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Best Vintage Clothing

Stepping into Revival Vintage feels like entering a cocktail party attended by disembodied โ€” if gloriously outfitted โ€” party guests, transported from any number of the 20th Centuryโ€™s fashion eras. Hovering near the entrance, black leather bombers and blazers rub elbows with โ€˜60s denim chore coats and nylon athletic team jackets. Western pearl-snap shirts cluster […]

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Best Furniture Consignment

Just like Bend’s famous roundabouts keep traffic moving smoothly through the city, Roundabouts Home Consignments keeps quality furniture flowing through the community โ€” and thankfully, out of our landfills. Its combination of quality, community focus and environmental consciousness makes Roundabouts Home Consignments a well-deserved winner of Best Furniture Consignment 2025. Husband and wife team Gavin […]

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Best Boba

Good grades, graduations and winning home games are reasons Loana Perez, owner of Teacupfuls, has received an abundance of business from the Bend community. Restless after Perez sold her cleaning business in 2017 and inspired by her kidsโ€™ love for boba, the wild Teacupfuls was born. Perez opened the boba business with the intention to […]

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Best Brewer

Itโ€™s not hyperbole that winning the โ€œBest Brewerโ€ category โ€” in beer-crazed Bend โ€” might be one of the most illustrious โ€œBest Ofโ€ categories there is. But tell that to now-five-time-winner Nate Doss, the co-owner and head brewer at Bevel Craft Brewing, and, humble guy he is, heโ€™ll turn the conversation right back to the […]

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Best Mocktail & Best Happy Hour

Hawkeye & Huckleberry Lounge is self-described as a modern cowboy steakhouse. The โ€œmodernโ€ part just might be the Cool Hand mocktail โ€” if you can imagine a cowboy under the stars next to a campfire sipping a cucumber-mint beverage. Chef Carlos Anthony Ochoa says the drink, chosen by the public as the Best Mocktail in […]

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Horoscope Week of August 21, 2025

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In traditional Chinese medicine, the heart is the seat of joy. Itโ€™s also the sovereign that listens to the wisdom of the other organs before acting. Dear Leo, as you cross the threshold from attracting novelty to building stability, I encourage you to cultivate extra heart-centered leadership, both for yourself and […]

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Best Light Beer

The secret behind an award-winning beverage? Simple: โ€œWe make the kind of beer we like to drink,โ€ says Dana Henion, co-founder and brewer at Van Henion Brewing. Indeed, Van Henionโ€™s golden Helles Lager is crisp, drinkable and โ€” as the votes will attest โ€” very tasty. Helles translates to โ€œbrightโ€ or โ€œlightโ€ in German, and […]

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Best Bloody Mary

John Nolan loves to entertain. That much was clear when the Victorian Cafรฉ owner/executive chef, took part in our photo shoot for Best Bloody Mary โ€” an award that Nolanโ€™s brunch destination has won, what, nearly 20 times in a row? Chatting with Source reporters, Nolan insisted that no conversation about Bloody Marys was appropriate […]

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Ukelele Master

When you think of the blues, the last instrument you expect to be part of the genre is the ukulele. That is unless itโ€™s uke master Jake Shimabukuro who is wielding this device thatโ€™s far more connected with the sounds of native Hawaiian music or vaudeville. Having taken the uke into the realms of classical […]

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Sundays on the Green

For 17 years, the funky gift shop The Cosmic Depot, on NE Clay Avenue in Bend, has been quietly collecting and donating food to NeighborImpact once a week on Sundays during the summer months. To encourage public participation, the owner of The Cosmic Depot has partnered with esoteric practitioners who volunteer their time to provide […]

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