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Tetherow’s New Head Golf Pro Jake Edwards

A family-friendly atmosphere welcomes younger golfers
Jaclyn Brandt

The Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) Tour is considered one of the most valuable audiences in sports, more likely to own second homes, use the advice of a financial advisor and invest more than $100,000. The demographics of PGA Tour viewers includes more C-suite executives and more women in top management positions. Yet, despite the value […]

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Old Stone Performing Arts Center

Angela Moore

There are some serious changes that are happening in Bend. New businesses are popping up everywhere! Just look around. What about a revamping of a business that has been around since before Bend was even Bend? I’m talking about the Old Stone Church, or as it is now called The Old Stone Performing Arts Center […]

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A Prize-winning Slate of Authors Announced for the Fifth Season of the Library Foundation’s Author! Author! Literary Series

Hayley Jo Murphy

May 24, 2016 (Bend, Oregon) — With the announcement of the Deschutes Public Library Foundation’s fifth season of Author! Author!, there can be no question that the popular literary series has hit its stride. The stellar line-up includes three Pulitzer Prize winners and one Pulitzer finalist, and all four authors have made significant contributions to […]

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Swanky & Sustainable

Bangarang food cart offers mobile elegance in cuisine
Angela Moore

There is a certain kind of raw edge and hip vibe that is synonymous with food carts. Bangarang opened its mobile doors the first week of April, created by Dave and Amy Bodi, a husband and wife team joining talents to create a food cart that focuses on locally sourced high end dishes. “For us […]

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Liquid Poetry

Ale Apothecary brings the love to Central Oregon Beer Week
Kevin Gifford

Paul Arney, head chemist at The Ale Apothecary, treats the local movement seriously. Very seriously. “As far as I know, I’m the only brewer in Oregon who can truly say they only use ingredients grown in Oregon,” he said over some beers at his Cellar Joint. This is the barrel aging facility he and fellow […]

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High Desert Museum

Open ’til Dark Dance
Sherron Lumley

Open 'til Dark is a 1930s dance at the High Desert Museum with a live jazz band, dance lessons and tastings from Oregon Spirits Distillers. It's a rare way to pass a Friday evening, with admission just $7 ($3 for members), and a chance to dance and explore the museum and its latest exhibits after […]

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Growing Apart Together

“The Last Five Years” deconstructs a marriage
Avatar photo Jared Rasic

“The Last Five Years,” at 2nd Street Theater, was written by Jason Robert Brown and premiered in Chicago in 2001, eventually moving Off-Broadway in 2002. That year the show won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics and was nominated for several more awards. Most recently, in 2014, Richard Lagravenese (“P.S. I Love […]

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Magic Realism Grows by Leaps and Bounds

Author! Author! welcomes with Alice Hoffman
Sherron Lumley

The final award-winning literary artist featured in the 2015/16 Author! Author! series is New York Times best-selling author Alice Hoffman, who will speak Thursday, May 26 at Bend High at 7 p.m. The series began in October and included non-fiction, creative fiction, historical fiction and memoir authors, starting with Timothy Egan, 61, a Pulitzer Prize-winning […]

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Rethinking City Council

The Source Staff

Though City Council duties, meetings, committees, and hearings require 45 to 55 hours per week to fulfill, Bend City Councilors are considered volunteers, have no administrative support staff and receive no benefits. The archaic notion of an unpaid mayor and city council is not in step with the times within the paradigm of the exponential […]

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