Perfect For Parties: Pimento Cheese
Pimento (or pimiento) cheese is a very popular spread in the Southern United States. Not that you don’t find it elsewhere, but you’ll find it frequently on restaurant and café menus in the South and almost every Southern family has their own version of the spread. It’s often called “The Caviar of the South” because…
May the Source Be With You: December Edition: First Dates, Goblin Mode and Futurism
I’ve noticed that the older I get, the more I start taking pleasure in small, easily missed moments. So many of the best experiences of my life are fleeting to me, like I failed to capture them properly because I wasn’t paying enough attention at the time. There’s a Vonnegut quote I really love that…
Winter Cocktails to Combat the Cold
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” — Stanley Kubrick Winter. If you are anything like me, you have a love/hate relationship with the season. We love that it snows so we can ski but hate to shovel and drive in it. And it’s cold. With shortened days the darkness settles in…
Concealed Carry Laws in Oregon Need to Change
In the wake of the verdict and now sentencing of Ian Cranston for the killing of Barry Washington outside a bar in Bend in September 2021, Cranston has become a martyr of sorts among the people who believe that he was simply “a white man defending himself” against a purportedly stronger (and outnumbered) Black man…
Horoscope Week of December 1, 2022
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of all the signs in the zodiac, you Sagittarians are least likely to stay in one location for extended periods. Many of you enjoy the need to move around from place to place. Doing so may be crucial in satisfying your quest for ever-fresh knowledge and stimulation. You understand that it’s…
Letters to the Editor 12/01/2022
Guest Opinion: Public Trust and the Deschutes River In October, irrigators began the annual drawing down of the Deschutes River to the point where fish and other wildlife die or are threatened. Good people have tried to save fish stranded in pools of water. I do not want to denigrate their efforts, but the fact…
Awakening Your Inner Hero: Depression, Hope and Awe
My message today is meant to be personal. I may not know you as an acquaintance or a friend, but at some level I do know you, and at some level you know me. Sure, there are things we’ll never know about each other, but there are also things that link all of us together,…
And 'Verk' He Did!
In a July 2017 “Bend Living Magazine” article (recommended reading) featuring Bill Smith and his wife, Trish, Bend writer Cathy Carroll recounts that Smith’s German grandmother, who lived with the family in Denver, had a favorite exhortation she directed at her five young grandchildren: “You must verk.” And verk he did…starting in high school with…
Rates, Supply and Demand
Since we are officially in the holiday season, which is typically a slow season in Real Estate, it is time to provide an update on where the market sits and where it is going in 2023. Every couple of weeks I check in with people who have discussed buying and/or selling with me in the…
Cranston Sentenced to 10 Years
Judge Beth Bagley this week sentenced Ian Cranston to 10 years in prison, including time served since he was jailed on Sept. 30, 2021, for the shooting of Barry Washington in downtown Bend in September, 2021. A jury convicted Cranston of manslaughter in the first and second degree, first-degree assault and two counts of unlawful…
Cranston sentenciado a 10 años
La juez Beth Bagley sentenció esta semana a Ian Cranstton a 10 años en prisión por dispararle a Barry Washington en el centro de Bend en septiembre del año pasado. Un jurado sentenció a Cranston por homicidio involuntario en primer y segundo grado, agresión en primer grado y dos cargos por el uso ilegal de…
Measure 110, Four Months In
Oregon became the first state in the nation to decriminalize possession of all types of drugs when voters approved Measure 110 with 58% of the vote in November 2020. Measure 110 didn’t just decriminalize drugs, it also pledged to support addiction and recovery services, partially funded through cannabis taxes. Latest results from the National Survey…
A Q&A with Will Magid of Balkan Bump
Music is a part of the human experience and has been around longer than we probably know. For Will Magid, the producer and multi-instrumentalist behind the brass and bass-heavy fusion stylings of Balkan Bump, understanding where music comes from and what it means to those who made it is what molds the core of his…
Craigie Stories Fill the Tower
Humorous storytelling and folk music from John Craigie will fill the Tower Theatre next week during his “Keep It Warm” tour. This Portland-based musician is known for his live performances, in-between-song dialogue and classic folk sound. “I think I was a storyteller, always, even before I played music,” Craigie told the Source Weekly. Craigie’s storytelling…
The Warm and Welcoming Wallow
Wallow has several meanings. It can be the place where large animals, such as elk, roll about or lie relaxed in mud or water to keep cool and avoid biting insects or spread their scent. It can also mean to take unrestrained pleasure, to delight in something or to indulge oneself, such as wallowing in…
Donate a Toy, Get a Free Cupcake
A holiday-time fundraiser is promising sweet rewards for those who take part. Ida’s Cupcakes Cafes are offering a free coupon for a cupcake to those who donate toys to The Giving Plate’s toy drive. People can bring a new, unwrapped toy to any of the three Ida’s locations in Central Oregon through Dec. 15. Those toys…
New Steakhouse for Cascade Village
Steak lovers have a new place to check out while doing their holiday shopping in Bend. Blacksteer Steakhouse and Saloon had its soft opening on Black Friday. It’s located in the former Jonny Carino’s location on Highway 97 in Bend, in the Cascade Village Shopping Center. Menu items include classic, “regionally sourced” steak cuts such…
30 Events in 30 Days
This past month, Bend local Joslyn Bryant challenged herself to go to a different event every single day. She set out a number of rules: one event every day for 30 days, the event must be open to the public, the event must be on some sort of public calendar and no skipping allowed. Bryant…
Shell Games
There’s something that makes me feel a little like I’m chewing sour grapes when I sit down to pick apart a movie that ultimately exists just to wildly entertain people. Like, there’s nothing inherently “bad” about the movie or that makes it a lesser exercise in cinema, but ultimately feels like the popcorn we munch…
Climbing in Bend, 24/7
A new climbing gym opening soon in Bend will offer unique route-setting and wide-open business hours. Hooked on rock climbing since she was 5, new Bend business owner Lilian Kral has been setting a unique route for herself ever since. Growing up in Portland, Kral got her first taste of climbing at Central Oregon’s Smith Rock.…
Lemon Gulch Project Aims for Ochoco Bike Trails
The Lemon Gulch Trails Project is paving the way for local and visiting mountain bikers and outdoor enthusiasts with a proposed trail system in the Ochoco National Forest. Mountain biking is a sport that has seen tremendous growth over the last couple decades and the growth isn’t slowing. Currently, there are 156.5 miles of non-motorized…
