Turkey Trots!
Gobbling up turkey, stuffing and the other works of a typical Thanksgiving feast are highlights during the American holiday season. Posting up watching football or nibbling on finger foods while chatting with loved ones are common activities family and friends engage in while giving thanks to each other. For the 2021 holiday season, wake up…
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Summer Music 2021: Our recap of live music in Bend and beyond ▶ [with video]
The summer of 2021 brought lots of live music back to venues in Bend and the rest of Central Oregon—and the Source Weekly team was happy to be part of it. In this video, we assemble all the snippets and great moments of music our team caught throughout the summer and fall, including lots of…
Source Weekly Update 11/18/21 🎧
A new name for Bend’s biggest venue, and an embattled former executive director of the Bend FC Timbers speaks about the allegations against her, all in this week’s podcast. Source Weekly – Bend, Oregon · Source Weekly Update 11/18/21
Letters to the Editor 11/17/21
Editor’s note: This week we introduce you to the works of the local poets who have taken top honors in our annual Poetry Contest. Congrats to the winners—and we hope you join us on Saturday when we, along with the Deschutes Public Library and the Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Oregon…
A Club Divided
Bend FC Timbers soccer club fired its executive director Tara Bilanski, on Aug. 19 over its board of directors’ concerns around her leadership skills, collaboration with the board and transparency. Earlier this month a lawsuit alleged Bilanski skimmed money from summer soccer camps since she took the executive director position of the competitive soccer club…
Noticias en Español
El gobierno federal está destinando más de $1.2 billones de fondos de transporte a Oregon, a través del proyecto de ley de infraestructura que el Presidente Joe Biden firmo el lunes para que entrara en vigor. Con el proyecto de ley recién firmado, todavía no se han aprobado proyectos específicos hasta ahora en Oregon, pero…
A “Mix Tape” of Beloved Musicians
Since the Bend City Council relaxed its mural code in 2019—allowing murals to be painted on buildings outside the Maker’s District—the area where the previous code limited them—public art has proliferated in Bend. Murals now adorn hotels, underpasses, schools and private businesses, with more popping up all the time. One project—located just outside the bounds…
Poetry Contest
The Source Weekly’s annual poetry contest—a collaboration between the Source, the Deschutes Public Library and the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Oregon State University-Cascades—is always a beloved event around these parts. Not only do we get to review the wonderful and creative works from Oregon-based poets, but we get to look…
Fireside Drinks at Dogwood’s New Canteen at Campfire Hotel
When you think hotel bars, the words campy, eclectic, and inviting may not come to mind. You also may not think of a hotel bar being the perfect place to hang out with your pals. But “The Times,” as Bob Dylan sings so well, “They Are a-Changin.” Take for example the new Canteen at Campfire…
Bend’s Biggest Venue Gets a New Name
It has name recognition all over the state and region—but effective immediately, Bend’s biggest venue will no longer be known as the Les Schwab Amphitheater. Redmond-based home builder Hayden Homes is now the name-in-title sponsor for the Old Mill venue, entertainment company Live Nation announced Tuesday. Hayden Homes, established in Redmond in 1989, is the…
Vet Village Opens
About five houseless veterans will move into the Central Oregon Veterans Village this week, with about 10 more to come once the shelter is fully completed. A ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday ended the three-year-long process to get the shelter built. Bend Heroes Foundation conceived of the project and Central Oregon Veterans Outreach will manage the…
This Time, California Really is to Blame
We know what you’re thinking: That morning sun is great and all, but getting home from work in the dark is the pits. We also know what you’re asking: Didn’t we vote to get rid of this madness of changing the clocks forward and back two times a year? Yes, Oregon, we did. And the…
Flying Discs at Bend’s New Course
A newly constructed disc golf course in Bend has already seen plenty of visitors since its grand opening on Nov. 1. The course is situated on the north side of Skyline Sports Complex in Bend, adjacent to Cascade Middle School. The first tee can be found perched on the hill in between the ball fields. This…
GO HERE: Carrying Messages
In dedication to Native American culture, the High Desert Museum will soon display a new exhibit titled, “Carrying Messages: Native Runners, Ancestral Homelands and Awakening.” The new exhibit “highlights the historical significance of running in Native cultures in the Western United States and the ways that some Native people today are drawing on running as…
Baby, You Can Drive My Car
Listen, I’m about to very briefly explain the plot of a movie, and some of you are going to immediately decide never to see it. Some are going to be stoked because it sounds exactly like your specific brand of weird, and maybe the rest will come to the conclusion that I don’t see a…
New Age Edibles
According to a poll taken by comparecamp.com in 2019, 9.6% of cannabis users in the U.S. preferred to ingest marijuana via edibles like brownies, cookies or gummies. As weed grows in popularity, it seems more and more non-smoking stoners want to feel the effects of THC and CBD without inhaling. The most convenient way for…
Joel Chadd Looks to Make Dreams a Reality
For several years Joel Chadd began putting more and more focus on his own music, all while crafting acoustic guitars at Breedlove & Bedell Guitars in Bend and Peterson Thompson Guitars in Sisters. With that behind him, Chadd is fully committed to creating music and is able to put all his passion toward wherever his…
Bake a Pie, Win a Prize
Most Americans will be gobbling down some pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving Day, but ahead of that, a Bend cactus-plant store is gearing up to give bakers some bragging rights. The Great Pumpkin Pie Contest, happening Sunday, Nov. 21 at Desert Rose Cactus Lounge, is a chance for local bakers to show off their prowess in…
Free Will Astrology—Week of November 18
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don’t read the lines,” wrote author Margaret Millar. That’s not a common problem for you Scorpios. You are an expert at reading between the lines, but that doesn’t cause you to miss the simple facts. Better than any other sign…
Fossil Fool?
Fossil Fool? My husband died of a heart attack at age 75. On his phone, I saw several unsettling texts from younger women, alluding to improper liaisons and asking for money. We often helped needy families, but I’m suspecting these women tempted and took advantage of a kind, caring old man, or maybe he turned…
First-Time Homebuyer Dreams Versus Reality
Each homebuying pursuit begins with a dream—and more often than not, that dream very quickly turns into fantasy. Homebuyers and particularly first-time homebuyers have plans and visions of their dream property with all the bells and whistles, in flawless condition, in the perfect location and all for a bargain price. In 2012 all of that…
