While most eyes are on the primary with the May 18 election fast approaching, there is already some preliminary jockeying for the three Bend City Council seats up for grabs in November. Local businessman and BendFilm board member Scott Ramsay was the latest to announce his intention to run.
City Council Race Adds Another Candidate
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Pickathon Festival Announces Final Lineup: Dr. Dog, Bonnie Prince Billy, Heartless Bastards and more
Pickathon, the indie roots festival that takes place on a farm just east of Portland and is quickly becoming one of the bigger summer music events of the summer, just announced its final lineup.
And, whoa, phew, damn, it looks quite strong and if you’re free for the weekend of August 6 to 8, then you should consider making the relatively short trip.
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Tony Furtado Video from Friday Night
By the time I pulled open one of the heavy wooden doors at the Old Stone Church here in Bend on Friday night, I could already hear that Tony Furtado’s acoustic guitar wizardry was well underway.
Inside, a nearly full house sat rapt by the Portland multi-instrumentalist — who was going solo for this show.
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Butte and Ridge: Two great mountain bike riding areas now even better
For years, I bored Source readers with my endless cheerleading for Gray Butte as being the best place to mountain bike in Central Oregon. My reasons then, and now, as to why Gray Butte offers the best riding are simple: great vistas out over the Cascades, superb singletrack, lots of lung busting ups and some incredibly fast downs.
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Lingua Franca: bro/bra spoken here
In a letter to the editor in the November 2009 issue of Backcountry Magazine a reader wrote in regard to ski town living saying: “Do the people who have been living here for less than a season need to be saying buzz words like 'gnarly' and 'epic' every other sentence?”
Like dude, talking in bro/bra-speak comes with the territory if you want to appear to be a local. Make that a local who skis, rides (boards and bikes), makes the brewpub scene every day and apparently does this all without benefit of a job.
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Lingua Franca:bro/bra spoken here
In a letter to the editor in the November 2009 issue of Backcountry Magazine (www.backcountry magazine.
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Empty Space Orchestra Free MP3 in advance of their big show Saturday
Empty Space Orchestra is playing a big show Saturday night (4/24) at the Domino Room with excellent Portland indie rockers Water & Bodies.
This is the first performance in Bend for ESO in quite some time, and also includes the full lineup, which now includes original member, saxophonist Graham Jacobs.
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These Guys are Funny! Randy Liedtke and Kyle Kinane tonight at the Summit
It’s been a year — to the freaking day — since Redmond native and confirmed beardo Randy Liedtke played a show in Bend. But he is back home for a brief spell and once again is bringing with him a superbly funny and equally bearded fellow named Kyle Kinane.
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Into Scary Territory: A customer service representative will be with you shortly
This week I did something I'd never done before. Something so frightening that it me took hours to build up the nerve to do it.
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Garden Variety: Cooking your way out of the CSA box
Does the weekly CSA box make you feel like a contestant on Iron Chef? The unknown ingredients? The suspense? The following recipe looks daunting, it's not. Serve with steamed broccoli or roasted broccoli with baby garlic.