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 […]
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Posted inFood & Drink
Hungry for More
Bend's Foodie Crawl eats its way through town
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 […]
Posted inCulture
Uncertainty Principle
Upstream Color Is Gonna Melt Your Brain!
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 […]
Posted inCulture
Emotional Baggage
Cascade Theatrical Company takes on a midlife crisis set in an airport
A romantic comedy with a measure of drama, Shooting Star is playwright Steven Dietz’ ode to the 1970s, failed relationships and middle age. Staged by Cascade Theatrical Company and performed excellently by a two-person cast, most of the play takes place over a 24-hour period during an epic snowstorm. Two ex-lovers, the NPR-listening hippie Elena […]
Posted inCulture
Scrapheap Challenge
Annual Trashformation
turns garbage into gold
A stool frame, a hubcap, a 50-gallon drum and a school desk are some of the materials that make up “Sinister Fish,” an extremely angry-looking, four-foot-long metal sculpture of an imagined sea creature. The art piece was assembled in just two days, using only materials found in the eastside Pakit Liquidators Junk Yard. Turning trash […]
Posted inNews
Dam Near Done
The Newport Avenue dam is going away; it’s just a matter of when
The Newport Avenue dam is at the end of its life cycle. Everyone knows it—even PacifiCorp, the utility company that owns the 102-year-old dam, which creates the pond at Drake Park near downtown Bend. What many don’t know, however, is that the dam cannot remain if it ceases to function as a hydroelectric facility. Those […]
Posted inCulture
Water on The Brain
Four great movies about a dry topic
It is impossible to understate the primary role water has played in shaping world history, whether it is Lewis and Clark crisscrossing the western U.S. by river, or recognizing how cities and towns have been settled by gathering around rivers, lakes and other water sources. Perhaps the most violent expression of the centrality of water […]
Posted inOutside
Get Wet
Summertime and the swimming’s easy
Being wet on a hot summer day is our favorite part of the season. The Green Issue going blue got us thinking about our favorite places to cool down. Bring on the heat! Gone Swimmin’ McKay Park Don’t discount McKay Park because it seems obvious. It’s convenient, it’s accessible, and the sandy riverbank is perfect […]
Posted inMusic
National Record Store Day
Vinyl has a holiday, and it’s better than Christmas
Before you go all middle-finger-in-the-air thinking that a day celebrating the tactile medium of vinyl recordings is a way to stick it to digital music, remember that the companies that make records are the same ones that churn out digital downloads to iTunes. Since its inaugural celebration in 2008, the third Saturday in April—known as […]
Posted inSpecial Issues & Guides
Dive In
The top 10 water-logged controversies in the High Desert
Ask any juniper or brittlebush, water management in a desert environment is critical, tricky and politically prickly. The Source identifies these Top 10 issues as the most important we’ve tangled with lately in the High Desert. 1. Laying Pipe in our Backyard: Bridge Creek Surface Water Improvement Project Whether it’s a good project or not […]
