It’s the name of a cartoon woodpecker, a Pixar cowboy and a tune by Hootie and the Blowfish. But for at least two Deschutes Brewery employees the name Woody means only one thing—the 25-foot-long mobile beer barrel that serves as the friends’ second home. Last year Sean “Bubbles” McBride and Joey Pleich spent nearly 188 […]
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Backing out on Juvenile Justice
Adult jail crisis translates to watered-down youth detention program
Meetings are usually boring. Not this one. It was mid-December, just three days after the mass shooting of children in Newtown, Connecticut. The Deschutes County Commission was sitting at the head of a table in a room packed with attorneys, advocates and others who work with kids in Central Oregon with a history or violence […]
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First Turns
We’re still following Terry Foley’s tracks
Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks the Source is running a five-part series on a few of the icons of Bend’s outdoor scene. In the early '50s when Terry Foley was an 11-year-old kid, he and a couple of friends from town would often catch a ride with someone’s mom or dad up Skyliners […]
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Will Work for Experience
The founder of Cascades Medical Ambassadors started his training by defying convention
If you’re going to a South American country to conduct business, don’t forget to pack a few bottles of whiskey. Luckily, being a clever fellow, Bend’s Casey Husk came to Ecuador prepared. In 2010 Husk, a 26-year-old former Marine, made his first medical trip to the coastal South American country and, after eight weeks of […]
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The Only Way to Rally is With a Cause
How a new phone app is providing a boost to local charities
If you look to the western horizon you’ll see the profile of the Three Sisters peaks that were long ago dubbed Faith, Hope and Charity. There are several stories swirling around that seek to explain the origin of their nicknames but perhaps it is as simple as this: faith plus hope equals charity. For three […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Sour Power
What the hell sour beer is,
and why you should drink it
Sour beer ain’t no Bud Light. With new breweries and bottle shops popping up what feels like daily in Bend, brewers are stretching our palates and our perceptions of what beer is by innovating recipes and reinventing old brewing techniques. Sour beer is one such revival. Originally popularized in Europe, sours differ from other brews […]
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To the Streets of Palestine
Local nonprofit expands art mission to the Middle East
In December 2010, as protestors were swelling the plazas and thoroughfares of Tunisia to demand the ouster of dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, artists there also took to the streets. Demands of freedom were scrawled across walls from Matmata to Tunis with rattle cans and brushes. These messages were the backdrop to the movement […]
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The Dude Strikes Again
Tower Theatre to host Coen brothers film festival
If you love The Dude, Marge Gunderson and Harry Pfarrer, pour yourself a white Russian and mark your iCal—three great films from the award-winning Coen brothers are coming the Tower. The Tower Theatre is showing the trio of favorites on three consecutive Fridays starting Jan. 11 as part of its first-ever, Coen Brothers Film Festival. […]
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Listen Local
Bend sludge-rock band Silvero might just be our town’s best-kept, live-music secret
A friend sends you an email telling you to check out a band you’ve never heard of. Naturally, the next step is plugging that band’s name into a search engine. When this happens to me, I always hope the band is kick ass—no one wants to tell a friend that their taste in music sucks. […]
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The More You Buy, The More You Supply
Local clothing company supports food banks through product sales
The numbers 5-4-1 have served as the area code for most of Oregon since 1995. But for the last two years, those three digits have been transformed into a fight against hunger. 541 Threads, a local clothing company, is using its numerical brand name to help feed the hungry in Central Oregon and throughout the […]
