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Your Number is Up

The secrets behind “auctioning” food at the table, and other server tricks of the trade

“Who had the pork chop?” We’ve all been through this. You and your dining companions have chosen a restaurant, been seated, presented with menus and had your orders taken. When the food arrives, the server starts making you do all the work. It’s a conversation-stopper. Hands point to one another across the table. A glass […]

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Source Spotlight: Brad Chalfant

Protecting wild lands is his mission

“We’re not done โ€” whether it’s in Camp Polk or one of the other properties. We see these fisheries coming back, but I want to see whole beaver colonies restoring these flood plains. And some day I hope to see sandhill cranes nesting in one of these meadows.” Brad Chalfant, a founding member of the […]

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Zendites

Weekly groups offer meditation, mindfulness practice

“May I be filled with loving kindness. May all beings be free from suffering.” โ€” from the Bend Zen chant Nine of us sit together inside a small room toward the back of St. Helens Hall on the Trinity Episcopal Church campus. We’re here to calm the mind. It’s hard work. You’ve heard of Monday […]

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Source Spotlight: Frank Bonacquisti

Radio airwaves are in his blood

In 1972 Frank Bonacquisti was a student at Portland’s Benson Polytechnic High School. He was searching for an after school activity when he saw a notification for the school’s radio station, KBPS. Intrigued, he checked it out. Some 45 years later he’s still working in radio, serving as KBND’s program director and host of the […]

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Picks 2/22-3/1

Your guide to this weeks picks

Riff Raff with DJ Afterthought, Dollar Bill Gates, Owey and Peter Jackson Friday 24 RAPโ€” Riff Raff first made it onto the scene when he tattooed MTV onto his neck so that he could legally go by MTV Riff Raff. Flash forward a few years later and the zigzag bearded rapper is still as off-the-wall. […]

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Oscar Sunday Returns

The Source picks the winners (or tries to)

It’s time once again for the Superbowl Sunday of Cinema: The 89th Annual Academy Awards. Since it’s so much fun to predict which way the Academy will vote, only to get mad when the things you love lose horribly, this year we’ll look at the movies and people we WANT to win, versus the things […]

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Side Notes 2/15-2/22

Central Oregonians Pack Sen. Wyden’s Town Halls As he walked onto the stage at Sisters High School Monday to introduce Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden (D), Sisters Mayor Chuck Ryan said the high school’s auditorium was the largest space they could obtain for the event.   With a large turnout, it was clear that bigger spaces […]

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