Cover Stories
Van Life: The Event
“I died and went to van heaven.” That’s the sentiment repeated by countless van lifers attending the annual Descend on Bend event, taking place this Labor Day weekend in the Oregon Outback. Welcoming all shapes, sizes and models of vans—from the original VW Vanagon, which sparked the notion of van life, to modern day Sprinters and…
A Fall Jumpstart
Last school year, the Education Foundation for Bend-La Pine Schools gave out 41 grants to the Bend-La Pine school district with its Spring Grants program, totaling over $70,000 donated for programs and needs for the upcoming school year. With the 2019-2020 session upon us, the Education Foundation’s new Back-to-School Classroom Grants for Educators program offers…
Source Weekly Update Podcast 9/5/19
In this week’s podcast: Nicola Carpinelli’s art project highlighting Suicide Awareness Week, a library series on knowing your government and the debut of the Cascadia Adventure Film Fest! WHERE TO SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2Jpo2nd Stitcher: https://bit.ly/2HykqvR Tunein: https://bit.ly/2JmkRww Soundcloud: https://bit.ly/2LRpX6c
Source Weekly Update Podcast 8/29/19
The Source Weekly Update Podcast! Back to School! Tune in this week on what schools are doing to become more sustainable, the Expansion of Brown Owl in the Box Factory and an update on the Left Coast Burger Company opening soon — in the August 29, 2019 edition of the podcast. WHERE TO SUBSCRIBE: Apple…
Wasted in Bend: Sustainable Schools
Every parent of school-age kids has a similar shopping list this month: Pencils, glue sticks, highlighters, notebooks, dry-erase markers, crayons, sharpies and erasable pens… and don’t forget the earbuds and iPad stylus. Most items are not recyclable, or biodegrable, and represent just a fraction of the resources that go into educating kids. Schools create a…
Charlie Brawn & Not a Good Lurk
Charlie Brawn If a guy is trying to amp up his attractiveness by working out, what areas of the body should he focus on? What do women notice and want? And how much of that can I get without any kind of surgery or dangerous potions? —Office Bod Women seem to go for the body…
Building, Upgrades Take Shape from Bond Money
Some of the big plans from a $268 million construction bond that voters passed in 2017 have started showing up in time for this school year at Bend-La Pine Schools. The biggest change is the new North Star Elementary School at O. B. Riley and Cooley roads in north central Bend. A public celebration will…
A Trip for Art’s Sake
Sometimes those of us who call Bend home need more than this fair town has to offer. Namely, art. Don’t get me wrong, I love the art scene here—love that there actually is one and that it’s growing in the way of mural code changes and contemporary art galleries. There are just a few offerings…
In a society rife with school shootings, communication is key
This school year, amid the lunch boxes and pencils and notebooks, a new school-related item is entering the scene: bulletproof backpacks. Yes, you read that right—and if you’ve already seen them, then you’ve likely already contemplated the gravity and absurdity of this being an item marketed to parents and kids. This, indeed, is where our…
Rocking the Ramen
The day after Miyagi Ramen’s grand opening, I made sure to park myself outside of the restaurant around 10:30 a.m., half an hour prior to opening time. I wanted to be the first one in on their second day open to get a feel for the most anticipated new restaurant in Central Oregon this summer.…
Still Water
Rafting companies in the Bend area are seeing fewer trips booked this summer. Many attribute the decrease to cooler weather in the area and concern about possible trip cancellations due to forest fires. Tim Thornton, operations manager at River Drifters, a Maupin-based service offering trips throughout Oregon and Washington, said while business has been steady…
A Beer Geek’s Dream
The Little Woody festival is the beer event I wait for all year long. It’s my happy place—my Christmas, if you will. It’s truly a beer geek’s dream. Basically, it’s the best beer festival EVER! Barrel-aged beers from all over the place are served up. Not convinced yet? That’s fine. Read on for further temptation.…
On the Ropes
Sometimes a movie makes you feel so good and so attuned to the human race that it’s easy to overlook the flaws. It seems like we’re more divided now than ever, and even things that everyone used to agree on are able to court some level of controversy. A few weeks ago, I posted a…
Run, Rabbit
Every once in a while, a premise comes along that’s so simple and elegant that it’s astounding it hasn’t been done before. While there are definitely aspects of “Ready or Not” we’ve seen before, the film is executed with such gusto that it’s hard to really be mad at it over the dumb stuff. This…
Opting Out, and Beyond
At the Barnes Sawyer Room, where the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners holds public meetings, anytime the issue of marijuana is on the agenda visitors will find anti-marijuana activists staring down speakers, nodding solemnly and doing their darnedest to guide the Board in stamping out the scourge of marijuana that creeps like a bad dream…
Having Each Other’s Backs
First meeting about two years ago while both teaching at a school in Portland, Jeffrey Silverstein and Alex Crowson quickly bonded through music and their appreciation for early punk and pop tunes. Now their friendship has grown beyond that and they’ve each put out their first solo projects– which they realized were only released a…
Artist Fact Sheet: Ray Fulcher
Country music has plenty of big names—many dominating the charts for quite some time. If you aren’t one to dig into the genre, you might be missing out on a lot of different music or players in the game. Ray Fulcher is one of those guys. Fulcher is a Southern man who might have gotten…
The Land Trust Model for Bend
The increased cost of living has infiltrated every aspect of people’s lives—at the gas pump, the grocery store, heating or cooling houses… the list goes on. It’s gotten very expensive to provide just the basics. It’s no secret that affordable and attainable housing is a major obstacle for many Central Oregonians, too. In July, the…
Free Will Astrology—Week of August 29
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Shogun is a bestselling novel about an Englishman who transforms himself into a samurai warrior in seventeenth-century Japan. Written by James Clavell, it’s over 1,100 pages long. Clavell testified that the idea for the story sprang up in him when he read one line in his daughter’s school book: “In 1600…
Letters to the Editor
Guest Opinion: Restoring Salmon A recent guest opinion told Source readers we should consider “feasible alternatives” for salmon reintroduction above the Pelton Round Butte Hydroelectric Project—the facility Portland General Electric and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs co-own and operate near Madras. But the alternative suggested would not meet the goals of the reintroduction project:…
Brown Owl Expanding
The Brown Owl, the popular food-cart-meets-bar in The Box Factory, is making more room for its growing base of customers. Owner Lisandro Ramon has leased the space just west of the Brown Owl’s current location to expand, adding 1,400 square feet to the current footprint. “Capacity is an issue,” Ramon said of the current space.…
A New Venture: Left Coast Burger Company
The Brown Owl’s owner, Lisandro Ramon, is at work on opening a new burger spot in the Cascade Village Shopping Center, in the former Yo Wild frozen yogurt space. The concept is inspired by Ramon’s visits to “old school burger joints” with his grandfather growing up, and will include diner-style chairs, counter service and an…
Houston… No, Sacramento: We Have a Problem
The title of this piece was a common statement back in the ’70s and ’80s, when NASA was doing all it could to place men and machinery in space. It also became a common statement for all kinds of problems in our society—and now I use it to bring attention to a problem that people…
Union, Universities Prepare for Possible Strike
Workers at Oregon’s seven public universities are preparing to strike after the two sides have failed to agree on a contract for more than 5,000 staff members. “We bargain with the intention of settling and not having a strike occur,” said Steve Clark, vice president for university relations at Oregon State University. “But we are…
