Bend Fish Company: Choosing substance over style

Posted inFood & Drink

Bend Fish Company: Choosing substance over style

Alice Finer

Fish and a smile, what else can you ask for?At Bend Fish Company, no energy is squandered on the superficial. It’s
all about the food. Besides the stylized fish in the logo, the only
other decorative touches in the place are a plastic blue marlin mounted
on the wall and a small collection of toy dinosaurs displayed in the
window of the sushi counter. Instead of fine china and candles, you get
red-checkered paper and fluorescent lights. If it’s warm enough, you
can opt out of the cafeteria-like interior and take a table on the
patio, but even then you’ll have to settle for a view of the
Blockbuster across the street. However, if you love seafood, you won’t
mind the lack of ambience. You may hardly even notice. Your eyes will
be immediately drawn to the extensive and rather eclectic menu of
seafood favorites from around the world, and for those who prefer their
own preparations, the beautiful filets of fresh fish, shrimp, scallops,
and other delicacies are for sale behind the glass in the front.

Posted inFood & Drink

Bend Fish Company: Choosing substance over style

Alice Finer

Fish and a smile, what else can you ask for?At Bend Fish Company, no energy is squandered on the superficial. It's
all about the food. Besides the stylized fish in the logo, the only
other decorative touches in the place are a plastic blue marlin mounted
on the wall and a small collection of toy dinosaurs displayed in the
window of the sushi counter. Instead of fine china and candles, you get
red-checkered paper and fluorescent lights. If it's warm enough, you
can opt out of the cafeteria-like interior and take a table on the
patio, but even then you'll have to settle for a view of the
Blockbuster across the street. However, if you love seafood, you won't
mind the lack of ambience. You may hardly even notice. Your eyes will
be immediately drawn to the extensive and rather eclectic menu of
seafood favorites from around the world, and for those who prefer their
own preparations, the beautiful filets of fresh fish, shrimp, scallops,
and other delicacies are for sale behind the glass in the front.

Posted inMusic

Trying Out This Whole Charity Fad

The Source Staff

There was plenty to do on Saturday night with Tentareign's big rock show at the Tower, music at both martini bars and the Silver Moon, but still, there was a big crowd at the Tulen Center. And where the big crowds go, so does Sound Check (for the most part) which is why we found ourselves among a horde of well-meaning folks at the benefit show for Britt Leis and Lia Koehn, the Bend couple who was attacked while traveling through Ecuador.

Posted inMusic

This Week in Rap: Cramming big hip-hop names into a single week

Mike Bookey

Insert ego-stroking self reference. The phenomenon of the multi-platinum, mega-famous rap star is somewhat
of a dying trend, but you wouldn't know it by what's on the marquee at
Midtown for next week. The venue is host to not just one large-scale
rap show, but two in a row. It's former G-Unit member Young Buck
headlining a "Hip-hop Comedy Jam" on Tuesday night, then three members
of the storied rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony taking to the stage on
Thursday night.

We've spilled a good amount of ink in the past couple
of months about the influx in indie hip-hop making its way through
town, we haven't done the same for the big-name, commercial acts like
Young Buck and the Bone Thugs guys. This is largely because mainstream
hip-hop acts don't stop off in town too often. But this isn't to say
there isn't a want for these sort of tours. Hell, even if we're not all
that urban, we can still get all crunked up when we find it necessary.

Posted inCulture

Our Picks for the Week of 11/26-12/4

The Source Staff

Thanksgiving Eve!

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This isn't a specific event, per say, but rather recognition of a widely celebrated yet hardly mentioned holiday called Thanksgiving Eve. Every year on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, revelers from in and out of town flood the bars with the knowledge that they have the following day off (even if it means some semi-stressful family get-togethers).

Posted inNews

One Way or Another: After losing election, Barram wins council appointment

Eric Flowers

In what may be one of its last official actions, the lame duck city
council named a fellow "progressive" to fill a vacancy created when
councilor and former Mayor Bill Friedman died earlier this month after
complications from back surgery.

On a "party line" vote councilors
took Jodie Barram over Don Leonard and Robin Vora. The three candidates
had been culled from a list of more than a dozen applicants for the
open spot. It's one of five positions that has been or will have to be
filled between November and January through election or appointment as
part of an unprecedented turnover on the city council.

Posted inNews

A One-Way Trip?: Bend’s transit supporters weigh next move in the face of cuts

Eric Flowers

Chase Hovan is the kind of bus rider who drives Annis Henson crazy.
An 18-year old COCC student who is learning to play piano and studying music production, Hovan uses the bus to get to and from his classes almost everyday. Standing at a bus stop outside the local Ace Hardware store on Third Street, Hovan has a snowboarder-style hoodie pulled up against the morning chill. A shock of red hair sticks out from underneath his ball cap; he could probably pass for boarding star Shaun White - or at least as his brother.
Asked what he thought of the fledgling bus system, Hovan was quick to speak for its necessity.
"It's awesome," he said. "I don't know what I would do if I didn't have it."
But when asked if he voted to preserve the bus with a local property tax increase just a few weeks ago, Hovan conceded that he had not.

Posted inOpinion

eHarmony comes out of the closet: Sarah Palin’s turkey take, Obama’s mythology, more

Mike Bookey

Re-Nailin' Palin
Who you callin' turkey?Even though we've devoted a lot of Upfront and WTF
space to Alaska's most endearing governor Sarah Palin and we're pretty
sure that 75 percent of readers would like nothing more to never hear
her name again, we couldn't resist. Short of Palin actually dressing up
in a stars and stripes bikini and shooting a moose with a rifle while
waving to the Russians, Palin's recent "Thanksgiving Turkey Massacre"
video, which has become a staple of YouTube e-mail forwards says it all.
Some
background: As part of her duties as governor of the great state of
Alaska, Mrs. Palin must pardon a Thanksgiving turkey. Unfortunately,
the rest of the turkeys at the Triple D Farm & Hatchery outside of
Wasilla, were not as lucky.
The scene: While Palin talks about
her VP run and her appreciation for "good Americans who are just
desiring of their government to kinda get outta the way and allow them
to grow and progress and allow their businesses to grow and progress,"
a turkey is stuffed into a killing cone where its throat is slit and
it's bled out into a trough. While Palin answers a question about
budget cuts, another unfortunate fowl is crammed down the cone.

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