LISTEN: Thor Erickson, Cascade Culinary Institute Chef/Educator 🎧
Source Weekly publisher Aaron Switzer and Food Editor Donna Britt have a lively conversation with CCI Chef/Educator Thor Erickson in this Bend Don’t Break podcast episode. Winner of the 2013 International Association of Culinary Professionals Culinary Teacher of the Year award, Thor talks about his love of teaching, his trip to the White House, his…
LISTEN: Grand Craft Bend: Grant McFarren, Crux Fermentation Project 🎧
This episode of Grand Craft Bend welcomes Crux Fermentation Project’s assistant brewmaster, Grand, er, Grant McFarren. This brewery, er, fermentation project, has so many plates spinning. There are new beers using new hops, new locations like its pub in Portland (and perhaps another new spot in Bend), surprising best-selling offerings, not to mention upcoming fermented beverages. In this episode we…
Bend Approves Sale for 26 Units of Affordable Housing
The Bend City Council approved the sale of two surplus parcels of city-owned land at the Feb. 7 council meeting. The land, which will be sold for approximately $20,000 each, will become 26 units on NE Franklin Avenue and NE Bear Creek Avenue. The sale is an affordable homeownership partnership between the Bend-Redmond Habitat for…
Call for Artists: Headquarters Lobby & Terrace – City of Bend Public Works Campus
The City of Bend in partnership with Art in Public Places (AiPP) seeks to commission a large-scale work of art for the new Headquarters Building on the Public Works Campus in Bend. The commission is for a large-scale work of art on three prominent walls in the public lobbies and outdoor terrace of the main…
OSU-Cascades Counseling Clinic Offers Free Counseling Services For Community Members
Openings are available to community members for confidential in-person and telehealth mental health counseling through the Community Counseling Clinic at Oregon State University-Cascades. The clinic is housed within OSU-Cascades’ Master of Counseling program and allows graduate students to develop expertise in cognitive-behavorial therapies under the close supervision of faculty and clinical supervisors. Sessions are facilitated…
Oregon Blue Book Cover Photo Contest Underway
The front cover of the 2023-2024 Oregon Blue Book showcases a hillside covered in beautiful balsam root and lupine flowers at Rowena Crest, captured by Oregon photographer Micah Lundsted of Eugene. The book’s back cover shows an image of three rockfish made at the Oregon Coast Aquarium by Dale George of Grants Pass. Which images…
Redmond School District Celebrates Career And Technical Education (CTE) Month
This February, Redmond School District joins schools nationwide in celebrating Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month, shining a spotlight on the invaluable opportunities CTE programs provide for students. CTE courses are designed to create an educational environment which integrates core academics with real-world relevance in various career pathways. Redmond boasts 10 different CTE specialty programs…
53 Organizations Share $265,000 In Arts Build Communities Awards To Address Community Needs Through The Arts
Fifty-three organizations have been awarded $5,000 Arts Build Communities grants, totaling $265,000, to address a community issue or opportunity through the arts. The Oregon Arts Commission’s Arts Build Community program is committed to promoting arts access for underserved audiences and targets broad geographic impact throughout the state. Among the many notable organizations and projects to…
New Name For Sisters Folk Festival
New year, new name. For years Sisters Folk Festival used the tagline, “More than just a festival!” to convey the work they do in the community beyond the nationally recognized Sisters Folk Festival. Now, they’ve taken the effort a step further and have officially renamed the organization SFF Presents. With the advent last June of…
City Considers Pausing Incentive Programs for Developers
A controversial tax exemption for a mixed-use housing development has put the City of Bend’s development incentive programs under a microscope, motivating City Council to reassess some of the parameters. As of Jan. 17, the City was set to pause its Multiple Unit Property Tax Exemption program, along with its other development incentive programs, and direct…
Over the Edge with Dead Nettle
City of Bend, meet four-piece shoegaze and noise-rock group, Dead Nettle. While the band is still fresh, the genre of shoegaze/noise has been around since the early ’80s and is easily identified by its use of obscured vocals, guitar distortion and overwhelming pedal effects to create an ecstatic sounding wave of alternative rock. Dead Nettle…
Bend toma en cuenta cámaras de tránsito para mejorar la seguridad pública
El Departamento de Policía de Bend está planeando implementar un programa automatizado para el control de tránsito, un sistema que utiliza cámaras para controlar el tránsito y mejorar la seguridad en la ciudad. El jefe de policía de Bend, Mike Krantz, presentó la idea a los concejales de la ciudad durante la reunión del 17…
Winter Mailbag, Deux
Q: Can you take us through the buying process of a real estate transaction? A: A quick rundown of the “buying side” process: In a typical financed transaction, first the person(s)/entity needs to be pre-approved from a lender and to identify a property they’d like to purchase. Once the buyer and seller agree to terms,…
Source Warmup
Bend Public Works Campus Call for Artists The City of Bend and Art in Public Places is looking to commission a large-scale art project for the new Headquarters Building on the Public Works Campus in Bend. The request is for a large work of art on three prominent walls in the public lobbies and outdoor…
Understanding Intimacy
Dear Dr. Jane, Valentine’s Day is coming up and I have to admit that I’m not looking forward to it. I love my boyfriend. He’s a great guy and we’re best friends. I think he even has a ring for me. He’s thoughtful and romantic — gives me a dozen red roses every year on…
Hoppily Ever After
Mark and Dana Henion met at brewing industry events in Eugene when he worked at Ninkasi and she worked at Oakshire back in 2012. Two years later, along with mutual friend John Van Duzer—who began working with Mark at Deschutes Brewery in 1994—they started working at Boneyard. The following year Mark and Dana got engaged.…
Redmond’s Feast Food Company Keeps It Seasonal, and Local
It was just three short years ago, in February 2021, that Feast Food Company started serving locally sourced food from its food truck. Chris and Emma Leyden opened that first version of Feast Food with the dream of one day owning their own restaurant. It didn’t take long for that dream to come true. By…
Romancing with Stones
Let’s be honest, during the Valentine’s season it’s all too easy to feel a tad overwhelmed by the commercial expectations of February’s “Hallmark Holiday.” Cards, chocolates, flowers and all kinds of other gifts have been plastered through grocery and retail stores over the past few days and believe me, it can be a bit confusing…
It’s Super Bowl LVIII and This Year We’re in Our RED Era
With the the countdown to Super Bowl Sunday upon us, football fans across the nation gear up for one of the most anticipated sporting events of the year. This year’s showdown promises an exciting face-off between two formidable contenders: the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers. And this year, both teams share something…
Celebrating the 24th Anniversary of International Guitar Night
International Guitar Night is back by popular demand at the Tower Theatre and is sure to be a feast for both guitar fanatics and lovers of world music. The performance, set for Tuesday, Feb. 13, features renowned guitarists from around the globe in a continent-converging night of songs. Tapped to host the event is Italian…
“Sorry, I’m Booked.”
Buying versus borrowing. Cover art. Yearly reading goals. Paper and Kindle and audiobooks. Color-coded bookshelves. Bookish dialogue enveloped the back corner high-top table where eight women circled, books in tow, awaiting their hour of silent reading among restaurant-goers out for a Sunday afternoon drink at Broken Top Bottle Shop last month. Because as much as…
Horoscope Week of February 8, 2024
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Reading through the annals of famous authors’ quotes about love, I’m horrified by the relentlessness of their sour assessments. “Love is merely a madness,” wrote Shakespeare. “Whoever is not jealous is not in love,” said St. Augustine. “General incivility is the very essence of love,” declared Jane Austen. “It is impossible…
Letters to the Editor 02/08/2024
Guest Opinion: Why aren’t we making our streets safer and more affordable? The logic is simple: wide roads encourage speeding, and fast streets are unsafe for people in and outside of vehicles. Higher speeds give drivers less time to react, require more time for the vehicles to slow down or stop and increase risk of…
New Local Owners For Jackson’s Corner
Jackson’s Corner opened in the summer of 2008 in the historic Delaware Grocery & Ice House in Old Town Bend. It quickly morphed from a mostly takeaway grab & go market and coffee shop into a full blown restaurant with a focus on sourcing local ingredients and a commitment to sustainable food systems. With a…
ONDA High Desert Speaker Series
Oregon Natural Desert Association’s High Desert Speaker Series this spring covers a variety of topics related to the High Desert. Take a visual tour through the remote Owyhee Canyonlands Region of eastern Oregon. Learn how Indigenous knowledge works with western science to rehabilitate landscapes, and how the High Desert’s geology is expressed through minerals and…
Bend Considers Traffic Cameras to Improve Public Safety
The Bend Police Department is planning to implement an automated traffic enforcement program, a system that uses cameras for traffic enforcement to improve safety in the city. Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz presented the idea to city councilors at a Jan. 17 meeting and received direction to move forward with an implementation plan. According to…
Rep. Jason Kropf on the Current Legislative Session, Priorities and Measure 110
The Oregon State Legislature’s “short session,” lasting 35 days, started on Feb. 5. Rep. Emerson Levy, who represents House District 53 in Bend and Redmond, will bring two bills to the legislature, focusing on insurance assistance and e-bike laws. In a podcast conversation, the Source Weekly talked to Rep. Jason Kropf of House District 54…
The Legislative Walkout Brigade Has One More Chance to Do the Right Thing
Cue the music, pop the champagne, because after a host of headlines and opinion pieces about legislative walkouts and subsequent legal challenges, the Oregon legislators who refused to do the people’s business in the Oregon State Legislative Assembly have officially been disqualified by the state Supreme Court. Last week, the court agreed with the decision…
From Barbenheimer to the Flower Moon
Here’s something I don’t even consider the tiniest of hot takes: I don’t care about the Oscars. I mean, OK, I guess I sort of do. I enjoy guessing who’s going to win and getting all butt hurt about what got snubbed, but ultimately the Oscars only matter in one very specific way: The artists…
