Stay Warm, C.O.!
Pine Mountain Sports, FootZone and Patagonia @ Bend are bringing the heat to Central Oregonians in need this winter with a winter coat drive and sleeping bag drive! Drop off your gently used winter coats and sleeping bags to any of these locations and they donate the coats to the Bethlehem Inn and and style…
Q&A with BendFilm
The 14th annual BendFilm festival is almost here! Ahead of the fest, Source Editor Nicole Vulcan sat down with BendFilm Director Todd Looby and Festival Programmer Erik Jambor to talk about what they’re looking forward to (everything, of course!), films that speak to a Central Oregon audience (all of them, duh!) and other stuff. Here’s an excerpt of…
Staging Tricks to Make Your Home Look Bigger
As a realtor who helps numerous clients sell their older homes, I often use Realtor.com for useful hints on how to create an appearance of more space—often an issue in smaller homes, such as those found in the downtown Bend area. As fall sets in and we focus more on the interiors of our homes—and…
Film Fanatics Unite
T he time is upon us once again for the Pacific Northwest’s premier film festival, BendFilm. I have to say, with no hyperbole, that the lineup for this year’s festival has several movies that any film festival on the planet would be lucky to have—downright coups for our little festival that could. With this year’s…
Little Bites: The Science of Cocktails
Sip on mind-bending cocktails and savor tasty bites so kids can get free science and arts education through the Children’s Museum of Central Oregon. After a few cocktails loosen you up you can find your groove on the dance floor with local band, The Same Coin. They will have exciting raffle prizes you can win,…
Rise Up
I f you haven’t been keeping up with Denver-based alternative hip-hop band Flobots since their popular hit single “Handlebars” debuted in 2008, you’ve been missing out. In addition to creating topical, catchy alternative hip-hop jams, the Flobots have taken to the streets to organize grassroots trainings—using music as a tool for revolution. “In the year…
Little Bites: The Barrel Thief Lounge Changes Direction
A fter two years in their new location Oregon Spirit Distillers has decided to change direction with their restaurant, The Barrel Thief Lounge. Instead of being open to the public, the space is now private and available for booking events like company gatherings, holiday parties and weddings. If you want to book your party with…
Little Bites: Tea Flights Like Wine at Tea Buzz
Y ou can find Tea Buzz, Bend’s quaint new tea bar, in a charming house on Greeley Avenue. The owner, Joanna Richards, offers tea tastings and parties by appointment and serves as your global tea guide. She’s brewing more than the tea you can find in local markets. Having visited teahouses around the world, Richards…
Advice Goddess: Sparks And Recreation & Mood Poisoning
Sparks And Recreation I am a 32-year-old woman who has never been in a relationship with a man I’m actually attracted to. The men I’ve ended up with really pursued me, and they were all smart, funny, and kind, so I thought it was shallow not to date them because I wasn’t that into their…
Project Censored: The Top 25 Stories You Probably Missed This Year, 11-19
Think this year’s news reports have been wacky? Well, you haven’t even seen it all. Here’s more censored stories from Project Censored: The Top 25 Tories You Probably Missed This year. Law Enforcement Surveillance of Phone Records In cooperation with AT&T, US federal, state, and local law enforce-ment agencies have been secretly collecting telephone records…
Teafly’s First Friday & Art Walk Picks
I t’s funny how often we forget how many ways Art can present itself in our lives. Often we stop at painting or music, but art doesn’t have to hang on a wall for us to enjoy it. It can dance on that wall in a ballet of light. It can be an unassuming performance…
Mighty Fine Pies
I t was a Sunday night—an evening usually reserved for hot soups sipped around a fire as we try to stave off the creeping reminders of what Monday would bring. After a weekend spent in typical Bendito fashion—soccer games, two nights of live music, hiking and even a solo mountain biking sesh—regrouping around a hot…
Project Censored:The Top 25 Stories You Probably Missed This Year
In America, we commonly think of press freedom and censorship in terms of the First Amendment, which focuses attention on the press itself and limits on the power of government to restrict it. But the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, drafted in the aftermath of World War II, presents a broader framework. Article 19 reads:…
Letters to the Editor: Sept 25 – Oct 2
In Response to, “A House Divided, Does Short Term Rentals Help Solve the Housing Crisis” (10/1) Being able to stay in an Air Bnb allowed me to move to Redmond and begin my job as a pediatric occupational therapist, six weeks before I was able to move into my new house. I was able to…
Beer and Hardware by the Beach
I t’s not news, perhaps, that the coast of Oregon is worth visiting for the beer as much as the pretty views. From 7 Devils in Coos Bay to Buoy and all their friends up in Astoria, nobody’s ever very far from some locally-made refreshment. What can be a problem, however, is finding all the…
Birds on the move
“T here are three birds over the butte on the east side, just under those puffy clouds…” Chuck Gates said, speaking under his binoculars. “Got ’em,” Peter Low responded, getting his scope up to his eye. “Looks like turkey vultures,” he said after a few moments. If Peter Low says they’re TVs, they are TVs.…
Health Care For All?
Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., Medicare for All Act is now backed by 16 Democratic senators, and co-sponsored by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. With it, talks of universal health care are making headlines again, and actually gaining steam. “We’ve made tremendous strides in expanding access to health care across our nation, but many Americans still are…
Dynamic Duo
B efore I get too far into this show preview, I should offer the disclaimer that The Trebleshooters lead singer, Adam Sworob, and I have been friends nearly since the beginning of his residency in Bend. Sworob moved to Bend four and a half years ago and started working at G5, where I also worked…
State of Emergency: The prospect of a failed real estate transaction, #inBend
D uring the Sept. 20 Bend City Council meeting, councilors sent a clear message to the community about one thing: When a real estate transaction hangs in the balance, our City Council will step up to declare an emergency to right the wrong—no matter what that might look like to those struggling to keep a…
Source Spotlight: Mike Ficher
A s a young adult living in the San Francisco Bay Area in the ’80s, KPOV radio host Mike Ficher got to learn all the rock ‘n’ roll dances: the Hand Jive, the Twist, the Stroll, the Bristol Stomp, the Watusi, the Hully Gully and the Madison, to name a few. Eventually, he became one…
Rolling Into a New Season
A whistle sounds and the clacking of skates against waxed, concrete floors becomes the lively soundtrack to hard hits and even harder falls. It’s Sunday morning. While some people are sipping mimosas at their favorite brunch spot, the Lava City Roller Dolls are working up a sweat playing the full-contact, full-throttle sport of roller derby.…
Project Censored: The Top 25 Stories You Probably Missed 20-25
Seattle Activist Group Leads First Successful Campaign to Defund Police In September 2016 the Block the Bunker campaign in Seattle was the first to persuade US city officials to divest from police funding and allocate more tax dollars for community services. In summer 2016, a coalition of antiracist grassroots organizers protested the city’s plans to…
Picks of the Week: Oct 4 – 11
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