Therapist Dr. Brandy Engler on Men’s and Women’s Unspoken Desires
Welcome to Amy Alkon’s HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. What do men want? In bed and out? What do women want? How does this all tie together? (And who’s getting tied up?) These are just a few of the questions I’ll be asking and sex therapist…
Bend Company Makes Flying Safer
A Bend company is helping prevent airline – bird strikes. The Source Weekly’s Brian Jennings reports. (Two short podcasts below).
Oregon: Oldest Human Existence?
Evidence of ancient man in Oregon. Perhaps the oldest existence of humans in North America. Below, watch our video of the excavation of an ancient Oregon site in E. Oregon.
Using “Mindful Anger” To Improve Every Area Of Your Life, with Dr. Andrea Brandt
Welcome to Amy Alkon’s HumanLab: The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. Whether you’re an anger venter or an anger withholder (or something in between), this is a show for you. My guest tonight, therapist Dr. Andrea Brandt, writes that “our culture has a built-in phobia of negative emotions,”…
Bend Energy Challenge
The Bend Energy Challenge Week, a program offered by the Environmental Center, was filled with many events to educate the public in energy efficiency and renewable energy. I was particularly interested in the two homes on the Green Home Tour that were retrofits, and I learned a lot about how small things can add up…
Sharing the Language of Art
With the sudden closure of Arts Central and art spaces like Armature at The Old Ironworks Arts District, many are concerned about the local community’s ability to sustain the arts in Bend. One local artist is doing her best to address the issue by teaching the language of art to as many people as she…
BendFilm: “Voyagers Without Trace”
“Voyagers Without Trace” is a gorgeous and life affirming documentary that is, on its surface, about two kayaking adventures several decades apart. Filmmaker Ian McCluskey came across a historic marker in Southwest Wyoming. It told the story of Genevieve and Bernard de Colmont and their friend, Antoine de Seynes, who, in 1938, came from France…
Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Washington is a neighborhood spot: a place where brunch, cocktails, and dinner meet to talk about their day. It feels like a place you can go into a few times a week and they’ll remember your favorite drink and recommend a new menu item you haven’t tried. Washington comes from the same team that brought…
He is the Liquor
There is no way that “Trailer Park Boys” should have lasted this long. After 10 seasons (with an 11th due in the next few months), a dozen specials and three movies, the adventures of these characters should feel excruciatingly dull by this point. But somehow the characters have not only remained fresh, but the storylines…
Port Barrel-Aged Beer and Black Butte Whiskey!? OK!
Winter, to borrow a heavily-used catchphrase, is coming, and breweries across Bend are busily preparing their seasonal offerings for what will hopefully be a season heavy on the snow and light on the black ice. In the case of a couple old standbys though, the preparations have been taking place three or four years in…
Filling the Art Education Gap
On August 19, Arts Central closed its doors—leaving a giant gap in Central Oregon’s arts education offerings and services. The Art Station was an Arts Central program—one of many Arts Central programs the community had come to depend on for afterschool and summer options for their children. Art Station’s sudden closure came as a shock…
Creating Something From Nothing
It’s been more than a year since the release of The Helio Sequence’s last record, and once again the buoyant pop duo are finding inspiration in the endless possibilities of a blank canvas. With the last record, the shimmering Portland-based rockers found themselves embracing a new creative process. Rather than meticulously laboring over every little…
Endorsements: City of Bend Measure 9-110 & U.S. Congress Oregon District 2
City of Bend Measure 9-110 Recreational Marijuana Sales Tax In case you’re not up to speed on the amount of tax revenue that retail recreational cannabis sales are bringing into the state of Oregon, check out the feature story in this week. (“Ganja Grows Up”) The short version: An estimated $43 million will be collected…
What was in those Mashed Potatoes!?
Now that cannabis has been legal long enough to generate some reliable sales data, people in the industry are starting to ask the question: What type of cannabis products do people really want? A great deal of data, for example, suggests that older consumers are much more likely to buy edibles than younger consumers. Many…
Ganja Grows Up
Nutty notes of chestnut and coffee. Flowery violet and honey. If you thought that was in reference to a wine someone’s drinking, you’d be wrong…kind of. These days, descriptions like that are almost as likely to be thrown around while shopping for marijuana as they would be when buying a fine wine. October 1, 2016…
Letters 9/28-10/5
In Response to, “Say No to National Food Chains,” (9/15): Steven, Steven, Steven (not the actor): If you want to stop national chains from landing in Bend, you’re too late. That ship has sailed. Also, Cracker Barrel is not fast food, and North Highway 97 is not a “hip vibe” area. Relax dude. I’m happy…
Go Here 9/28-10/5
Bend Rugby Men’s Calendar Release Party Ladies and gentlemen, the Bend Rugby Men’s team presents its inaugural calendar for 2017, featuring the fit men of the Bend Rugby team. Not only will buyers get to view team members participating every month in a different activity that Bend is known for, but 10 percent of the…
All the Pretty Therapists
My couples therapist has grass between his teeth. Not surprising. He grazes most of the day, this majestic creature, and yet still finds the time to provide clients with much-needed emotional support. Did I mention he’s stunningly handsome? Long legs, two giant brown eyes, a flowing mane and the innate ability to figure out exactly…
Little Bites: No, That’s Not a Coffee Truck
Visit any Hawaiian island and you’re sure to walk away knowing one thing: Hawaiians love them some carbs. Most meals are piled high with macaroni salad (just “mac salad” to an islander), rice and often potato salad, along with the meat of choice. It’s a carb-y phenomenon that non-islanders might puzzle about…but if you’re a…
Strange Job Title: Fish Watcher
Lee Spencer has one of the most unusual job titles in Oregon—Fish Watcher. For the past 18 years Spencer has kept watch over thousands of returning summer steelhead in Steamboat Creek, a tributary of the upper Umpqua River System. Every May Spencer returns to his trailer headquarters along the banks of the Steamboat. He has…
Side Notes 9/28-10/5
Third Street Sidewalk Construction Begins Traffic on Bend’s Third Street will be slower going for the coming months, with the launch of the sidewalk improvement project on the south end of town. The City of Bend began work on Third Street between Wilson Avenue and Powers Road this week. Drivers can expect single-lane traffic between…
Limbo
I am not adding a single ounce of hyperbole when I say that John Sayles is one of the finest filmmakers in history. He, along with life partner Maggie Renzi, a handful of my all-time favorite movies, and each one of them feels like a completely separate entity. He bounces between genres with ease, taking…
Western Ronin
“The Magnificent Seven” is exactly what you get from the trailers, but with a little more and a little less. The main thing that makes the whole creaky enterprise work is getting a few likable actors together and hooting and hollering as they shoot their way around a hundred mustache-twirling villains. You’ve seen this movie…
Reppin’ Mother Earth
Bend’s climate is warming and the rate is accelerating, according to data from the National Weather Service. With that information in hand, climate change experts will gather in Bend October 3-4 to motivate people to take action. Key topics include the economics of going green and how businesses benefit by reducing their carbon footprint. The…
Picks 9/28-10/5
Thursday 29 "Tight Loose" SKI FILM—Sports media company Teton Gravity Research is turning 21 – so you know what that means… (Too many shots bought by well-meaning friends?) To celebrate the occasion, they’re featuring a one-night only premiere of their new ski film, “Tight Loose.” In the film, TGR explores unridden spine walls and massive…
