Perhaps…
Cabin in the Woods
Maybe there’s an instinct that compels us toward the wild, even as our daily lives become more domesticated. Or, maybe amid the technological blur of modern America, it is an urge toward an “authentic life.” In either case, contemporary readers will find much to admire in “The Cabin: A Tandem Memoir of Life in the…
Out of Town 9/4-9/11
portland thursday 4 Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog During the 2007-2008 TV writers strike, instead of sitting on his butt and complaining, Joss Whedon kept on writing. The result was some of the best work of his career, a 40-minute Internet-distributed short starring the effervescent Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Horrible, a misfit villain trying really…
Whatcha Doing, Candidate? (Jason Levin)
Though most coverage of Oregon’s gubernatorial race focuses on the two big-party candidates, we wanted to give a voice to some of the third party folks tossing their hats in the ring. Jason Levin is a small business owner and Green Party candidate. We reached out to Gov. John Kitzhaber as well as other third…
Whatever, Mom
Most of my friends are nonparents, I don’t really fit in with the “mom groups,” and those stick-figure-family car decals drive me nuts. That said, I still appreciate the mom-to-mom connection. And sometimes a mom just needs to hear that she’s not the only one who has cried during Bambi, or let two weeks go…
Bye Bye Dam, Hello Fish
Next Monday, Sept. 8, the process begins to remove the final remaining concrete dam on Whychus Creek, a narrow waterway that traces north past Sisters and pours into the upper Deschutes River. The project has been spearheaded by the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council and, explains Mathias Perle, Project Manager for the organization, will re-open 13 miles…
Source Suggests 9/4-9/11
This special edition of the Source Suggests covers a few of our many picks from the incredible lineup of the 2014 Sisters Folk Festival. The festival is mostly sold out, but there are a handful of Sunday tickets still available online at sistersfolkfestival.org. Sisters Folk Festival, Sept. 5-7 Shakey Graves This charming Austin singer-songwriter is…
Our Picks 9/4-9/12
thursday 4 Home Free MUSIC—Imagine “Glee” gone country, add the punch of reality TV, and you’ve got the gist of Home Free, season 4 winners of a the a capella competition show “Sing Off.” The Minnesota-based group puts its own spin on country favorites with a depth and complexity that makes it easy to forget…
Baby Steps, and Shooting!
From the first snap of the football when the game was invented in 1892, it took seven decades before the first Super Bowl was played. Basketball was slightly quicker to mature; invented in 1891, seven years later there was a national championship when the six existing teams battled for the title (won by the Trenton…
If Bourne Had Balls But No Brain
With The November Man, you quickly get the sense that you’re watching an uncredited Bourne sequel, with a few important improvements: An R rating, no shaky cam, and very few government functionaries spouting geopolitical buzzwords in front of monitors. Those are good improvements! It stars Pierce Brosnan doing sex stuff and spy stuff (an espionage…
From a Mouse to a Rat
Casey Neill isn’t that old. He will tell you so himself. “Still a pup,” he joked in a recent email exchange with the Source. But at 43, Neill has become a recognizable and well respected, collaborative musician in the Portland music scene. Solo, and under the guise of the Norway Rats, he has worked with…
Banjo, Plus
Diversifying appears to be a trend that the Bay Area bluegrass scene has embraced. Take for example the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park. Founded in 2001 by the late Warren Hellman, a banjo-loving billionaire, the free festival has expanded beyond strictly picking and, in recent years, grown to include distinctly non-bluegrass bands…
What’s in a Name?
Starting a new school year brings more changes than just the transition from summer into fall. Whether it is the stress of a new teacher, or returning after an awkward summertime growth spurt, or with eyeglasses or braces, the first day can bring butterflies to the stomach of even the most well-adjusted child. But for…
Meet the Artist
Portland artist Bettina McEntyre makes use of a cocktail of imagination and pattern to create eye-catching creatures in her drawing and painting. Never quite human but always expressive, and never fully recognizable as a non-blob species of animal, her characters are all at once uncomfortable and hilarious, a vision of a world that exists only…
Creating a Standard
Over the past four years, the so-called Common Core Curriculum has been implemented as a guideline for what public schools should teach each year—namely, by creating standards for what K-12 students should know in English and math. Adopted by 45 states, including Oregon, Common Core is becoming a national guideline for what and how to…
Meet in the Middle
When the Source first reported last week that the City of Bend would not renew Crow’s Feet Commons’ lease on the 500 square feet of Mirror Pond Plaza adjacent to the historic building it also leases from the City, the public outcry caught owner David Marchi by surprise. “Public reaction has been quite impressive. I thought…
Planting the Orchard
Five-piece Americana fusion group Appleseed Collective has grown from a batch of songs that guitarist Andrew Brown wrote when he was 14 years old into one of the most diverse acts to tumble out of Ann Arbor, Michigan in the last decade. The band’s ornate songs resemble the group’s namesake, budding from obtuse, petite compositions…
