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Sassparilla never intended to play on a stage. Seven years ago, the band was busking on the streets of Portland, and it is still that intimacy they prefer, ending each show by crawling into the crowd, accordion wincing inches from listeners, harmonica solos unplugged but still wailing, and a cigar box guitar chugging through stumbling […]
Dizzy Gillespie has been gone for over two decades now. Thankfully, the trumpeter’s rich and bright legacy lives on in the teeming numbers of jazz musicians who worked with the legend. In fact, it is difficult to find any notable jazz musician who has been kicking around jazz clubs for a while who lacks a […]
To accompany our feature about Bend police, we took our own tour of duty to Bend’s doughnut shops. Luv’s Donut (10 NW Minnesota). A new addition to downtown, Luv’s seems a bit incomplete. The space is brightly lit and feels more like an half-empty going-out-of-business store at the mall than a new boutique shop. Asked […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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