Listen: Source Weekly Update 4/8 🎧
While eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine is expanding in Deschutes County, the state itself is behind in percentage of the population that has received at least one shot. There has also been a push for equity in vaccinating Latino Oregonians. Find out more in this week’s podcast. Source Weekly – Bend, Oregon · Source Weekly…
Double Release Party for Indubious
Indubious is bringing live music back to the Volcanic Theatre Pub next week by celebrating the release of its new album, “The Bridge.”
Listen: Source Weekly Update 4/1 🎧
A local coffee shop has been fined $27,470 for violating COVID-19 standards, preregistration for the COVID vaccine is available via a new website, and Central Cascades Wilderness day use and overnight permits are allowed to be reserved beginning April 6th. Source Weekly – Bend, Oregon · Source Weekly Update 4/1
Easter Brunches, and Other Stuff
Ah, Easter Brunch—one of those traditions that has not quite been welcomed back in this middle-time between pandemic and “normal.” For those locals looking for some way to mark the Easter holiday, here are a few items of note, food-wise and otherwise. -Brasada Ranch is offering a themed brunch from its Range Restaurant & Bar,…
The Wonders of Chickens, for Easter or Any Other Time
The egg came first. Let’s just get that out of the way. For millions of years before humans domesticated the feathered lizards known today as “chickens,” countless generations of amphibia and reptiles, including dinosaurs, were laying eggs. The egg is an amazing system for nurturing young beings that’s just plain awe-inspiring when you think about…
Where the Wild Things Are… Indoors
While some modern interior design trends lean toward the minimalist, one local artist is forging ahead with the complete opposite style in her new home. Katie Daisy, this week’s cover artist, is widely known for her beautiful, imaginative scenes of birds, flowers and nature in general. Daisy’s illustrations can be found around Central Oregon (and…
Secret Garden
As spring rears its temperamental head via finicky post-equinox, high-desert indecision, green thumbs are beginning to feel an irresistible itch. At first glance, newcomers to Bend might think cultivating in nutrient-poor volcanic soils, amid the shortest summer a Californian has ever seen, is all in vain. But to the trained gardener’s discerning eye, there is…
FootZone Offering Virtual Training Group for Runners
By now, most of us are pros at adapting to the changes that COVID has left in its wake, and our local FootZone is no different. For those who are excited about the many races that are being offered this year, training is crucial to safe and PR-busting runs. FootZone is bringing one of its…
High and Happy with Hapy Kitchen
The pandemic and resulting quarantine have resulted in both established and first-time cannabis users uniting in gratitude that edibles are now widely available, often with “dispensary-to-door” delivery options. Marriages and relationships of all manners were well served by edibles, often discreetly consumed gummies, to inject patience, calm and favorably altered perspectives into the challenges of…
Rebuilding Bend’s Les Schwab Amphitheater
If you’ve been on Shevlin-Hixon Drive in Bend recently, you might have noticed something strange as you drove, ran, walked or biked by—namely, that the Les Schwab Amphitheater is completely unrecognizable. Before, depending on which way you were coming from, your eye would be drawn toward the murals on the back or front sides of…
A Neo-Noir Comedy Thriller?
If you held a gun to my head and made me pick a favorite genre of movie, I’d say horror, but if I got to pick another one, I’d say the genre of Lowered Expectations. The best example I can give is “The Royal Tenenbaums,” where everyone is talented and brilliant in their own ways…
Fair Housing
What is fair housing? It’s the right to choose housing free from unlawful discrimination. This applies to anyone involved in the sale and purchase of residential real estate, as well as anyone involved in the renting/leasing of residential real estate. This includes real estate brokers, property managers, landlords, lenders and insurers. The Fair Housing Act…
Free Will Astrology—Week of April 1
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Playwright August Strindberg (1849–1912) was a maverick innovator who loved to experiment with plot and language. One of his stories takes place in a dream and the hero is the Christ-like daughter of a Vedic god. He once said that he felt “an immense need to become a savage and create…
If You’re New Here: Gardening in the High Desert
If you’re one of the transplants who’ve recently moved here from Seattle or Portland or the Bay Area (as we know a lot of you are), you might fancy yourself a fine gardener, imbued with the natural ability to coax flowers and food from the ground just by tossing out a few seeds or starts.…
Letters to the Editor 4/1/21
Editor’s note: I don’t think I’m alone in saying that spring is one of my favorite times of the year. Snow left in the mountains to enjoy at our leisure, dry roads to bike upon and little bugs and buds just beginning to strut their stuff… there’s so much to love about the rebirthing of…
Local Students Headed Back to Buildings Full Time
New guidelines released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention March 19 are allowing districts including Bend-La Pine Schools to increase the amount of time students spend in school buildings. In a letter sent to families March 25, Interim Superintendent Lora Nordquist announced that students in the district would soon have an option for…
Wilderness Permit System Opens April 6
The Deschutes and Willamette National Forests will begin allowing people to reserve day-use and overnight permits in the Central Cascades Wilderness starting April 6. The permit system is a new addition for the Central Cascades Wilderness, aimed at limiting the number of people visiting well-used locations in the Mt. Jefferson, Mt. Washington and Three Sisters…
The Cost of Staying Open? $27,470—and Then Some
Oregon Occupational Safety and Health, the agency tasked with enforcing the state’s workplace safety and health rules, has issued a $27,470 fine against a Bend coffee shop, alleging that it violated standards put in place to protect employees from COVID-19. OSHA announced March 30 that Kevista Coffee, located along Century Drive on Bend’s west side,…
Noticias en Español
Proceso de registro previo disponible para la vacuna contra la COVID El condado de Deschutes y el Sistema de Salud St. Charles han lanzado una nueva página web que permite a las personas registrarse para que se le avise cuando es su turno para recibir la vacuna contra la COVID-19. Este sitio web, centraloregonvaccine.com, le…
With Oregon’s Prospective Public-Building Gun Ban, Two More Steps are Still Ahead
Last week, the Oregon Senate voted in favor of Senate Bill 554, a bill that would, if passed, allow state and local governments to ban firearms in public buildings for those with a concealed carry permit. The bill was set to go before the Oregon House on March 29—but due to more cases of COVID-19…
Town and Country
Rustic reclaimed wood or industrial super modern? French country or boho beach? With so many out-of-towners descending on Bend, it can be hard to answer the question: Do national home design trends play in the high desert? How long can we tap the farm-chic look before there’s nothing left? With the building and remodeling sector…
