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Jan 15-21, 2009

Vol. 13, No. 3

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Local News

Josh Dirksen on Fuel TV

Check out Bend's Josh Dirksen on Fuel TV's "Firsthand," a series that profiles the lives of athletes from all sorts of fun sports.

By Intern
Jan 20, 2009
Local News

Clean Pipes

Bachelor got their pipe cut just in time for this weekend's Enter The Dragon competition. The park crew has really been putting in the hours

By Intern
Jan 16, 2009
Local News

January Sun

Our region has been bombarded by sun recently. Unfortunately sun in January usually means ice, and this is no exception. One ill advised run on

By Intern
Jan 14, 2009
Local News

Vote for the Source/FFE Film Music Video Contest

Here they are, the seven finalists for the Source Weekly/Far From Earth Films music video contest. For those not savvy to the contest: here's how

By The Source Staff
Jan 15, 2009
Local News

Music Video Contest Voting Starts Thursday

By The Source Staff
Jan 14, 2009
Local News

Patterson's Golden Parachute

Mike Patterson - felon. After two years of intermittent verbal and physical abuse at the hands of her husband, Mike, things came to a head

By The Source Staff
Jan 20, 2009
Local News

Mr. Westlund Goes Back to Salem: Catching up with Oregon's new state treasurer

Just days after Ben Westlund was sworn into office as state treasurer, we spent some time on the phone with the Tumalo resident and former

By Mike Bookey
Jan 14, 2009
Local News

Bachelor Charity Event: Neither a Bang nor a Fizzle

The totals are in for the first phase of Mt. Bachelor's new charity event replacing Free Ski day, and while they aren't as bad as

By The Source Staff
Jan 20, 2009
Local News

Thoughts on Inauguration Eve

The inauguration of Barack Obama almost scares us - not because we didn't support him (we did, enthusiastically) or because we don't have confidence in

By The Source Staff
Jan 19, 2009
Local News

Is Central Oregon Experiencing "Shrinkage"?

The Bulletin's top business story this morning is about how many people are moving into Central Oregon and how many are moving out. Predictably, the

By The Source Staff
Jan 18, 2009
Local News

Getting Kicked by the Kicker

State Economist Tom Potiowsky had bad news, better news and bad news for the state in his report to the Oregon Legislature yesterday.

By The Source Staff
Jan 17, 2009
Local News

We Don't Need No Steenkin' Flower Baskets

The Downtown Bend Business Association wants to force business owners who don't belong to it to pay for it anyway, and that has longtime downtown

By The Source Staff
Jan 16, 2009
Local News

Walden in the Spotlight

For a minority-party congressman from a rural backwater, Greg Walden is getting a lot of ink these days.

By The Source Staff
Jan 16, 2009
Local News

Kroger Wades Into Battle Early

In office for barely 10 days, Oregon's new attorney general, John Kroger, has come out swinging.

By The Source Staff
Jan 15, 2009
Local News

Could iNews Save the Newspaper Business?

Everybody else is getting a bailout, so why not the newspaper industry?

By The Source Staff
Jan 14, 2009

Editorial

The City Shuffle Parsing the council appointment, our snow blog, and the virgin auction

As noted in this week's Boot former councilor and now state Sen. Chris Telfer (R) stuck around city hall just long enough to orchestrate the

By Mike Bookey
Jan 14, 2009
Editorial

An Arrogant Mayoral Selection

Being mayor of Bend is no big deal. Rather than being elected by popular vote, the mayor is chosen by a vote of his or

By Mike Bookey
Jan 14, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Stick That List

In keeping with our newly minted tradition of highlighting the best (and worst) reader call outs for the Letter of the Week, we're spotlighting this

By Eric Flowers
Jan 14, 2009
Letters to the Editor

So Long, Farewell...

By Eric Flowers
Jan 14, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Obama Should Stick To His Guns

While I have a deep respect for Michael Funke and the Gay community, I must disagree with Michael's letter to The Source in which he

By Eric Flowers
Jan 14, 2009
Letters to the Editor

The Battle of Peace Bridge

It seems Bend City Council foolishly thought the time had come to dedicate one of Bend's bridges to that most un-American ideal - peace. The

By Eric Flowers
Jan 14, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Mr. Big Shot

I found it interesting how the settlement concerning the litigations involving the minuscule compensation to KFXO TV by BendBroadband coincided Tuesday evening...logic tells us some

By Eric Flowers
Jan 14, 2009

Picks

Our Picks for the Week of 1/14-1/22

By The Source Staff
Jan 14, 2009

Chow

Hotter Than Pancakes: Start planning now for local produce this summer

Mid-January probably seems like a strange time to bring up what you're going to eat this summer. But if you were a farmer, growing your

By Mike Bookey
Jan 14, 2009
Chow

Hong Kong's Bamboo Makeover

Hong Kong has long been known by locals as one of the Bend's stalwart Asian restaurants offering up consistently solid takes on Cantonese, Szechwan and

By Eric Flowers
Jan 14, 2009
Chow

Micro Cosmos: Skookum Creek Strong Ale

When the guys over at Cascade Lakes Brewing dropped Mirco Cosmos a line about their new winter ale with an offer to send by a

By Mike Bookey
Jan 14, 2009
Chow

Micro Cosmos: Skookum Creek Strong Ale

When the guys over at Cascade Lakes Brewing dropped Mirco Cosmos a line about their new winter ale with an offer to send by a

By Mike Bookey
Jan 14, 2009
Chow

Hong Kong's Bamboo Makeover

Hong Kong has long been known by locals as one of the Bend's stalwart Asian restaurants offering up consistently solid takes on Cantonese, Szechwan and

By Eric Flowers
Jan 14, 2009
Chow

Hotter Than Pancakes: Start planning now for local produce this summer

Mid-January probably seems like a strange time to bring up what you're going to eat this summer. But if you were a farmer, growing your

By Mike Bookey
Jan 14, 2009

Film

Stillborn: Bonehead evil lurks behind blue eyes

By Mike Bookey
Jan 14, 2009
Film

Get Off My Lawn: Eastwood's performance drives Gran Torino

By Mike Bookey
Jan 14, 2009
Film Events

Purple Dragons, Oh My!: Spyro Dawn of the Dragon

By Shawn Wallbaum
Jan 14, 2009

Sound Stories & Interviews

One for the Vault

By Mike Bookey
Jan 14, 2009
Sound Stories & Interviews

Still Punk: Twenty years of doing things the Guttermouth way

By The Source Staff
Jan 16, 2009
Sound Stories & Interviews

New for 2009

Our readers know that we've celebrated a recent surge in our local music scene in these pages over the past year or so and we'd

By The Source Staff
Jan 14, 2009
Sound Stories & Interviews

Fighting the Winter Blues: Too Slim and the Taildraggers play blues for all seasons

By The Source Staff
Jan 14, 2009

Natural World

Owl Quiz II: Another test of your owl knowledge

By Jim Anderson
Jan 14, 2009
Outside Features

Winter Tidbits: A Tri, Give it a Try, Hoodoo and Roos

By Pam Stevenson
Jan 14, 2009