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You Have 1 Friend Request: Logoff Facebook – If You Can…
Something is afoul in cyberspace. 200 million members and growing every nanosecond, Facebook has become part of the global lexicon, and the envy of the high tech industry, politicians, and business leaders in only fiv ...
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Rants, Raves and the Rapture: Michael outdies Farrah, White rights, and Bernie goes down
The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting while moonwalking, outside Bernie Madoff’s sentencing, slinging Orange Glo while buying Farrah Fawcett posters, o ...
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Stars, Stripes and Playlists: Listen to these songs or else you hate America
I assume I wasn’t the only student who in the winter of 1991 sang along, sitting cross-legged on standard gray public school carpet, to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” belting out the “Proud to be an American…” chor ...
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The Blender
Breedlove Guitars Video Tour
Do you ever wonder how a guitar is made? We think about stuff like that...pretty much all the time. And that's why we toured the Breedlove Guitars factory here in Bend to check out how exactly a world-class instrument is ...read more>>
The Wandering Eye
Wyden's Health Plan: Blowing Our Big Chance

In general, The Eye has looked kindly on Ron Wyden during his years in the Senate. So it’s with regret that we feel obligated to rip into him for his health care reform idea.

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Letter of the Week
Liberals Have No Answers
While I am quite certain that The Source is a “left leaning” publication (I don’t think I have ever seen a conservative article), it is the reason why I am never “shocked” at what I see there. In a recent article one of ...read more>>
Guest Commentary
Deschutes County’s Economy: Nature, Equity and Growth
Monday, June 22, the Oregon House of Representatives passed legislation that would ban destination resorts in the Metolius Basin. It had already passed the Oregon Senate, and by the time you read this, Governor Kulongosk ...read more>>
The Boot
The Bizarre Breakfast Tax Break
Somehow, about six years ago somebody slipped a little loophole into the portion of the city code governing collection of Bend’s transient room (hotel/motel) tax. The loophole might not be big enough to drive a truck thr ...read more>>
News Briefs
Hit The Highway: Bend shelter on hold again and a bikeless Hwy 97
A plan for a transitional men’s housing shelter just north of downtown Bend on Division Street has hit another legal snag. Neighbors are asking the city council to overturn a recent decision that would have allowed Sheph ...read more>>
Music
Bend to LA and Back: Local Franchot Tone shows off his Culver City Dub Collective
When Culver City Dub Collective heads onto what should be (hopefully) a sunshine-covered Les Schwab Amphitheater stage on Sunday, it will be a homecoming of sorts. This is confusing, obviously, given the band’s ...read more>>
Dining
Wining and Dining in Style: Portello offers a taste of the continent in Northwest Crossing
I had been meaning to pay a visit to Portello Winecafe since it reopened in January after a plumbing disaster forced a brief closure, but I don’t get out to Northwest Crossing much, and it kind of just fell off ...read more>>
Cocktailing
The MJ
Following Michael Jackson’s recent death, even NPR is starting to sound like an ‘80s pop station as “Beat It” or “Man in the Mirror” seemingly haunts the background of every other interview. As a child of the ‘ ...read more>>
Industry Roundup
New Beginnings: Pubs and Coffee
Those in the Galveston Avenue neighborhood – referred to as the “Parrilla District” by at least one Source staffer – got another watering hole option this week with the opening of Brother Jon’s Public House. ...read more>>
Film
Gear Heads Unite!: Sequel has morphing mechanical robot aliens going turbo
I can’t recall any other big-budget movie based on action figures, but Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen again showcases the nuts and bolts of machines (mainly cars and airplanes) morphing themselves into hum ...read more>>
My Gypsy Road: Krasninski and Rudolph make for a quirky couple in Away We Go
The problem after viewing the new Sam Mendes film Away We Go is that all those adjectives leap to mind – “quirky,” “offbeat,” “oddball” – that have been used for films like Juno, Little Miss Sunshine, and Sunsh ...read more>>
Game On
Bustin’ Makes Me Feel Good: Clichés aside, Ghostbusters delivers franchise fun
Dear Garrett, I cheered when I saw your name listed atop Atari’s credits as “Producer” of Ghostbusters: The Video Game. Congratulations on getting such an important job on such a high-profile project, and br ...read more>>
Outdoors
I Take My Chances: Thoughts about Eddie, the Hullabaloo and Pacific Crest
“You will have a long and prosperous life,” promised the fortune cookie that I cracked open a couple of days ago. I sure hope so. I tucked the tiny slip of white paper into my pocket, not wanting to tease th ...read more>>
Natural World
Fly By Night: The return of the nighthawk
Our common nighthawks are back, but a little over two weeks late. Birds arriving “back home” late, in lesser numbers—or not at all—is worrisome these days. With the mounting evidence of peculiarities in the nat ...read more>>
Left Field
Stock Car vs. Soccer
While you were out mowing your lawn last weekend or watching with interest what moves your hometown NFL team was making in the offseason (Where is Favre’s shoulder these days?), the United States men’s soccer team was pl ...read more>>
Culture
The Other U-Haul: Moving a House – Make That Household – by bike
I have to admit I was ecstatic when I received several e-mails packed with far too many exclamation points announcing that a house would be moved from Southwest Bend to Northwest Bend by bicyclists this past Sa ...read more>>

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