Cronenberg Squared
I’ve spent a lot of Source Weekly pages over the years writing about why we go to the movies and if there’s any “wrong” reason or way to watch a film. The reason why I watch a movie is completely different than why my mom or the average moviegoer does. For most people, going to…
Awakening Your Inner Hero: A moment in time, or needing to be right is wrong
I couldn’t figure out which title was the right one. Get it? Is there even such a thing as a moment in time? Is there anything else except moments in time that add up to be minutes, hours, days, then generations and millennia? We have all heard the wisdom that this moment, the Now, is the…
Are New Cannabinoids Friend or Foe?
Many of my friends live in states which don’t have regulated Adult Use cannabis programs, in cities such as Nashville, Tennessee, Austin, Texas, and Birmingham, Alabama. They don’t offer residents options to legally produce, purchase or partake of Delta-9 THC, everyone’s favorite cannabinoid found in, you know, the pot weed. For those seeking a head…
A Tale of Two Tots
Tater tots are celebrating their 70th anniversary this year, having been invented on the Oregon side of the Oregon-Idaho border (hence the founding company’s name, Ore-Ida). So while it’s easy — sensical, even — to ignore National Grilled Cheese Day or National Condiments Day, celebrating National Tater Tot Day makes sense, even if it only…
A Love for ‘Galaxy Grass’
The pandemic, for many touring musicians, was a rare chance to take an extended break and recharge their creative batteries. Not the Kitchen Dwellers. The Montana-based string band wanted to make a new album (which became the 2022 release “Wise River”) that made a statement about the group. “We kind of took that route in…
Always Seeking the Stars
Most of us are going through some sort of difficulties in our lives, true, but Charity Woodrum’s story reads like someone being taught, lesson after lesson, by a universe unaware of individual struggle. And after watching the locally made documentary about Woodrum, “Space, Hope and Charity,” it’s hard not to feel like she took those…
La Ciudad establece objetivos para los próximos dos años
El Consejo Municipal de la Ciudad de Bend planteó las prioridades para los próximos dos años durante los dos días de reuniones de mesa redonda del 23 al 24 de enero. La Ciudad establece prioridades cada dos años, al mismo tiempo que los nuevos concejales juran sus cargos. Los objetivos se basan en una encuesta…
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High Desert Duelists ▶ [With Video]
The earliest known blades are 500,000 years old, predating written history, the Ice Age and humanity itself. An unknown human ancestor carved the first blades out of a lava stone in what is now Kenya. Archeologists uncovered the blade in 2009, and it could signify a revolutionary shift in human cognition that archeologists previously believed…
Sell Your Home by Promoting It as Pet-Friendly
Bend is known as one of America’s great dog towns. And with good reason. Bend is a very dog-friendly place with so much open space to explore and many opportunities for bringing your dog along for the ride, wherever you may roam. Some recent estimates have suggested that there’s one dog for every three people…
Getting Together For Games
Whether it’s Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer or Magic, the strategy game community in Central Oregon is alive and well. Peter Askew, owner of Modern Games in Bend, knows the ins and outs of the games and the gaming groups in Central Oregon, and has suggestions for how people should get started. The thing that sets…
New Year’s Nerdout
It was a mere minutes from the proverbial ball drop on New Year’s Eve on Dec. 31, 2022, and my friend, who’d rented a beach house in Yachats for us all to celebrate the New Year, was pissed off. “It’s New Year’s Eve and my friends are all doing a crossword!!” she exclaimed. And this,…
Going On a Ride With Beats Antique
Beats Antique hits the Midtown Ballroom Feb. 9 for a high-energy, immersive performance. The band heads out on its Oregon/Washington tour the day prior, playing shows in Ashland, Bend, Eugene, Portland and ending in Bellingham. Bend is the band’s second stop. The band has been releasing world-fusion music and performing since 2007. With each new…
Horoscope Week of February 2, 2023
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I want to raise up the magic world all round me and live strongly and quietly there,” wrote Aquarian author Virginia Woolf in her diary. What do you think she meant by “raise up the magic world all round me”? More importantly, how would you raise up the magic world around…
Letters to the Editor 02/02/2023
This Modern World Dear Tom, You knocked it out of the park with the volume 27 issue 04 January 26 Republican reflection. Thank you so much. Hang on for the shit-show of the decade. It’s gonna be a thriller… vomit vomit… We have never seen political vindictiveness of the likes that’s coming. Sincerely, Racer Dave…
Israeli Street Food Opening in The Grove
Israeli street food purveyor Shimshon is heading west, setting up a new location in The Grove Market Hall in Northwest Crossing in Bend. Shimshon’s food is already available at two other locations, including at its cart at Midtown Yacht Club and at the Barrio restaurant in downtown Bend. Menu items at the various Shimshon locations…
Bruno’s Becomes Bruno’s Again
Bruno’s 6th Street Market is now open in the former Midtown Market along 6th Street in northeast Bend. It’s something of a return to its previous name, when the same location was the site of Bruno’s Grocery Deli and U-Bake Pizza as late as 2015. These days, Bruno’s 6th Street Market offers a full deli,…
School Nurse? Nope; School Clinic
Mosaic Medical, a nonprofit community health organization, is developing a new school-based health center at Mountain View High School. The medical provider already established clinics at Bend High School, Redmond High School and M.A. Lynch Elementary. That’s in addition to La Pine Community Health Center’s health center at Gilchrist School and St. Charles Health Systems’…
Concerted Effort to DisPlay the Arts
A recent study recommended that the Central Oregon Center for the Arts, a nonprofit with a mission to champion an inclusive, vibrant center for the arts, could build and support a facility with a 1,200-1,500-seat theater, green rooms, a small “black box” stage, rehearsal space and storage for instruments in Central Oregon. It’s the third effort…
Oregonians Lack Basic Information About Water Issues. A Recent Secretary of State Report is a Start in Changing That.
Plenty of people think of Oregon as a rainy, green oasis – but those of us who live in the 2/3 of the state that doesn’t look like that know differently. Here in Central Oregon, water is scarce enough to mean some farmers don’t get the water they need at crop-growing time. Others begin hobby…
Polar Plunging for a Purpose
On Feb. 11, Central Oregonians are waking up, running and plunging in the Deschutes for a cause. Central Oregon’s Polar Plunge has been happening for 17 years and is the longest-running organized plunge in the state, according to Britt Gamble, Central Oregon’s Polar Plunge and 5K manager. Benefiting the Special Olympics Oregon, this event helps…
