We look back at this year’s top stories in this Source Weekly Update Podcast! Source Weekly – Bend, Oregon · Source Weekly Update 12/30
Year in Review
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Listen: 2020 in the Rearview with Editor Nicole Vulcan 🎧
Editor Nicole Vulcan joins Publisher Aaron Switzer for a chat about the paper’s top-viewed stories of 2020
As the Source puts out its last issue of the year, Editor Nicole Vulcan joins Publisher Aaron Switzer for a chat about the paper’s top-viewed stories, and the “Boot/Slipper” editorial, giving their take on some of the biggest issues of 2020. All that and more in this week’s Bend Don’t Break podcast. Source Weekly – […]
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Letters to the Editor
Letter of the Year Saddle Up. The Legend of Daisy Ryder, 3/28 Editor’s note: This letter was in response to another letter written by, we assume, the pseudonym of Daisy Ryder, who advocated Benditos shoot cats in the eye when they wander into their yards. First off, I hope some hombre named Daisy Ryder didn’t […]
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Airing of Grievances: An Invitation
Play along with the Source’s Festivus-style grouse fest!
If you’re a fan of ’90s TV, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of Festivus—the non-secular, invented holiday made popular by the sitcom, “Seinfeld.” In homage to that time-honored tradition, we invite you, readers, to participate in your own Airing of Grievances, Central Oregon edition. Is there a facet of living in Central Oregon that […]
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The Source’s Favorite Viral Videos of 2016
Every minute 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube, with 4,950,000,000 videos being viewed every day. The video sharing website is an endless land where you can explore new music, learn how to change a tire, watch bad lipreading and most importantly, take a break from the day with a laugh. We combed through some […]
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Pop These on your Record Player
The Sources’ top 10 albums of 2016
The year in music seems likely to be remembered for its major losses. This was a year when we lost artists who were not merely stars, but icons whose albums helped shape entire genres of music. A couple of them, even as death approached, managed to make the Sources’ top albums of 2016 list. 1 […]
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Puttin’ on a Good Show
A look back at the best theatre in Central Oregon in 2016
Over the past year more theatre was produced in Central Oregon than ever before, and a wide majority of those productions were performed for sold out houses. With all of the productions that happened last year, we asked some of the myriad theatre folk in the region what their favorite shows across 2016 were. The […]
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2016’s Best Books by Genre
When it comes to choosing some of the best reads of 2016, we knew no one would be more well-read than Tom Beans, owner of Dudley’s BookShop Cafe in downtown Bend. These may not be the critics’ picks for best books of the year, but they certainly were his favorites. Fiction To The Bright Edge […]
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Best Letters to the Editor of 2016
From the political to the bizarre, we get a lot of letters. Here are some of our favorites. Keep ’em coming, Central Oregon! Best Political Showing Up for Racial Justice in Central Oregon, (8/10/16) Dear Source Weekly, Huge thanks for including resources for your white readers interested in racial justice in the July 13th issue. Black […]
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We Heart Carts
The best food carts the Source sampled in 2016
So many new food carts opened up in the C.O. over the last year we could hardly keep up. We missed some and some of the ones we tried might not have even been new; just new to us. But we did our best! And we look forward to ordering from more in 2017! The […]
