New Year’s Eve 2022-23 Guide for Central Oregon
Looking for a New Year’s Eve party? We’ve got you. Here is a list of what’s happening in Central Oregon to ring in 2023. Make sure to scroll through to check out all the extraordinary parties. Know of an event but don’t see it on this list? Submit events for free to our online calendar, and NYE…
Don’t Overlook the Simple Snickerdoodle
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: cookie baking time! While beautifully decorated sugar cookies, gingerbread people, peanut butter blossoms, chocolate crinkles and Linzer tarts are always holiday favorites, there’s something about a simple snickerdoodle that shouldn’t be underestimated. Even with no decorating, the cinnamon-sugar coating and crackled appearance make the snickerdoodle look fancy.…
Holiday Gift Guide, Part II
Occupation: Artist, Musician, Founder of Hearts Unknown Education. Favorite local places to shop: Layor Art + Supply for art supplies, Lark Mountain Modern for inspiration, Old Boy Vintage for clothing. What’s on his wish list: “To have a space for my nonprofit to operate five days a week for kids.” What he’s wearing: Corduroy jacket…
LISTEN: Keeping Downtown Bend safe and beautiful with DBBA’s Shannon Monihan 🎧
Shannon Monihan is the New Executive director of the Downtown Bend Business Association that makes up approximately 400 businesses downtown. With a 25+ year history in business development, branding and marketing, she is focused on applying some of her learned knowledge and wealth of experience to the Downtown Bend district. Monihan is a Bend resident…
Holiday Gift Guide 2022
Occupation: Choreographer, dancer Favorite local places to shop: Feather’s Edge, Clementine, Atomic Vintage Bazaar, Nature’s Bling, Cosmic Depot What’s on her wish list: Turntable: (Where to get it locally: Smith Rock Records, Stereo Planet) What she’s wearing: Bracelet from Nature’s Bling and Jumpsuit from Banana Republic. Where she goes for a white elephant/gag gift: Pretty…
How to Overcome Buyer’s Fatigue
If you’ve shopped for a home at any point during the last two years, you likely have felt some level of buyer’s fatigue. You may have moved from wanting to look at homes in person consistently, to then wanting to view no homes at all. Your attitude may have shifted from the possibility of finding…
Put A Fiddle On That Beat
When listing similarities and differences of hip-hop and bluegrass, listeners might actually find more commonalities than differences. Gangstagrass takes advantage of those commonalities to create a unique sound that draws in fans from all genres. “I started producing and making beats for MCs in New York. And I would always have an urge to be…
Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree at Smith Rock Records
Cassette tapes, vinyl, CDs — oh my! Sure, we could just text a Spotify link to share our favorite song or album in this day-n’-age, but I’m sure I’m not the only one in this town who remembers that one record that one person gave you that one time as a gift — that moment…
Las rentas en Bend están subiendo a uno de los niveles más rápidos de la nación
La renta de mercado justo de Bend aumentó un 37.4% del 2019 al 2013, siendo el noveno aumento más grande en la renta en las pequeñas zonas metropolitanas en los Estados Unidos. El índice de precios al consumidor muestra que las rentas en todo el país han aumentado un 24.1% desde el año 2019, el…
Poco personal de enfermeros y enfermeros abrumados
Hay poco personal de enfermeros, están trabajando más de la cuenta y están agotados, según una encuesta llevada a cabo por la Asociación de Enfermeras de Oregon (ONA por sus siglas en inglés). Menos del 1% de los enfermeros encuestados dijeron que su unidad siempre cuenta con el personal necesario, la mitad de ellos dicen…
American Cities Were Built to Accommodate the Automobile. Help Them Accommodate People Instead.
If there’s anything that gets people in Bend fired up, it’s talking about parking. Whether it’s the relatively recent addition of paid, permitted parking around Drake Park or the recent conversation happening among the Bend City Council about eliminating parking minimums in the city, people are passionate about the topic. In order to comply with…
Endangered Brown Ales Come Out of Hibernation for Winter
Getting modern craft brewers to brew a brown ale is like getting the kids on my son’s Parks and Rec basketball team to practice lay-ups instead of chunking three-point and half-court shots. There’s so much interest and emphasis on trickery that the fundamentals get overlooked. In today’s world of double-dry-hopped hazy IPAs, the once-elemental brown…
Library Foundation’s Novel Idea Unveils This Year’s Book(s)
Locals gathered Dec. 3 at the Downtown Bend Library for the Deschutes Public Library Foundation’s 20th “A Novel Idea” unveiling ceremony, where the 2023 selection was revealed. A Novel Idea is Oregon’s largest annual community reading event, held during the spring in libraries and venues around Deschutes County. For the last 20 years, Novel Idea…
Understanding Intimacy: Holiday Blahs
Dear Dr. Jane, I don’t know about other people, but this year has been very challenging for me and my partner. Now it’s the holidays and we’re both stressed out. Making love is the last thing on our LONG list of things to do, but I don’t want us to get to 2023 and feel…
Crafty Group Creates Yarn Art for Gifts, and Joy
To any passerby, the needle’s flick and the hook’s soft swing might not look like anything special. But to this group of yarn workers, it’s a meditation—a type of metamorphosis that is only understood by picking up needles and giving it a go. Every Tuesday morning inside Bend coffee shop Spoken Moto, a group of…
Giving the Gift of Food
It’s the gift-giving time of year and if you have someone on your list who enjoys food – eating it and/or cooking it, here are some foodie gift giving ideas for you to consider. Let’s start with a cookbook. I know, you can Google up any recipe you want online these days, but a true…
Go Here: Illuminating the Deschutes with Holiday Spirit
Uniting the outdoor, active spirit of Bend with holiday cheer, the Tumalo Creek Holiday Lights Paddle Parade will brighten the water with battery-powered and solar-powered holiday lights, Christmas music and festive energy. Decked-out canoes, kayaks and paddle boats will parade up the Deschutes this Friday, Dec. 9 and are invited back to Tumalo Creek for…
Gung Ho: Goo Goo Dolls Headed Back to Bend
Goo Goo Dolls Headed Back to Bend Nineties darlings the Goo Goo Dolls must have had a good time when the band played the Hayden Homes Amphitheater back in July, because in 2023, the band will make its only Oregon summer show appearance right back here in Bend. HHA announced made its second concert announcement…
Horoscope Week of December 8, 2022
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I applaud your expansive curiosity. I admire your yearning to learn more and more about our mysterious world as you add to your understanding of how the game of life works. Your greed for interesting experiences is good greed! It is one of your most beautiful qualities. But now and then,…
Letters to the Editor 12/08/2022
RE: Concealed Carry Laws in Oregon Need to Change. Opinion, 12/1 Your editorial on concealed carry laws is spot on. There are music venues, bars and other businesses in Austin that post signs telling patrons that they cannot bring their guns inside, concealed carry permit or not. That’s deep in the heart of Texas, folks.…
WestSide Taco Reopens
WestSide Taco Co. has reopened in Redmond, following a fire that closed its doors in early October. The popular food cart, which has won Best Food Cart and Best Lunch in Redmond numerous times in the Source Weekly’s Best of Central Oregon readers’ poll, has been cobbling together some service using its catering equipment, but…
Drink Winter Beers, Help the Bend Food Project
Like beer? Like drinking beer outside with friends? Then an upcoming event benefitting the Bend Food Project may be right up your alley. The Central Oregon Winter Beer Festival happens Saturday, Dec. 17 in the parking lot of GoodLife Brewing and the Century Center, on Bend’s west side. A fundraiser for the Oregon Brewers Guild,…
A Complicated Tree
If it seems to you like juniper are everywhere, well, they are. Western junipers are among the most common trees in Oregon — in some areas, essentially the only tree. Once thought to be all one species, recent scientific work has shown that there are actually two species of Western juniper, although the one you…
Nurses Overwhelmed and Understaffed
Oregon nurses are understaffed, overworked and burned out, according to a new poll conducted by the Oregon Nurses Association. Less than 1% of polled nurses said their unit is always fully staffed, half say they’re caring for too many patients and 42% say they skip meals and breaks on most of their shifts. The ONA…
The Rent is Too Damn High and Getting Higher
Bend’s fair market rent rose by 37.4% from 2019 to 2023, making it the ninth-largest increase in rent among small metros in the United States. The Consumer Price Index shows rents across the country have risen by 24.1% since 2019, the fastest pace since the 1980s. A study from Construction Coverage lays the blame on…
The Shroomdocks
Oregon became the first state in the country to legalize psilocybin therapy in 2020, and starting next year psilocybin manufacturers, processors and service centers will be able to apply for licenses to operate. The ballot measure passed with 56% of the voters, largely from urban areas, though since then 25 of Oregon’s 36 counties voted…
