Sorry to See It Go: French Market Closes
After less than a year in business, the French Market is now closed. The restaurant opened in May 2017 in the former Riverside Market location on Riverside Blvd. “The slow season is too slow for us to stay profitable,” co-owner Phil Lipton told the Source Tuesday. “We met many friendly patrons. We thank them for…
Willie Nelson, Alison Krauss and Brandi Carlile headed to Bend
Monday morning Les Schwab Amphitheater announced two more shows for the month of August—Willie Nelson headlining with Alison Krauss and Brandi Carlile. Country Music Hall of Fame-er Willie Nelson is headed back to Bend this summer during a break between two legs of his 2018 Outlaw Music Festival Tour. Nelson will be sharing the stage…
Your pets are cute, and dirty too
Spring is here and along with all the other spring cleaning items, it’s time to clean Fido and Mitten’s areas as well. Don’t worry, it’s not that bad. Check out these eight tips for pet owners, courtesy of Bend Pet Express. Sanitize your pet’s food storage areas. Oils from pet food left in storage containers…
Zombie Jesus Fest
If you’re a fan of slashers, B-horror and, quite frankly, anything Troma has ever created—then this festival is for you. It’s the perfect film festival for avid horror film goers and creative types alike. The guidelines are simple—create a trailer for your horror film, any length will do. The trailers will be screened on April 1,…
Kindred Souls
If you want to hear the jam band-style rock music this group of talented and experienced musicians brings to the table, for the most part, you’ll have to catch them live. When you go out in search of the music of Ghost Light, you’ll only find a couple videos featuring music recorded in the studio,…
Bend, It’s Not Just for Beer Anymore
Bend may be considered Beer Town, USA, but startup tech firms are cropping up at a rapid rate, helped in part by the annual Bend Venture Conference and the new Oregon State University-Cascades’ Innovation Co-Lab. The BVC has an annual contest in three categories: The Growth State, in which companies generally have a proven concept,…
New Outdoor Adventures, Made In C.O.
As if there weren’t enough options for enjoying Bend’s awesome winters, Cascade Snowbikes added another one this year: motorcycles with a snowmobile-type track. Cascade Snowbikes is owned by Dave and Casey Reuss. The couple came up with the idea in 2016 and just opened the doors Feb. 15. The Reuss’ convert dirt motorcycles for riding…
PewPewPew
I’m a simple man, but I take pleasure in some very specific cinematic delights. I love giant, Godzilla-esque kaiju monsters. I also love several-hundred-feet-tall, mech-suited robots. So back when visionary director Guillermo del Toro announced he was making a movie about huge alien sea monsters entering our world through an inter-dimensional portal on the bottom…
Satin Worshipper/Wall of Me
My parents said they’d give my fiance and me money for a wedding or for a down payment on a home. They aren’t wealthy, so my fiance and I would have to fund about half of the wedding, or possibly more. He doesn’t care about a big wedding, and I agree that it would be…
Unsane in the Membrane
Steven Soderbergh is having one hell of a retirement. After announcing his intention to quit directing following “Magic Mike” and “Side Effects,” he directed, edited, produced and shot the insanely brilliant Cinemax show, “The Knick,” and HBO’s interactive puzzle series, “Mosaic.” He then instantly dove back into film with the Liberace biopic “Behind the Candelabra,”…
Karen Ruane
Karen Ruane never had a knack for watercolors, which is why her art may surprise you. It’s not watercolors that she works with. Instead, she uses alcohol inks, which leave you with the same feeling: free and light. Ruane grew up in the desert and has a deep love for it. She and her family…
Made in Central Oregon: Fiber Arts
Bend fiber artist Mary Wonser has been showing her works at the Artists’ Gallery Sunriver Village for the past four years, enjoying the company of her fellow artists—all proud to be crafting works made in Central Oregon. Thirty artists share the gallery space, offering art pieces for sale in the sunny showroom at Sunriver’s main…
Laird Superfoods
For the last 20 years, Laird Hamilton has been perfecting his private recipe to optimize coffee. About two years ago, he and Paul Hodge got together to come up with Sisters-based Laird Superfood, to give back to the community by building a dynamic business in Central Oregon, said Luan Pham, the company’s chief revenue and…
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Mindfulness in motion
Before I can even get the words out, the cheerful yogi and owner of Indigo Yoga in Bend already seems to know what I’m going to ask her. “Were they resistant in the beginning? Oh my goodness, oh yes,” says Jeannie Laslo Douglas, laughing. In 2014, she helped organize what she calls a “surprise attack”…
Made in Central Oregon 2018
Seemingly endless outdoor opportunities, rad local brews and a bustling social scene are not the only things that make Central Oregon a cool place to be (though you’ll read all about those important aspects of our culture often within the pages of this publication). Each and every day, the creative, ambitious and industrious among us…
J.D. Platt
In J.D. Platt’s 39 years in Bend, he’s done just about everything—from professional snowboarder to breakdancer—and now he’s come out with his own brand of inflatable standup paddle boards, aptly named JD SUP. Still, Platt’s probably best known for his 21 years training and showing dogs as JD Platt’s K9 Kings. If you live in…
Inflation Is Increasing and Making Home Ownership More Expensive
As was expected, the Federal Reserve decided to raise interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point last week. This puts the federal funds rate at its highest level since 2008. This could mean higher interest rates on bonds and mortgages and lower returns on real estate investment. Because mortgage interest rates typically follow…
Confronting the Death Cult
Anything this big can’t be that good, you’d like to think. Last year’s Women’s March was rightfully criticized for blinding whiteness and a recalcitrant approach to intersectionality, but after a million or so people again appeared out in protest for last weekend’s March For Our Lives in Washington, D.C., it’s apparent that the 2017 march…
Bronx Born Pizza Opens
Since June, we’ve seen a sign in the window of the building on Galveston Avenue and Columbia Street that read “Bronx Born Pizza Coming Soon.” The doors are finally open, and that means you can now satisfy your craving for New York style pizza. You know the kind of pizza: crust thin enough to fold…
Paper ballots and dumb phones are not dead—and shouldn’t be
This week, a Millennial in our office said he’d been thinking about going back to a “dumb phone.” We laughed. An offhand, humorous comment, yes, but one that speaks to a change afoot. Millennials, those early adopters of technology, those digital natives who have grown up not knowing a world without the Internet, are now…
Outdoor Enthusiast Chef Caters to Bend
When Susan Harrell relocated to Bend, she opened Susan’s Table, a new version of the successful catering business she ran in North Carolina. Harrell is a classically trained chef and Level 1 Sommelier who draws inspiration from the culinary hubs where she’s lived, including Memphis and Spain. She says, “I had the opportunity to test…
Easter Fool’s Beer
April 1 is Easter Sunday. It’s also April Fool’s Day, the first time the two holidays have shared the date since 1956. Why not celebrate both at once with beer? “The Brewmaster’s Table,” originally published in 2003, is one of the first cookbooks to take a serious approach to correctly pairing beer with food to…
Free Will Astrology Week of March 29
ARIES (March 21-April 19): A few years ago, a New Zealander named Bruce Simpson announced plans to build a cruise missile at his home using parts he bought legally from eBay and other online stores. In accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest you initiate a comparable project. For example, you could arrange a do-it-yourself…
Stock Your Pantry
In honor of the Made in Central Oregon issue, we round up some of our favorite foods that are made right here in the C.O. Bontà Natural Artisan Gelato Jeff and Juli Labhart trained under two different Italian gelato masters before developing their own ice cream recipes and starting Bontà Natural Artisan Gelato. Their gelato…
Electric Art
Plenty of big names and longtime residents come to mind when thinking about musical instruments made in Central Oregon. Usually though, those people build guitars. With that, Adam Mendel saw a niche in the market waiting to be filled: the electric ukulele. Mendel, a huge fan of Leo Fender, the man behind Fender electric guitars,…
Dog Pack Collars
Dog Pack Collars was born in Central Oregon two years ago after Megan Griffin moved to Bend with her husband and two adopted dogs, Holly and Darrow. Griffin says she loves being a dog mom—and likes to dote on her pups by creating them matching accessories. Having a hard time finding collars that were cute…
Scavenger Woodworks
Kentucky native Trae Gaddis started building furniture from found wood four years ago, after he and his wife Brittany found out they had a child on the way. They’d previously sold everything and were traveling around in a motorhome. Brittany started posting items up for sale and their business took off from there. Two years…
Wild Roots & Cascade Street Distillery
Nick Beasley, founder of Cascade Street Distillery, reconnected with Chris Joseph, founder of Wild Roots Vodka, in college, after hearing that Joseph was launching his own line of spirits. Beasley started working for Joseph at Wild Roots, which specializes in fruit-infused vodkas, but soon after branched out to create unflavored spirits under the name Cascade…
Light My Fire
Just a few months ago, sisters-in-law Allison Schultz and Julie Connell began making gorgeous bouquets of juniper, sage and other foraged materials, which, while beautiful, are also intended to ultimately be burned in a fire pit or fireplace. ‘Scuse me while I get all punny here, but it’s safe to say this new Central Oregon…
Free Range Equipment
While attending Montana State University, Tosch Roy had a ski mountaineering race coming up and didn’t have a backpack for it. He had done some sewing before, so figured he’d give making a backpack a shot. “It was crappy, but gave me hope,” Roy says. “A bunch of friends wanted one. It’s more of a…
Chivaz Socks
Chivaz Wear founder Matthew Gilman said he got started in the biz because back in 2006, no one was making quality tall socks that lasted a long time and didn’t fall down around your ankles. Chivaz shipped its first pair of socks in 2012. He named the business after having a run-in with a goat…
Branch + Barrel
Loving locally-made products is an ethos plenty of people in Central Oregon can get behind—but when those products are made from materials cast off by other locally-made products, it’s like Local Love, squared. Laura Nolan, also the artisan behind Tularoo Soaps, recently launched Branch + Barrel, a Bend-based jewelry company that uses wood sourced from…
Natural World
Aspen Lakes, on the Cyrus family property near Sisters, is involved in an exciting wildlife project. The project is in cooperation with the Trumpeter Swan Society, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the benevolent people at Aspen Lakes. There are only three trumpeter swans in the breeding program in…
