City Will Re-Open Galveston/Riverside Intersection Sept. 17
After the re-opening of the Galveston/Riverside intersection on Sept. 17, traffic will flow more freely to Galveston Avenue businesses. The people spoke, and the City listened. After hearing complaints from business owners at the Sept. 4 City Council meeting, the City announced Friday it will re-open the intersection of Galveston Avenue and Riverside Boulevard on…
September First Friday Roundup!
Summer is officially over. Except that the weather is still gorgeous and there are still a crap ton of awesome events going on downtown. So…maybe we’ve got a few weeks of summer to go. Below we’ve linked information about a few of the First Friday events happening tonight. As always the streets will be full…
Friday Mixtape! (with a bonus video)
Friday Mixtape full of love dedications.
Masters Nats: The guy who we said might win, did
Alex Chiu Phipps won today’s road race, despite the gnarly conditions. Chris Phipps, a ridiculously fit 43-year-old Bay Area racer who we highlighted in last week’s issue, won today’s road race, which ended at Mt. Bachelor. The race is part of the five-day USA Cycling Masters Road National Championships. Reports from the finish line are…
Hey Bend! Remember This Guy?
Reed Thomas Lawrence returns to Bend!
Know Portland Bands with Banana Stand Media
Portland’s indie music scene can often be an overwhelming swarm of undiscovered bands with ironic names. It can be hard to tell which bands are worth listening to and which ones will dissolve into the flooded basements of SE before their time. Luckily for us, Banana Stand Media—please, let that be an “Arrested Development” reference—an…
Our Picks 9/4 – 9/12
thursday 5 Bryan Brazier & the West Coast Review MUSIC—Hot damn! This dude sounds like he’s from Austin! Hot damn! He is! Bryan Brazier, who developed his honky-tonk sound on the streets of Texas, moved to Bend earlier this year, and boy howdy are we glad he did. Yee-haw for live country music! 9 pm.…
Out of Town 9/4 – 9/12
seattle friday 6-saturday 7 Cider Summit Seattle If there is one thing the Northwest dominates at, it’s beer. And now, we’re trying to add ciders to that list. SBS Imports and the Seattle Beer Collective bring a mass selection of ciders for the fourth annual Northwest Festival, with four-ounce tasting samples to convince you that…
Flicker Monkey Business
If there's one bird in the Sisters Country that can bring smiles one moment and frowns the next, it is our big and bold Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus). The photo above shows a male enjoying a repast of suet cake they enjoy in winter—and if you continue to provide this favorite flicker food—in summer as…
One Day at a Time
MONDAY 26 It’s a new week…ready to twerk it? As briefly reported in last week’s edition, overcompensating ex-Disney princess Miley Cyrus twerked up a storm at last night’s MTV Video Music Awards during a performance with Robin Thicke and his grotesque song “Blurred Lines.” During the eye-popping routine, Cyrus handily stripped down to a nude-colored…
Giving Shelter to All
Imagine the following scenario: A woman is looking for a new place to live. Her partner has been physically and verbally abusing her for months and knows her current home isn’t safe. She’s scared how her partner might react to her departure, and embarrassed by the situation she’s found herself in—a sadly common scenario when…
Letters 8/28 – 9/5
In reply to “Won’t you Be My Neighbor” (News, 8/29) I read this story and laughed! These folks are complaining about development in an area that is fairly new in the whole scheme of things. Being someone that has lived in Bend long enough (since ’78) to remember logs jammed in the river, no houses…
The Race is On
John Hummel, 44, has just announced that he’ll run for Deschutes County district attorney against Patrick Flaherty in the May primaries. Hummel, a former Bend city councilor, has worked as an attorney, professor, and, from 2008 to 2010, he helped rebuild a justice system in war-torn Liberia. Today he’s the director of the Oregon Primary…
Uproar at the OLCC
The past few weeks haven’t been kind to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission’s Bend office. Last week The Oregonian highlighted a pending case that alleges the OLCC Bend regional manager and human resource director recorded internal meetings without the full consent of those present. The Bend police department is investigating the complaint, which was filed…
Now or Never
For any heel-dragging doubters of global warming—a reality that will increasingly shape the livability of the planet—the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a panel of several hundred Nobel Peace Prize winning scientists, recently released a draft report that said, yes, beyond doubt global warming is happening and, what’s more, it's happening at a rate faster…
Folk in the Firs
Music festival heritage in Central Oregon goes back a long time. Nearly two decades, before the big population explosion; for nearly half the population here—the ones who moved during the go-go years, it may seem as if Sisters Folk Festival has always been here. Nope, just since the mid-90s. But ever since 1995, the Sisters…
Listen Local
Bend’s music scene doesn’t produce a lot of hip-hop; but when it does, look out, because it’s dope. (That’s how the kids say it, right? Dope?) Case in point: the sophomore album from Jay Tablet (Jay Tab for short). Tablet is known for an extensive list of collaborations in Bend. Most notably as the duo…
We don’t need no stinkin’ grapes
While earlier sunsets and colder nights signal the end of summer, they also mark the beginning of harvest season. Grapes may not be a high-yield crop for the high desert, but the rest of Oregon has blossomed into a major wine-producing region over the past decade. In fact, Oregon has grown to be the third-largest…
I’m on a Boat!
Growing up in Coastal Virginia, I’d often end up at cigarette boat races with my dad. I remember the noise, the elongated boats and the smell of gasoline as it mixed with an offshore breeze. I also remember the bikinis, beers and big, roaring engines—which is probably what kept my dad coming back. For me,…
Teen Angst and the Devil
Supernatural romance thrillers are a dime a dozen in young adult fiction. Novels like “Twilight” and “Beautiful Creatures” dominate best-seller lists with all the same pitfalls; the boy-meets-girl love story plus magic, retold. From a superficial glance, “The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” the debut novel from local author April Genevieve Tucholke, might appear…
Why Romantic Comedies are Bad for You
The modern romantic comedy is a joke. The genre fosters the fantasy of charming men who stalk ex-lovers through airports (creepy), come to the church to break up your wedding (annoying), and Peter Gabriel fans who are willing to stand stoically in the rain with boom boxes all in the name of undying love (also…
Meet the Artist
Since 2005, Kaycee Anseth’s pieced-together collage art has made the cover of the Source four times, a testament to the magnetic quality of her work. By cutting up magazines, she creates colorful and detailed patchwork pieces, but this isn’t a third-grade arts and crafts project; the labor is painstaking and the vibrant puzzlelike product reflects…
Terrible Memory Lane
Between 1952 and 1986, Eugene Allen served as part of the White House's service staff, personally attending to the administrations of eight American presidents. Jackie Kennedy gave him one of Jack's ties as a memento after the president was shot. He drank root beer with Jimmy Carter at Camp David. He was a VIP at…
City Council Revisits Downtown Building Heights, Approves Limited Variance for First Reading
The lot adjacent to bend Brewing Company remains empty due to lack of developer interest. Property owners say a height variance would give them more options. Source Weekly file photo. “Oregonians hate two things,” Councilor Victor Chudowsky said, referencing a quote from former Metro Executive Officer Mike Burton that appeared in National Geographic magazine. “They…
Riverside/Galveston/Tumalo Closure Sparks Safety, Business Concerns
Residents says drivers aren’t following the intended detour. Image via City of Bend. The intersection at Northwest Riverside Boulevard, Galveston Avenue, and Northwest Tumalo Avenue is only two days into a two month construction closure, but area residents and business owners are already over it. At the Sept. 4 Bend City Council meeting, the visitor’s…
TONIGHT’S MUSIC Ian McFeron
TONIGHT! Ian McFeron will play 7 pm-10 pm at the Old St. Francis McMenamins, 700 NW Bond St. AMERICANA—It is tough to assign a hometown to Ian McFeron, as he tours some 200-plus days. But it’s easier to pin down his musical influences (Bob Dylan, John Lennon and a cart full of Americana crooners). And…
Send Us Your Short Stories: Fall Fiction
Calling all writers! Send a fictional short story based on one of the below prompts to the Source Weekly for a chance to be published in the paper and win awesome prizes. Read the guidelines below and submit to fiction@bendsource.com SUBMISSIONS DUE ON FRIDAY THE 13th The rules are simple, but strict:• Use one of…
Trade a Baton for a Paintbrush: 26.2 Hour Painting Marathon for an artistic cause
Base Camp, a startup arts non-profit, is all about bringing a measure of art to Bend’s athletic lifestyle. The organizations title is a play on mountaineering and, this weekend, they will host a marathon style painting collaboration lasting 26.2 hours, one for every mile of a traditional marathon. The group hopes to open its doors…
Oh, Safeway!
I love your selection of yogurts (thank you, Safeway for carrying big tubs of the Tillamook vanilla bean) and, truly, you-all have a pretty decent florist, but . . . you’ve been polluting on us? Oh no. The EPA announced today what they called a settlement of “the largest number of facilities ever under the…
Los Lobos & Los Lonely Boys at Les Schwab Amphitheater CANCELLED
This Saturday’s concert at the Les Schwab Amphitheater has been cancelled. According to a press release from Monqui the cancellation is due to the ongoing recovery of Henry Garza of the Los Lonely Boys who is receiving treatment for neck and back injuries sustained when he fell from stage in Downey, CA in February. The…
