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Call for Poetry: Enter the Source’s Poetry Contest!

Get your poems into the Source by Oct. 9

Nicole VulcanSeptember 14, 2017February 8, 2025

Enter the Source Weekly Poetry Contest! In partnership with OSU-Cascades Master of Fine Arts program Win prizes! Read with famous poets! Get your very own one-on-one critique with McSweeney’s poet Emily Carr! And have your poetry published in the Source’s Poetry Issue Nov. 2! Rules for Entry: Choose between two categories for submission: The theme […]

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2016’s Best Books by Genre

Tom Beans, Dudley's BookShop CafeDecember 28, 2016January 9, 2025

When it comes to choosing some of the best reads of 2016, we knew no one would be more well-read than Tom Beans, owner of Dudley’s BookShop Cafe in downtown Bend. These may not be the critics’ picks for best books of the year, but they certainly were his favorites. Fiction To The Bright Edge […]

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Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing Selected as the 2017 Community Read

Deschutes Public Library Foundation reveals the next “A Novel Idea” selection at annual public celebration in Bend

Hayley Jo MurphyDecember 5, 2016December 18, 2023

“Homegoing,” the first novel from author Yaa Gyasi, has been announced as the selected book for The Deschutes Public Library “2017 A Novel Idea” program. Now in its 13th year, “A Novel Idea…Read Together” is the largest community read program in Oregon. The program gives residents of Central Oregon a common forum to discover culture, discuss ideas […]

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Cozy Up with a Good Book: “A Novel Idea” gets everyone on the same page

Annette BenedettiNovember 30, 2016April 12, 2025

Need a good read to cuddle up with as the winter weather hits? For the 13th year in a row, the Deschutes Public Library Foundation is offering “A Novel Idea…Read Together,” the program based on a single book, designed to bring residents together for an ongoing cultural learning experience. On Dec. 2, the foundation will […]

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“Bend, Oregon Daycations” Features Trips the Whole Family Can Handle

Nicole VulcanOctober 12, 2016April 12, 2025

Bend-based Kim Cooper Findling is an award-winning travel writer and editor who recently came out with her third book, “Bend, Oregon Daycations: Day Trips for Curious Families.” The Source Weekly sat down with the author to talk shop. Source Weekly: What’s the inspiration for this book? Who’s it for? Kim Cooper Findling: I’ve been traveling […]

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TGIF! What To Do This Weekend #inBend

Brianna BreyNovember 7, 2014September 21, 2023

Just think…all you have to do is make it through the final few hours of your work week and then you can enjoy your days off with these awesome weekend events! Here’s what we suggest checking out… friday 7 First Friday ART! ART! ART!—With fresh art gracing the walls of your favorite shops downtown (including […]

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PICK: Oregon Book Award Tour with Elena Passarello and Kari Luna

Erin RookSeptember 14, 2014March 13, 2025

sunday 14 Oregon Book Award Tour WORDS—Screw rock stars, we word nerds love a good lit tour. Oregon Book Award winners Kari Luna, author of “The Theory of Everything” and a self-identified whimsicologist (not to be confused with Cari Luna, Oregon author of “The Revolution of Every Day”), and essayist Elena Passarello, whose “Let Me […]

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PICK: High Desert Poetry Cell

Erin RookAugust 16, 2014September 7, 2024

saturday 16 High Desert Poetry Cell WORDS—Poetry’s canon is full to brimming with men—Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, some guy named Shakespeare—and yet the lyric art form has a decidedly feminine reputation. The High Desert Poetry Cell is working to change that with its compilation “The Guys’ Home Relationship Maintenance & Improvement […]

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PICK: Author Jane Kirkpatrick

Erin RookJuly 9, 2014August 16, 2023

wednesday 9 Author Jane Kirkpatrick READING—In the early 20th century at a sanitarium near Seattle, Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard starved women to death, claiming it was a miraculous fasting cure. Author Jane Kirkpatrick explores that dark time in her novella “A Saving Grace,” about a woman’s attempt to rescue her friend from danger. 4 pm. Paulina Springs, 252 W. […]

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Bad Lip Reading for the NFL

Sean SwitzerJanuary 30, 2013January 5, 2023

Ever wonder what the coaches and players are saying when the camera pans to the sideline? Well it seems they talk about some pretty weird stuff! Check it out!

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