Homeless Leadership Coalition to Hold Candidate Forum
On Friday, Oct. 5, the Homeless Leadership Coalition is hosting a candidate forum to address homelessness and housing in Central Oregon. Invitations were sent out to gubernatorial, U.S. Representative, Oregon Senate District 30, all Oregon House and Deschutes County Commissioner candidates. According to the HLC, the purpose of the forum is to give candidates an…
La Bell Pulls Out of HD54 Race
Tthe Oregon Working Families candidate for House District 54 has decided to end her run for the seat. According to a press release from the Oregon Working Families party, the party fully supports Amanda La Bell’s decision to end her campaign. “As a party, we believe that when a candidate no longer has the trust…
Wasted! A Movie
Did you know that almost 26 percent of Deschutes County’s Knott Landfill is made up of wasted food? “Wasted! The Story of Food Waste” is a movie aimed at changing the way we buy, cook, recycle and eat food, exposing the criminality of food waste and how it directly contributes to climate change. Chefs including…
Fall Style: Heirlooms
This fall, draw inspiration from two artists, Katie Daisy and Sheila Dunn, and two local shop owners, Alicia Renner and Jacq Smith, who we might consider to be Bend’s own “Heirlooms” of art and style. Over the years, they have contributed creatively to Bend, at times fervently and sometimes ever so subtly, while integrating and…
At last! A long-nosed snake!
My longtime pal and devoted champion of Oregon’s amphibians and reptiles recently sent me an email and photo, declaring: “LONG-NOSED SNAKE CONFIRMED IN THE OWYHEE!” If you’d been trying to document that species in Oregon for 50 years like he has, you’d have spread the word in caps and exclamation points, too. It’s a big…
May the Source Be With You
I know, it’s felt like a long time since the last column, but I’ve spent my time wisely, soaking up every single bit of pop culture I could so I can share with you a few of my favorite things. I spent so much time listening to podcasts that I’m pretty sure my inner ear hates…
Nun-Sense
Why is the idea of a cinematic shared universe so difficult for studios to reproduce? Sure, Marvel has nailed it, proving to other studios how and why it can be done, but the DC Comics Universe featuring “Justice League” and “Suicide Squad” and Universal’s “Dark Universe” with Tom Cruise’s “The Mummy” have failed miserably. Aside…
Empire Avenue Closure
Parts of Empire Avenue will be closed for construction projects starting Sept. 11, and will be set to reopen in December. According to the City of Bend, the street will close from the 18th Street roundabout east to Purcell Boulevard. Empire will still have access to the Parkway during construction. The project is part of…
A Secret Committee Revealed
Question: Is there really a newly discovered secret multi-agency federal government committee, currently drafting prohibitionist anti-cannabis policy, to generate reports to be spoon-fed to the rapidly diminishing-mental-capacity Commander in Chief ? Wow…How high would I need to be to believe that? [Takes hash hit off bong.] That’s how high. Late last month, BuzzFeed news broke…
Natural Growth
A couple months ago, a friend of mine who works at the Amphitheater teased me by saying entertainment agency, Monqui, had booked one last show for the year, and it was a band I loved. That’s all she’d give up. When they finally announced The Head and The Heart would close out the concert season, with…
Deconstruction vs. Destruction
When we last caught up with Elijah Goodall, the brains and muscle behind local experimental electro pop act This Island Earth, he told us about “Wounded Tropic,” his three-album concept project about an island and its inhabitants that survive a brutal tropical storm. Over the 14 months since we last spoke, Goodall has been hard…
Bend Median Home Price Declines 1.5 Percent for August
While home sales have been declining in many areas, the number of August sales for Bend single family homes on 1 acre or less was 8 percent above July 2018. The median home price, however, decreased by 1.5 percent from $437,000 in July to $430,500 for August. Although the median home sales price decreased from…
Free Will Astrology—Week of September 13
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your keynote is the Japanese word shizuka. According to photographer Masao Yamamoto, it means “cleansed, pure, clear, and untainted.” One of his artistic practices is to wander around forests looking in the soil for “treasures” that emanate shizuka. So in his definition, the term isn’t about being scrubbed or sanitized. Rather,…
Swarm Feelings and Dead Wait
Swarm Feelings I’ve been flirting with two guys all year. I feel a connection and chemistry with both, but neither’s asked me out yet. This weekend, I’m attending a going-away party of a grad student we all know, and I’m nervous that they’ll both show up and ask me out. (There’s also a third guy…
Letters to the Editor
In Response to, “Drying Up?” on 8/23 I appreciate the work your reporter put into the story, and I appreciate the role of the media of raising issue. However, I think the claim by the well owner is speculative. One of the concerns I have is that unless the reader pays close attention and gets…
Big Ink II at Bend Art Center
If you missed the first Big Ink that came through Bend Art Center last month, you get a second chance! These amazingly huge pieces, which in scale are each approximately 24 inches by 36 inches in size, are made from large woodblocks. The result is breathtaking. The collection, created in Eugene this past summer during…
Fresh Hops Are Here
There’s no doubt that craft beer is a nationwide trend—one that now has many regional specialties. Look at the ultra-trendy New England IPA, for example, or the tart and sour Berliner weisses that are endemic all across Florida. Up here in Oregon, however, we have fresh hops every fall—the regional gift that keeps on giving.…
First Ladies of Liquor
There was a time when all the liquor stores in Bend were owned by men. That was a year and a half ago. It changed when Allison Cogen purchased the Bend South Liquor Store from Robin Holmberg. Cogen had known Holmberg for years because she co-owned a store next to his, Postal Connections. She met…
Bus Stop?
On Sept. 6, about 40 people, led by Jonathan Hunt of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757, rallied to demand Cascades East Transit drivers earn a living wage. According to Andrew Riley, communications coordinator for the ATU Local 757, CET drivers—which operate the fixed-route and dial-a-ride service in Bend—work for Paratransit Services, a Bremerton, Wash.,…
Stomp Those Grapes!
Grape stomping was historically used to crush grapes and release their juices to begin fermentation. Today it’s used in celebration, or as a competitive activity. As in other years, Maragas Winery invites you to attend its annual grape stomp. Participants receive a commemorative glass of their San Francisco Chronicle medal-winning 2016 Tootsie dessert wine and…
Septic to Sewer Conversion: Kicking the Can Down the Road Only Exacerbates the Problem
Bend, as a rapidly growing city, has a lot of growing pains. Case in point: the long, drawn-out saga of homeowners forced to connect to new sewer lines as those lines come online. The issue dates back several decades, to at least 1998, when the City of Bend faced the dilemma of whether to annex…
Patrol Deputy brings experience, gratitude and a female je ne sais quoi to county service
Twenty-four years has passed since I was last in a police station. After a short lifetime of 911 calls and sirens, at age 10, law enforcement forcibly removed my sister and me from our mom’s custody. We sat in the cold plastic chairs at the station and waited to be released to our father. Many…
Things are changing for the river and for canals. Here’s why.
Last month, the Source Weekly published a story illustrating community concerns about the effects of irrigation improvements on groundwater levels and private wells. Piping canals has been a controversial topic in Central Oregon over the past several years. For many decades, these canals have been part of the landscape, winding their way through our dry…
Fall Fashion, Sportsy Edition
Weather wise, there’s lots to look forward to in an autumn in the High Desert. Mountain biking goes off, paddling is still on offer, powder hounds are champing at the bit for winter and a reprieve from summer heat and smoke emerges. Central Oregonians can sport shorts and t-shirts during the day and start blowing…
Go Here
Put on your hiking shoes and follow in the footsteps of history The Pacific Crest Trail is a 2,650-mile journey through the heart of Cascadia. Stretching from Mexico to Canada, the trail was first imagined in 1926. Completed in the 1950s, the PCT, along with the Appalachian Trail, became the nation’s first National Scenic Trails,…
