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Why Tart Mattered

Fond remembrance of a closed restaurant

Editor’s Note: Joe Benevento is former head chef at Tart and writes the Source’s Kitchen Chronicles. I miss duck wings. There, I said it. I can't take it any longer, the truth must be told to the world. I miss me some lip-smacking good, confit duck wings. Truth be told, it had to be said […]

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Oregon A.G. to Take on BP Over Gulf Spill

Oregon Attorney General John Kroger isn’t running for re-election, but he apparently isn’t leaving in bullets in the chamber  before he exits as the state’s top cop. On Friday, Kroger announced that he is going after petroleum giant BP for its role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster off the Gulf Coast, which Kroger’s says cost Oregon public employees about $19 million in lost retirement funds because BP misrepresented its safety standards to shareholders including the Oregon Public Employee Retirement Fund.

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Little Bites: Rejoice! Spring is here!

We're just on the cusp of a very short-lived fiddlehead season, and if you want to take advantage of these tender lovelies you'll have to act fast.

And while we're still contending with weather roulette, we have something worth getting excited about – fiddlehead ferns and asparagus.
We're just on the cusp of a very short-lived fiddlehead season, and if you want to take advantage of these tender lovelies you'll have to act fast. Named for their violin scroll shape, fiddleheads are a fern's new growth. In the Pacific Northwest, the fern of choice is the lady fern. On the East coast, the ostrich fern reigns.

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NOSTRAFILMUS: Waiting for Godot

What matters is those words.

The thing about Waiting for Godot is this: it doesn’t matter what it’s about. Is it purgatory? Hell? An allegory for the cold war? Are they all facets of a broken mind? Does Beckett just hate us and want to show us he’s as smart as Camus? Is it the Beyond section of a Bed, Bath & Beyond? No.

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Hoodoo to Close Season with $15 Lifties

Although this weekend’s weather, assuming the forecast for mid-70s holds, is likely to scream summer to most Central Oregonians, those who are still thinking winter, or maybe just, spring, can indulge their impulse at Hoodoo Ski Resort.
Hoodoo announced today that it’s adding a final weekend to the season this Saturday and Sunday and offering skiers and boarders that make the trip to Santiam Pass $15 lifties.

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