Bend is a beer town through and through (see this week’s feature). The downtown drinking and dining scene is awash in tap handles and IBU scales. So when Dogwood Cocktail Cabin hit the scene last month with a distinct lack of beer selection and an emphasis on craft cocktail creation, we had a moment of […]
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Closer to Finally Grown Up
Indigo Girls bring iconic folk-rock to Hullabaloo
It’s been a long road, but Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have traveled it together since they were kids. The now-iconic Georgia-raised folk-rock musicians first met in elementary school, began performing music together in middle school and finally became the Indigo Girls while attending Emory University. Their 30-year friendship has nurtured a fertile creative collaboration, […]
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Out of the Closet, Into the Park
Bend celebrates 10th annual LGBT Pride
In 2005, about a dozen people gathered at McKay Park for the first ever LGBT Pride celebration in Bend. It was a modest affair—more family picnic than public spectacle. But a first step, none the less. Members of the local lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community were just starting to step out of their roomy, […]
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Cocktail Compass Summer 2014
Are you thirsty? We are!
Because we know that many of you are highly evolved individuals—at least, speaking in terms of your use of technology—the Cocktail Compass is not just a paper product, something to stash in the desk drawer at home, and consult before heading out on Friday evening; no, it is also an app as highly evolved as […]
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Ear Snacks
The Source’s food and music pairings for 2014 Bite of Bend
There are two things that we love here at the Source Weekly more than just about anything (except for our moms, our dogs and beer): Music and food. So when the Bite of Bend starts sizzling in downtown this weekend, you can bet your hungry buns that we will be alternating munching from the long […]
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Rollin’ Down the River (Sponsored by Pepsi)
Freedom Float brings the most casual floaters into its current
Floating down the Deschutes isn’t just the average Bendite’s favorite summer pastime, it’s also a part of the city’s history. Starting in the 1930s, Bend held a nearly annual Water Pageant, complete with floats (the kind that actually, you know, float), queens and kings, and soapbox derbies. And while that once-popular summer event petered out […]
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Australian-American and Fiction-Journalism
Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks brings novels from history
Geraldine Brooks, who joins the OSU-Cascades Camps Low Residency in Creative Writing MFA faculty this summer, is a Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, but that genre really is too confining. Her four books are each a fiction, but each is also exhaustively researched, and often inspired by an actual historical event. No surprise that the […]
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Successful Failure
Portland’s Ed Thanhouser weighs in on making it as a musician
Singer Ed Thanhouser has a great deal to say, and not just with the music he writes and records with a merry band of artistic collaborators as Ed & The Red Reds. The most notable morsel resulting from his compulsion to share is without a doubt, his latest EP, The Liar’s Dream, a warm and […]
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I’ve Never. . . Worked Out With the Navy SEALs
Now, I have!
The first time I played the popular drinking game “I’ve Never,” I was a high school sophomore, and instead of taking shots, we kept score with sugar packets at the local Shari’s. The game appealed to me for two reasons: 1) I got to learn other people’s secrets, and 2) I almost always “won” because […]
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To Catch a Fire Starter
Investigation into Two Bulls Fire raises arson suspicions
From the second story porch of their home on Tumalo Reservoir Road, Veronica and Les Hudson watched as the fire in the forested area on the other side of Bull Flat raged, jumping from hill top to hill top, burning through ponderosa pines like they were match sticks. As firefighters set up a base camp […]
