Along Third Avenue, by the auto parts stores and low-slung hotels, is an unassuming beige building—not unlike the other blocky buildings along the no frills stretch of Bend. There is nothing on the exterior to indicate that Just Joe’s Music is a worm hole into another universe—one filled with blaring saxophones, screaming trumpets, memories and […]
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Indulge in Reading
Deschutes library announces star studded Author! Author! line-up
This past week, the Deschutes Public Library Foundation announced its second lineup for the popular Author! Author! series. In its sophomore year, the series is rolling out some of the best and most entertaining writers in the country. Leading the pack is Sherman Alexie, who burst onto the literary scene in 1993 with his collection […]
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Playing with Your Food
Get lost in the Smith Rock Ranch corn maze
Matt and Kendra Lisignoli, owners of Smith Rock Ranch, are smack dab in the middle of their busiest season of the year. Set among a blanket of bright orange globes, with the jagged backdrop of Smith Rock State Park, the site is postcard perfect—and Matt and Kendra recently talked with the Source about their corn […]
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Magical Thinking
Lynn Shelton gets touchy feely
A frequent criticism of mumblecore films is that nothing really happens in them, which has always struck me as a weak line of reasoning. Life doesn’t have a plot (spoiler!) and it’s still pretty interesting most of the time. But Lynn Shelton's new film Touchy Feely tweaks the formula a bit: Nothing really happens, except […]
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The Art of the Tease
Va Va Voom Burlesque Vixens take it off for the love of the stage
Accidental nipple exposure is an occupational hazard for Gini Noggle, a performer with the Va Va Voom Vixens Burlesque group out of the Humbolt, Calif. “We wear pasties over our nipples, and do not expose any of our lower girly parts to the audience,” explained Noggle, who goes by Jamie Bondage on stage. But she […]
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Spreading Wings
JT Nero of husband/wife duo Birds of Chicago made the world his home
All singer-songwriter JT Nero ever saw of America growing up was the 540-mile stretch of highway between where he lived in Toledo, Ohio and Washington Island, Wis., where his family has a cabin. A far cry from the tens of thousands of miles he’s traveled touring solo or in the band Birds of Chicago with […]
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It Doesn’t Have to be This Way
A look at the successes of other Central Oregon dam-removal efforts
Want to know what Mirror Pond could look like without a dam? Experts say: Think like a child. Or, in other words, use some imagination. Just don’t presume the banks along Mirror Pond will look as raw and muddy as they recently have, two weeks after a significant leak in the 103-year-old Newport Avenue Dam […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Yes, We Can!
Four canned beers you (probably) haven’t tried yet, but should
Beer in a can ain’t what it used to be, namely: cheap, tinny-tasting, fizzy and yellow. These days, canned beer is craft beer—and vice versa. A year ago, not a single one of the area’s many breweries was canning. Now, Worthy, GoodLife and, as recently as this summer, 10 Barrel, all offer delicious, easy-to-carry canned […]
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Snowrider’s Guide
Four ways to enjoy winter, as told by local athletes from four different disciplines
This winter season the Northwest is in line for an above-average snowfall, at least according to AccuWeather.com‘s “Expert Long-Range Forecaster” Paul Pastelok. That’s good news—if you believe in such things. As for us, well, we don’t trust a forecast that’s more than a couple days down the road, but we will take September’s record-breaking snows […]
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Worth Living
Singer Christopher Worth added value to his life by choosing music
Stephen Sondheim’s musical Company—about a man’s pre-emptive midlife crisis—landed Christopher Worth right in the middle of where he never thought he’d be: a career as a singer/songwriter rather than an actor. But in this case life did not imitate art: Unlike the production’s central character Bobby, who questions some decisions he’s made, Worth—who was cast […]
