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Adventure Meets Art Through Film

Discover Your Forest hosts Backcountry Film Festival in Bend, Sunriver and Sisters to fundraise for youth education
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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 […]

Posted inCulture

Horoscope Week of March 9, 2023

by Rob Brezsny

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 […]

Posted inOpinion

Letters to the Editor 03/02/2023

by The Source Staff

Guest Opinion: Hormone Replacement Therapy: Should I or Should I Not? The topic of menopause and how/if we treat associated symptoms varies greatly among practitioners. Hormone replacement therapy has gone in and out of favor over the years but remains the most effective treatment for the majority of symptoms experienced. There was a recent article […]

Posted inNews

New Boss, No Union

A group of medical professionals at St. Charles withdrew its application to form a union amid leadership changes
Avatar photo by Jack Harvel

A group of about 300 medical professionals withdrew a petition to unionize at St. Charles Medical System on Feb. 23, eight months after filing for union representation. The Central Oregon Providers Network formed in June after St. Charles laid off or terminated 181 positions in the hospital system. The network sought representation from the American Federation […]

Posted inNews

Memorial Planned for Former Sheriff

Les Stiles led the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office from 2000 to 2008, ushering in programs to achieve financial stability, increase visibility and help children of incarcerated parents
Avatar photo by Jack Harvel

Former Deschutes County Sheriff Les Stiles passed away at his home in Caldwell, Idaho, on Jan. 6 after a series of lung issues. He was 77. To honor his legacy, Stiles’ family is hosting a celebration on March 4 at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds. Stiles was born on Dec. 7, 1945, in Pensacola, Florida, and […]

Posted inNews

The Pun-icle of Humor

A pun-loving Bend man amassed what could be the largest collection of puns in the world
Avatar photo by Jack Harvel

Jim Shores learned about puns in a high school language class when an instructor, explaining the concept, made a very lame joke — telling a student to “oh-pun the door.” Despite a botched introduction, Shores grew a fondness for puns. He appreciates that it takes a level of background information and analysis to get a […]

Posted inNews

Murderer of Two Bend Teens Sentenced to Life

Wesley Abel Brady pleaded guilty for the August 2022 murder of two Bend teens
Avatar photo by Jack Harvel

Wesley Abel Brady, 41, pleaded guilty to the murder of 18-year-olds Angela Pastorino and Alfredo Hernandez at a settlement conference on Wednesday, Feb. 15. Brady is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brady, Hernandez and Pastorino were doing home improvement projects for a homeowner on Mount Faith Place in Bend on […]

Posted inOutside

Central Oregon Women’s Groups

Empowering each other through adventure and connection
by Becca Murphy

The outdoors has always brought people together, but for women, the outdoors is also a way to foster a sense of empowerment. As we see more women in the outdoors, we continue to grow and inspire each other to break through our limits. Are you looking for an outdoor community where the bond is strong […]

Posted inCulture

Bringing Sundance to Bend

The Tower and BendFilm screen exclusive docs on the Indigo Girls and Little Richard
Avatar photo by Jared Rasic

Last week I didn’t know much about Little Richard and I knew even less about the Indigo Girls, so sitting down to watch documentaries about them back to back felt like a crash course in two very different but equally as iconic musical legends. In completely separate ways, both Little Richard and the Indigo Girls […]

Posted inMusic

Expressing Femininity Without a Need to Define

Bend’s original drag troupe, the Cult of Tuck, returns to the stage with its show, ”RECOVERY: Our Tuck Will Go On”
by Doone Lupine Williams

For this Women’s Issue I wanted to take this space to touch on femininity in a fluid form for artists that aren’t always accepted in that constraint — or to put it another way, to touch on what it means to be a woman, or to feel like a woman, shouldn’t be constructed by gender. […]

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