Source Weekly Update Podcast 6/27/19
The Source Weekly Update podcast! It’s a fire-themed podcast as we update you on S’mores, the Season of Wildfires and the Do’s and Don’ts with Fireworks; from the June 27, 2019 edition. WHERE TO SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2Jpo2nd Stitcher: https://bit.ly/2HykqvR Tunein: https://bit.ly/2JmkRww Soundcloud: https://bit.ly/2LRpX6c
Bring on the Buns
For those who have never tried bao, it’s a delicious, fluffy bun, steamed and often served up with some sort of BBQ-style meat filling. It’s a popular street food in China—and now you can find it in Bend. Bao Down has been popping up at events around Central Oregon since the end of May, and…
Republican Senators AWOL… Again
As of Friday, all 11 members of the Oregon Senate were still staying away from work, denying the quorum needed to pass any legislation through the state Senate. It’s the second time this session the Republicans have left their posts to deny the Democratic majority the members needed to pass any bills. Sen. Tim Knopp…
Source Weekly Update Podcast 6/20/19
The Source Weekly Update podcast! Listen in this week on what’s going on in the world of pickleball, kicking off Central Oregon’s LGBTQ+ Pride festivities, and The Bite’s Best, a local cooking competition, from the June 20, 2019 edition of the podcast. WHERE TO SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2Jpo2nd Stitcher: https://bit.ly/2HykqvR Tunein: https://bit.ly/2JmkRww Soundcloud: https://bit.ly/2LRpX6c
Best of Both: A bike race on both road and single track
Plenty of people can race in a road or mountain bike race. Fewer can do both, all in one day. But that’s the idea behind the Best of Both bike race this weekend, staged at Wanoga Snow Park. With a 61.6-mile road race, followed by a 23.4-mile mountain bike race, racers who do both are…
The Open House
If you’ve been around Central Oregon for a while, you’ll remember how limited we once were when choosing a favorite watering hole or restaurant. With the growth of population we’ve seen an enormous surge in dining and beverage options. The same is true for the housing market. Before the Bend boom it was slim pickings…
Free Will Astrology—Week of June 20
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Some traditional astrologers believe solar eclipses are sour omens. They theorize that when the Moon perfectly covers the Sun, as it will on July 2, a metaphorical shadow will pass across some part of our lives, perhaps triggering crises. I don’t agree with that gloomy assessment. I consider a solar eclipse…
Boneyard Debuts New Chef, New Menu
It’s been nearly a year since Boneyard Beer opened its new pub on Division Street in Bend—and now, the popular spot has released a new summer menu and is introducing its new head chef. “Our new Head Chef Ben Phillips has written a menu we believe the people of Bend will love, because we are…
Letters to the Editor
GUEST OPINION It’s Time to Pass The Clean Energy Jobs Bill When debating whether to climb an ice pillar, they say you shouldn’t climb it if you don’t feel safe standing under it. You have to decide if it can bear your weight and repeated strikes from your crampons and ice axes. Sometimes you can…
A “Gluten-Reduced” Local Beer
If you’re one of those people who doesn’t have celiac disease, but who’s still sensitive to gluten, this might be a beer for you to try. This month, Deschutes Brewery released Lil’ Squeezy Juicy Ale, a “gluten-reduced” American Pale Ale that relies on an enzyme to break down gluten proteins in beer. “Most Deschutes Brewery…
Not Singing the Swan Song
The Western U.S. population of trumpeter swans, Cygnus buccinator —Cygnus from the Latin for swan, and buccinare for “to trumpet”—fell into deep trouble when their feathers and skin became a valuable commodity in the late 1800s. That same species you see today on the Deschutes River, Lake Aspen and Sunriver’s ponds, were at one time threatened with…
The Heart Is A Clonely Hunter and Groundhug Day
The Heart Is A Clonely Hunter I’ve heard that we’re romantically attracted to people who look like us. Is that true? I don’t think any of my boyfriends have looked anything like me, but I have seen couples who look so similar they could be related. —Wondering You can kinda see the merits of dating…
For the Love of Cats
It takes a big love for cats for someone to wake at 4:30am, do a loop across Central Oregon from Sisters to Madras, then to Burns and back by midnight—with a carload of feral animals. Caring for pets in Central Oregon got a little more streamlined when in November, the Bend Spay and Neuter Project…
Un-Fest Northwest 2019
Un-Fest 2019 is a non-gathering of people doing nothing but lying in the grass, staring at the sky. Children of all ages are welcome to attend. We guarantee their boredom and delight. Please feel free to share. Everyone welcome. Location : Wherever you feel like doing nothing Time : Whenever you feel like doing it…
Game of Groans
Locals, these pages are for you. As the summer—and summer events—season kicks into high gear navigating Central Oregon becomes like a high-stakes game of “Life” mixed with “Sorry!” Here’s some info you might want to know, delivered with a little local humor. (Look for this week’s print edition to play this in real life!) So…
Book Talk: “The Mirror Pond Murders”
“The Mirror Pond Murders,” the second installation in Ted Haynes’ Central Oregon-based Northwest murder mystery trilogy, is any sleuth’s dream. Lies and cover-ups lead to four seemingly unrelated murders, all connected to a skull discovered at Mirror Pond—that body of water that in real life sparks so much controversy here in Bend. The story follows…
Regional Roundup
Bill to increase fees on rafts, kayaks and drift boats passes Oregon legislature Paddling a boat could get a little more expensive in Oregon. Legislation that requires adults to purchase a $17 permit before floating a raft, kayak or other non-motorized boat in Oregon has passed the state legislature. Senate Bill 47 now heads to the…
The Bite’s Best
You know summer has arrived in Bend by a few key markers: The kids get out of school and start running in wild packs around ice cream shops and arcades, the parking lots at Riverbend Park get stuffed full… and the Bite of Bend kicks off in downtown Bend. And where there’s a Bite of…
Don’t Let Vocal Minorities Erode Alternative Transportation Options
Few topics bring up as much passion in Bendites as transportation and housing. On the first topic, the City of Bend is continually charged with balancing the needs of the greater whole—drivers, walkers, cyclists and disabled people alike—with the cries of the sometimes-outsized vocal minority. While it’s true that Bend needs more vehicle-transportation infrastructure to…
Regaining Balance
If Helen of Troy’s was the face that launched a thousand ships, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale was the beer that launched a thousand (or 7,000, by today’s count!) breweries. First released by the pioneering Chico, California brewery in 1980, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale introduced the world to the grapefruit punch of Northwest-grown Cascade hops, and…
Picklers Assemble
Founded in 2013, the Bend Pickleball Club was formed to provide more ways to play the beautiful game here in Central Oregon – which is exactly what they did. In partnership with the Bend Park and Recreation District, BPC raised money and help build 16 new pickleball courts at Pine Nursery Park. And that’s where the…
Bucket List: Tour with Grateful Dead, Jefferson Starship and the Commodores
Let’s get this out of the way up front: I’m an eccentric baby boomer. I mute ads on commercial radio stations and do the same thing while watching TV… drives my wife crazy. I cannot stand the onslaught of drug advertisements—and don’t get me started on political ads. And I’m cheap. I love Spotify, but…
Small-Town Lives
Bobby Hoffman has a bad haircut and a worse mustache. He wakes up every morning in a classic Airstream trailer surrounded by empty boxes of Pop Tarts. He vapes and jogs simultaneously and is condescended to by just about everyone he meets, including his festering prick of a boss at a terrible Italian restaurant where…
Central Oregon Pride
We’re well into Pride Month, and the main event is kicking off on June 22 at Drake Park in downtown Bend. In addition to an impressive lineup of entertainment and speakers, this year’s event will also join Pride celebrations across the nation in marking the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots—the 1969 protests that are…
Pride and Pot
June is LGBTQ+ Month—established in homage to the Manhattan-based “Stonewall Riots” in 1969. Fifty years later, it’s grown to address the many concerns facing LGBTQ+ communities, including safety, housing and employment discrimination, and a multitude of other matters that our current dystopian fever-dream administration seems to be adding to on the regular. Cannabis has a…
Summer Events Guide
We brought you our Summer Music Guide last month—now, we’re getting you sorted for all of the other local events happening this summer, broken into sections including food, arts and more. Keep this guide handy to have your summer all planned out. THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER BEND ELKS BASEBALL More than 20 years of baseball in…
It’s in Their Blood
Last year The Wood Brothers received a Grammy nomination for best Americana Album with the band’s project, “One Drop Of Truth.” While the group—formed by brothers Oliver and Chris Wood and Jano Rix—is well known for its talent, that was the first time their music was recognized on that level. Even still, the band has…
Four Picks for 4 Peaks
Music festivals are flooded with talent—so much so that it’s often hard to figure out who you actually need to see. With the 2019 4 Peaks music festival coming up this weekend, the Source wanted to make sure we had you covered. Here’s a list of some of the acts you might not be super…
A Community Thread
Joshua Langlais is a local photographer and the creator of A Community Thread, a project for which he interviews folks on the subject of community, its importance, and how we function as individuals within it. This is an excerpt from his interview with Erika Spaet, a Lutheran pastor coordinating and curating Storydwelling (bendstorydwelling.org), an emerging…
Street Beat
We asked locals: What’s your favorite event in Central Oregon? “Beer, Bends and Public Lands.” – Kirk Richardson “Floating the (Deschutes) River.” – Gary Windthorpe “Mountain Biking on Mt. Bachelor.” – Matthew Bent “Take pictures. I go to COCC, studying black-and-white photography.”- Rhonda Dalrymple What tips do you have for people attending events in Central Oregon?…
