Not Just a Number: Honoring soldiers’ sacrifice one name at a time

• Written by: Eric Flowers
• Wednesday, 23 May 2012

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been marked by some sobering milestones, the death of soldier number 4,000 in Iraq, 10 years of fighting in Afghanistan and the list goes on.

This year, Memorial Day marks another anniversary closer to home. It will be the fifth year that community volunteers gat...

Roots Rock Revival: After a brief hiatus, The Beautiful Train Wrecks are back

• Written by: James Williams
• Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Lucas Alberg, front man for the The Beautiful Train Wrecks , is a renaissance man.

The lanky 33-year-old Bend resident brews beer, builds hip websites and collects cool art. He also runs sub-three hour marathons, plays guitar and writes songs—good ones.

In 2007, Alberg, then in Portland, formed a roots ... Read more...

Bend Summer Concerts

• Written by: The Source Staff
• Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Huey Lewis and The News

tuesday, sept 11

6:30pm, $39-78 ADV

There’s really no song from the ‘80s to bring out the white man’s overbite quite like “The Power of Love,” Huey Lewis and the News’ excellent power ballad and the theme song from Back to the Future . That is, unless you consider “If This is It,”...

Our Picks for 05/23-05/30

• Written by: The Source Staff
• Wednesday, 23 May 2012

The Two Escobars

wednesday 23

We’d never heard of narco-soccer before researching this little film, but now we’re fascinated. The term refers to the shadowy connections between drugs and sports in Columbia in the early 1990s, when Pablo Escobar ruled the Columbian drug underworld and Andres Escobar (u... Read more...

Sacha Un-Punk’d: The Dictator proves Borat’s Cohen can deliver comedy without unwitting suckers

• Written by: Scott Renshaw
• Wednesday, 23 May 2012

With The Dictator , Sacha Baron Cohen finds himself addressing a situation no entertainer wants to confront: What do you do when the shtick that was your bread-and-butter just can’t work any more?

Borat was, after all, a minor masterpiece of comedic filmmaking, combining Cohen’s sensibility as anarchic, g...

Patio Time At Tetherow: A golf course view with a side of sunshine

• Written by: Laura Kessinger
• Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Every year about this time something stops me from my busy life and makes me pause to welcome summer and appreciate just how good we have it here in Bend. Fresh air and clean water, hot days and cool nights.

Sometimes it’s that first margarita of the season that does it, or the first leap into the sh...

That’s a Wrap: Reflections on the winter season and a PPP upset

• Written by: Gregg Morris
• Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Here Comes the Sun, do do loo do

The end of May brings with it the unofficial close of winter season on the Cascade Lakes Highway. Even though snow still covers much of the trails and Mount Bachelor, as the days get longer and warmer, Bendites can’t help but think ahead towards warm-weather fun.

I’ve ... Read more...