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Love Issue
The barista that serves up a double shot of hot, the brewers that put a hop in our step and fitness instructors that flex our love muscles, these are the Source reader’s votes for the most drool-worthy eye-candy around Bend. Happy Valentine’s Day! Apples of Our Eye Hottest Male Brewer Dan Mccoy, 35 Owner and…
Better Than Free: The Grand Anderson
Even better than free, our Grand Anderson Film Series GIVES AWAY stuff! That’s right: Come for free, leave with gifts! Like, a chocolate pig-out party at Sunriver! The Grand Anderson (showing “The Fantastic Mr. Fox,” Wedn. 7 pm, Old Stone Church)
What In The (Olympic) World?
Is anything else happening in the world right now beside Sochi? The biggest protest of the Games were yesterday. No, not about gay rights. But about hockey, as frustrated Russian fans chanted outside the US Embassy about a disallowed goal, as if the US diplomats had anything to do with the referee. Also, showing emotion,…
Rise Up International and Larry and His Flask Team Up
In an uber-local mash-up of charitable awesomeness, Jesse Roberts of arts organization Rise Up International and Jesse Marshal of Bend’s own folk-punk heroes Larry and His Flask, are planning a trip to Nicaragua to build a recording studio and cultivate art exchanges with Bend’s sister city, Condega. Learn more below and donate to this project…
100 Hikes are Worth Three Minutes of your Day
Local “Hike Guy” Kolby Kirk took on a big project in 2012, he wanted to hike 100 times and 700 trail miles by January 1st, 2014. Check out details of the 100 Hikes Project here. “On each hike, I created a number using natural materials found along the trail,” explains Kirk who lives in Bend,…
Friday Mixtape!- Bartender’s Brawl Soundtrack
It’s gonna be a party y’all!
High Desert Museum Announces New President
After a nationwide search, the High Desert Museum announced yesterday that they have chosen Dr. Dana Whitelaw, former VP of programs at the museum, as the new president of the nonprofit. Below is the press release from Feb. 12. High Desert Museum Names New President.Dr. Dana Whitelaw chosen to lead the iconic non-profit institution. Bend,…
Zwickels and Platypus
According to the German Beer Institute, the word Zwickel “stems from the sampling cock mounted at the outside of a cask or tank to take tastes for assessing the brew’s progress during fermentation.” Though not all of the Central Oregon beer poured during Saturday’s Zwickelmania event will come from a “sampling cock,” if past events…
Taking Shape
In November, voters approved Ballot Measure 9-94. That measure approved a bump in the fees charged to visitors staying in City of Bend hotels and resorts from 9 to 10.4 percent. It is a modest increase—especially considering that the so-called Transient Room Tax rate hasn’t increased in Bend since 2003, while cities like Portland and…
Who Do You Think You’re Messing With?
So far, this winter has proven to be a schizophrenic personality of weather patterns. In early December, Central Oregonians were treated to snow and temperatures plunging into negative double-digits. It was so cold that a few of the competitors in the seasonal finale cyclocross races at the Old Mill suffered frostbite. Less than a month…
Sticks, Stones and Big Words
The Bulletin must have scored better on its SATs than us. Or perhaps not. Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “imperious” (yes, we had to look it up) as “having or showing the proud and unpleasant attitude of someone who gives orders and expects other people to obey them.” In a recent swipe at the current—and seeking reelection—Deschutes…
Our Picks for 2/13-2/19
thursday 13 Songcrafters: Songs & their Stories MUSIC—Ever listen to a song and wonder, “Whaaaa…did they mean by that line?” Here’s a chance to hear the story behind the song. The fourth in this monthly series, local musicians perform their original music and share the inspiration for the melody and the message. This time ’round,…
Ghost in the Machine
Like a machine, we can take RoboCop apart, breaking it down to discrete components: Writing. Directing. Acting. Editing. And disassembled, just about every piece of 2014’s RoboCop remake is better than the corresponding piece of 1987’s RoboCop. But there’s a strange, beautiful alchemy that bubbles and hisses when one speaks of transcendent concepts such as…
Letters 2/5-2/12
In reply to “Glass Slipper, Half-Full” (Editorial, 2/6) What an excellent portrayal of one of the—if not THE—greatest economic and sustainable growth opportunities to come to Bend in a long time. Transformation, innovation and dynamic community growth requires a bit of stretching and thinking outside the box. Yes, no one said that would be easy.…
What Beer Bubble?
The term “beer bubble” gets tossed around a bunch—a concept that, like the housing boom that’s affected Bend for the past several years, translates into the economic equation that the market here is filling up too quickly with hot air and promises, and will soon burst. But really, the evidence is quite to the contrary.…
Critical Miss
Idiots might grin when they see a fiery-eyed, supernatural Peter Dinklage give a knowing smile while avenging his bloody death at the teeth and talons of a hell-spawned succubus near the end of Knights of Badassdom. (Whoops! Spoiler alert!) He’s a badass in Game of Thrones! And now he’s a badass in a movie about…
On Day at a Time
MONDAY 3 Today in UGGGNNNHH: On Saturday, the New York Times published an open letter from Dylan Farrow (the adopted daughter of director Woody Allen) in which she describes being sexually assaulted by the director when she was seven years old. Again, UGGGGNNNHHH. The letter—which is simultaneously sad and horrifying—also calls out stars that have…
Boy Girl Dance Party
It is like a Lonely Planet glossary of terms: Bhangra is folk from the Punjabi region of India, remixed with hip-hop. And, Purnima, this weekend’s dance party is the Indian word for full moon. Also important to understand are the twisting beats of Bollywood, and the tinny strings of shimmering Balkan gypsies. Anjali and the…
Musical Archives
Books, Wikipedia and documentaries, are all okay means to access historical knowledge. But a better way to truly understand the emotional and cultural history of, oh, say, New Orleans, is the twenty-plus albums released over the course of 30 years, either by or featuring that city’s legendary Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Its anthology of bright…
Rock Sandwich
Menomena serves up one part guitar, one part hammering keyboards, one part rocket launcher, one part synthesizer, one part emotional sincerity, one part sexual innuendo, and one part flowing blond hair. The first syncopated hand claps of Menomena’s “Plumage,” the first track on 2012’s Moms, are entirely misleading. The simple start is in direct opposition…
Hunk of Burning Love
It wasn’t just the sexy welding scenes in Flashdance that brought about the renaissance of the metal worker. Slaving over scorching concentrated flames, pouring, bending and banging a molten-hot, sparking mess of solid steel, copper or brass may seem like an archaic trade. However, it is one that time has turned from the work of…
Out of Town
seattle friday 14 Valentine’s Day Savage Lovecast Live Taping Celebrity rags are always trying to christen the latest Hollywood starlet as “America’s Sweetheart,” when in reality, he’s a gay male advice columnist living in Seattle. With aplomb and some biting wit, Dan Savage handles questions concerning all that is fair (and unfair) in love and…
Foxy, SCHWING!
Except perhaps the filmmaker who brought him to life on screen, Wes Anderson, no one rocks a corduroy suit quite as fantastically as Mr. Fox, the title character of The Fantastic Mr. Fox. This adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl story was Anderson’s foray into the animated realm and, really, who else could round up…
