Posted inFood & Drink

Road Trip: Beer Where People Aren’t

Feel the need to roam? The Source’s beer guy heads across U.S. Route 2 and the Great Northern Plains

With any road trip, the emphasis rightly deserves to be on the roads taken. If time is abundant and solitude is one of the main priorities, there are few better options than U.S. Route 2, which starts outside Seattle, goes on until Ontario, and is mostly a barren two-lane blacktop in between. Spokane, covered here […]

Posted inOutside

Snow Bros

Local brothers are rising stars in the ski and snowboard worlds

Throughout history, many of the greatest teams are siblings: the Williams sisters swept professional tennis, the Wright brothers reached the skies, and the Super Mario Bros. dominated video games. Jonah and Jared Elston may be among those names, soon. The Montana-raised brothers have racked up accolades for their performances in their respective snow sports. The […]

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Black Lives Matter

Come bask in the moonlight

A small young boy is chased through a bad neighborhood of Liberty City, Miami, by a bunch of kids yelling “faggot.” He breaks into a room in an abandoned motel, puts his head on his knees and cries. His tears aren’t those of panic or fear, but of exhaustion. As if he knows that his […]

Posted inCulture

Picks 11/30-12/7

Friday 2 Danny Barnes & Cascade Crescendo BANJO—When someone is acknowledged by (fellow banjo player) Steve Martin as one of the best banjo players in the USA, then you know you’re getting something special. Banjo player extraordinaire Danny Barnes is a big draw all by himself, but add in the lively “jamgrass” sounds of Cascade […]

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No Fish

Federal legislation combined with a drought year results in trouble for trout on the Crooked River

The Crooked River below Bowman Dam and the Prineville Reservoir is regarded as a blue ribbon fishery for Oregon’s native Redband trout. It may be highly regarded by anglers—but at the moment, that image has been dealt a serious blow. At the heart of the issue is federal legislation passed in December 2014, which allocated […]

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Willow Lane Arts

Willow Lane Arts gives artists another studio option in Bend

In a spacious building between the Old Mill and downtown, Adam and McKenzie Mendel are giving Bend’s artists a professional-caliber work environment. Opened in 2015, Willow Lane is spacious, featuring slick concrete floors and ample lighting, making it ideal as both work space and gallery. As of press time, space was still available for more […]

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Still Dreaming

A DACA recipient, her employer and the local community brace for what’s next with immigration reform

When longtime Bend resident María Veliz was in high school, she was a 4.0 student. With her academic standing, she may have been planning for college—except that during that time she also began to fully understand her immigration status. Brought to the U.S. by her undocumented parents at age 9, without residency or citizenship status, […]

Posted inOpinion

Time for Uber

Uber was forced to pull out of Eugene because it did not meet specific codes, and we believe consumers are the loser because of that disagreement. It’s time to allow Uber to conduct business in Central Oregon. Both the cities of Bend and Redmond will soon consider adding the San Francisco-based technology company into the […]

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