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My View: Justin Livingston, Bend City Council Pos. 1 Candidate ▶ [with video]
Justin Livingston, candidate for Bend City Council position 1, joins Source Weekly Editor Nicole Vulcan for “My View,” a video series inviting local candidates to share their views on a host of topics ahead of the 2020 election, while sitting in front of a view they enjoy. Livingston chose a view of downtown Bend’s Mirror…
Little Bites – Here’s What’s New!
Burgers, hops harvest. Here’s what’s new on the Bend foodie (and drink-y) scene!
Learning Pods Fill the Gap
As families grapple with the reality of online education for all ages in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, some are starting learning pods, while others compete to make the cut into recreational and nonprofit programs. Shannon Sbarra runs Volcano Veggies along with her husband, Jimmy. It’s more than a full-time job, and she’s also…
Pearl’s Puzzle – Week of Aug. 31
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Listen: Inside Look at Public Transit with Tammy Baney 🎧
For this week’s Bend Don’t Break podcast we speak with Tammy Baney, the executive director of the Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council. COIC is a group of representatives from each city and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs who work together on economic development, housing and job training. Most notably, COIC oversees Cascades East Transit, the…
Source Weekly Update Podcast 8/26/20
In this week’s Source Weekly Update, anger and frustration at Bend’s City Council meeting, and moving forward on the City’s transportation bond. Source Weekly – Bend, Oregon · Source Weekly Update Podcast Aug 26
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White Bus Driver Puts Black Passenger in a Chokehold ▶ [with video]
On Thursday, Aug. 20, a bus driver in Bend put a Black passenger in a chokehold until he lost consciousness. The cause? Because the passenger was not wearing shoes. Twenty-five-year-old Bend resident Dorian Zane Allstot had gotten kicked off the bus at Hawthorne Station once before because he had no shoes. He came back a…
The Acolytes of Mr. Anderson
Readers of Jim Anderson’s Natural World column over the years will remember some familiar themes: Talking about rolling into Bend on his Harley-Davidson, advocating against outdoor cats and feeding deer in town, and introducing Central Oregonians to creatures as bizarre as the Jerusalem Cricket or as mundane as the common field mouse. But among those…
Free Will Astrology—Week of August 27
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Self-love is also remembering to let others love you. Come out of hiding.” Poet Irisa Yardenah wrote that advice, and now I’m passing it on to you, just in time for a phase when you will benefit from it most. I mean, it’s always good counsel for you to Virgos to…
Celebrate Solidarity With Music
On Sept. 4, Worthy Brewing will welcome MOsley WOtta (Jason Graham) and Oregon state Rep. Peter Defazio (D) to its stage for a night of music and advocacy against police brutality. The night will help serve as a platform for a larger discussion on the issue of racism and shed a light on the power…
Reflections on Naturalist Jim Anderson
As we publish Jim Anderson’s farewell column this week, Publisher Aaron Switzer offers this look back at the long relationship between our beloved Natural World contributor and the paper. I find it hard to believe that there will be a Source Weekly without a Jim Anderson column. Jim began writing for the paper after our first…
Bend Racing Takes on the Eco-Challenge
Amazon Prime’s “World’s Toughest Race” opens with Bear Grylls hanging on a helicopter, hovering over the jungles of Fiji as he narrates about the tough terrain of the land below. “Steep mountains, sheer cliffs and miles and miles of dense tropical jungle,” he describes. Grylls explains how teams competing in the Eco-Challenge will travel 671…
My Marvelous Mentors
Our old and dear pal, Pete Seeger, took what I want to say right from Ecclesiastes 3:18, and made it into a song, “Turn, Turn, Turn:” “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to…
The Leaflet — Fall 2020
Welcome to The Leaflet, Central Oregon’s first—and only—local guide dedicated to all things cannabis. It’s your one-stop shop for updates on legal weed. What’s Inside: Green Building with Hemp Hempcrete offers a non-toxic alternative to other building materials From Illegal to Essential As marijuana sales continue to break records, a local cannabis startup cashes in…
The New Stoner Canon
I’m not sure if this is a hot take, but most stoner movies are terrible. Maybe at the time they came out they’re pretty funny or trippy, but they don’t tend to age very well. I recently tried to re-watch some of the Cheech and Chong movies. In “Nice Dreams,” Cheech legit sexually assaults someone…
Womb With A View
Womb With A View My friend constantly talks to me about her baby on the way and asks me to help her pick out furniture and clothes for it. This is very painful for me because my husband doesn’t want kids and I agreed not to have any. I didn’t realize I’d have this deep…
Puff, Puff… You Shall Not Pass
Before the most recent Leaflet hit stands last spring, I invited a harem of 420-friendly buddies over for a weed-themed photo shoot. It was a grand old time; Funyuns, gummy worms and giggles galore. My, oh my, how things have changed. Not only are sizable social gatherings frowned upon in the age of COVID, but basic…
Pot and POC
New programs in Portland, and other progressive cities across the U.S., offer grants and loans to new cannabis businesses owned by people of color. Historically, arrests and convictions for pot-related crimes have disproportionally affected BIPOC communities. Some believe investing in Black-owned cannabis business is one way to right the wrongs of decades of discrimination and…
From Illegal to Essential
At the beginning of the pandemic, the threat of police-state lockdown orders loomed large on the horizon: Weeks before the initial outbreak in Oregon, China and Italy forced people inside for weeks with threats of arrests and even jail time. Some Americans raced to the store to stock up on toilet paper, groceries and medications.…
A Thriving Housing Market
Summer is in full swing in the high desert, with high temperatures and an even hotter housing market as the July real estate numbers set records. According to the latest Beacon Report, in Bend the residential single family home median sale price jumped to a new high of $529,000, with a total of 318 homes…
Munchie Meals
In honor of our newest edition of the Leaflet, we set to work compiling a list of some of Bend’s best munchie-friendly meals. From smothered burritos to loaded nuggets, we’re convinced that this roundup will satiate even the strangest late night (or midday, or early morning) cravings. Rockin’ Dave’s – Spikoli Burrito From homemade biscuits…
Green Building with Hemp
The hemp industry is budding in Central Oregon. By “hemp,” I’m referring to the “sober cousin” of Cannabis sativa—industrial hemp, not marijuana. Drive around the tri-county area and you’ll see fields full of lush, dark green industrial hemp plants. Grown for cannabinoids, such as CBD oil, these plants represent the present status of hemp production…
Letters to the Editor 7/27/20
Editor’s note: Not long ago, I got an email I didn’t want to get. Longtime Natural World contributor Jim Anderson was writing to tell me he was crafting a farewell column, as he packs up his home and plans to move in with family to live out his days. Surely this can’t be the last…
A Human Rights and Equity Commission is a Good, Big Step
During last week’s meeting of the Bend City Council, viewers of the live-streamed event were treated to a long and action-packed evening. Viewers got protracted views of city councilors eating dinner. In the work session ahead of the regular meeting, they got a detailed introduction into what came out of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion…
Changes for Local Art Collective
People engaged with the arts in Bend have likely sauntered through an exhibition or two at the Liberty Theater downtown, which has been the home of the At Liberty Arts Collaborative for several years. At Liberty has displayed the works of a number of fine artists—both local and international—as well as serving as host for…
Noticias en Español
La ira que quedo la semana pasada debido a las redadas por parte de la agencia de Servicios de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) fue directamente dirigida hacia los lideres de la ciudad de Bend durante la reunión del consejo municipal de la ciudad de Bend. Junto con un sector de visitantes enfebrecidos y…
