Just because someone is vegan doesn’t mean they don’t, once in a while, crave the tasty flavors of a “crunchwrap” from one ubiquitous yet here-unnamed Mexican-style fast food restaurant. With the addition of the Toasty “plant-based magic” food cart to the Bend scene, vegans can get what they’re craving and not wonder what mysteries lie […]
Nicole Vulcan
Nicole Vulcan became Editor of the Source in 2016 and was promoted to Editor in Chief in 2024, managing the Editorial Board and the news team's many investigative projects. She's also at work on her debut book of journalistic non-fiction, titled "Self Medication," which traces Oregon's drug decriminalization efforts in the 21st Century, and tells a parallel tale of her own family’s losses from fentanyl addiction in the age of Measure 110. With all of that on her plate, send snacks. Catch up with the adventures at her book's Substack, called Self Medication.
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Best New Food Cart
Maki Maki Food Cart
Biting into the Crazy Tuna Roll at Maki Maki Sushi is like a little round piece of heaven. I’m a fan of spicy stuff, so I’m not shy when cart owner and sushi chef Adam Pan suggests this spicy roll as the one to try at his food cart at The Lot on Bend’s west […]
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Best Happy Hour
900 Wall
Walk down Wall Street in downtown Bend nearly any afternoon and you’ll find out what many Bendites already know: 900 Wall is a popular spot, with outdoor tables hugging the block, happy patrons busily gobbling up the oysters on the half shell, fried green beans, house-made fries, and of course, happy hour cocktails. Served from […]
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Best Pet Store
Bend Pet Express
When the calendar turns to the time that Oregonians reluctantly call “smoke season,” (followed, in recent years, by “heat dome” season), our pets start getting the short end of the stick. Pavement too hot to walk on. Cars too hot to sit in for more than a minute. Parks and streets and backyards too smoky […]
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Best Redmond Pizza
Grace and Hammer
In 2020 we here at the Source Weekly introduced you to the “Altar of Pizza,” the then-new church-turned-pizzeria opened by a team of pizza-makers from Austin, Texas. Doing its first full summer in business during a pandemic wasn’t exactly the thing they—or any restauranteur, for that matter—would have been dreaming of, but in spite of […]
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Best Massage/Day Spa
Anjou Spa
Stepping into Anjou Spa, the team there wants visitors to experience more than just the pleasure of the massage or other service they signed up for. In addition to its full complement of facials, skin care, foot soaks, waxing, deep-tissue and other massages, Anjou also invites guests to sit and stay a while, enjoying the […]
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For the Kids
After a foray into Hollywood and back, a suicide awareness art exhibition leads to a program supporting kids in Bend
In September 2019, a Source Weekly cover featured artist and musician Nicola Carpinelli gazing upward at one of his own paintings. It was the launch of Carpinelli’s exhibit for Suicide Awareness Week, titled “Dead Poets”—an exhibit featuring artists who had died by suicide. The project had its roots in Bend, where the paintings were painted, […]
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More Seafood for West Side of Bend
Bust out the white paper and the plastic bibs: Those looking for the traditional Cajun-styel seafood boil can find it at a new restaurant that opened this week in Bend. SEA Crab House opened on Century Drive in Bend on July 29, offering fresh clams, mussels, crawfish, shrimp, crab and lobster. The SEA in the […]
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From Portland to Bend, Smash Burger Location Opens
A popular Portland-based smash burger truck is now open in Old Town Bend. MidCity SmashBurger had its soft opening in mid July at its new location adjacent to Boneyard Beer’s original taproom on Lake Place (not Boneyard’s pub). After starting out as a pop-up in New Orleans, owner Mike Alridge went on to open two locations […]
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Listen: Central Oregon’s Transit System with Andrea Breault 🎧
Why don’t we have more routes? Any chance of an airport shuttle? …and lots more questions answered from CET’s transportation director
Andrea Breault is the Transportation Director for Cascades East Transit. She has 18 of years of transit, parking and fleet management experience mainly from campus operations, having worked at two universities prior to working at CET. She’s also an avid bike commuter for 18 years. In this podcast we chat about Central Oregon’s transit system, […]