When the Cascades Theatrical Company was founded, Jimmy Carter was president. Gas cost 63 cents a gallon. The Illinois Bell Company had just introduced the first-ever Cellular Mobile Phone System, which weighed 2.5 pounds and had a talk time of 35 minutes, but only if it was charged for a full 10 hours. The nonprofit […]
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Sam Adams is More Than a Long Cool Drink
Portland’s former mayor brings ideas for economic growth to Bend
Until a year ago, when he became executive director of Portland’s City Club, Sam Adams had spent 20 year with City Hall as his business mailing address—starting in 1992 as a 29-year-old chief of staff to Mayor Vera Katz, then as a one-term city councilmember and, finally, from 2009 through 2012, as a controversial yet […]
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Young Gun
Lessons from tomorrow’s über athlete
Six grueling races later and Jack Perry, a young, high-energy Bend athlete, still shows no sign of fatigue. Perry likes to stay active and enjoys competition but is far from cutthroat. For Perry, races are just a good excuse to get outside and go hard. Perry, I learned, is also a creature of habit. When […]
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Listen Local
Wilderness releases album, talks cats in walls
Rarely is the very first song on a debut album perfectly relevant to the story about to be told concerning the author of that song. Yet that is exactly what happened with this tale regarding local rock band Wilderness 34-year-old front man, Jared Smith, and his solo acoustic/demo version of “On My Own.” It’s a […]
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Going to Feed the White Crow
The Wall is a well-executed eco-feminist dystopian sci-fi flick
If you tried to throw a pre-movie screening party for The Wall, it might go something like this: Spend the day alone fasting. Hike up a mountain and use a scythe to clear a field of grass. Once that's done, make your way back home, and eat only a light serving of half a potato […]
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Location, Location, Location
Same delicious Versante Pizza, but in a desirable new spot
In 2009 William Safire, the late, revered New York Times political columnist and etymologist, wrote a whole column on the origins of the ubiquitous real estate utterance “location, location, location.” Safire’s research determined that the familiar phrase was not coined by British real estate tycoon Lord Harold Samuel, as is often thought, but appeared much […]
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Explosions in the Sky
On Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium (or, Occupy Outer Space)
Picture Los Angeles as a slum. OK, more of a slum. In Elysium, it’s 2154, and the City of Angels is worn down, burned out, left to rot. A sprawling shantytown, LA’s once-proud skyscrapers are crumbling shadows in the far-off distance, while everything else—from a dull, lifeless sky to warm, hazy water—is a tired, dusty […]
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Best of Central Oregon 2013
The Source’s reader picks for the Best of Central Oregon!
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Not So Fast
Revisit some of the best slower albums of 2013 so far
Curiosity Wampire Polyvinyl Records Portland lo-fi subdued garage rockers Wampire released their heavenly debut album in May. The album is laced with keys and synth, making for a translucent rock record with abstract tendencies. Tomorrow, Tomorrow Campfires Fire Talk Records The scratchy gypsy throwback rock of Portland’s Campfires is brilliantly filled with a layered sing-along […]
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Celts 'n' Kilts
High Desert Celtic Festival returns to Redmond
Tartan (n): A woolen cloth woven in one of several patterns of plaid, especially of a design associated with a particular Scottish clan. Clan (n): A group of close-knit and interrelated families (especially associated with families in the Scottish Highlands). Caber (n): A roughly trimmed tree trunk used in the Scottish Highland sport of tossing […]
