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Which One’s Your Jam?

Jelly-filled donuts from area bakeries are put to the test
Avatar photo by Brian Yaeger

From Berlin’s Berliners to Polish Paczki, fruit-filled fried balls of dough are a hallmark of springtime, owing in large part to the Lenten tradition of clearing out sweets and fats from cupboards. Religious traditions aside, these colorful treats come in a variety of fruit flavors, so for this season’s doughnut roundup, instead of deciding which […]

Posted inSpecial Issues & Guides

Restaurant Guide 2022

350+ Bend & Central Oregon restaurant listings, plus our restaurants of the year
by The Source Staff

Central Oregon’s Ever-Evolving Restaurant Scene From “appointment dining” to fast casual, takeout and delivery, our local food scene has a little of it all. If you’re finding it hard these days to keep track of what’s open, what’s recently closed and what new food places are coming onto the scene, you’re not alone. Central Oregon, […]

Posted inMusic

Summer Music 2021: Our recap of live music in Bend and beyond ▶ [with video]

Ah, memories. Catch some snippets of shows we went to in 2021
by The Source Staff

The summer of 2021 brought lots of live music back to venues in Bend and the rest of Central Oregon—and the Source Weekly team was happy to be part of it. In this video, we assemble all the snippets and great moments of music our team caught throughout the summer and fall, including lots of […]

Posted inBest Of Central Oregon

2021 Best of Central Oregon

Rising from the ashes: As tough times continue, join us in celebrating these local winners!
by The Source Staff

When we devised the theme for 2021’s Best of Central Oregon issue some months back, we imagined a world where the pandemic was truly starting to be behind us—where the community would be celebrating the return of a more carefree way of life. The phoenix—which we employed for this year’s theme—is, of course, a classic […]

Posted inFood & Drink

Local U-Pick Farm Experiences Monster Tomato Crop

A Tumalo farm shares the struggles of selling produce during the pandemic
by Jess McComb

Throughout the pandemic, many businesses have suffered—but there was at least one bright spot in the culinary scene: tomatoes. If you grew them, chances are they grew. And grew. And kept growing. In Central Oregon, tomato crops defied all odds and had a booming year—a blessing and a curse for at least one local farm. […]

Posted inCulture

Free Will Astrology—Week of July 16

Call on “echoes and emptiness and shadow” to help you see important things that are invisible to others
Rob Brezsny

CANCER (June 21-July 22): As a Cancerian, you have a natural propensity to study and understand what author Margaret Atwood describes as “echoes and emptiness and shadow.” I believe this aspect of your repertoire will be especially active and available to you in the coming weeks. For best results, regard your attunement to these echoes […]

Posted inFood & Drink

Cans-To-Go: Norwegian Cowboy Hazy IPA

Boss Rambler Beer Club dropped three new beers, so I tried the one with a cowboy on the can
Avatar photo Isaac Biehl

Raise your hand if you miss going to breweries. Right now we have prime-time weather to kick back at a favorite watering hole—but with lockdown, that’s still out of the question. Still, many of the places you go to get your thirst quenched are making things easier by either delivering to your doorstep or letting […]

Posted inMusic

Now Playing: Source Weekly Home Concerts

Local music, from Central Oregon musicians’ living rooms to yours. New: Matt Puccio Jr., Jaymi Dickinson, Eric Stracener
Avatar photo Nicole Vulcan

Concerts are, as many of you know, something we talk about a lot here at the Source Weekly. Usually, our calendar is filled with them. Live shows are so much fun—and, in the era of coronavirus-induced isolation we find ourselves in—also a privilege we might not quite have understood so deeply even just a month […]

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