The Blender

As you may have heard, Conan O’Brien, the host of The Tonight Show released a somewhat funny, but mostly serious statement today announcing that he will not accept NBC’s offer to move to 12:05pm to accommodate the terribly nice but  less-than-hilarious Jay Leno and his self-titled show.
In the wake of the announcement it seemed every Conan fan descended on the Internet, jamming up Twitter feeds and Facebook pages with remarks in support of the lanky redhead.

Empty Space Orchestra is heading out on tour this week, hitting up locations that up till now had been untrodden territory for the local instrumental space rockers.
I ran into guitarist Shane Thomas last night at Parrilla Grill, where Thomas, a faithful employee of the wrap and burrito purveyor, constructed my Red Headed Stepchild (chicken, Frank’s hot sauce, Gorgonzola cheese, spinach = awesome) and chatted a bit about the tour.

It appears the long and winding road that is the Bend OLCC saga may have come to an end with the agency now naming a new regional manager. Also, embattled former regional manager, Jason Evers, will not be returning, but rather heading all the way to the Idaho border.

I’ve written spent some valuable cyber ink and real ink doing some written hand wringing about the future of live music here in Bend. For a while, things looked BTQB (Bleak To Quite Bleak), but now I have some hope.

Due to restrictions in the recent Top Ten edition of The Source, we had to hold a two lists from the print edition. Here is the first of those, two which was penned by Hayley Wright of Between the Covers Books.

With every publication this side of Highlights rolling out their Best of 2009 lists, I figured I should toss out a list of my own.
Here is my list of top albums from 2009, in top-to-bottom order, for the most part.

I just heard from the kind people at Lay It Out Events (who share a building and an owner with the Source Weekly) that the Little Woody Barrel-Aged Beer Festival is coming back for a second go around over Labor Day weekend of 2010.
Last year’s inaugural event featured wood-conditioned beers from all of the county’s breweries.