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Spring is here, but snow sports endure.

Ready for your next feat of endurance and strength? Try running on a sea of snow.
Rex Shepard

For thousands of years, humans have been known for their inventive minds — crafting tools to perform tasks more efficiently, observing nature and finding inspiration. Watching a snowshoe hare, with its large hind legs, hopping around in deep snow, seemingly effortlessly. Our ancestors took notice by developing snowshoes—footwear that allows for greater floatation in snow […]

Posted inCulture

Picks 3/23-29

Bend Burlesque Show, Junior Culture & Soul Medic, Hella Big Air & More
The Source Staff

Rose Cousins & Caitlin Canty Thursday 23 MUSIC — A Canadian native, folk singer Rose Cousins uses her songwriting talents to balance heartbreak and courage in her award-winning folk melodies. In perfect contrast, Nashville born Caitlin Canty represents the heart of American blues and folk rock. These two notorious collaborators bring their distinct voices together […]

Posted inCulture

Ape-pocalypse Now

Hail To The King… Kong
Avatar photo Jared Rasic

Sometimes when we go to a movie it’s simply to escape the outside world. As long as the film can transport us to a new world, a different time period or some far-off dimension, it doesn’t much matter if the movie is good or bad. But as a critic, it can be difficult to search […]

Posted inCulture

The Kedi’s Meow

This story about cats on the streets of Istanbul is way better than those cat videos you like to watch
Avatar photo Jared Rasic

“Everything is beautiful if you look at it with love.”-“Kedi” Hundreds of thousands of cats have roamed freely through the streets of Istanbul over the last several thousand years. The people of the city treat the cats like neighbors, not like annoying strays snatching food off tables. Indeed, part of living in Istanbul is making […]

Posted inNews

A Tale of Texas Toking

Josh Jardine

I’ve written in the past about how my work within the music and cannabis industries has been most complementary, how cannabis has saved my sanity during numerous tours, and how offering up cannabis products to touring bands has saved theirs. But there was one time when a band saved me from cannabis, and a potential […]

Posted inMusic

Ultimately, Bluegrass

After a departure on their last album, the Infamous Stringdusters return to their bluegrass roots
Alan Sculley

Coming off of a 2016 album (“Ladies & Gentlemen”) that was a bit of a musical detour, the Infamous Stringdusters knew it was time to re-establish what the band is about musically. But fiddle player Jeremy Garrett is a bit surprised by just how far back to their roots his group went on their new […]

Posted inOpinion

Letters 3/8-3/15

Letters to Walden Pour In
The Source Staff

Greg Walden’s Affordable Care Act I don’t normally write Letters to the Editors about specific legislation, but it’s important for people of Congressman Greg Walden’s district to know that the proposed revision of the ACA (Obamacare) will significantly reduce coverage, particularly for poorer people in eastern Oregon. Worse yet, from my perspective, it will give […]

Posted inCulture

Escape Artist

Tattoo removal expert can erase your troubled past
Howard Leff

Katie Hester fixes mistakes—the ones that could derail your whole life. It’s one thing to make bad choices. But it’s a whole other matter to wind up in a tattoo parlor etching them permanently onto your skin. Hester, a Bend native who doubles as a licensed massage therapist at Earth Body Massage, works as a […]

Posted inCulture

Zine Zenith

Bend’s homemade mag library moves around, but it’s still going strong
Howard Leff

Want some zines with your almond croissant? Hang on, let’s take a step back. Somewhere between the dawn of the printing press and Snapchat came an offbeat new art form made from hard work, determination, paper, staples, creativity and a photocopier. The zine. As in magazine, but not quite. Literary and decidedly lo-tech, zines are […]

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GUNG HO FOR SHOWS

The New Pornographers & Diana Krall
Avatar photo Magdalena Bokowa

Book these shows now so you don’t miss out. The New Pornographers April 14 Indie rock makes its way to Midtown with Canadian rock legends The New Pornographers hitting the stage this April. Most popular in the mid 2000s, TNP have a cult-like college following, and are touring in support of their brand-spanking new album […]

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