Video From the WinterFest Music Stage

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Welcome to Slumburbia, Oregon

The Source Staff

New York Times columnist Tim Egan has written a piece that should be read – no, memorized – by every city councilor and other public official in Bend.
Egan looks at Northern California’s San Joaquin Valley – a region he calls “Slumburbia” – and paints an ugly picture of the economic and human debris left behind by the receding tide of the real estate boom.

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Spring Music Preview – Pato Banton, Andre Nickatina, Brandi Carlile and More

The Source Staff

Although we’re only in mid February and we haven’t even enjoyed the musical fruits of WinterFest yet, it’s time to look to spring and see what’s in store on the local live music front.
There’s been a few announcements for March and April in the past two weeks, including word of return appearances from reggae legend Pato Banton at the Domino Room on March 12 and yet another gangsta rap throw down from Andre Nickatina set for April 17, also at the Domino.

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Get Oregon Out of the Booze Business

The Source Staff

There aren’t many things that The Bulletin’s editorial board and I agree on, but the Oregon Liquor Control Commission is one of them.
In an editorial this morning, The Bulletin asks why the state’s legislators don’t take a long, hard look at reforming “the archaic and contradictory system” under which the OLCC both regulates the sale of booze and is in the business of selling it.

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Anyone For Tennis? Another Bend mill finds new life on the westside

Eric Flowers

Tucked behind a log-cabin-style tavern and a Mail Boxes Etc., the former Bright Wood mill building has had more reincarnations than Michael Jordan's pro sports career. The complex of buildings tucked between Century Drive and Columbia Street began as a toy factory, manufacturing those rubber-band-powered, balsa-wood airplanes before China got dibs on those kinds of dollar-store novelties. For the last two decades it served as a specialty mill, manufacturing molding for windows and doors. So when the latest tenant, Madras-based Bright Wood industries decided to consolidate its operations in Jefferson County, owner Dave Hill came up with a novel idea.

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A Grand Tour of Tahoe on Skinny Skis: Adventures of a Ski-O Newbie

Pam Stevenson

We have it pretty good here, but sometimes you just get a little jaded with yet another lap of Woody's or Zig Zag. So last week I decided to try something new – the 2010 Sierra Avalanche Ski-Orienteering Championships, a week full of Ski-O races in Tahoe. The field was stacked with several top Ski-O-ers competing for spots on the U.S. National Team for World Championships next year in Sweden.
Although I've done a little “Foot-O,” this was my first time doing it on skis. Ski-O totally breaks up the drudgery of just another ski race. Sixty seconds before your start, you receive a map plotted with about ten “control points” (orange and white one-foot cubes generally hanging from trees) to go find in order. Sounds easy… until you get to Intersection 15 at Tahoe Donner with nine trails radiating outward.

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