Central Oregonians are familiar with this reoccurring scene: accumulated snowfall, slippery ice, wet slush and water wreaking havoc on our streets. Many gripe, shovel and then get on with their day, navigating to their office or classroom via car or on foot. But what if that wasn’t an option, and you were trapped? For weeks? […]
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Breaking the Broken Resolutions Cycle
Local Fitness Professionals and Their Clients Share Their Secrets to Success
Tell me if this sounds familiar: It’s January and you’ve started that diet you’ve promised yourself you would do. You bought that gym membership, sure to help you get the body you’ve been dreaming of. The first week or two often goes well, but come week three, four and five, motivation and determination start to […]
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Wolf Attacks
Wolves are attacking cattle in Southern Oregon. Should ranchers have the right to kill them?
A heavy fog settled over the pastures of the Nicholson Ranch in the Wood River Valley, making it nearly impossible to see the herd of cattle grazing nearby. Only a few days before, trauma hit these private lands near Fort Klamath, owned by 4th generation rancher Bill Nicholson. In summer, Nicholson leases his pastures to […]
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Could Redmond be the Next “It” Town?
Revamped infrastructure and quaint charm add up to an opportunity
Last Saturday, bathed in crisp springtime sunshine, Redmond hosted its first city-sanctioned St. Patrick’s Day party. The main grid that runs along Fifth and Sixth Street, and traces out a Norman Rockwell-quaint downtown, was bustling with residents young and less young. Several men in kilts wandered on the street, presumably members of the High Desert […]
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A Local Production
Made in Bend 2014
From the blazing saddles of the old west cowboy, to the iPhone-obsession of the 21st century, entrepreneurs in Bend—and beyond—are exporting the Central Oregon lifestyle as much as they are living it. This year’s Made in Bend issue highlights products that reflect a distinctly Bend outlook on the world—and, values heavy with tradition, health, the […]
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Love Issue
Bend’s very own send the heat index rising
The barista that serves up a double shot of hot, the brewers that put a hop in our step and fitness instructors that flex our love muscles, these are the Source reader’s votes for the most drool-worthy eye-candy around Bend. Happy Valentine’s Day! Apples of Our Eye Hottest Male Brewer Dan Mccoy, 35 Owner and […]
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Rose Windows Sounds Like…
Drummer Pat Schowe talks lofty band comparisons, dog food and Steven King
“I’m on a bus, actually,” is Pat Schowe’s response to our initial pleasantries during our phone interview. Part-time, Schowe is the drummer for Rose Windows, the new-wave, psychedelic seven-piece rock band out of Seattle. The rest of the time, he works at a holistic pet food store. “Weird, I know,” says Schowe as he bumps […]
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Is “Drone” a Dirty Word?
A new world takes (unmanned) flight
In 1959, a year before Bono was born, U-2 was the name for a classified, unmanned plane that flew past the Iron Curtain and across the restricted airspace in the Soviet Union. Concerned about sending pilots into hostile air space, the US Air Force launched a program—code name “Red Wagon”—to send “unmanned aerial vehicle”—or, what […]
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East Side Rising
Two Juicy Scoops of Economic Growth
It is as cliché as a John Hughes film that every town has its two sides—the right and wrong side of the tracks, the greasers and the socios, the post code envy. But with more advanced city planning and increasing city densities, it is just as likely in the 21st century that gentrification… …and economic […]
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Masters of the Universe
Money, sex, quaaludes, and The Wolf of Wall Street
Every once in a while, there’s a perfect sequence of film. The part with the plane in North by Northwest. The accidental gunshot in Pulp Fiction. The Raiders of the Lost Ark truck chase. 2001‘s zero-g workout scene. The beginning of Up. Blade Runner‘s tears in the rain. Buster Keaton. The POV tour of the […]