Wendy Bloom leads a threefold life. She is a mother of two young kids, 6-year-old Bobby and 2-year-old toddler Madeleine; in itself, that keeps her plenty busy. But she piles on more: By day, she is a network and systems engineer, working on computers for local school districts. And, finally, by night, the lanky, blond […]
After covering nearly 3,500 vertical feet in a single 24-hour push, Chris Wright and Scott Adamson arrived at their first resting spot exhausted, cold, shaken and ready for sleep. It would prove elusive. The pair was attempting to camp on a ledge the size of a coffee table, their feet dangling into the void; dehydration […]
A demure, grown-up Alice in Wonderland in a black dress and black boots, there’s something ethereal but a little bit racy about Eilen Jewell. Pronounced eye-lynn, even her name is just a bit off center. The 34-year-old bandleader is one part devilish Mississippi River bottom blues and one part sweet folk-singer on the stage in […]
Cinco de Mayo is an odd holiday for gringos to celebrate. It would be a bit like Mexicans celebrating Gettysburg. In 1862, a very young General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín scored an unlikely defeat of the French troops at the Battle of Puebla, and helped turned back Napoleon III’s forces (which, really, what were they doing […]
The first time Crohn's Disease landed Jeff (not his real name) in the hospital, he was a freshman in high school. The next two days were a churn of vomiting and intense stomach cramping; eventually doctors and nurses inserted a flexible straw through his nose to purge stomach acids. “I remember thinking,” Jeff said, “whatever […]
In late March, I stepped into the Editor position at the Source and, in preparation, began looking for a house in Bend. I have owned homes in Portland, know what I like and also know the business end of a hammer. I wasn’t afraid of a fixer-upper, but also was hoping to find something near […]
Last August Dave Hill called off the Bend Roots Revival, a local music festival scheduled for September. It had been a difficult summer for Hill, the owner of the Century Center. The gray-haired, goatee-sporting businessman had listened to complaints from residential neighbors and, in August, had a run-in with Nosler, a neighboring bullet manufacturer. Nosler appealed […]
John Gannon is a slight man, thin and a little bowlegged. The front and sides of his thick dark hair are streaked with grey, but the Korean's relatively creaseless face and quick smile make him appear much younger than his claimed 64 years. “Claimed,” because Gannon—whose journey from war-torn Korea to the United States is […]
Holy hot dog, does Bend love food! The Huffington Post recently named the Bend area #3 on a list of 15 of the country’s most restaurant-crazed cities, calculating our remarkably high per-capita restaurant ratio of 431 restaurants for a county with just over 166,000 people. On Sunday, 13 cream of the Bend-restaurant crop will offer […]
PRIMER, the 2004 debut film of writer/director/editor/composer/star Shane Carruth, stands as one of the foremost Great Whatsits of independent cinema. Made for $7,000, it told its time-travel story in a fashion that was somehow both eminently sensible and entrancingly brain-croggling, with a resolution that all but commanded viewers to go home and get busy on […]
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