Summer is ending. And, as much as that means the start of football season, the coming of the World Series and time to ramp up for ski season, it also means that, soon, the Cascade Lakes Highway will be snowed in. Like a summertime daydream, much of the Cascade Lakes Highway only exists during the […]
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A True Underdog Story
Bending Steel tells the straight story
Although there is plenty of flexing and grunting, Bending Steel is a surprisingly soft and intimate story about a 43-year-old New York man who decides to become a sideshow strongman at Coney Island. Certainly there are scenes when the strongmen straighten out horseshoes and, veins bulging, smash nails into pieces of wood (without the use […]
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On Stage: Dad Rock for Springsteen
Portland’s Hip Hatchet talks tour, plays Tin Pan Theater
Hip Hatchet is an easier name to remember than that of the man behind the sepia-tone sounds of the one-man band, Philippe Bronchtein. Jersey-born, Bronchtein is a traveler with a grizzly beard and close-set bookworm glasses—a cross between a fur trapper and a Renaissance man. It wouldn’t be surprising, as the band name suggests, for […]
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The Democracy of Smoothies
Sarah’s Raw & Vegan Café has something for everyone
As we sat on a collection of chairs lining the alley running parallel to Colorado Avenue, with moody weather blowing through streets, we witnessed a strange phenomenon: SUV after hulking white suburban pulled into the tight lot behind the row of Craftsman buildings and bulldozed into the few parking spaces there; a middle-aged woman would […]
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God Be Praised, We Have a Quest!
Spamalot seeks to be the biggest musical of the year
“I think there’s a seat over there, by the hand of God,” directed Spamalot’s producer, Sandy Klein, gesturing across the small hot black box theater on 2nd Street. The theater was filled shoulder-to-shoulder with resting cast members and oversized props on a muggy rehearsal night in early September. Snuggled between enormous wooden clouds and the […]
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City Council Roundup
City Shifts Intersection Construction to Accommodate Galveston Businesses No one likes a detour. But when that detour catches neighbors by surprise, sends heavy traffic onto small side streets, and diverts the flow of customers from area businesses, people are likely to be a bit miffed. And that frustration came out at last Wednesday’s City Council meeting, […]
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Teen Angst and the Devil
Local author debuts YA novel “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea”
Supernatural romance thrillers are a dime a dozen in young adult fiction. Novels like “Twilight” and “Beautiful Creatures” dominate best-seller lists with all the same pitfalls; the boy-meets-girl love story plus magic, retold. From a superficial glance, “The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” the debut novel from local author April Genevieve Tucholke, might appear […]
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Meet the Artist
Bend collage-maker and painter Kaycee Anseth
Since 2005, Kaycee Anseth’s pieced-together collage art has made the cover of the Source four times, a testament to the magnetic quality of her work. By cutting up magazines, she creates colorful and detailed patchwork pieces, but this isn’t a third-grade arts and crafts project; the labor is painstaking and the vibrant puzzlelike product reflects […]
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The Race is On
Former city councilor will take on Patrick Flaherty in the 2014 district attorney election
John Hummel, 44, has just announced that he’ll run for Deschutes County district attorney against Patrick Flaherty in the May primaries. Hummel, a former Bend city councilor, has worked as an attorney, professor, and, from 2008 to 2010, he helped rebuild a justice system in war-torn Liberia. Today he’s the director of the Oregon Primary […]
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Now or Never
Is the city of Bend doing enough for sustainability?
For any heel-dragging doubters of global warming—a reality that will increasingly shape the livability of the planet—the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a panel of several hundred Nobel Peace Prize winning scientists, recently released a draft report that said, yes, beyond doubt global warming is happening and, what’s more, it's happening at a rate faster […]
