Headliners for 2026 include RuPaul’s Drag Race Superstar Miz Cracker (New York), the sensational Tila Pia (San Francisco), and all of your Pacific Northwest favorites including Riley Burrows, Jayla Rose, Lylac, Heavy Cream and more. You won’t want to miss out on Queer Comedy Night at the Tower Theatre featuring Ren Q (Denver), Johana Coca […]
OUT Central Oregon Announces Winter PrideFest 2026
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Candlelit Winter Concert at Mt. Bachelor Nordic Center Combines Live Music, Painting and Snow
A magical winter evening of music, art, snow, and candlelight will take place on Saturday, January 31, at the Mt. Bachelor Nordic Center, featuring a live concert by Bend-based pianist and composer Paula Dreyer alongside live painting by visual artist Karen Eland. Guests are invited to experience the performance in a uniquely immersive setting. Candlelit trails will guide attendees who […]
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100+ Women Who Care of Central Oregon Donate $16,800 to Friends of the Children
Members of 100+ Women Who Care of Central Oregon have collectively donated $16,800 to Friends of the Children. Friends of the Children Central Oregon provides long-term, one-on-one professional mentoring for children facing the greatest obstacles. Beginning in kindergarten, each child is paired with a full-time, paid professional mentor, called a Friend, who is a constant presence in the child’s life. […]
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Hunger Prevention Coalition of Central Oregon Dissolves After 26 Years
The Hunger Prevention Coalition, a charitable nonprofit that has raised and provided funds to support food distribution in Central Oregon since 2000, has announced its dissolvement. “This was not an easy decision,” HPC Board Chair Robin Popp told the Source. “But the entire board agrees that the HPC has come to a point where the needs […]
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The Year Sellers Had to Adjust
The dust has settled and all of the numbers have been recorded, allowing us to look back at the big picture of the year that was Bend real estate in 2025. It was a year defined by the most pronounced buyer’s market in years, as sellers experienced pre-COVID inventory levels paired with significantly fewer sales, […]
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A Toast to Winter!
There’s no shortage of festivals in Central Oregon, but winter months tend to be lean. To tide you over, the Winter Beer Fest at The Suttle Lodge & Boathouse is entering its seventh year. More than 25 breweries are scheduled to participate over three days in February. A quarter are local such as Goodlife and […]
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Modern Lit With A Swiftie Twist
When we think about great American literature, the kind of work that’s been studied at length and most often emulated, writers that come to mind are usually Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allen Poe and, in the case of OSU-Cascades, Taylor Swift. In the winter course of English 485: Studies in American Literature, Professor Jennifer […]
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The Good, Bad and Average of 2026
The first few weeks of January for theatrical film releases are dichotomous, to say the least. We get a combination of the movies that studios have lost all faith in and want to dump quickly and cheaply released with Oscar nominees and some future winners. It’s the best and worst of what was created the […]
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COCC’s Black History Month to Celebrate ‘Black Triumph’ and Black Women
In celebration of Black History Month, Central Oregon Community College will host several community offerings in February that highlight “Black triumph” and celebrate Black women and youth. Events include an empowerment retreat; two dinners with speakers and/or performers; a viewing of “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am,” and a community forum. All events are free, […]
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Posthaste
What could be more fun than a book you can’t put down. Thanks to a friend’s recommendation, right now for me that book is “The Correspondent” by Virgina Evans. So not to spoil it, I will only say it is an epistolary novel. The plot thickens through the exchange of letters between the characters. The […]