Braised Cabbage Goes Great with Beef, Pork and Other Meats
Corned Beef and Cabbage is a traditional American St. Patrick’s Day dish and it’s likely that culinary custom came from back in the day when Irish immigrants substituted beef for pork and cabbage for potatoes because of cost. Yep, it was less expensive to eat corned beef with cabbage than it was to prepare pork…
LISTEN: Past, Present and Future of the High Desert Museum with Dana Whitelaw, PhD 🎧
Dana Whitelaw, Ph.D., joined the staff of the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon in 2008 and has served as its executive director since 2014. Raised in Oregon, she earned her doctorate from University of Colorado Boulder in biological anthropology, conducting research that took her to Madagascar, South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia and China. During that…
Going Out In Green On St. Patty’s Day
Get your green on this Friday and find a Central Oregon St. Patrick’s Day celebration that stands out to you. With so many options, we ‘ve rounded up all of the ones we’ve heard about in one easy spot. From local live music jam nights to classic performances to DJ dance parties, Central Oregon has…
Wyden Holds Town Hall
Sen. Ron Wyden responded to Central Oregonians’ questions at a 90-minute town hall in Central Oregon Community College’s Wille Hall on March 11 — where he spoke about drought, dams, immigration and more. Wyden pledged to do a town hall in all of Oregon’s 36 counties every year, and thus far he’s has held one…
County Reneges on Planned Managed Camp
The Deschutes County Commissioners backed out of a plan to hire a contractor to manage a safe parking campsite on a 1-acre parcel of land on Murphy Road in south Bend after a two-to-one vote. At a meeting on March 8, Commissioners Tony DeBone and Patti Adair said complaints from neighbors, proximity to unmanaged camps…
From our sponsors: Apply now for a BCTF Grant
The Bend Cultural Tourism Fund, a Visit Bend project, is now accepting applications for its annual grant program. The project was created to enhance and support Bend’s cultural opportunities and offerings. The BCTF helps organizations, from musical productions to art exhibits to film festivals and more, leverage marketing resources to attract more cultural tourists during…
LISTEN: A Love for Film with Jared Rasic 🎧
Jared Rasic has lived in Bend since 1999, when he moved here for college. Since then he’s worked at Westside Video, Boomtown, Hollywood Video, Cascades Theatrical Company, Tin Pan Theater and, on and off since 2010, The Source. Now he divides his time between The Source and helping program films for Tin Pan Theater and…
Man Shoots Sheriff’s Office
Nicholas Ryan Preston-Cooper allegedly fired a high-powered rifle at the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday, March 2 around 9 pm. Dispatchers received a call reporting an armed man fired a round into the building, but the suspect wasn’t found on the scene at the time. Investigators spoke with the person who reported the shooting,…
City Delays Hunnell Sweep
Editor’s Note: Deschutes County Commissioners backed out of the agreement to hire a contractor on City-owned land on Murphy Road shortly after this article is published. Click here for an update on this story. The City of Bend is postponing a planned sweep of Hunnell Road after Deschutes County signed onto a plan to contract…
On the Homelessness Issue, One Step Forward, One Step Back
Editor’s Note: Deschutes County Commissioners backed out of the agreement to hire a contractor on City-owned land on Murphy Road shortly after this article was published. Click here for an update on this story. Ask people in Central Oregon about homelessness and most of them are bound to say that something needs to be done.…
May the Source Be With You: March Edition
This doesn’t make me feel old at all, but with this article, I’ve officially written 1,000 stories for the Source Weekly, on and off since September of 2010. I’m glad my 1,000th story landed on the date of my monthly column, so I can just take a moment and say three thank yous. One to…
The Latest in Cannabis
While you were getting high, things happened. Here are some of them now. Fentanyl gummies: This is the story most of you may have already heard — a scary news item, but it looks to be fiction, which is scary as well. On Feb. 24, news outlets reported that fentanyl and heroin were found in…
Understanding Intimacy: Not Feeling It
I hear a lot of people talk about getting back to the way things were in the past — passionate and sexy. But, what if there isn’t necessarily something to get “back” to because it wasn’t there in the first place? Can a marriage last if everything else is fantastic, but has no sexual chemistry? Or…
Without Music There Is No Dance
It’s Women’s History Month, so let’s continue the dialogue on embracing fearless and eternal feminine power through music and performance art. More importantly, let’s discuss the vitality and continued progression that affects our mind, body and the modern world when we honor and practice deep-rooted historical traditions in these two mediums, especially dance. I recently…
Chef Profile: 5 Fusion & Sushi Executive Chef Sascha Lyon
He’s worked in famous kitchens on both coasts, including Daniel Boulud’s namesake in Manhattan and Michel Richard’s Citrus in West Hollywood. He was the sous chef when the French brasserie Balthazar opened in SoHo in the Spring of 1997. But Sascha Lyon, the new executive chef/co-proprietor of 5 Fusion & Sushi Bar in downtown Bend…
La Ciudad retrasa el desalojo en Hunnel
La ciudad de Bend está posponiendo un desalojo planeado sobre la calle Hunnel después que el Condado de Deschutes firmara un plan de contrato para un campamento controlado en la intersección de la calle Murphy Road y la carretera 97 en el sur de Bend. Bend le pidió al condado colaborar con ello durante la…
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Child Careless ▶ [With Video]
For every five children in Deschutes County, there’s only one available spot in an accredited child care business, according to a 2020 study from Oregon State University. For infants younger than two, there’s just one per 10. A county is considered to be a child care desert when fewer than 33% of children have access…
La última orden sobre el cubrebocas cancelada
Después de más de tres años que COVID-19 se extendió por todo el país, Oregon cancela la última orden sobre el uso del cubrebocas. Aunque el uso del cubrebocas no se ha requerido en establecimientos públicos por alrededor de un año, el estado requirió que los establecimientos de atención médica continuaran cumpliendo las reglas sobre…
Ski for All with OAS
Riders of all abilities will join together to take on the Summit Games at the sixth annual Ski for All on Saturday, March 18. This event is hosted by Oregon Adaptive Sports as one of its major fundraisers. OAS is an adaptive sports organization that provides access to life-changing outdoor experiences for people with disabilities.…
March Mailbag
Happy March, everyone! Since I continue to have several folks reach out with their questions, stories, opinions, and what have you, it seems like the right time to have another mailbag. For those who have not read this column before, every month or two I like to take some time out and answer and respond…
Adventure Meets Art Through Film
Storytelling takes many shapes and forms, and this weekend, it’s through film. The Backcountry Film Festival is coming to Central Oregon as Discover Your Forest’s major fundraiser—Bend on Thursday, Sunriver on Saturday and Sisters on Sunday. Discover Your Forest is a local nonprofit dedicated to promoting discovery of the Deschutes and Ochoco National Forests and…
Horoscope Week of March 9, 2023
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A financial advisor once told me I could adopt one of three approaches to running my business: 1. Ignore change; 2. always struggle with change, half-immobilized by mixed feelings about whether to change or stay pat; 3. learn to love and thrive on change. The advisor said that if I chose…
Letters to the Editor 03/09/2023
No Way Out Thousands of residents in the Boyd Acres Neighborhood are in danger if an evacuation is needed. Those living in the area bounded by the railroad tracks on the west, Cooley Road on the North, NE 18th Street on the east and Empire Avenue on the south are in trouble. And the city…
Cuban Kitchen Reopens
Cuban Kitchen, which opened in 2018 but closed down during the pandemic, has opened a new location along NE Third Street in Bend, in the former Szechuan Restaurant location. Like its past iteration that was located off of Century Drive, the new Cuban Kitchen offers hot Cuban-style pressed sandwiches made on a plancha, or flat…
Holm Made Toffee Wins Big at Oregon Chocolate Festival
Locally made toffee company, Holm Made Toffee, is having a good week. The company competed in the 19th annual Oregon Chocolate Festival in Ashland over the March 4-5 weekend and took home three awards. Holm Made won the “Best in Show” category and the “People’s Choice” award, and finally, took home the award for Best…
An Awesome Lizard
Lizards are awesome, right? Colorful and interesting. Like snakes, but faster and with legs. Many of the resident lizards in Oregon’s high desert have interesting and evocative names, such as the long-nosed leopard lizard or desert horned lizard or western whiptail. And then there’s the one that might benefit from a PR review: the ubiquitous…
Last Mask Mandate Lifted
Oregon is lifting the last of its mask mandates more than three years after COVID-19 swept across the country. Though masking hasn’t been required in public settings for about a year, the state required health care settings to continue to enforce masking rules for both patients and workers. Oregon Health Authority is rescinding required masking…
