Oregon Shakespeare Festival Actors Take the Stage in Redmond
On Wednesday, Redmond High School will hosting a performance from two actors from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Presenting a sampling of The Bard’s work and beyond, the event will benefit the Panther Production Company, the RHS after-school theatre program. The performance, titled LOVE, HATE ON: An Evening Performance! features Erin O’Connor and Jason Sanford. The OSF actors…
TGIF: What to do #inBend this Weekend 12/5-12/7
Another work-week gone, another week closer to Christmas. Which means your TVs are flooded with holiday-themed films, specials and nostalgic and partially terrifying claymation adventures of elf-dentists. If you’re looking for something new and Christmas-themed to watch, don’t miss two chances to catch Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever on Lifetime, Fri., Dec 5 at 8 pm and Sat.,…
Grumpy Cat on Lifetime This Weekend
If you haven’t gotten your full dose of meta-Lifetime network Christmas movies, or you’re still waiting for your own cat’s meme to turn into an internet sensation and make you millions of dollars, or if you’re just like me and you can’t get enough of the frowny siamese kitty named Tardar Sauce… This weekend, Lifetime debuted…
Bend City Council Proclaims Dec. 7 Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
Bend City Council issued the following proclamation during tonight’s meeting, recognizing Dec. 7 as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. The proclamation was initiated by the Bend Heroes Foundation. Proclamation DECEMBER 7TH, 2014 as PEARL HARBOR REMEMBRANCE DAY WHEREAS, December 7th, 2014 marks the seventy-third anniversary of the premeditated attack on Pearl Harbor propelling our nation into WWII,…
Newspaper on the Radio 12/3
Listen to the Source Weekly’s editor Phil Busse outline some of the highlights of this week’s paper, and listen to some awesome tracks of his choosing! Thanks to 92.9FM for having us!
Freezing Fog Descends on Bend
According to the National Weather Service, the fog you see out your office window isn’t messing around. It’s here to stay…and freeze. Low visibility and slick roads make driving sketchy, so play it safe out there. Don’t drive if you don’t have to, use your lights, go slow, and watch out for bikes. Here’s the…
It’s Giving Tuesday, Check Out Our Local Give Guide!
In response to the overwhelming consumer driven purchasing days, Black Friday and Cyber Monday, a new campaign to add a day of giving to the national calendar has emerged. Today! Giving Tuesday encourages folks to give back to their communities in anyway they can. Here is the explanation from Giving Tuesday’s website: WHAT IS #GIVINGTUESDAY?…
City Council Finds Councilor-Elect Casey Roats Qualified
In a 5-2 vote, with Mayor Jim Clinton and Councilor Doug Knight dissenting, the Bend City Council approved a motion finding councilor-elect Casey Roats qualified to be elected to City Council. We’ll have more in this week’s issue, online and on stands Wednesday. What’s your take? Sound off in our poll and in the comments…
Thanksgiving Friday Mixtape!
Music for your dinner, your drive or just because.
Instead of Guitar Center, try Music Makers
For Dan McLung, it’s always been about the music and the freedom that comes with working for himself. The musician, who plays bass with the Moon Mountain Ramblers, has been self-employed since he was 23. “I suppose I’m unhirable,” McLung, now 62, jokes. A Bend resident since 1984, he originally opened the Piano Shoppe, playing…
Soulful Not Solitary
Switching effortlessly between guitar, fiddle and banjo, one-man-band Possessed by Paul James is as raw as they come. Named for a combination of his grandfather, Paul Wert and his father, James, his music has an old-timey country vibrato, telling stories about 38-year-old cocktail waitresses, growing old, growing up, perfume letters, loving and losing. All the…
A Small Slice of Belgium in Bend
One of the glorious personality traits about Central Oregon’s beer scene is its sheer inclusiveness. On one extreme, you have massive production facilities capable of producing tens of thousands of barrels per year—to say nothing of AB InBev’s recent foray into our collective doorstop. On the other, you have breweries that literally consist of a…
Home Town Heroes
The entry in Wikipedia for the sport of “log rolling” or, its more popular name, “roleo” is barely more than 10 lines long. It provides a few rules and the most drab information about a sport once popular in mill towns throughout the Northwest and upper Midwest. But largely, the entry—and, for that matter, most…
Meet the Artist
It’s said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but Maria Fernanda Bay’s portrait photography could be a novel. Specializing in beauty shots, maternity photos, and family and cooperate portraits, Fernanda, a recent Bend transplant from Boston, is a master of reading people and conveying their essence through photography. She has shot internationally, opened…
Film Events 11/26-12/4
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation The Griswold clan returns with another attempt to make solid family memories. This time instead of going to Wally World or Europe, all they want to do is stay at home and have a successful Christmas with each other. What they fail to realize is Christmas will more than likely be…
Instead of Zappos.com, try North Soles
By Brianna Brey The displays at North Soles are stocked, brimming with quality merchandise for the holiday season. Brown and black matte leather boots, dozens of shapes, sizes and a rainbow of colors of handbags, impeccably soft cashmere scarves and handmade baby Alpaca, Peruvian gloves. When Margaux Kellenberg-Hought started North Soles, a shoe and handbag…
Small Business Saturday
Last week, in a matter of something old, something new, and something borrowed (as in personal opinions), Yelp, the app that curates online user reviews, teamed up with Nielsen, which for decades has provided information about audience habits, primarily about TV watching trends. The marriage of the new and old was intended to locate which…
Our Picks 11/26-12/4
thursday 27 Thanksgiving Races RUNNING—The I Like Pie Run is the perfect excuse to eat another piece of pie. 9 am. Register at FootZoneBend.com. Starts at Crow’s Feet Commons. $5 donation and five pounds of food for Neighbor Impact. For the more competitive, there is the annual Turkey Trot. Also a 9 am start. Register…
Instead of Toys “R” Us, try smart local toy stores
By Phil Busse From role and pretend play, to constructive and scientific play, toys for the younger set are going back to the basics—what Baby Phases-Tot2Teen (759 NE Greenwood Ave) owner Molly Ryan simply calls, “Back to nostalgia.” “It really has to do with imaginative play, and going back to the building blocks,” she says.…
Instead of iTunes, try Recycle Music
By Brianna Brey According to an article published in the New York Times last week, the Consumer Electronics Association estimates that shipments of new turntables in the United States will have grown by 5 percent this year, totaling about 84,000. This is good news for Keith Schuman, owner of Recycle Music, a shop at the…
Out of Town 11/27-12/3
portland friday 28 Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony Even the tallest dinosaur, the Cretaceous-era brachiosaurus only measured 50 feet tall, which means even standing on its hind legs (which it wasn’t capable of), the tallest dinosaur still could not even reach the top of the seventy-five-foot-tall tree in Portland’s Pioneer Square. The annual tree lighting and…
Source Suggests 11/26-12/4
Zachary Lucky It may seem like an oxymoron, Canadian country music. What could be more wholly American than the twangy Nashville-esque sounds of pedal steel ringing through low and lauding laments? But rambling Canadian native, Zachary Lucky comes from the stock of country music, his grandfather Smiling Johnny Lucky, who the younger Lucky claims was…
Letters 11/18-11/25
IN REPLY TO “TELL THE CITY HOW YOU REALLY FEEL ABOUT VACATION RENTALS” (11/13) Two vacation rentals located next door to my main residence, eventually, after three years, forced me to sell my home. Living next door to a short-term rental property is absolutely impossible. New guests weekly, new sounds weekly, new pets trespassing onto…
Flying Solo
“I’m writing this from an airplane. We are currently experiencing much turbulence. I’m confident, though, that all will turn out well and I will get safely to my destination…” says Christopher Paul Stelling in an email interview with the Source. That’s what it’s like being on the road as religion, he says. “It’s like that.”…
Connecting the Dots
Although backcountry skiing is a common enough activity in Central Oregon, until Shane Fox and a couple of his buddies—”ski bums who build stuff,” he explains—started Three Sisters Backcountry, the idea of more formalized and semi-permanent structures in the backcountry was a novel concept here. Moreover, even though dozens of skiers have trekked out into…
Go Here 11/27-12/3
If the thought of spending the day after Thanksgiving shopping among the frenzied, pie-fed, bargain-seeking masses makes you punchy, consider another option. Trade black for green and spend the day grabbing your Christmas tree. A remarkably unscientific survey reveals nine out of 10 local outdoorsy types recommend heading past Sisters, parking where McKenzie Pass is…
Whatever, Mom
Having a child is like having a major concussion. It’s been 2,125 days since I first learned the news. And while those visions of plus signs and parallel lines from roughly three dozen home pregnancy tests are still vividly embedded in my brain, don’t bother asking me to recall anything prior. Thanks to Cade, my…
Judge and Jury
On December 1, City Council will hold a special session to deliberate and decide on the question whether councilor-elect Casey Roats is qualified to serve on Council. The meeting, scheduled for 3 pm at City Hall, will include testimony only from Roats. Neither the public, nor attorneys, will be permitted to comment. The meeting comes…
Fueling the Fire Department
Back in May, voters approved a property tax levy to raise much-needed funds for the Bend Fire Department. With resources stretched thin, response times for emergency medical services (which the fire department provides) throughout Bend have become dangerously long. The five year levy—which voters overwhelming approved—is intended to raise money to improve response times for…
Instead of Backcountry.com, try WebCyclery/WebSki
By Phil Busse WebCyclery is an anomaly. It began in 1997, during the nascent days of online shopping. Amazon was only four years old and other (no longer existent) companies like 800.com were booming with the then-novel idea that everything could be sold online—even something as fitted and individualized as shoes or bikes or skis.…
Instead of Amazon.com, try Cosmic Depot
By Erin Rook Tucked away down a winding path just off Third Street, Cosmic Depot looks like the home of the friendly neighborhood witch. A black cat named “Shadow” roams between the butterfly-bedazzled shrubbery and the bright yellow house speckled with purple stars. Inside, the shop is bursting at the seams with all manner of…
Six Recipes to Shake Up Tradition
For this year’s Thanksgiving holiday, the Source reached out to a few of Bend’s most talented chefs for some recipe ideas that are a bit off the beaten path. For the main dish, Bryan Tremayne from Primal Cuts offered us Turkey Confit: a richly flavorful alternative to the usual slow-roasted bird, as well as Stuffin…
