Seen the “You Matter” signs around town? Prepare to see more.
In case you’ve missed it thus far, Awesome Bend is a local organization with a mission to “inspire and support ideas that make Bend an even better place to live, work and play.” Part of the Awesome Foundation, Awesome Bend awards a $1000 grant to a local organization or individual fulfilling that mission. This time…
Q&A with New York Times Best Selling Author Beth Macy
We talked with New York Times Best Selling Author and journalist Beth Macy about her experience writing her non-fiction books “Factory Man” and “Truevine” as well as her 30 years as a newspaper journalist. “Truevine,” a book Macy spent over two decades researching and writing, is the story of two African American brothers who were…
31 Days of Halloween: October 2- The Devil’s Candy (2015)
Hey! I’m watching a horror movie a day for the month of October. I’m gonna try and only watch ones I haven’t seen, but sometimes there just aren’t enough hours in the day. They will at least be ones I think more people should watch that aren’t high on the list of most non-horror movie…
20/40/60: The Drive Less Challenge
T he City of Bend is 35.9 square miles—hardly a megalopolis that makes walking, biking or otherwise getting out of your car to get around a daunting task. And while the bike rack at the Source is often filled with at least a few two-wheeled steeds most workdays, most of us could do better. So…
Pay Pal: When Does Some “Sugar” Translate to a Sugar Daddy?
Pay Pal An older male friend keeps paying for me — buying me meals and clothes. Am I making a mistake in accepting? I’ve repeatedly made clear that I have no romantic interest in him. I’m a struggling artist, and he’s highly successful. We’re basically BFFs, talking and laughing every day. He occasionally jokes that…
Picks of the Week: Oct 11-18
Thursday 12 – Sunday 15 BendFilm Festival FILM—Now in its 14th year, BendFilm has hit its prime with four days full of inspiring indie cinema, panels and parties. Choose from over 100 films from all over the world. A few standouts: “Lucky,” “The Tenth Step” (doc) and “Square” (Sweden). // Various times and locations in…
Letters to the Editor: Religion vs Public Schools, Gun Laws and More
Local Principal’s Vision for a “Kingdom On Earth” Education Structure in New Public Schools. If you’re a Bend-La Pine resident you might have heard of the two new public magnet schools opening next year. These are smaller scale experimental schools to be publicly funded and operated. What you probably haven’t heard is that the soon-to-be…
Run Them Blades Fast
D o we have time for a quick confession? Here it is: I’ve never been as in love with “Blade Runner” as I wanted to be. Don’t get me wrong, the film is groundbreaking in its design, cinematography and ambiguity, but I never could find a connection to Harrison Ford’s jaded replicant hunter Rick Deckard.…
Little Bites: Brown’s Basics Opens Food Cart
B rown’s Basics Bakery & Eatery has a new food cart and will be open for business starting Oct. 11 at 9th Street Village. They plan on serving homemade baked goods such as cinnamon rolls, scones and cupcakes as well as lunch items including paninis, soup and mac & cheese. The paninis are made on…
Bingeworthy: October Spookiness
Another week means another look at all the new and upcoming things that I think are downright neato. Yeah, I’m bringing neato back. In Pod We Trust: I f you feel like getting a little bit sociological with your October frights, the podcast, “Bloody Mary,” is an interesting place to start. There’s a false narrative…
Little Bites: Worthy Opening Second Location
This spring Worthy Brewing will open a second restaurant, Taps and Tacos, in downtown Bend, focusing on Worthy beer and Tex-Mex tacos. Worthy’s owner, Roger Worthington, hails from Texas and wanted to bring Tex-Mex, his favorite style of Mexican food, to Central Oregon. To ensure flavor authenticity, Worthy sent Executive Chef, Dirk Baxter, to Austin…
Artist’s Spotlight: Molly Carroll
New book inspires author, readers A rtists know that the process of creating is cathartic, often healing. Artists can take that part of art or leave it, moving through the process of healing as simply as they move through a set of new paints. For Molly Carroll—a local artist, writer and therapist—art, healing and following…
Prineville Wins Award for Crooked River Wetlands Project
T he City of Prineville has earned the League of Oregon Cities’ Award of Excellence for 2017, for its innovative wastewater project and wetlands project. Source columnist Jim Anderson, in an Aug. 23 Natural World column, described the project: “He (City Engineer Eric Klann) and his 19-man crew replaced the original 1940 wooden freshwater pipeline…
Oregon Delegation Works Toward More Wildfire Support
T he federal Office of Management and Budget has included $576.5 million in wildfire funding in its supplemental budget request to Congress, recommending that “active forest management and forestry reform” be included as a way to stop the practice of “borrowing” money from fire prevention work in order to fight wildfires, according to a release…
State Park Campground Fees Going Up
T he Oregon Parks and Recreation Department is raising fees at state park camp sites. As of Nov. 1, the rates at campsites run by OPRD will go up $2 for some campsites—but not tent sites. Full hookup sites at popular campgrounds will rise to $30 per night, with basic yurt prices going to $42.…
Ganj in the Golden State
I f you ask someone in Oregon what they think about California, a common answer is, “I want them to stop moving here, driving up real estate prices and clogging up my commute.” Unless they are from California, in which case the response involves, “how much it rains up here, unlike California.” Ask someone what…
Tunes for Jazz Lovers
T here’s no doubt that jazz has found its place in the Bend music scene. With two local jazz series, lovers of the popular style have spoken with an outpouring of support. Jazz encompasses so many different instruments, styles and rhythms that finding a performer you dig shouldn’t be difficult. Jazz at the Oxford enters…
People and Power
I ‘ve been really excited about this one for a while. The Last Internationale, a blues-meets-folk-meets-rock band originally from New York City, had plans to play in Bend in July, but the show got rescheduled. A more folky version of The Kills that includes a hair-color-changing frontwoman and a multi-talented guitarist, The Last Internationale show…
Silvermoon Reopens
A nyone who expects the end of “the season” in Central Oregon to trigger a slowdown in brew activities around the region obviously hasn’t been living here long enough—or hasn’t heard the news from both downtown Bend’s Silver Moon and the rising beer star just a ways down Highway 97. The Moon has remained busy…
Source Spotlight: Robert “Bobbo” Marsh
L ong before he began rafting four seasons ago, Robert “Bobbo” Marsh, or the master of fire and water as I like to think of him, had a 30-year career with the U.S. Forest Service. He traveled the west coast as a wildland fighter, topping out with a management officer rank. Bobbo began flatwater kayaking…
Sunriver Brewing Company: Local winners at the Great American Beer Festival
T he big headlines for Oregon beer, however, were made in Denver last weekend. That’s the site of the Great American Beer Festival, the U.S.’ largest and most prestigious craft-beer celebration, and it’s fair to say that Sunriver Brewing had a nice weekend over there. Head brewer Brett Thomas and the rest of the Sunriver…
What’s Going On In Real Estate in Bend
The Beacon Report, based on real estate statistics from our local MLS, released its report of the September 2017 figures—allowing us to compare last month’s and last year’s Bend single family residence sales of 1 acre or less. Closed sales in Bend for the month of September 2017 decreased by 40 transactions over August 2017,…
A Different Kind of Classroom
B ack in 1966, when Multnomah County began a five-day Outdoor School program for all sixth graders in their system, Betty Gray of Portland—wife of John Gray, who got Sunriver and several other Oregon-based projects going—thought her life-long dream of kids learning in the forest had at last come true. She left it with her…
A Broken Angel Serves Heavenly Meals
B end’s only vegan food cart is tucked behind Palate Coffee Bar on Colorado and Bond in a rustic white single-wide horse trailer with a red bottom. There are a few patio tables in front of the A Broken Angel cart, one with a matching red umbrella. You can choose to sit there or have…
Clearing Up Mirror Pond
T his week, the Bend Chamber of Commerce published an article in its “Bend Business Edition,” stating permits and funding were in the “final stages” for the proposed $6.7 million dredging project at Mirror Pond—information the Chamber later discovered was erroneous. The Chamber’s article inaccurately stated that the project was gathering “final funds,” including “38…
Don’t Get Those Lululemons In a Twist
I n a past life I was a yoga teacher. If a past life was measured in years, and those years were three. You know, one of the snobby, Lululemon pant wearing, “I can’t believe she didn’t give me 10 minutes of full savasana” complainers. Or the huffy, “I just can’t find a Hatha class…
Why did Local Oregon Legislators Oppose New Distracted Driving Laws?
Nearly every week, an alert like this comes into our newsroom from a local law enforcement agency: “…The preliminary investigation revealed that a black 2007 Audi sedan was traveling northbound when for unknown reasons it crossed over the centerline. The Audi collided head-on in the southbound lane…” Why do vehicles “cross over the centerline?” As…
Did OSU-Cascades Get the Shaft?
“O SU-Cascades is the best school ever! The atmosphere and the people are amazing,” the Mountain View High School graduate declared on a recent sunny day at the fledgling campus. OSU-Cascades students love their school. They love the environment, the outdoors, their academic programs, the ability to ski on Mount Bachelor. They love that it’s…
Breakfast & Lunch Guide 2017
What’s your jam? Huckleberry? Grape? Or the made-in-Oregon special, Marionberry? Whether we’re talking about the type you put on toast, or the “jam,” as in, your go-to for a daytime meal, you’re probably going to find it here. This year’s Breakfast and Lunch Guide is packed with the listings you need to know about for…
Footnotes on OSU-Cascades funding
From our 10/12/17 story titled “Did OSU-Cascades Get the Shaft?,” further details on the FTE funding, from the Higher Education Coordinating Commission: * The 2017-18 column does not include $12.5 million in Engineering Technology Sustaining Funds for which distributions have not been determined. * Because enrollment figures for 2017-18 have not been finalized, FTE counts…
