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Going On a Ride With Beats Antique

Beats Antique blends global sounds and electric dance performances

by Allie Noland February 1, 2023June 7, 2024

Beats Antique hits the Midtown Ballroom Feb. 9 for a high-energy, immersive performance. The band heads out on its Oregon/Washington tour the day prior, playing shows in Ashland, Bend, Eugene, Portland and ending in Bellingham. Bend is the band’s second stop. The band has been releasing world-fusion music and performing since 2007. With each new […]

Culture

Horoscope Week of February 2, 2023

by Rob Brezsny February 1, 2023June 19, 2023

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I want to raise up the magic world all round me and live strongly and quietly there,” wrote Aquarian author Virginia Woolf in her diary. What do you think she meant by “raise up the magic world all round me”? More importantly, how would you raise up the magic world around […]

Opinion

Letters to the Editor 02/02/2023

by The Source Staff February 1, 2023February 13, 2025

This Modern World Dear Tom, You knocked it out of the park with the volume 27 issue 04 January 26 Republican reflection. Thank you so much. Hang on for the shit-show of the decade. It’s gonna be a thriller… vomit vomit… We have never seen political vindictiveness of the likes that’s coming. Sincerely, Racer Dave […]

Food & Drink

Israeli Street Food Opening in The Grove

A new location for Shimshon

by Nicole Vulcan February 1, 2023December 14, 2023

Israeli street food purveyor Shimshon is heading west, setting up a new location in The Grove Market Hall in Northwest Crossing in Bend. Shimshon’s food is already available at two other locations, including at its cart at Midtown Yacht Club and at the Barrio restaurant in downtown Bend. Menu items at the various Shimshon locations […]

Food & Drink

Bruno’s Becomes Bruno’s Again

After a stint as Midtown Market, updated concept opens in the old Bruno’s

by Nicole Vulcan February 1, 2023March 13, 2025

Bruno’s 6th Street Market is now open in the former Midtown Market along 6th Street in northeast Bend. It’s something of a return to its previous name, when the same location was the site of Bruno’s Grocery Deli and U-Bake Pizza as late as 2015. These days, Bruno’s 6th Street Market offers a full deli, […]

News

School Nurse? Nope; School Clinic

Deschutes County is adding its sixth school-based medical center, allowing students to access routine medical care without a trip to the doctor

by Jack Harvel February 1, 2023August 15, 2024

Mosaic Medical, a nonprofit community health organization, is developing a new school-based health center at Mountain View High School. The medical provider already established clinics at Bend High School, Redmond High School and M.A. Lynch Elementary. That’s in addition to La Pine Community Health Center’s health center at Gilchrist School and St. Charles Health Systems’ […]

News

Concerted Effort to DisPlay the Arts

A study commissioned by an arts and culture nonprofit recommends two new stages in Bend

by Jack Harvel February 1, 2023January 24, 2024

A recent study recommended that the Central Oregon Center for the Arts, a nonprofit with a mission to champion an inclusive, vibrant center for the arts, could build and support a facility with a 1,200-1,500-seat theater, green rooms, a small “black box” stage, rehearsal space and storage for instruments in Central Oregon. It’s the third effort […]

Special Issues & Guides

Cocktails and Mocktails Guide 2023 [With Video ▶]

Central Oregon’s places to imbibe, relax and dig the vibe

by The Source Staff January 25, 2023September 4, 2024

However you say “Cheers,” we’re giving you plenty to toast inside this Cocktails and Mocktails guide, powered by the Source Weekly. In addition to browsing the listings for a host of local haunts, inside this guide you’ll find a focus on the boozy and not-so-boozy side of imbibing in Central Oregon. In our “Zero […]

News

Measure 110 Starts Off Poorly

An audit of the U.S.’s first attempt to decriminalize drugs highlights problems in data collection, collaboration and poorly defined roles

by Jack Harvel January 25, 2023December 9, 2024

Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan released an audit of Measure 110, the bill that decriminalized possession of small amounts of drugs and funneled taxes on marijuana sales to treatment services, on Jan. 19. Auditors gave the program low marks, with one auditor saying they’d give a grade of a C and the other a […]

News

Parking Minimums Abolished

New developments won’t be required to build parking spaces in Bend after the state adopted new planning rules

by Jack Harvel January 25, 2023September 6, 2024

On Jan. 18 the Bend City Council adopted a rule eliminating mandatory minimums for off-street parking at new developments. That’s after the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission adopted new planning rules in July. The OLCDC eliminated parking minimums to lower the cost of building new housing and to reduce reliance on cars for environmental […]

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