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Look! On the Golf Course. It’s a Surfboard? It’s a Golf Cart?

Local entrepreneur is helping make golfing cool
Avatar photo Phil Busse

It sounds like a riddle perhaps overheard at the X-Games: What does international surf star Laird Hamilton have in common with golf? At first consideration, these two sports seem as far apart as Waikiki and Whispering Pines; one celebrating the endless summer of youth and a certain awe for the thundering wildness, while the other […]

Posted inFood & Drink

Tempeh it Forward

Young co-owner of Cafe Yumm, Karli Foster means business
Avatar photo Jared Rasic

When Karli Foster walks into Townshend’s Tea House for her interview with the Source, she is dressed in the uniform of one of the front counter employees of Cafe Yumm. Since she is the co-owner of the Bend Yumm, one would think she would be in civilian clothes, but Foster doesn’t work that way. “I […]

Posted inCulture

Not Your Stereotypical Gun-toting Grannie

Helen On Wheels rolls deep
Avatar photo Jared Rasic

The first three plays written by Cricket Daniel evoke a feeling more than they inspire emotion. The feeling of watching an 8-10 pm sitcom block with family, sprawled out on the couch, after a giant dinner. Her characters are archetypical with flashes of heart, but mostly serve as joke delivery machines and to accentuate the […]

Posted inSpecial Issues & Guides

A Peek Into Our Thought Process

Community input and advisory commitee suggestions help us pick our Woman of the Year
The Source Staff

On the very same morning in early March that four prominent local women—a college vice-president, a city councilmember, a community organizer, and a youth advocate—gathered in the offices at the Source, President Barack Obama convened a roundtable with elected women representatives—senators and congressional representatives from California to Florida. Our meeting was an advisory committee; the […]

Posted inMusic

Band of Brothers

San Diego rockers Western Settings benefit from a relationship with La Escalera Records
Avatar photo Ethan Maffey

When opportunity knocks, sometimes it’s a chance to help someone out. That is literally always the case when label mates of San Diego’s La Escalera Records show up at each other’s doorsteps looking for a place to crash while on tour. “The label’s motto is: without each other, we have nothing,” explained Will Castro, label […]

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The Source Suggests…

Terrible Buttons, Papadosio and Head for the Hills sweep Central Oregon
Avatar photo Brianna Brey

Pushing Buttons A haunting swing separates the Spokane-based band The Terrible Buttons from its throw-back blues contemporaries. The seven-piece crew is wrought with vocal filters, reverb pedals, folky vocals and perfectly placed details, touches of horns, strings, and vocal harmonies that swell and fade, telling stories of gatekeepers, gambling, cannibalism and Charles Darwin’s blue collar […]

Posted inCulture

Better Than The Godfather III

Kermit & Co. return with Muppets Most Wanted
Erik Henriksen

“We’re doing a sequel!” Kermit and Fozzie sing at the start of Muppets Most Wanted. “That’s what we do in Hollywood! And everybody knows that the sequel’s never quite as good!” Then either Statler or Waldorf chimes in: “How hard can it be? We can’t do any worse than The Godfather III!” And yes, thankfully, […]

Posted inMusic

From “Cowboy” to Crowdsourced

The evolution of Paula Cole
Avatar photo Brianna Brey

Paula Cole’s two smash commercial hits, the chanting lament “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone” and “I Don’t Wanna Wait,” a desperate pop refrain with a chorus equivalent to the millennials’ YOLO slogan, are a mere blip in the long view of music history. The songs, both off of 1996’s This Fire, fit seamlessly into […]

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Shifting To Spring

The change from winter to spring also means a change in eating habits
The Source Staff

Oh sure, beefy sandwiches, hearty stews and stout beers are perfect food to hibernate from a February snowstorm. But springtime is an entirely different menu—less snowman physique, more stick-figure, bikini body fine. From sustenance steak to springtime salads: New to Bend, Salud! (431 NW Franklin Ave. Suite 150), has proven a welcome and much-needed addition […]

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Pilot Episode

The Lot’s new open mic calls on Bend’s creative types
Avatar photo Brianna Brey

“Calling ALL local musicians, artist and hacks,” reads the event listing for Bend’s newest open mic night, an free-for-all gathering on Wednesday nights at The Lot. “Sing a tune, read a poem, do a dance, tell a story, present your art…be creative. Here is an opportunity to share your soul.” Soul sharing is the M.O. […]

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