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May the Source be With You: May Edition

Learning to make a latke from TV chefs, junk food Netflix and more in this May edition of what to stream

Hello, delightful Source readers and welcome to your monthly installment of May the Source Be With You. Iโ€™m still only heading into town once every two weeks or so for groceries, but since Iโ€™ve been intermittent fasting, I donโ€™t go through them as quickly as I once did. Iโ€™m down 30 pounds and looking to […]

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Podcast: Crisis Leadership with Keith Witcosky, Redmond City Manager

New episode of the Bend Don’t Break podcast, hosted by publisher Aaron Switzer

Bend Don’t Break is a new podcast series from the Source Weekly, hosted by our publisher Aaron Switzer, who started Bend’s first and only alternative weekly two decades ago. Aaron dives into range of topics relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic like the economy, the local anti-lockdown movement, leadership in the time of COVID  and much […]

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Bend Don’t Break: New Podcast, Hosted by Publisher Aaron Switzer

A chat with regional economist Damon Runberg about the future of Central Oregon’s economy

Bend Don’t Break is the newest podcast series from the Source Weekly, hosted by our publisher Aaron Switzer, who started Bend’s first and only alternative weekly two decades ago. Aaron dives into range of topics relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic like the economy, the local anti-lockdown movement, mental health effects of social isolation and much […]

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B.J. Soper: Hero or Outlaw? 🎧 (with podcast)

The Source sits down with B.J. Soper, the man behind the Redmond demonstrations against the Governor’s shutdown orders. *Includes podcast version*

More than 200 people gathered outside Redmond City Hall April 17, demonstrating against Oregon Gov. Kate Brownโ€™s โ€œStay Home, Stay Safeโ€ order. Theyโ€™ll be back again this Friday. This week, we talked with the organizer of that Redmond demonstration. (We also recorded our interview with Soper as a podcast, which you can access below.) Redmond […]

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Quibi with Your Best Shot

Quibi is disposable streaming in a non-disposable era, and makes me miss movie theaters even more.

What do you miss the most during this crisis? Something stupid and embarrassing that you donโ€™t want to share with anyone? I know right now haircuts are the thing the media believes we miss most, but I guarantee thereโ€™s something even smaller that you wish you hadn’t taken for granted while it was a commonplace […]

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Bingeworthy: ‘Tiger King’ is the Other Thing Everyone is Talking About

Go one minute into the opening credits and you’ll see why this is the #1 title in the U.S.

It’s the other thing that everyone is talking about lately. Out of nowhere, I kept seeing memes about a gaudily dressed man who made some interesting choices with his hair. I was getting introduced to Joe Exotic. Exotic is the titular subject of the new limited, wonderfully addictive Netflix docu-series, “Tiger King.” The series is […]

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