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Bike Town USA . . . Really?

Bend could do more to encourage bike commuting. But first residents should step up.

James WilliamsJuly 11, 2013November 12, 2024

City Councilor Victor Chudowsky always gets a prime parking spot out front of Thump Coffee in downtown Bend. That’s because parking at the popular café isn’t a problem. At least not for bike commuters. Rather than another conventional parallel car parking space, similar to those lining the rest of Minnesota Avenue, a string of fire-engine […]

News

The Legislative Class of 2013

Not the best report card to bring home

Phil BusseJuly 11, 2013May 26, 2023

The legislative session ended on Monday, and 2013’s class of legislators wasn’t the flashy group in recent history, but in a final sprint toward the finish line, they did manage to release $1 billion for important construction and education projects. Call these their “class gift”—some $600 million in capital projects and various spending for the […]

Outside

Tour Tech

Bling at this week's Cascade Cycling Classic

James WilliamsJuly 11, 2013October 25, 2024

Over the past year, cycling technology has seen great gains—from aerodynamic helmets that actually make riders faster, to sexy hydraulic rim road brakes that offer super modulation and stopping ease. Now that the Tour de France is well under way, the public is getting its first glimpse of the latest in tour tech. This week, […]

Culture

Destroy All Monsters

Oh, Shit! It’s Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim!

Erik HenriksenJuly 11, 2013January 4, 2023

“The audience needs to be invested in the difference between what you’re doing and something generic, and I would argue that most of the audience don’t know the difference between someone who I consider to be making ‘cinema’ and someone who’s not,” Steven Soderbergh recently told Empire, explaining his reasons for quitting directing. “That shit—that […]

Culture

Swayze Summer!

Two hot months of Patrick Swayze

The Source StaffJuly 11, 2013March 11, 2025

People‘s sexiest man alive (circa 1991), enviable dance skills, the ability to make women want him and men want to be him and, oh man, dat ass. The Source has created a summer film series to honor the work of one of our favorite late, great actors, Patrick Swayze (swoon)! Let us refresh you on […]

Music

The Everlasting Battle

Bay Area's Tumbleweed Wanderers hope for a postwar America

Ethan MaffeyJuly 11, 2013January 4, 2024

Though the second Iraq war has largely wound down, U.S. involvement in Afghanistan is now in its 12th year. Meaning: Three of the members of Tumbleweed Wanderers were 10 when that war started and the other two were barely in puberty. From their perspective “peacetime” largely exists in history books. Such sensibility informs the lyrics. […]

Food & Drink

In the Bottle

Crux Insider IPA

Phil BusseJuly 11, 2013August 5, 2023

Crux is now bottling, and three flavors are available at Newport Market, although already one was sold out. Nonetheless, it was the Insider IPA I was looking for, as a treat to bring to an after-work, porch-sitting chill-out session with two other guys. Served in single pint bottles, these are perfect serving sizes. The label […]

Culture

Ichin’ for Stitchin’

Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show returns

Brianna BreyJuly 11, 2013July 14, 2024

The 38th annual Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show has 1,300 quilt entries. Ranging in size from 36 to 100 inches, entries total 6,128 feet of quilt—over a mile if you laid them end-to-end. Enough to solidly blanket (ah ha! quilt joke!) the entire town of Sisters, transforming every bare wall and exposed eve into a work […]

Food & Drink

Smells Like Southern Spirit

Dixie dishes in the Great Northwest

The Source StaffJuly 4, 2013May 5, 2024

Catfish and crawdads may not dominate every menu around town, but peppered throughout Bend are a representative number of Southern food dishes—certainly enough to make us as happy as pigs in slop! (In a good way. Seriously! That was meant as a compliment.) Fried Chicken Even that guy who orders the veggie quinoa bowl, deep […]

Food & Drink

Little Bites: Pack It In

A kitchen check list for rentals and road trips

Sara YellichJuly 4, 2013January 4, 2023

Summertime means road trips. And with Airbnb and Craigslist opening up more informal rental options, the quality of kitchen is far from regulated. Yes, let’s face it: Vacation rentals have worse utensils than your first college apartment. Packing these 11 items—all which (more or less) fit in your glove compartment—will ensure culinary happiness while on […]

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