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LISTEN: Bend Don’t Break: Corie Harlan, Central Oregon LandWatch 🎧

LandWatch leaders talks about Complete Communities and Bend’s Central District
by The Source Staff

This episode of the Bend Don’t Break podcast features Corie Harlan, Central Oregon LandWatch‘s Cities & Towns Program Director and the City of Bend’s Core Area Advisory Board Chair. In this lively conversation with Source Weekly publisher Aaron Switzer, Harlan talks about her passion to help create Complete Communities. They also talk about what’s coming […]

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LISTEN: Grand Craft Beer: Alesong’s Matt Van Wyk 🎧

Alesong’s Matt Van Wyk talks wine & cocktail-inspired beers
by The Source Staff

In this episode of Grand Craft Beer, cicerone Brian Yaeger kicks off 2024 with Alesong Brewing and Blending’s Matt Van Wyk, whose many hats include owner, brewer, and runner-arounder to get Alesong’s award-winning barrel-aged beers all across Oregon including Bend. While Van Wyk is accustomed to fitting bungs in bungholes, his real specialty is fitting […]

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LISTEN: Bend Don’t Break: Palestinian, Jewish friends navigate global events 🎧

Two Redmond friends share how they came together in the midst of the conflict in Israel and Gaza
by The Source Staff

Following the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas, two friends in Redmond began to explore a different side of their friendship.  Karim Bouris is of Palestinian and Lebanese descent, and his friend Jordan Schiff is of Jewish descent. In this podcast, these two Central Oregonians talk about the challenges and opportunities that the most recent conflict […]

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LISTEN: Bend Don’t Break: Deschutes County Commissioner Phil Chang 🎧

County Commissioner Phil Chang talks mental health, housing and transportation issues
by The Source Staff

In this episode of Bend Don’t Break, Deschutes County Commissioner Phil Chang converses with Source Weekly Publisher Aaron Switzer about county-wide issues. Topics include mental health and other social services, the housing crisis and long-range planning for the future. Chang will be back in January for Part 2 for a deeper dive into the potential […]

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LISTEN: Grand Craft Beer: Deschutes Brewery Barrel-Master Dustin Jamison 🎧

Deschutes’ Dustin Jamison talks warehouse beers, relegated to bourbon barrels and oak vessels
by The Source Staff

In this episode, Christmas doesn’t come early, it comes year-round via Deschutes Brewery’s Cellar Reserve beers thanks to guest and barrel program manager, Dustin Jamison. Jamison lords over “Oakland,” the portion of Deschutes’ warehouse devoted to oak barrels from which its barrel-aged beers—such as The Abyss, The Dissident, and Black Butte3—emanate from. From bourbon-aged stouts […]

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LISTEN: Bend Don’t Break: Oh ghee! Founder Merredith Telfer 🎧

Hear about the amazing qualities of ghee and get the story behind Oh ghee!
by The Source Staff

In this episode Source Weekly Food Editor Donna Britt chats with Oh ghee! Founder Merrideth Telfer about her company, Oh ghee! Originally called GheeBD, the company has transformed from a CBD ghee company into a general ghee company literally using ghee (ultra-clarified butter) as the cornerstone ingredient in all of their products from human to […]

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LISTEN: Bend Don’t Break: Cassi MacQueen, Executive Director Deschutes Childrens Foundation 🎧

New ED of Deschutes Children’s Foundation gets real about the current nonprofit state of affairs
by The Source Staff

On this episode of Bend Don’t Break Source Weekly publisher Aaron Switzer converses with the new Executive Director of Deschutes Children’s Foundation, Cassi MacQueen. Cassi’s deep passion for public service and commitment to social change is inspiring. She and Aaron get real about what’s happening in the nonprofit sector of our community and talk about […]

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LISTEN: Grand Craft Beer: Shannon McMenamin & Rob Vallance of McMenamins 🎧

Shannon McMenamin hosts Red Shed Tapes Podcast to tell 40 years’ worth of stories
by The Source Staff

In this episode of the Grand Craft Beer Podcast, we focus on…a different beer podcast. Our guest is Shannon McMenamin—whose father, Mike McMenamin, along with Shannon’s uncle, Brian—founded the McMenamins empire of breweries, pubs, and hotels 40 years ago. Her new podcast, The Red Shed Tapes,  focuses on the wealth of stories from all those renowned […]

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LISTEN: Bend Don’t Break: Artist Teafly 🎧

Hear this candid, uplifting conversation about mental illness, the healing power of sleep and what being an artist is like for Bend-based artist Teafly.
by The Source Staff

On this podcast episode Source Weekly publisher Aaron Switzer has a candid, uplifting conversation with the incredibly talented Artist Teafly. A Bend-based artist and illustrator, Teafly has illustrated Source Weekly covers over the past two decades. Teafly is also the author of the new book “So…You Have a Little Brain Cloud” – an illustrated journey exploring mental […]

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LISTEN: Grand Craft Beer: Melani Betti of Spider City Brewing 🎧

A chat with Bend’s all-women-owned Spider City Brewing, brewing international craft beer inspired by global travels & the Pacific Northwest
by The Source Staff

In this episode, Brian Yaeger opens things up with a surprise award for guest Melanie Betti, brewmaster and co-owner of Spider City Brewing, Bend’s all-women owned craft brewery. Betti, along with her twin sister Michele and their friend Tammy Treat, launched Spider City five years ago and is both a Certified Sommelier and Cicerone-Certified Beer Server. […]

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