Beer. Wine. Snacks. Words. Art.
These five fabulous things sum up the party we're throwing this weekend at the Old Liberty Theater in downtown Bend—yes, that rad space next to the Tower.
Ninkasi is providing a keg of Total Dom. We're providing the wine and snacks. You provide the words and art.
Though this little party is thrown in honor of the participants in our Fall Fiction and Art Contest, this reception is for EVERYONE.
The University of Oregon has tapped Deschutes County’s top planner to join its public policy management advisory team.
Lelack who overseas all current and long-range planning for the county is the only planning director on the council and the only member from outside of the Willamette Valley.
The council acts as a liaison between the university’s planning and policy research arm and local governments to identify major public planning issues.
On a more personal note, it’s a well-deserved recognition for Lelack who began his Central Oregon planning career in Redmond and has served as the county’s planning director for roughly a half decade. During that time, Lelack has distinguished himself as one of the more thoughtful, open and intelligent members of the county staff. We’re confident he will represent our area well in Eugene, or wherever the advisory council work takes him.
Lelack will continue to maintain his existing planning director duties during his tenure on the policy management team.
Even though I chose to feature Communist Daughter in last week's issue of the Source... there is another band playing at The Horned Hand tonight along with ComDot that is absolutely worth checking out.
Spokane based group Terrible Buttons have a solemn orchestral pop sound that includes tinges of happiness and bliss through added horns and xylophone. Check out some of their music below and know that even if you can't get to the Hand tonight in time for ComDot... you're still going to get a great show out of Terrible Buttons.
By the way... there is a good chance this show will start well ahead of the original 9 p.m. due to the noise ordinance. I'd recommend arriving at 7:30.
There's no shortage of ski films slated for screenings in Bend. Lucky!
On Saturday, TGR's 2012 release The Dream Factory is showing at the Tower (8pm, $12). The welcome-to-winter film highlights Alaska and its pioneers—old and new—from old-skooler Doug Coombs to new stompers like Seth Morrison. It's from TGR, so it's going to be awesome. Watch the trailer below if you don't believe me.
Unfortunately, TGR's dumbass website person listed Bend as a city in Idaho. So, don't be thrown off, or whatever. The film IS being shown at 8PM, SATURDAY at the TOWER.
Okay. We've also got The Ordinary Skier showing at BendFilm, which starts Oct. 11.
Finally, the new Warren Miller movie, Flow State, is screening in Bend on Oct. 21 and Oct. 22. AND! Each $20 ticket includes a FREE LIFT TICKET TO MT. BACHELOR. We have some of these and we will give two away next week, so stay tuned.
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~George Jean Nathan
Gain the insight you need to make thoughtful choices this November by attending one or more of the election events and candidate forums scheduled this week.
This evening the Oregon League of Conservation Voters hosts Pints and Politics with Deschutes County Commissioner Alan Unger. Unger is running for re-election against current City Council member Tom Greene. 7-9pm The Wine Shop and Tasting Bar, 55 NW Minnesota Ave.
A forum for Bend City Council Positions 1 and 3 will be held Thursday, September 27. The candidates for Position 1 are Victor Chudowsky, Wade Fagen and Barb Campbell. Position 3 candidates are Kathie Eckman, Ron Boozel and Sally Russell. 5:15 Bend City Hall, 710 NW Wall St.
A controversial city water project west of Bend will result in the immediate eight-month closure of the Tumalo Falls Day Use Are beginning tomorrow, according to a joint news release sent just today from the city of Bend and the Forest Service.
Several popular hiking and biking trails in the area, including the portions of the North Fork and South Fork Tumalo trails, will be closed.
Officials said it was necessary to immediately close the popular recreational corridor to allow the city to begin staging construction equipment for the planned surface water improvement project that is designed to replace roughly 10 miles of aging pipe.
It is not clear how long the city and Forest Service knew they would need to close the highly trafficked area, but Forest Service spokesman Jean Nelson Dean said she had “just found out” about the closure.
“It’s certainly not fun to be closing a popular location like that,” Nelson-Dean said.
Once a year we go for sunrise to Sparks Lake. This September while going up there with a bunch of other photo enthusiasts we met at the Cascade Center of Photography at 5:45 AM. I soft rain was falling but we saw some breaks in the clouds in the East.
Up at the lake the sky stayed grey and we started taking photos of misty forest scenes and shrubs. Then after more than two hours of rather dull light the clouds parted and South Sister and Broken Top appeared in all their glory. The mix of mist, clouds and sun were awesome and the clatter of shooting cameras started up like the beginning of a Civil War reenactment.
Oregon's beautiful Landscapes often make for this kind of WOW moments. This after all is why we go out and take pictures and this is why we live here.
Photo & Text by Christian Heeb
So, Noi. Um, yeah.
Bend’s newest Thai restaurant, which opened this week for dinner and lunch in the old Typhoon! location downtown, is f’ing delicious.
The Seattle-based Chaiseeha family leased the building earlier this summer and have combined art shipped directly from Thailand with items purchased from Typhoon!. We stopped in for lunch on Tuesday.
The space they’ve created feels similar to its predecessor, but with much more gold art on the walls, lending a more traditional Thai feeling to the place rather than the more urban-inspired mood of the Portland-grown Typhoon!.
The long, white filmy curtains still hang in the space, the dark wood lining the walls remains and the chairs, tables and napkins appear to have been re-appropriated, as well.
