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For the first time in more than a year, Tony Furtado is returning to Bend, this time playing a show at the Old Stone Church on Friday night.
You probably want to go, don’t you? Yeah, that’s right.
Well, darn it if the summer music schedule didn’t just go and get even more awesome with the addition of Michael Franti and Spearhead to the Les Schwab Amphitheater lineup.
The show is slated for August 5 and tickets go on sale at 10:00 a.
After returning from a cross-country trip last week, I was endlessly bummed to learn that the Larry and His Flask’s show at Silver Moon on April 8 I had missed had been one of the zaniest gigs ever at the venue. But thankfully, just a week later, I had a chance to see LAHF in full buck-wild form — and for free.
This past Saturday, Deschutes Land Trust executive director Brad Chalfant asked me to join him on a mountain bike ride in the proposed Skyline Forest. He wanted to show me the potential for a trail network if and when the property becomes a Land Trust holding.
It’s somewhat of a strange holiday (or probably not actually a holiday exactly) but Saturday (4/17) is Record Store Day. Across the country, record stores will celebrate the spirit of independent music with events and concerts inside and outside of their shops.
Before taking a seat in the 2nd Street Theater last night to take in Couple Dating, the locally written and produced play by Cricket Daniel was already well on my radar. In fact, it had jammed my radar…like in that scene in Spaceballs.
Last week, we ran a letter to the editor from a reader who found the three-act comedy offensive, thus igniting an avalanche of web commentary and also creating some street chatter and Facebook posturing. Word was that The Source Weekly wasn’t running a review as to censor the play because it was so recklessly offensive. Obviously, that wasn’t the case.
Conservatives in Oregon, and all over America, have found something new to be angry about – not that that’s ever any challenge for them.
The latest target of their wrath is Jason Levin, a middle school teacher in Beaverton who set up a website on which he vowed to “crash and destroy” the Tea Party movement.
Not that many years ago I was riding my road bike with a friend east of Bend. We were headed single file down a long straightaway when a spiffy Mercedes C Class sedan came speeding by at what seemed like 75MPH and about four feet from us.
It might surprise you to know that Geoff Weers, the vocalist and guitarist for the reggae-punk rock blending band The Expendables, recently got a job cleaning carts at a golf course. “Not because I don't make any money playing music, ” says Weers, “But because I want to play free golf,” When he's not on the road, Weers spends a few days a week scrubbing fairway grime from those ubiquitous white carts in order to tee off for free whenever he wants.
This event isn't on 4/20, the stoney-est day of the year, but it's close enough.
On April 23, the Hooker Creek Events Center on the Deschutes County Fairgrounds in Redmond will serve as host to the Hemp is Earth Medicine Tour, a concert and rally supporting The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act, a measure that would regulate and tax marijuana.
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