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An important part of ensuring the houseless population can transition out of poverty is assuring they have access to health care. Mosaic Community Health is expanding its efforts to do just that. Plus Redmond has a new police department, a young Bend woman is earning a reputation in the golf world, a chef who’s known at farmers markets has opened her first brick-and-mortar shop and some of the region’s top canines convene in Central Oregon to see who’s Best in Show.
Also an editor’s note: next week is the highly anticipated Best Of Central Oregon issue revealing your top choices in a variety of categories for favorite businesses and people! — Managing Editor Nic Moye
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The Anti-Woke Agenda is Now Coming for Your Power Bill
The bill-payers in a household know the challenges of electricity in the modern age: Costs skyrocketing, and now, intermittent power shutoffs due to wildfire danger. Both of these things can create headaches: one is a strain on household budgets; the other is potentially life-threatening, for those who rely on electricity for things like home oxygen or a CPAP machine.
These are two very good reasons that more Americans have looked forward to installing solar energy kits at their homes. Having a way to generate and store power right at home means more stable — or eventually even zero ¬— electricity costs. It can also promise stability for those for whom electricity is a matter of life and death.
But if you hear the current administration discuss it, solar power, and supporting solar power for low-income households, is just part of a woke agenda, perpetuated by the Biden administration, that now deserves to be kicked to the curb. For the people currently in power at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, kicking that “radical, environmentally friendly” agenda to the curb is important enough to risk possibly breaking the law to do so.
This week, leaders at the EPA announced the end of a $7 billion program called Solar for All, which would have offered money to various state and Tribal agencies, that in turn became grants to install solar setups at the homes of low-income Americans. It was passed through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, and entities were soon to be receiving the funds. Oregon was set to receive $86.6 million from that program, according to the state’s delegation in Congress. Some 8,000 buildings
in Oregon were slated to receive funds for solar installation. The program was already funded in Congress, and technically, the federal government does not have the authority to rescind the funds that have already been approved.
But that seems hardly to matter to this administration, which seems to be able to politicize even universally accepted energy programs. The majority of Oregon’s Congressional delegation sent a letter to the head of the EPA this week, asking for answers.
“If allowed to spend the federal funds it was legally awarded, the State of Oregon has plans to establish a program that would support solar panel installation on multi-family buildings and the development of community solar projects, while also investing in workforce development activities to ensure a robust and efficient solar industry in Oregon,” reads the text of the letter. “This program would be the only statewide residential solar incentive program and without it, residential solar will not be a cost-effective option for low-income Oregonians.”
In a time when the needs of large companies running Artificial Intelligence servers are sopping up more of the energy grid, individual Americans need more options for generating energy, not fewer. We will not make America great by moving back to a nostalgic time when oil and coal were the only options. It’s not woke to invest in multiple energy options, and it’s certainly not woke to care about the increasing cost of energy, which is a burgeoning burden on everyone.
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NEW LIBRARY ON EAST SIDE
We live on the southeast end of Bend. Every day we pass the new library being built and I'm wondering if anyone else but us think it looks like a prison. Or a prison cruise ship. It has zero Central Oregon vibe to it and has us wondering if the Bend Planning department has been smoking some bad stuff. We're curious what others' think of it.
—Nancy Rice
WHEN FOREST MANAGEMENT CHANGED, SO DID MY HOMETOWN — AND NOW OUR FORESTS ARE BURNING
I grew up in rural southern Oregon, where logging was more than an industry — it was the backbone of our economy and the lifeline for our schools. Timber sales didn’t just employ people; they funded education, sports, and community programs.
Then, in the late 1980s, federal forest management shifted. New restrictions, prompted by the listing of the northern spotted owl as a threatened species and changes at the U.S. Forest Service, cut timber sales dramatically. Environmental protests made national news, with activists chaining themselves to trees. But in my town, the impact wasn’t symbolic — it was personal.
We had two mills: Gregory Forest Products and the Swanson Group. Mr. Gregory, who owned his mill, gave every graduating senior in our tiny school a
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$500 scholarship. Within a few years of the timber cutbacks, his mill shut down. Parents of friends were out of work. My family’s business suffered.
The school district had to choose between maintaining extracurricular programs or protecting academics. They canceled everything — sports, clubs, even music — the fall of my junior year. And yet, the families hit hardest by layoffs dug into their own pockets to bring back at least two sports per season.
Fast forward to today and the conversation is dominated by catastrophic wildfires. Lives are lost. Homes are destroyed. Insurance premiums sent skyrocketing and insurance companies unwilling to issue coverage. Millions of acres burn every summer. From where I stand, this isn’t unrelated — it’s the direct result of decades of reduced logging and passive forest management. Without sustainable timber harvests, our forests have grown overcrowded and choked with underbrush. Trees stand too close together, competing for resources. Dead wood accumulates. All of it becomes explosive fuel for fires. In the past, logging — alongside controlled burns — acted as a preventive measure. Clear cuts created firebreaks. Selective thinning kept trees healthier and more resistant to pests like pine beetles, Douglas fir beetles, and emerald ash borers.
Timber is one of the few truly renewable resources we have. Managed wisely, it provides jobs, funds communities, and keeps forests healthy. We need a
forest policy that reflects both ecological science and economic reality—not one that sacrifices rural towns while unintentionally setting the stage for today’s wildfire crisis.
It’s time to return to active forest management, where logging isn’t the enemy, but a tool—one that can protect both our environment and the people who call these forests home.
—Kammi Kusner
A WARNING WE CAN’T IGNORE: THE DOJ AND OUR DEMOCRACY
The recent exodus of experienced attorneys from the Department of Justice is more than a bureaucratic shuffle — it is a clear signal that our democracy is under threat. These are not routine staff changes but the departure of highly experienced, nonpartisan attorneys who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations. They are leaving because political pressure is making it impossible to enforce the law impartially.
When this kind of institutional expertise is driven out, our justice system loses its backbone. The DOJ becomes weaker, less able to protect civil rights, prosecute corruption, and defend democracy itself. If political power can bend justice to its will, no one’s rights are safe.
This isn’t just a Washington story. The health of our democracy directly affects every community, including ours. We should pay attention, speak out, and remind our leaders that the independence of the DOJ is not optional—it’s essential.
The warning signs are here. Let’s not ignore them.
—Colette Whelan
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Oregon Could Lose $15 Billion in Federal Cuts
Governor Tina Kotek says the President’s budget reconciliation bill, signed into law July 4, is projected to cut $15 billion in federal funding from Oregon for health insurance coverage, food benefits and other programs. That figure is the result of a preliminary analysis by the State of Oregon’s Chief Financial Office, according to a news release.
The Governor’s office released a table of the anticipated losses. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program would lose nearly $3 billion over the next six years. Medicaid would see cuts of $11.7 billion. Other agencies losing billions include the Marine Fisheries Team, I-5 Rose Quarter Improvement Project in Portland and the Urban Community Forestry Program.
Gov. Kotek says she will convene state lawmakers and key stakeholders who represent populations most at risk from federal budget cuts to consider possible strategies to reduce the impact.
—Nic Moye
Below the Surface Inside the challenging world of water search and recovery at Dillon Falls
By Sarah Isak-Goode
When tragedy strikes, search and rescue teams face some of the most demanding and dangerous conditions imaginable. Whether responding to water rescue emergencies or recovery operations, these specialized units must often navigate dangerous underwater environments.
Search and recovery operations can happen at any time, in any weather. Teams often work with a sense of urgency. One of the bigger challenges for these teams lies in balancing speed with safety during critical operations. Rigorous training and sophisticated equipment facilitate the process under pressure. In water emergencies, advanced tools like side scan sonar help search and rescue teams work more efficiently while reducing risk.
Why water searches are so complex
—The number of medical clinics Mosaic Community Health’s Street Medicine program has offered, from “Medicine on the Move.”
Search and rescue operations are far more complex in water than most people realize. Along the Deschutes River, swift currents, underwater rocks, low visibility and tough terrain can make searches difficult. The recent search efforts for three people who went over the rapids at Dillon Falls have been particularly challenging; the search is still ongoing for one of the missing persons.
The incident began on July 19 when a group was floating the river and missed their takeout point.
logs and lava rocks," Garibay said. Due to these hazards, local search and rescue teams have proceeded with extreme caution. When California diver Juan Heredia volunteered to assist in the search, the Sheriff’s Office turned him away because “that stretch of the Deschutes River is closed while they are performing their search.”
Search technologies and operations
Although it is sophisticated enough to create detailed images of riverbeds and objects, side-scan sonar cannot penetrate reed beds or vegetation along riverbanks. "Cameras and other equipment have significant limitations in these conditions due the extremely fast and strong current and poor visibility," Garibay noted about operations at Dillon Falls.
“I realized early on that I loved being in this band and this is what I’d always wanted for my life.”
—Adam Duritz, founding member of Counting Crows in this week’s Sound.
Deschutes County Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer Jason Carr explained: "The investigation remains ongoing, but the detectives have told me they weren't able to pinpoint exactly where the group got into the water — only that they had been floating for some time before missing the takeout at Dillon Falls Day Use Area. They were not wearing PFDs [personal flotation devices]."
Lt. Nathan Garibay of DCSO Special Services and Emergency Management explained the factors that make Dillon Falls so dangerous.
"Dillon Falls is considered Class IV whitewater or advanced, but I would characterize it as violent Class IV, and is over a quarter-mile long and travels through a gorge with vertical sides composed of lava rock. Many areas are virtually inaccessible, with other areas requiring technical rope access and/or hampered by thick brush.”
These circumstances can be dangerous for search and rescue teams.
"In addition to risk of entrapment, there is risk of bodily injury to a responder from being washed into
There are four main investigative techniques used in a water search, explains Alastair Ruffell, research associate in Geoforensics: location, sonar, radar and dogs. Search technologies, like sonar and radar, are invaluable tools, but they also have specific limitations.
At Dillon Falls, much of the actual searching involves people working from boats, along the shore, wading into areas or deploying divers underwater. Swiftwater rescue support with specialized training can also get into the water and search or use underwater cameras. But, adds Garibay, “the moving, turbulent and aerated water can make visibility difficult in some areas, and the falls are very hazardous.”
Side scan sonar, which is used to locate missing evidence, drowning victims and submerged vehicles, has been used in the recent Dillon Falls incident. It works by generating detailed images of the underwater environment, regardless of water visibility. The system can scan several hundred feet of underwater terrain from the surface. The sonar's acoustic beam bounces off objects on the bottom, transmitting data to the surface where detailed images are displayed and analyzed.
In water with low visibility or along riverbanks, drones with sonar or radar technology assistance can perform searches far more quickly than just a human. In the Dillon Falls search, crews have used high-definition cameras to look for out-of-place objects. In combination, these technologies can improve recovery success rates and reduce the time needed for focused underwater searches by divers, explained Ruffell.
The scale of search and rescue
The amount of time, money, and effort that goes into search operations can be substantial. Costs include equipment, paid staff time, meals and fuel. Since the Dillon Falls case remains active, officials have not yet calculated the total cost. Garibay has pointed out that the community has stepped up to help by donating finances or meals for the responders.
The search has involved people working from boats, along the shore, wading into areas or looking underwater. "As of today, we have had 18 operational periods and over 2,200 hours of personnel time assigned to the search — with the overwhelming majority professional volunteer time," Garibay said.
Swiftwater rescue teams can search under water with specialized cameras.
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Key Takeaways From the 2024 Bias Crimes Annual Report
New statewide data shows that Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino community members continue to be targeted in unprecedented ways
By Sophie Rentschler
Data from the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission’s 2024 Bias Crimes Annual Report reveals the hotline has continued to receive a large number of reports of bias-motivated acts toward Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino community members. That’s just one of several key takeaways from the report, which came out in July. The Source also reported on the key takeaways from the 2023 Bias Crime Annual Report.
In 2019, Senate Bill 577 was passed by the legislature, requiring the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to review all bias crime and non-criminal bias incident data per Section 9 of the bill. The bill also requires the commission to wrap these results into a report annually, this report being its sixth.
Heightened hotline reports from Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino individuals
While month-to-month data wasn’t available to the Source in order to protect the privacy of users of the hotline, data from the 2024 report shows that Black/ AA and Hispanic/Latino residents were victims of bias-motivated acts in greater quantities than other racial demographics.
Bias crimes, as opposed to bias incidents, are acts motivated by hatred towards one’s perceived protected class and are considered crimes by law, whereas the term “bias incident” isn't considered a crime by law. The term “bias-motivated” is overarching, referring to both bias crimes and bias incidents. The data from this report solely refers to its first section, recording reports to the hotline.
In 2024, 1134 reporters to the hotline didn’t identify their race.
Additionally, not everyone who reports to the hotline is the victim of the bias-motivated act. Almost twothirds of the reports from 2020 until 2024 were made by people other than the victim. These reporters could be witnesses and school officials, for example, who may not know about the victim’s demographic information. Looking ahead to the 2025 Bias Crimes Annual Report, scholar of race and ethnic relations at Oregon State University Dwaine Plaza predicts that attacks on Hispanic and Latino individuals may continue to go underreported, as they have in past years. The 2024 report and reports before it explain that “underreporting is extensive.”
Especially for undocumented Hispanic and Latino community members, Plaza added that a state agency-instituted hotline is likely not the place victims can turn to.
He said under the Trump administration, the scapegoating towards Latino individuals has and likely will continue to embolden people to perform bias-motivated attacks.
The increase in reports to the hotline from Hispanic and Latino community members started increasing in 2022. This heightened number of reports could also be tied to the new movement of this group to Oregon, Plaza said.
“Latinos are a new group, in a sense, in Oregon,” Plaza said. “So that makes the Latino population in Oregon much more visible and much more vulnerable in many respects…”
Hotline usage drops by 7%
Since its conception in 2020, the statewide Bias Response Hotline has never seen a drop in service like it did this past year. This decline in hotline usage is what Attorney General Dan Rayfield called, “a sobering gut check and a call to action,” in a news release.
This drop in reports is due to Oregonians retreating into silence, he added, concluding that the hotline needs to continue to build trust and execute its intended purpose.
“The hotline exists for them,” Rayfield said.
Plaza said Hispanic and Latino individuals who may report to the hotline are likely from middle- class communities, those who are college educated and have “lived in the system for a long time.”
This past year, reports were in higher numbers in counties that may encompass urban areas. For example, Multnomah County had 819 reports of bias-motivated instances to the Bias Response Hotline. The report details that Deschutes, Lane, Marion, Washington, Clackamas, Benton and Columbia County each received more than 100 reports to the hotline.
Law enforcement officials reporting to the hotline also decreased this year. Although law enforcement officials are not required by law to report to the hotline, this drop in reports is revealing of a potential lack of capacity in smaller, more rural agencies to report to the Bias Response Hotline.
Reports of bias motivated acts have spiked on the internet via cell phone
Across all settings where bias-motivated acts have most commonly occurred, these reports have decreased in every setting — excluding instances via cell phones and the internet and school settings.
Plaza said this could indicate animus acts are being conducted by people who know the victim. And, the data does point to this idea.
Victims are increasingly being targeted by members of their own community
Victims of bias-motivated attacks have been targeted by people in their community in greater numbers, according to the report. Prior to 2024, attacks were in large part executed by strangers. Specifically, according to the report, individuals were seen to be targeted by their neighbors or a community member in heightened numbers. This year, 21% of bias motivated acts were committed by one’s neighbor or community member, marking the greatest number of neighbors or community members that have been perpetrators of bias motivated attacks in the hotline’s five-year existence.
Hotline staff have been increasingly targeted in this year’s report
Hotline staff are required to document every report to the hotline — even the reports they receive that may be targeting their own perceived protected class. This year, there were 244 bias incidents reported where a hotline advocate was targeted.
Redmond residents celebrated a major milestone in the community's growth when the City officially unveiled its new public safety facility at 111 N.W. Teak Ave. on Aug. 12.
The new two-story building cost $49 million and spans 42,000 square feet. It was built to help the police department handle current and future public safety needs in Redmond. The facility will be fully up and running by Aug. 25.
Police Chief Devin Lewis said the project shows the strong relationship between police and the community.
"I believe this represents the positive relationship we have with our community. The Redmond voters passed this bond by a significant margin in spring of 2022, and I saw that as community support and approval for the Redmond Police Department and the job we do," Lewis said. "Beyond that I saw it as a significant investment by the voters in their own community, so we made sure we were fiscally responsible throughout the project but also built a building that is state of the art, incorporates the newest technology and is large enough to accommodate significant growth."
Community investment pays off
The building was funded by a $40 million voter-approved bond in 2022, demonstrating significant community support for public safety improvements. According to a recent press release, the project came in more than $2 million under budget while meeting all design specifications and timeline goals. Lewis credited careful planning and constant collaboration for the project's financial success. "We took seriously the financial investment
$49 million police facility opens with community celebration
By Sarah Isak-Goode
made by the public, so we worked hard with our owner's rep, design team and construction team to constantly evaluate costs, and look forward for potential design changes," he said. "This constant meeting, evaluation and teamwork between the City, Cumming Group, FFA Architecture & Design, and Pence Construction is what allowed us to stay on time and on budget."
Mayor Ed Fitch praised both the community's investment and the project team's execution. “The new police facility is necessary because of growth. It will be a first-class facility for evidence storage and for police to get the job done. It’s going to be a great public safety facility for the City of Redmond.”
Modern features enhance public service
The new building has several key features designed to better serve the public and improve police operations. These include more space for crime victims to talk with officers, a multi-purpose training room and an outdoor storage locker for property and evidence return.
Lewis said the new facility will make a significant difference for both officers and the community.
"I know it will change how efficient and accommodating our police department can be for our Redmond community. This new police department will have enough public parking spaces so people can actually park at the police department and not several blocks away," he said. "They will have an open and welcoming lobby, with areas afforded to them for auditory and visible privacy in case they are talking to an officer about a sensitive matter."
Officers get modern workspace
Lewis believes the new facility will improve working conditions for police officers and staff. "Internally I believe it will be a positive change for our officers as they will have dedicated space to operate, make phone calls, work on reports, and a building with natural light, natural materials and technology to support them in being efficient," Lewis said. "They will have a large physical fitness and wellness center so they can focus on being physically, mentally and spiritually fit, and train and work together as a team."
The building meets LEED standards, featuring electric vehicle charging stations in both visitor and staff parking areas and solar panels on the roof. These environmentally conscious features reflect the City's commitment to sustainability while reducing long-term operating costs.
FFA Architecture and Interiors Inc. designed the new Public Safety Facility, and Pence Construction built it. The design team worked closely with police staff to understand their specific needs and values. “This building is built to last for multiple generations, and I believe represents our appreciation and recognition of the significant investment made by the citizens of Redmond,” Lewis said.
COMMUNITY PINT NIGHT
SUPPORT THINK WILD AT CASCADE LAKES BREWING CO.
Think Wild is Central Oregon’s local wildlife hospital and conservation center. Think Wild staff will be at the pub to greet guests and share information, and $1 from every pint sold will go toward the nonprofit’s conservation efforts. Thu., Aug. 14, 5-7pm at Cascade Lakes Pub at 7th Street. 855 SE Seventh St., Redmond. Free.
THE LIGHTNING THIEF
THE PERCY JACKSON MUSICAL
Presented by Meadow Sky Productions, “The Lightning Thief” is a high-energy musical sure to electrify audiences of all ages, adapted from the first book of Rick Riordan's “Percy Jackson series.” Join Percy Jackson on his quest to discover the truth about his origins and himself while discovering new friends and new dangers. Thu., Aug. 14-Sun., Aug. 24, show times vary at High Desert Music Hall. 818 SW Forest Ave., Redmond. $30.
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A year in, a roaming clinic brings health care to houseless residents in rural parts of the region
By Julianna LaFollette
Every other week, a team of local health care providers suits up to bring an on-the-go clinic to rural areas with significant unhoused populations, providing a steady stream of medical services to those in need.
In the last year, Mosaic Community Health, a local health organization, has built up its Street Medicine program into a service that offers health care to those who have limited access to medical assistance. The goal of the program is to serve people in their own environments, meeting them where they are, whether that’s in their cars or in the forests of Deschutes County.
To date, Mosaic’s new program has held 72 medicine clinics with more than 300 visits.
The nonprofit began testing out the program in Nov. 2023 and found a great need for bringing health care directly to those who may not have easy access to medical services.
With an increasing population of houseless residents across the region, Mosaic has launched and grown this idea into a fully operational program, attempting to decrease barriers to health by providing care for a wider range of unsheltered residents. About a year into its program, Mosaic is looking back at how the program has impacted the region and is exploring ways to continue expanding and improving services.
A human right
Mosaic Community Health aims to provide healthcare to Oregonians, regardless of life circumstances. The organization started in 2002 and has 16 health centers across Central Oregon. With a mission of providing quality care to all, the nonprofit has explored a variety of programs that help bring care to a growing unhoused
population. In 2025, Central Oregon saw a 17% total increase in homelessness, according to a regional Point-inTime count, measuring the number of people experiencing homelessness on a single night in January.
Since 2012, Mosaic has provided this type of care through its mobile clinic, a 42-foot RV that parked at congregate locations like shelters or food kitchens. While the mobile clinic changed the way houseless residents could receive health care, it did come with some limitations.
As unsheltered individuals continue to move out to more rural areas in the forests surrounding Bend and Redmond, the nonprofit began exploring the idea of “street medicine,” a different approach that allowed it to reach a wider range of people.
“The expansion of our continuum of medical outreach to unsheltered individuals underscores our fundamental belief that everyone deserves to be offered access to healthcare, which can be a pathway to support and stability,” said Elaine Knobbs-Seasholtz, chief strategy officer with Mosaic Community Health.
Last August, the Street Medicine Institute, a national organization promoting Street Medicine services, awarded Mosaic a Seed Grant for the development of its Street Medicine program. The grant, in the amount of $10,000, aimed to provide a year of intensive consultative support from street medicine experts — providing training and guidance to help Mosaic establish and grow its program.
In June, Mosaic received more funding that allowed it to continue expanding its program. The Multi-Agency Coordination group, which helps allocate funding for houseless services on a regional scale, awarded the nonprofit a $300,000 grant to support the program.
on the Move
With these funds, Mosaic was able to purchase two new vehicles for all terrains, including a Sprinter Van, which they are currently building out as an “exam room.” According to Knobbs-Seasholtz, the van should be running within four to six months. Until then, the nonprofit will continue to use alternate vehicles and their tent canopy to provide these services.
Today, the Street Medicine team regularly goes out to two general areas –two large, rural encampments outside of Bend and Redmond – to maintain a consistent presence and connection with people living in the camps. On a typical outreach day, Mosaic will send a team of three health care workers to the areas to set up a clinic.
The services range from regular physical exams and rapid STD testing to advanced wound management, illness evaluations and the administration of over-the-counter medications and antibiotics.
“Street medicine provides the opportunity to treat many unengaged patients who do not feel comfortable receiving care in traditional clinic settings due to historical trauma associated with the medical establishment and ever-changing local policies,” Knobbs-Seasholtz told the Source.
“Ultimately, we aim to improve patient access to care among the most vulnerable in our community.”
Support for accessible health care
Street medicine is an important piece of Mosaic’s mission and aligns with the Street Medicine Institute’s goal of expanding this type of work across the country. SMI works by partnering with local organizations, like Mosaic, to help support the creation of street medicine in communities across the country.
“We're kind of creating a new field of medicine, but also seeking to bring care to people that haven't been getting it,” said Dr. Jim Withers, founder of SMI. “It’s a new classroom for learners to engage excluded populations in a transformational way.”
Out of 23 cities that competed for SMI’s grant, Bend was one of two communities selected. Withers worked with Mosaic to provide consultative services
to build out its street medicine program.
According to Withers, Bend was selected because of its “compelling need” for street medicine, and due to its more rural population of unsheltered residents.
The work, Withers said, assists those who are “marginalized,” “underserved” or not well connected to the mainline services available in a community.
“While most health systems have expectations that people will come to them, there will always be people, for a wide range of reasons, that cannot or will not be able to do that,” he told the Source.
Street medicine visits allow health care providers to assess urgent and unmet health care needs. In a more rural area like Central Oregon, Withers added, there are also fewer centralized resources that people can easily access due to transportation or other barriers.
Withers sees an incredible demand for street medicine in communities across the country.
“Street medicine is a gap that needs to be filled. It's kind of like envisioning the country without a fire department anywhere. So, we’re sort of devising how to make that happen,” he said.
Other local programs connected to houseless services also find this approach invaluable when it comes to increasing access to services.
Colleen Thomas with Deschutes County’s Homeless Outreach Services Team, which offers street outreach and case management support, sees Mosaic as a vital partner in the region’s houseless services.
The Street Medicine program, Thomas said, has been monumental in bringing medical care to people who are fairly isolated. Those living unsheltered on the outskirts of town are often distrusting of systems, don’t have access to transportation or may have mobility issues.
The mobile nature of this program, she said, is meeting a huge need in the community that hasn’t otherwise been fulfilled.
As encampments across the region continue to grow, Thomas pointed out the importance of attentive and continuous care.
“It's so vital for us to ensure the continuity of care for folks. Having the flexibility of Mosaic, to be able to be a little
bit more nimble and meeting folks where they are — we've seen it as a huge positive connection for our clients so that they can continue to address their medical needs as they’re displaced throughout the region,” Thomas told the Source.
Since the start of the street medicine program, Thomas said folks in areas like Juniper Ridge, a highly populated encampment north of Bend, are accessing care more consistently, addressing needs like access to Hep-C treatment, abscesses or long-term chronic pain.
Patients of the Street Medicine program have seen positive results, too. Knobbs-Seasholtz shared some anecdotes Mosaic has heard directly from those accessing these services.
“If it wasn’t for all these people here and what they do to help people…you know, I probably wouldn’t be here right now,” patient Leslie reported to Mosaic.
Others reported a newfound trust in the health care system.
“They don’t judge you whatsoever when you walk in here with your problems. It doesn’t matter what you look like, where you come from. They just care about making sure you are OK,” Renu, a Street Medicine patient, told Mosaic.
Continuum of care
While the street medicine team regularly goes out to areas like Juniper Ridge and encampments outside of Redmond, it also relies on other community service partners to facilitate connections with patients and ensure that everyone is getting the care they need.
Deschutes County’s Homeless Outreach Services Team works closely with Mosaic, often getting people connected to Street Medicine through its rapport and connections with those living unsheltered. In its process of identifying barriers for people, HOST also assists in making sure people have health insurance, assisting them with the Oregon Health Plan to help cover medical visits.
Many of the services for local houseless communities, Thomas with HOST said, are collaborative and include a variety of “warm hand-offs,” getting them connected with a variety of services like food, gas, mental health support or medical care.
In addition to working with the
Deschutes County HOST team, Mosaic also works with the City of Bend, particularly in the Temporary Safe Stay Area, a managed encampment in the Juniper Ridge area.
According to Brooke O’Keefe, the City of Bend shelter coordinator, Mosaic fills an important gap in services that can help transition people out of homelessness and into long-term housing or shelter.
“Healthcare challenges can often be a barrier for people experiencing homelessness as they’re making their way out of homelessness. Having an agency that fills that gap is such a benefit.”
Continued growth
While just a year in, Mosaic aims to continue improving its street medicine program to serve more people across the region.
According to Knobbs-Seasholtz, the team is considering adding a behavioral health consultant in locations with high rates of untreated mental health disorders. They are also in the planning stages of developing a Street Psychiatry program with Deschutes County Behavioral Health.
“We see a great need to expand our team and sites for this program as the numbers of unhoused individuals and unmet healthcare needs continue to grow in Central Oregon,” said Knobbs-Seasholtz. “Our intent is to expand the street medicine program to meet regional needs; to do this we need funding support from the community.”
While the work continues to expand, Knobbs-Seasholtz noted that there are unique, inherent needs and complexities around providing this level of care for unsheltered individuals.
With ever-changing local and state policies, resulting in the displacement and movement among unhoused people and camps, as well as staffing constraints, challenges do arise when it comes to developing trust and sustaining regular engagement with the unhoused population.
“This is new territory for most healthcare providers, and we are learning as we go how to best develop an effective, system-based approach to help our street medicine team assist patients in a sustainable way,” said Knobbs-Seasholtz.
Photos courtesy Mosaic Community Health
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WEDNESDAY 8/13
THE LUMINEERS
“THE AUTOMATIC WORLD TOUR”
The Lumineers have ascended to the upper echelons of the world’s most beloved bands with their ambitious blend of alternative rock sensibilities, anthemic Americana and idealistic charm. Renowned for their idiosyncratic and inventive songcraft, as well as their energetic and emotionally resonant live performances, the band has won international acclaim and a devoted fan following. Wed., Aug. 13 and Thu., Aug. 14, 6:30pm at Hayden Homes Amphitheater. 344 SW Shevlin Hixon Dr., Bend. $40-$180.
THURSDAY 8/14
ALEX DUNN
DESERT FOLK AT SILVER MOON
Alex Dunn is a modern Americana troubadour, offering his own blend of country-tinged folk music out of the high desert of northern New Mexico. His latest EP, “You Just Jump In,” was co-produced alongside multi-instrumentalist Bryant Moore and released in November 2024.Thu., Aug. 14, 7pm at Silver Moon Brewing. 24 NW Greenwood Ave., Bend. $15.
THURSDAY 8/14
THE RATCHET DOLLS
LIVING LIFE LOUD
Ratchet Dolls taps into the spirit, energy and excitement of vintage rock ‘n’ roll. Formed in 2014, this Texas band has built a reputation for high-adrenaline and in-your-face performances, clocking over 100 tour dates a year. Thu., Aug. 14, 9pm at The Common wealth Pub. 30 SW Century Dr., Bend. $10.
THURSDAY 8/14
MUSEUM & ME
SENSORY-FRIENDLY HOURS AT THE HIGH DESERT MUSEUM
A quieter time for children and adults who experience physical, intellectual and/or social disabilities to enjoy the High Desert Museum after hours. Explore the Museum’s newest exhibitions and revisit your favorites. Sensory packs are available to borrow with headphones, fidgets and more. Thu., Aug. 14, 5-7pm at the High Desert Museum. 59800 S. Highway 97, Bend. Price of admission varies. SATURDAY 8/16
GLASS ANIMALS
“TOUR OF EARTH”
THE DOSE
A PSYCHEDELIC COMEDY SHOW
A mind-bending journey of experimentation and laughter, set in a vibrant and surreal venue. Hosted by Steven Gillespie (Conan, Amazon Prime), a nationally touring comedian and psychedelic connoisseur. The show will also feature a DJ set and a variety of festival performers (think jugglers, dancer, hula-hoopers.) Sat., Aug. 16, 7pm at Bunk+Brew. 42 NW Hawthorne Ave., Bend. $22-$32.
DARIN GENTRY’S OLD TIME MACHINE
STRING TUNES AT RIVER’S PLACE
Darin Gentry's Old Time Machine kicks everything up a notch with a solid old time groove and killer vocal harmonies, with a little bit of swing, honkytonk and bluegrass thrown in for extra fun. Catch the band while enjoying tasty bites and ice-cold bevvies from the food trucks onsite. Sun., Aug. 17, 6pm at River’s Place. 787 NE Purcell Blvd., Bend. Free.
SUNDAY 8/17
ALABAMA SHAKES
AUTHOR TALK AT THE LIBRARY
Grammy-winning Alabama Shakes brings its powerhouse blend of rock, soul and blues to the stage for a night of electrifying music, on tour this summer after an eight-year hiatus. Led by the unforgettable voice of Brittany Howard, having Alabama Shakes back on stage is a welcome sight. Sun., Aug. 17, 7pm at Hayden Homes Amphitheater. 344 SW Shevlin Hixon Dr., Bend. $50-$110.
British indie-rock band Glass Animals comes to Bend with special guest Orla Gartland. The band–led by singer/songwriter and producer Dave Bayley along with his childhood friends Joe Seaward, Ed Irwin-Singer and Drew MacFarlane–blends hypnotic beats, psychedelic pop and infectious grooves into an electrifying live experience. Sat., Aug. 16, 7pm at Hayden Homes Amphitheater. 344 SW Shevlin Hixon SATURDAY 8/16
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S SOUND Counting Crows Counting on each other to make meaningful melodies
By Dave Gil de Rubio
It’s been a while since Counting Crows hit fans with new material. The band’s last full-length studio effort was 2014’s “Somewhere Under Wonderland.” In the 11 years since, the band toured, performed with the London Symphony Orchestra and released a freshly recorded 2019 version of “August and Everything After,” the here-to-for unreleased title cut from the album of the same name.
Throw in a global pandemic, and the only new music Counting Crows fans could sink their teeth into was the 2021 EP, “Butter Miracle, Suite One,” which featured a four-song suite influenced by the likes of Mott the Hoople, Thin Lizzy and Seán Barna's album “CISSY.” Vocalist and founding member
Adam Duritz will be the first to admit his band has been forced to rethink the paradigm into which the music industry has evolved.
“For awhile I wasn’t really sure how to put out records,” Duritz admitted in a mid-May interview. “With ‘Somewhere Under Wonderland,’ we had a great record company who did a really good job [promoting it] and the album just kind of disappeared. I wanted to take some time to find out what it was we were doing wrong in putting out records, because we’re not the center of the culture anymore. We had to figure out the process a little better, and I felt like we didn’t really have a handle on that. Just putting it out and working it on radio is not really a fully imagined way to release records nowadays. I just kind of felt like I wanted to figure out how to do this. It’s hard to work really hard on the music and then feel like you’re throwing it down a hole.”
The four songs that made up “Butter Miracle, Suite One” — “The Tall Grass,” “Elevator Boots,” “Angel of 14th Street,” “Bobby and the Rat-Kings” — served as a baseline for the band’s next fulllength. After recording five new songs last spring prior to leaving for a summer tour, Duritz and his compatriots came away with the newly released “Butter Miracle! The Complete Sweets,” Counting Crows’ eighth full-length studio album. And while the whole project took nearly four years to complete, the 60-year-old vocalist was thrilled with the chemistry he and his bandmates had during the recording process.
do that, but you still don’t know if it’s going to until the day you stitch it all together and there it goes. That was one of the most creative days of my life honestly. The whole suite was such an ambitious attempt for us and it was so satisfying when it worked.”
While the pace of putting out eight albums over the 34-years-and-counting lifespan of the band may not be particularly prolific, the live side of the coin has always been a robust facet for Counting Crows. And with such an enterprising slate of new songs to play, Duritz is
festival a couple of weeks ago. And on the radio over in England, Immer [multi-instrumentalist David Immerglück] and I did ‘Virginia Through the Rain’ as a duet and that was really, really cool as well.”
With three-plus decades in the books, Counting Crows could have easily collapsed under the weight of hype that found them at the center of a major label bidding war back in February 1992. As an unknown outfit, the Bay area quintet filled in for Van Morrison at the 1993 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, and their 1993 debut “August and Everything After” became at the time the fastest-selling record since Nirvana’s “Nevermind.”
looking forward to throwing the newest songs into the mix along with tackling the challenge of playing the four-song suite this summer.
“The time in the studio was really good,” Duritz said with a smile. “We were just playing so well, and it was so easy. My two favorite moments were hearing the whole thing when it was finally done and also the day we mixed ‘Bobby and the Rat Kings’ and cut the whole suite together. Up until that point, we didn’t know if it would work. It’s a weird thing when you’re recording and working on songs one by one, you kind of know they work. With a suite like this, no matter how well it was turning out in the studio, there was a question as to whether it was going to fit together and flow the way we wanted it to. It was composed and written to
“On our last tour, we played the whole thing as one,” Duritz recalled. “I really love the suite. I never really tried one song alone, but to me, ‘Elevator Boots’ doesn’t feel as great alone. It’s really powerful coming out of ‘The Tall Grass.’ It’s not as much of a cool thing when you just play the one song.”
He added, “But I think it’s going to be exciting because we have all these new songs that really rock. I’m really excited to play them. We played ‘Spaceman in Tulsa’ a few times now. We’ve opened with it for a few shows, and it was great. We’ve played ‘With Love, From A-Z, and that’s really cool live. We did it at this
And while Duritz’s love life with paramours including Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox and Mary Louise Parker made him tabloid fodder, inter-band conflict and drama never seemed to enter the orbit of the band, whose lineup has had only two member changes. Duritz says the stability wasn’t accidental and that he’s been perfectly happy to ensure that harmony, in both a literal and metaphorical sense, has been the fuel that keeps his band going.
“I can only really speak for me, but I realized early on that I loved being in this band, and this is what I’d always wanted for my life,” Duritz said. “I think you see bands that break up all the time, and a lot of it is because there’s always a way for anyone in any band to figure out why they deserve more. More attention, more respect, more money — whatever it is. There’s always a way for everybody in every band to feel slighted. But you’ve got to figure out what’s important, and I think I realized early on that this band was what I’d always been looking for, so I just made that the priority. For me, it was always about these guys and all of us and how to make it good for all of us. You may deserve more, but if there’s not enough for everybody else, you don’t have a band.”
He paused before saying, “Regardless of how everyone might think that Counting Crows is all about me in a lot of ways, all I do as a songwriter is write some chords and words -- that’s not really a song. My songs really need these guys because what makes them come across so powerfully and so emotionally is how well they play them. If I was just a solo artist, it just wouldn’t be that good. It’s really about those guys, and I’ve known that forever. Even if nobody else knows that, I know that.”
Counting Crows Tue., Aug. 19, 6:30pm Hayden Homes Amphitheater 344 SW Shevlin Hixon Dr., Bend bendconcerts.com/events $67.20+
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13 Wednesday
The Astro Lounge Karaoke Get here early to put your name on the list! Drink specials every night. 9pm-2am. Free.
Bevel Craft Brewing Critical Blues Band Bevel Craft Brewing hosts the Critical Blues Band, delivering soulful, high-energy blues. 6-8pm. Free.
Bunk+Brew Open Mic Show off your talent at Bunk + Brew’s Open Mic Night! Sign-ups begin at 5:30 PM, the show kicks off at 6. All acts welcome—music, comedy, poetry, and more. Grab a drink, hit the stage, or cheer them on. Free to attend. Good vibes guaranteed. 6-8pm. Free.
The Capitol The Capitol Karaoke Music Weekly Karaoke at its finest! Central Oregon’s premiere karaoke experience has just moved locations! Now at the Capitol! Drink specials! Air guitars! Come see for yourself. 8pm-1am. Free.
The Cellar Live Music with Danger Gently Head down to The Cellar every Wednesday to enjoy live music from Danger Gently, a talented rotating cast of characters playing old-timey jams! 6-8pm. Free.
The Commonwealth Pub Rob Gregerson Rob Gregerson is a one-man-band for the ages! He began his looping career in 1999 with just a guitar and a delay pedal, and has developed into a full orchestrated looping carnival. 7:309:30pm. Free.
Craft Kitchen and Brewery Comedy Open Mic Night Open mic comedy on Bend’s NE side. Come down, eat some BBQ, drink some drinks, and be prepared to laugh. Great for first timers to experienced performers. FREE 7:30-9pm. Free.
Crosscut Warming Hut No 5 Ghost of Brian Craig Relax with a pint and enjoy great local music. 6-8pm. Free.
Deschutes Brewery & Public House
Head Games Trivia Night Eat. Drink. Think. Win! Head Games multi-media trivia is at Deschutes Bend Public House every Wednesday. Win prizes. Teams up to six. 6:30-8:30pm. Free.
Hayden Homes Amphitheater
The Lumineers: The Automatic World Tour The Lumineers have ascended to the upper echelons of the world’s most beloved bands with their ambitious blend of alternative rock sensibilities, anthemic Americana, and idealistic charm. Renowned for their idiosyncratic and inventive songcraft, as well as their energetic and emotionally resonant live performances, the band has won international acclaim and a devoted fan following. 6:30pm. $39.50-$179.50.
Hosmer Bar Trivia Night Join us midweek for brainy banter and cold drinks! Whether you’re a seasoned quiz champ or just in it for the laughs, gather your crew and test your knowledge! See you there! 7-9pm. Free.
M&J Tavern Open Mic Night Downtown living room welcomes musicians to bring their acoustic set or turn it up to 11 with the whole band. Bring your own instruments. 6:30pm. Free.
Market of Choice Bend Scrabble Club at Market of Choice We meet upstairs. We use the 7th edition of the Scabble Players Dictionary. New Scrabble players are welcome. If you have a Scrabble set, please bring it as a backup. 6-8:30pm. Free.
Northside Bar & Grill Mellow Wednesday Acoustic Open Mic and Jam hosted by Derek Michael Marc Sign-up sheet is available at 6:30pm. 7-9pm. Free.
Pinky G’s Pizzeria MUSIC BINGO Join music Bingo (think Bingo and Name that Tune). Great food, cold drinks and good times. Free to play and prizes for each round winner. 6-8pm. Free.
Ponch’s Place Bingo Wednesdays at Ponch’s Place Enjoy Bingo at Ponch’s Place on Wednesdays. 5:30-7pm. Free.
Portello Wine and Spirits MUSIC BINGO! Music Bingo is back after popular demand! This is not “call out numbers” bingo - this is hearing epic music playlists, and if the song is on your bingo card you cross it off! Fun music, sing-a-long, chance to win gift cards - all hosted by Rachel Fishman who always makes it fun! Every other Wednesday, 6:30-9pm. Free.
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WTF! Wednesday Trivia Fun! Genuine UKB Trivia is truly unique and entertaining trivia for you! Independent, locally owned and operated. Please bring something to write with and some positive vibes, too :). 7pm. Free.
Silver Moon Brewing Haute Mélange Swing Night Haute Mélange hosts swing night every first Wednesday (unless otherwise noted.) 6pm. $10.
Silver Moon Brewing Aslin + Guests Aslin is an Oregon-born singer/songwriter whose music blends indie folk, country and a touch of playful grit. Growing up writing songs and performing across Oregon’s cafés, house shows and open mics, Aslin has spent years building a sound that feels both deeply personal and instantly familiar. 7pm. $10-$15.
The Open Door Mortal Soulstice at The Open Door The best boomer duo you’ve never heard of! Perfect music to accompany delicious, wholesome food, exquisite wine and engaging service in the shadow of the pines at The Open Door. 3:30-5pm. No Cover.
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The Astro Lounge Karaoke Get here early to put your name on the list! Drink specials every night. 9pm-2am. Free.
Austin Mercantile Live Music Every Thursday Join at Austin Mercantile for live music every Thursday. Offering a light happy hour menu — daily flatbread, chili, charcuterie, soft pretzels and more! 4:30-6:30pm. Free.
Bar Rio Live Music at Bar Rio Grab your favorite bites and sips and relax into the music— ranging from jazz and blues to pop and flamenco. 6-8pm. Free.
Blacksmith Public House Karaoke with DJ Chris Join us on our indoor stage for Karaoke night! Every Thursday from 6:30-8pm. We have plenty of indoor and outdoor seating, great drink options, and lots of food trucks! Family and dog friendly. 6:30-8pm. Free.
Bridge 99 Brewery Trivia Thursday Think and Drink! Genuine UKB Trivia is truly unique and entertaining trivia for you! Independent, locally owned and operated. Please bring something to write with and some positive vibes, too :). 6:30pm. Free.
Bunk+Brew Karaoke Thursdays Sing your heart out at Bunk + Brew’s Karaoke Night! Whether you’re a pro or just love the spotlight, all voices are welcome. Food carts available all evening! Located in the Historic Lucas House Living Room for winter. 7-10pm. Free.
The Cellar Live Irish Trad Music with The Ballybogs! Join us for a night of live music featuring Bend’s Irish Trad band, The Ballybogs! Every Thursday at The Cellar. Seats fill up, so get there early if you can! 6-8pm. Free.
The Commonwealth Pub The Ratchet Dolls Ratchet Dolls taps into the spirit, energy and excitement of vintage Rock ‘n’ Roll. Formed in 2014, this Texas band has built a reputation for high-adrenaline and in-your-face performances, clocking in over 100 tour dates a year. They will start their European tour in October 2025, so catch them now! 9pm. $10 Entertainment Fee at venue.
Crave Bend COMEDY OPEN MIC NIGHT
Comedy Open Mic Night on the SW side of Bend! Adults only encouraged. Intimate, smaller venue, healthier food and beverages, and an interactive night of comedy every Thursday! Hosted By Hopper. 7-9pm. Free.
The Dez Lounge Open Mic Join Joyful Lane at open mic night! Enjoy NA cocktails, charcuterie and dessert while listening to local talent! 6-9pm. Free.
Dogwood At The Pine Shed Let’s Have a Kiki A weekly 2SLGBTQIA+ night hosted by Cliché, with a new featured resident DJ each month. Kicking off the series in May with DJ Lunallday. Let’s have a kiki! 7-10pm. Free
The Domino Room King Lil G & Young Drummer Boy Blue Hundreds tour 2025, with special guest Hexxx. 8pm. $39-$111.
Elements Public House Trivia Night at Elements Public House with QuizHead Games Come be all you can be with Trivia Night every Thursday from 6-8pm! Featuring QuizHead. games. Located at the north end of Redmond. Full bar and great food! 6-8pm. Free.
Faith, Hope & Charity Vineyards Grits n’ Gravy Grits n’ Gravy, formerly known as the Dry Canyon Trio is a smaller version of the full band, Dry Canyon Stampede. A folksy take on traditional country music featuring Lilli Worona, Mike Biggers & Kurt Silva! Lilli Worona is a well known fiddle player and singer/songwriter in Central Oregon. 5-8pm. $15.
Hayden Homes Amphitheater
The Lumineers: The Automatic World Tour The Lumineers have ascended to the upper echelons of the world’s most beloved bands with their ambitious blend of alternative rock sensibilities, anthemic Americana, and idealistic charm. Renowned for their idiosyncratic and inventive songcraft, as well as their energetic and emotionally resonant live performances, the band has won international acclaim and a devoted fan following. 6:30pm. $39.50-$179.50.
Hosmer Bar Bingo Night Your week just found its highlight—bingo! Join us for drinks, good company and a little friendly competition. Pull up a chair, grab a board and let’s make some memories! 7-9pm. Free.
McKenzie General Store & Obsidian Grill Belltower at McKenzie General Store McKenzie General Store loves being able to provide free family friendly live music to our community of locals, adventures and travelers alike! With our outdoor beirgarden, restaurant and general store we’re sure to have all you need for an unforgettable evening! 6-9pm. Free.
Mountain Burger Lickety Split at Thursday Night Live! Lickety Split at Mountain Burger Bend for Thursday Night Live! 6-8pm. Free.
Ponch’s Place Trivia Thursdays at Ponch’s Place Trivia Thursdays at Ponch’s Place with QuizHead Games. 6-8pm. Free.
River’s Place Thomas T. & The Blue Chips A mix of classic and contemporary Chicago and Texas blues. Thomas T. & The Blue Chips play fun, funky tunes that always get the crowd moving. 6-8pm. Free.
Silver Moon Brewing Alex Dunn & Grace Honeywell Alex Dunn is currently based out of the high desert of northern New Mexico. He has recorded alongside folk luminaries Anna Tivel and Eli West and he has had the opportunity to share the stage with artists such as Marty O’Reilly, Rachel Baiman, Robbie Fulks, Kassi Valazza, and Rainbow Girls. 7pm. $15.
Silver Moon Brewing Trivia on the Moon Come down to Silver Moon Brewing for a night of trivia! Teams are welcome to show up in groups up to 8 people. Silver Moon also offers seating reservations for $20 donations that all go to F*Cancer! If you would like to reserve a table please contact the Trivia on the Moon Facebook page. 7pm. Free.
With over two decades of tune-slinging behind them, the musicians of Trampled by Turtles continue to put on high-energy live shows. Catch the band (sharing a bill with Shakey Graves) Fri., Aug. 15, 7pm at Hayden Homes Amphitheater.
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Angeline’s Bakery Bon Bon Vivant Bon Bon Vivant’s dynamic sound fuses the pulse of their New Orleans home with the grit of indie and the heart of Americana. In the hands of frontwoman Abigail Cosio and saxophonist/vocalist Jeremy Kelley, Bon Bon Vivant’s music is a tribute to life, from the chaotic to the captivating and everything in between.
Bend Cider Co. Echo Chamber Teen rockers, Echo Chamber, return to Bend Cider to perform their fresh mix of classic rock covers, and some original tunes, as well. Enjoy their music in our lovely backyard, while sipping on delicious ciders, beer, wine, & n/a beverages. Light appetizers available, outside food welcome. Kid & dog-friendly. Free. 6-8pm. Free.
Big E’s Sports Bar and Grill Karaoke Night at Big E’s Bar & Grill A Fine Note Karaoke Too featuring DJ Jackie J, bringing the party! Come early, sing more (sing two songs in a row between 8-9pm.) 21+. 8pm. Free.
Cheba Hut Comedy Open Mic Bring your friends and let’s have some laughs together! 7:45-9pm. Free.
The Commonwealth Pub The Jess Ryan Band The Jess Ryan Band have been a staple in the Bend local music scene for nearly a decade. All good things come to an end. Sometimes indefinitely, sometimes to transform and grow into something new. 8-10pm. Free.
The Commonwealth Pub Commonwealth DJ Dance Party with TRUNORTH Join TRUNORTH as he makes his way down from the 49th parallel, spinning the latest and greatest, raising the bar on this year’s playoff season. Join him Friday and Saturday nights at The Commonwealth Pub and cheer on the beats from soul, to funk, to today’s hits. 9pm-Midnight. Free.
Craft Kitchen and Brewery Comedy at Craft with Naomi Fitter Join us for a night of sensual-yet-sagacious stand-up comedy from some of our favorite acts from around the state. A perfect date night for that software-writing sweetie you’ve had your eye on, steamy early Mole Day gift, or special someone from your Dungeons and Dragons campaign. 8-9:30pm. $15 online.
Faith, Hope & Charity Vineyards Cover City Get ready to dance, sing and groove all night long with Cover City – a powerhouse band delivering high-energy, feel-good music that keeps the crowd moving! Known for their smooth style, tight harmonies and killer grooves, Cover City transforms every show into a non-stop celebration. 6-9pm. $20.
The Grove Summer Friday Concert Series Join us on Fridays throughout the summer at the Grove Market Hall for some live music! 6-8pm. Free.
Hardtails Bar & Grill Stage 28 Karaoke Come out for a night of Stage 28 Karaoke with your host Miss Min! What’s your go-to karaoke tune? Come to Hardtails for a fun Friday night and sing your heart out! 8pm-Midnight. Free.
Hayden Homes Amphitheater Trampled By Turtles And Shakey Graves Trampled by Turtles are from Duluth, Minnesota, where frontman Dave Simonett initially formed the group as a side project in 2003. At the time, Simonett had lost most of his music gear, thanks to a group of enterprising car thieves who’d ransacked his vehicle while he played a show with his previous band. Left with nothing more than an acoustic guitar, he began piecing together a new band, this time taking inspiration from bluegrass, folk, and other genres that didn’t rely on amplification. 7pm. $50.
Hosmer Bar Comedy & Music at Hosmer Bar Bits N Skits presents comedy and live music at Hosmer Bar! Come relax with us after a long work week with comedy and live music! 7-8:30pm.
Ponch’s Place Music with Victor Johnson Enjoy Friday night music at Ponch’s Place with Victor Johnson. 6-8pm. Free.
Silver Moon Brewing Kenny Feidler and the Cowboy Killers Kenny Feidler’s sound is dark, gritty, western rock n roll filled with thoughtful, honest songwriting. Feidler’s path to the stage started on the rodeo circuit, writing songs about the life and selling his music from the trunk of an old Cadillac. Now he racks up the miles with his band. 7pm. $15-$20.
Unity Spiritual Community of Central Oregon Deathtrap Deschutes Theater Company proudly presents Deathtrap—Broadway’s longest-running comedy-thriller! Join us for an unforgettable night of suspense, deception and wickedly clever twists. 7:30-10pm.
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Austin Mercantile Saturday Afternoon Live Music Austin Mercantile is now adding live music on Saturdays! Serving wine, beer, lite happy hour menu, gifts and home decor. Hope to see you soon! 4:30-6:30pm. Free.
Bridge 99 Brewery Family-Friendly Karaoke Night Looking for family fun? You’ll find it every Saturday night at Bridge 99 Brewery. Family-friendly karaoke is hosted by DJ Jackie J and A Fine Note Karaoke Too from 6-9 PM. Adults, kids and good dogs welcome. 6-9pm. Free.
Bunk+Brew The Dose: a Psychedelic Comedy Show Bend’s wildest night of laughter is here. Step into a trippy, fully immersive experience with a secret line-up of top comedians. Surreal visuals, mind-bending vibes and nonstop laughs await at Bunk + Brew. 7-10pm. $22.
Cheba Hut Comedy Night Comedy Night featuring Jon Brown, Katy Ipock, Julie Reed Nichols, Ethan Albers, Oceana Robinson, Brian Keister, Liam Gibler, Love Swanson, Cam Stone and more! 8-9:30pm. Free.
The Commonwealth Pub The Rusty Frets Ya mon, reggae from Bend! 8-10pm. Free.
The Commonwealth Pub Commonwealth DJ Dance Party with TRUNORTH Join TRUNORTH as he makes his way down from the 49th parallel, spinning the latest and greatest, raising the bar on this year’s playoff season. Join him Friday and Saturday nights at The Commonwealth Pub and cheer on the beats from soul, to funk, to today’s hits. 9pm-Midnight. Free.
Craft Kitchen and Brewery Sister Ethel And Friends Comedy Show Sister Ethel and Friends is a Bend original Comedy format. Set as an evangelical duo with Sister Ethel everyone’s favorite 90-year-old organists and Rev Woodmansee the energy is contagious and the jokes are outrageous. Comedians compete for your favor with this high energy showcase. Every third Saturday, 7:30-9:30pm. $20.
Crux Fermentation Project Blake and the Music! Blake weaves together intricate melodic layers to create expansive worlds through sound, best experienced with closed eyes and an open mind. 6-8pm. Free.
Faith, Hope & Charity Vineyards Live at the Vineyard: Danilson Duo Get ready for a fun, feel-good night with the Danilson Duo—a talented husband-and-wife team who bring heart, harmony, and a whole lot of variety to the stage! From country classics to crowd-pleasing favorites across the decades, their rich vocals and easy charm make every performance feel like home. 6-9pm. $15.
Hayden Homes Amphitheater
Glass Animals: Tour Of Earth Indie-rock band Glass Animals comes to Bend this summer with special guest Orla Gartland. The band is led by singer/songwriter and producer Dave Bayley along with his childhood friends Joe Seaward, Ed Irwin-Singer and Drew MacFarlane. 7pm. $89.
Maragas Winery East Side Rockers A show from The Eastside Rockers makes the audience want to dance, groove and focus on the great tunes. The Rockers’ goal is to have fun playing and create an infectious, fun atmosphere for their audience! 5:30-8:30pm. $15.
McKenzie General Store & Obsidian Grill Cheatgrass at McKenzie General Store McKenzie General Store loves being able to provide free family friendly live music to our community of locals, adventures and travelers alike! With our outdoor beirgarden, restaurant and general store we’re sure to have all you need for an unforgettable evening! 6-9pm. Free.
Pangaea Guild Hall Pirate Casino Prepare yourself for high stakes on the high seas! Join us for casino games and rum cocktails in an event to benefit OUT Central Oregon. Pirate dress (and speech) encouraged! 4-8:30pm.
Portello Wine and Spirits Live Music: Mark Creech Mark always guarantees a great night of music! Come out for music, stay for dinner and drinks! 6:30-8:30pm. Free.
River’s Place Salsa Night! Salsa with Victoria! Free lesson, then open dancing. Victoria has been teaching & DJ’ing Salsa in Bend since 2002.
Danceable Salsa with Bachata mixed in. All levels welcome! 6-8:30pm. Free.
Silver Moon Brewing That ‘90s Band Playing your favorite nostalgic rock hits. That ‘90s Band will take you right back there! 7pm. $10.
Unity Spiritual Community of Central Oregon Deathtrap Deschutes Theater Company proudly presents Deathtrap—Broadway’s longest-running comedy-thriller! Join us for an unforgettable night of suspense, deception and wickedly clever twists. 7:30-10pm.
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Bar Rio Live Music at Bar Rio Grab your favorite bites and sips and relax into the music— ranging from jazz and blues to pop and flamenco. 6-8pm. Free.
Bend Cider Co. Summit Express Jazz Band Summit Express Jazz Band brings their upbeat, colorful, & swinging Dixieland-style jazz to the stage at Bend Cider Co for a very special Sunday evening performance! Enjoy their music while sipping on delicious ciders, beer, wine, & n/a beverages. Light appetizers available, outside food welcome. Kid & dog-friendly. 5-7pm. Free.
The Commons Cafe & Taproom Trivia Night Sunday Funday Trivia with Sean. Gather your team, or roll solo and find a spot early in the cafe, knowledge tests begin at 6pm. Prizes for 1st and 2nd place. 6-8pm. Free.
The Commonwealth Pub Richard Taelour - Sundays on the patio Richard is an amazing artist and musician; hang out, listen to music, look at art he makes. 3-6pm. Free.
The Commonwealth Pub Head Games Trivia Night Eat. Drink. Think. Win! Live multi-media trivia every Sunday @ 6pm. The Commonwealth Pub - Bend Free to play. Win prizes. Teams up to 6. 6-8pm. Free.
The Domino Room Tropidelic & Shwayze w/ Jarv From Cleveland, Ohio, Tropidelic infuses multiple genres into a style that’s a blend of reggae rock, hip-hop and high energy funk. 8pm. $25. Hayden Homes Amphitheater Alabama Shakes After an eight-year absence, Alabama Shakes makes a return and announced they are coming to Bend on tour. The band blends rock, soul, alternative and blues music together. 7pm. $50.50-$110.50.
River’s Place The Brainy Brunch Trivia! Useless Knowledge Bowl Trivia presents “The Brainy Brunch!” Bring your crew of friends or family and a pen/pencil! Play for fun and gift cards, play for free! Experienced, independent, locally owned and operated! Noon. Free.
River’s Place Darin Gentry’s Old Time Machine Darin Gentry’s Old Time Machine kicks everything up a notch with a solid old time groove, killer vocal harmonies, with a little bit of swing, honkytonk and bluegrass thrown in to make it even more fun. 6-8pm. Free.
Silver Moon Brewing Open Mic at the Moon Get a taste of the big time! Sign-up is at 4pm! Come check out the biggest and baddest open mic night in Bend! 5-8pm. Free.
Silver Moon Brewing Absolute Future, Moonily, Franklin Gothic + J Graves Fight the Oppressor tour! 6pm. $15.
Silver Moon Brewing Danno Simpson The life of a singer/songwriter is truly a dichotomy: half swaggering troubadour sweeping into town and onto a spotlit stage, and half the unseen tribulations of a nomadic life and its effects on relationships and those closest to us. In a way, Danno Simpson was born into this life. 7pm. $13-$15.
Smith Rock State Park Piano Flow Explore at Smith Rock Join award-winning pianist Paula Dreyer for an unforgettable musical journey starting at Smith Rock’s North Point Amphitheater. With wireless headsets, you’ll be whisked away into a realm where every note dances through the enchanting landscape. 4:30-7:30pm.
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Bridge 99 Brewery Trivia Mondays at Bridge 99 Trivia Mondays at 6:30pm at Bridge 99 Brewery with Useless Knowledge Bowl. It’s no ordinary trivia night, Team up to win house gift cards! Great brews, cocktails, and more. Inhouse menu and food truck options available! It’s free to play. Indoor and outdoor seating available. 63063 Layton Ave, Bend. 6:30-8:30pm. Free.
With Abigail Cosio and Jeremy Kelley at the helm, Bon Bon Vivant pulls the audience into its lively world of captivating rhythms and evocative storytelling. Join the band for an intimate show at Angeline’s Bakery in Sisters Fri., Aug. 15, 7pm.
Courtesy Bon Bon Vivant
IT TAKES LITTLE TO BE BIG
From Little Sister to Valedictorian BBBSCO's
When Dylan first met her Big Sister Kim through Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Oregon more than four years ago, she never imagined the journey they’d take together—one that would culminate as valedictorian, a private college acceptance, and a deep bond that will last a lifetime.
Dylan was in middle school when she joined the BBBSCO program, looking not only for mentorship, but also for connection and consistency. Kim, with a heart for giving back, stepped up to be that constant in Dylan’s life. What began as occasional outings evolved into something far more meaningful.
Their connection was built on the small moments that matter most— from their first outing of walking the river trail to Kim being their for Dylan as she graduated high school. Kim’s presence and thoughtful mentorship helped Dylan navigate the challenges of high school while also embracing her potential.
That potential shined brightly. This spring, Dylan graduated as valedictorian of her high school class. Her next chapter begins at a private college in Southern California. Her goal? To build a future that uplifts others—just as BBBSCO and Kim did for her.
"I'm so grateful that BBBSCO got to be a part of my high school journey and beyond!" Dylan wrote in a note to the organization. "I appreciate the resources, kindness, and care the BBBSCO team has continuously poured into me and my family. You inspire me to do the same for my community and people in need around me."
Her words reflect the very essence of the Big Brothers Big Sisters mission—to ignite the power and promise of youth. For Dylan, that spark came with support, guidance, and the unwavering belief from her Big Sister that she could do anything she set her mind to.
As Dylan prepares to leave Central Oregon and begin her college career, her story is a powerful reminder of what’s possible when mentorship meets opportunity. Her journey is just beginning—but her impact, like her gratitude, is already radiating outward.
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110 youth in Central Oregon are waiting for someone to stand
Today 1-in-3 kids in America are growing up without a sustained, positive adult mentor in their lives and 110 kids are on the Central Oregon's wait list for a mentor.
BBBSCO's New Home
year Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Oregon has moved to our new home at the Community Campus in Bend. Located on 20+ acres of open space, the campus offers welcoming and safe environment for Bigs and Littles to spend meaningful time together. new location is not only a hub for mentoring but also a vibrant gathering space where matches can connect, grow, and creating last memories. access to a wide range of activities- including cooking and baking in the kitchen, board games, shooting hoops on the basketball court, and getting help with homework—the campus is designed to support and inspire youth. This dynamic new space enhances the mentoring experience by providing a place where relationships can thrive, new can be learned, and fun can be part of every visit. BBBSCO staff is on campus to support our matches and is looking forward to having matches join us in 2025!
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Mentorship remains one of the most powerful tools we have to close the gap between people and possibility.
MENTORSHIP CHANGES LIVES
BECOME A BIG BROTHER OR A BIG SISTER TODAY
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THANK YOU For supporting the LITTLE MOMENTS that create a BIG IMPACT
While being a mentor is a BIG deal, the truth is, it's the little moments that make the biggest impact. A walk in the park, a slice of pizza together, a spontaneous laugh, a night in crafting or watching a movie... These are the moments that make the biggest impact! Being a Big doesn't require a specific title, degree or special qualifications. If you can be compassionate, patient and accepting, and can commit 2-3 hours a month, you have what it takes to be a Big. Mentorship sounds huge, but the truth is, IT TAKE LITTLE TO BE BIG.
Bowl For Kids’ Sake Thank you to everyone who came out this spring for our 24th Annual Bowl For Kids' Sake, presented by Cascade Disposal! The event was once again at Sun Mountain Fun Center and raised funds to support our current matches and help us match the kids on our waitlist! Thank you to our Presenting Sponsor Cascade Disposal, and to all of the sponsors and teams who made this event successful!
Comedy For Kids’ Sake Join us Friday, October 3, 2025 at Tetherow! Featuring a cocktail hour sponsored by JDub, silent auction, live auction, 3-course dinner, and comedy.
We are excited to honor our 1st annual Big Champion Award recipient, Dennis Murphy, at the event! Presented by Hayden Homes.
Bunk+Brew Backyard Open Mic Mondays Bring the energy and hit the stage! Sing, rap, tell jokes or vibe out with the crowd. Killer eats from food carts and beer truck flowing all night. 6-10pm. Free.
The Commonwealth Pub Monday Night Musicians Showcase: Hosted by FAFO Come showcase your sound, discover fresh talent and enjoy a night of incredible live music. Hosted by Funk Around & Find Out, we’re creating a space where musicians can stretch out, jam, tighten up or spark something new. Full backline provided. 6-9pm. Free.
Crux Fermentation Project Trivia Night @ Crux Trivia Night at Crux! First place team wins a $25 gift card! 6-8pm. Free.
Elixir Winery and Tasting Room Locals Music Night and Open Mic Bend’s friendliest open-mic! All genres welcome. Oregon and international wine, beer and tapas menu available all evening. 6-9pm. Free.
Immersion Brewing Open Mic hosted by Bend Comedy All performance types are welcome! All ages are welcome to attend and perform! All acts are eligible to audition to perform in a future Bend Comedy show! 7-9pm. Free.
JC’s Bar & Grill Karaoke Karaoke kicks off at 8pm with our awesome host Van! Come early to get a prime seat. Happy hour lasts all day and our pool tables are free Mondays. 8pm. Free.
On Tap Locals’ Day Plus Live Music Cheaper drinks all day and live music at night, get down to On Tap. 11am-9pm. Free.
Silver Moon Brewing Beertown Comedy Open Mic Voted #1 Open Mic and Locals Night, Beertown Comedy’s Open Mic happens every Monday at Silver Moon Brewing. Free to watch and perform! Sign-ups at 6:30pm, show at 7pm. With 20 spots available, bring your best jokes and get noticed for paid gigs. Laughter guaranteed! 6:30-9pm. Free.
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Fantasy Wanderer Tear apart reality with highly saturated colors and electronic rock to create a rebellious and flamboyant immersive carnival. 8-10pm. $5.
The Astro Lounge Karaoke Get here early to put your name on the list! Drink specials every night. 9pm-2am. Free.
Bunk+Brew Backyard Trivia Tuesdays! Big brains, cold beers, bragging rights! Battle it out under the stars with rotating trivia themes and epic prizes. Grab food from the food carts and drinks from the beer truck. Think you’ve got what it takes? 7-9pm. Free.
The Capitol The Capitol Karaoke Music Weekly Karaoke at its finest! Central Oregon’s premiere karaoke experience has just moved locations! Now at the Capitol! Drink specials! Air guitars! Come see for yourself. 8pm-1am. Free. The Cellar Open Mic Open mic at The Cellar hosted by Mari! 6-8pm. Free.
The Commons Cafe & Taproom Open Mic
StoryTellers open mic nights are full of music, laughs and community. Mason James is the host. Poetry, comedy and spoken word are welcome, but this is mainly a musical open mic. Performance slots are a quick 10 minutes each, so being warmed up and ready is ideal. If you wish to perform sign-ups start at 5pm in the cafe. 6pm. Free.
The Commonwealth Pub Elise Franklin Jazz Quartet Come join us for another wonderful night of jazz with the fantastic Elise Franklin Quartet. 7-9pm. Free.
Crosscut Warming Hut No 5 Head Games Trivia Night Live multi-media trivia every other Tuesday at Crosscut Warming Hut No. 5, Bend. Free to play, win prizes, teams up to 6. Please arrive early for best seats. Every other Tuesday, 6-8pm. Free.
Elements Public House Trivia Tuesdays at Elements Public House UKB Trivia is experienced, independent, locally owned and operated! Team up to win house gift cards! 7pm. Free.
Hayden Homes Amphitheater Counting Crows: The Complete Sweets! Tour with The Gaslight Anthem 6:30pm. $49.50-$99.50.
M&J Tavern Karaoke Every Tuesday at your downtown living room! Sign-ups start at 8pm and the singing goes until last call OR last singer, whichever comes first! 8pm-1:15am. Free.
Mountain Burger Trivia Tuesday at Mountain Burger Come to Trivia Tuesday at Mountain Burg er! Fun and prizes await! 7:30-9pm. Free.
Northside Bar & Grill Karaoke with DJ Chris Ossig Karaoke with DJ Chris. 7-9pm. Free.
Pinky G’s Pizzeria TRIVIA NIGHT Test your knowledge in a casual/laid-back atmosphere. Pizza, beer and trivia. Free to play and prizes for 1st and 2nd place. 6-8pm. Free.
River’s Place Bingo! Have fun, win prizes and support a local nonprofit organization. 6-8pm. $1-$5.
Silver Moon Brewing American Progress & Guests Meet American Progress—a Milwau kee-based rock band making waves when the world needs it most. Fueled by punk rock passion and a deep well of experience, it’s a powerhouse of energy, grit and raw musicality. 6:30pm. $13/$15.
DANCE
Lindy Hop Social Dance and Lesson
Take back your night life! Join a community eager to share their excitement for this goofy, athletic and energetic dance. Lindy Hop is the original vintage swing dance turned global dance craze. Danced to classic jazz standards Lindy Hop is connected to its roots, but always innovating. Sundays, 6-9pm. Through Oct. 12. The Space, 63830 Clausen Rd, Bend. $7-$12.
ARTS + CRAFTS
Art Viewing Visit Sagebrushers Art Society in beautiful Bend to see lovely work, paintings and greeting cards by local artists. New exhibit every 8 weeks. Visit Sagebrushersartofbend.com for information on current shows. Wednesdays, 1-4pm, Fridays, 1-4pm and Saturdays, 1-4pm. Sagebrushers Art Society, 117 SW Roosevelt Ave., Bend. Contact: 541-617-0900. Free.
Bar & Grill Outdoor Music Venue
AUG 16 @ 8:00pm
AUG 19 @ 6:30pm
With a voice that echoes the wild heart of the West, Danno Simpson takes the stage Sun., Aug. 17, 7pm at
Courtesy Danno Simpson (FB)
PIANO FLOW
ROCK
SOUND BATH
By Dave Gil de Rubio
GUNG HO Goo Goo Dolls Overnight success
When the Goo Goo Dolls single “Iris” was released on April 1, 1998 following its inclusion on the soundtrack of the 1998 film “City of Angels,” no one had any idea what started out as an add-on cut for the film would become one of the best-selling singles of all time. Nearly three decades later, this ubiquitous ‘90s power ballad has experienced a modern-day rebirth.
In addition to the Goos playing it alongside contestant Mattie Pruitt on the season finale of “American Idol,” a clip of the band performing the song at Coachella’s Stagecoach Festival went viral on a number of social media platforms. It was a large enough moment to fuel a significant uptick in ticket sales for the band’s upcoming Summer Anthem Tour 2025 they’re undertaking with Dashboard Confessional. It’s all been pretty humbling for founding members Robby Takac and John Rzeznick.
“We played the Stagecoach Festival at Coachella, and it was crazy because Instagram and TikTok exploded with Goo Goo Dolls that weekend,” Takac explained in a mid-June interview.
“It was that and ‘American Idol.’ John played at Demi Lovato’s wedding. It all happened on the same weekend. We played Stagecoach, and the next day, when all those kids woke up, they all posted their videos. We sold 15,000 tickets that day for our tour, which is insane. That’s like four times the amount of tickets we would sell. We’ve been pretty fortunate recipients and gotten a lot of advantage from these social media outlets. These viral moments are really driving things right now.”
Founded in 1986 in Buffalo, Goo Goo Dolls evolved from being a scrappy punk-leaning outfit lumped in alongside peers The Replacements and Soul Asylum to becoming a guitar-driven pop act that’s churned out a series of Top 40 hits. And while the 1995 single “Name” was a breakthrough hit, that song lit the fuse for the commercial explosion that followed with “Iris.”
“[‘Iris’] was phase two of everything changing,” Takac recalled. “We did ‘Name’ and definitely felt like there was a shift there. When we were doing ‘Iris,’ it was before we recorded (the album) “Dizzy Up the Girl.” We recorded it for the “City of Angels” soundtrack. It was recorded as a oneoff with (producer) Rob Cavallo. We went in and recorded just the body
of the song with the idea of putting strings on it. We brought David Campbell aboard and after playing the song for him, he thought it should be a huge production.
“I remember John and I were sitting on the floor, looking through the studio glass and these 30 people were setting up in the studio getting ready to record and doing that stereotypical orchestra tuning,” he continued. “We looked at each other, and there was an era beginning. We didn’t know what was happening, but we knew something was happening. As far as having a hit record, that was really the last thing on our minds.”
With the band staring at its 40th anniversary next year, Goo Goo Dolls could easily transition into becoming a ‘90s alt-pop nostalgia act. Instead, Rzeznick is in the studio mixing the band’s yet-untitled 15th studio album set to drop in August. Suffice it to say, Takac is looking forward to this upcoming outing.
“You’re going to hear a whole bunch of great songs in one night, which I think is a great thing,” he said. “I feel like Dashboard Confessional is really a songwriter’s band. They came up a little later than we did, but I think the crowds are going to be amazing together.”
With plenty of material to sift through, Takac admits it’s a first-world challenge to craft set lists. Longtime fans will be happy to know that the Goos occasionally go as far back as the
1990 album “Hold Me Up” for material. For the two longtime friends and bandmates, song choices can occasionally be the source of disagreements.
“Some of the biggest arguments we get into arise from our trying to put a set list together,” Takac said. “I know some people do this, but we can’t do three-hour shows every night. It would just kill us -- we do too many shows. We have to figure out the 23 or 24 songs we can come out and play. We have the dirty dozen, the ones you’re pretty sure you’ve got to play. Most of those make it in. That’s what the arguments end up being about. Then we have a whole bunch of B-sidesy songs that we’ve always loved and have been crowd favorites over the years. We have quite an arsenal of those.”
He added, “We have cover songs that we like to throw in and some new songs. You’re picking and choosing from all that and trying to figure out how to bring it in under a couple of hours without boring the hell out of people. As John has said, it’s a luxury to have too many songs.”
Goo Goo Dolls Fri., Aug. 29, 6:30pm Hayden Homes Amphitheater 344 SW Shevlin Hixon Dr., Bend bendconcerts.com/events/event/goo-goodolls $54.35+
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Nerd Night Presents: Super Science Trivia! Nerd Night presents: Science Trivia! Join us in the “Hop Mahal” at Worthy Brewing. Test your science knowledge, win prizes and have fun. Aug. 19, 7-9pm. Worthy Brewing - Main Pub and Brewery, 495 NE Bellevue Dr., Bend. Contact: jake@skeptoid.com. Free.
Table Tennis Sundays Come have fun with round-robin table tennis on Sunday afternoons. We have paddles and balls but feel free to bring your own. Enjoy happy hour prices and great food. Tournaments and prizes coming. Sundays, 4-10pm. Through Sept. 30. The Commonwealth Pub, 30 SW Century Dr., Bend. Free.
Think Wild + Cascade Lakes Pint Night Join us for a community pint night at Cascade Lakes Brewing Co where $1 of every beer sold will be donated to Think Wild! Think Wild will be at there to greet guests and share information in person as well from 5-7pm. No registration required, hope to see you! Aug. 14, 5-7pm. Cascade Lakes - Pub at 7th Street, 855 SW Seventh St., Redmond. Free
FAMILY + KIDS
R.A.D. Camps Summer Day Camps
R.A.D. Camps summer day camps for children ages 4-6, 7-12, & 13-17. Programs for ages 7-12 start at 8 a.m. and end at 4 p.m. Monday-Friday. Teen programs operate every Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visit radcamps.com or email info@ radcamps.com for more information. Registration NOW open! Mondays-Fridays, 8am-5pm. Seven Peaks School, 19660 SW Mountaineer Way, Bend. Contact: (541) 204-0440. info@ radcamps.com. $99-$109.
FOOD + DRINK
Bend Farmers Market The Bend Farmers Market is a true farmers market dedicated to supporting the viability of local farmers, ranchers and food producers who offer fresh local produce, protein and farm products to the people of Central Oregon. Wednesdays, 11am-3pm. Through Oct. 9. Brooks Alley, downtown Bend, Bend. Contact: bendfarmersmarket@gmail.com. Free. Farmers Market Farm-fresh produce straight from local growers! One-of-a-kind products: handmade, unique and full of character! Free Community Booth supporting local nonprofits and initiatives! Sundays, 10am-2pm. Through Sept. 28. Worthy Brewing - Main Pub and Brewery, 495 NE Bellevue Dr., Bend. Contact: 541-241-6310. Free.
Redmond Cookbook Club Join local home chefs for a potluck cooked from a different cookbook each month. Meet great people, enjoy delicious wine, and share fabulous food! Choose your recipe at our monthly happy hour on the 2nd Tuesdays, then bring your dish to the dinner party every 3rd Tuesday. Bon apetit! Third Tuesday of every month, 6-8pm. Arome, 432 SW 6th St., Redmond. Contact: 503-409-7944. kelsey.seymour@jillscookbookclub.com. $15.
Redmond Farmers Market Discover the heart of our community at the Redmond Farmers Market! Fun for the whole family. Here, local farmers and artisans come together to share their passion for fresh produce, handmade goods and unique crafts. Fridays, 3-7pm. Through Aug. 29. Centennial Park, Evergreen, Between 7th and 8th St., Redmond. Contact: 541-570-8946. Harvesthouseevents.rdm@gmail.com. Free.
Sisters Farmers Market Join us on Sundays June-Oct for a vibrant community gathering featuring fresh produce, local goods, live music and community activities.The market hosts a diverse range of over 45 Central Oregon vendors weekly. Sundays, 10am-2pm. Through Oct. 26. Fir Street Park, Sisters, Sisters. Contact: sistersfarmersmarket@gmail.com. Free.
Sunriver Farmers Market Discover a wide variety of fresh, farm-to-table products from dedicated local vendors. From freshly butchered meats to seasonal produce, there’s something for everyone. Thursdays, 10am-2pm. Through Aug. 28. Sunriver Resort, 17600 Center Dr., Sunriver. Free.
BEER + DRINK
$10 Coffee + Breakfast Burrito Fridays
Your Fridays just got an upgrade! Introducing our breakfast burrito and coffee special with our besties, Bend Breakfast Burrito. Every Friday you can get a breakfast burrito + 16oz drip coffee (or 12oz cold brew) for just $10. Fridays, 7:30-11:30am. Boss Rambler Coffee, 1009 NW Galveston Ave., Bend. $10.
$10 Wing Wednesdays A new weekly special: $10 Wing Wednesdays at Cascade Lakes Pub on Reed Market. Choose from one of the house-made sauces like Char Sui, This IPA BBQ and Spicy Staycay Pineapple or go naked! Wednesdays, 11am-9pm. Cascade Lakes Pub on Reed Market, 21175 SE Reed Market Rd., Bend. $16 Fish Taco and House Margarita Fridays Join for 3 fish tacos and a house margarita for only $16 every Friday at Cascade Lakes Pub on Reed Market. Fridays, 11am-9pm. Cascade Lakes Pub on Reed Market, 21175 SE Reed Market Rd., Bend.
Bonfire Wednesdays Fuel the night with fire, friends and ice-cold drinks! Meet travelers, jam out to tunes and chow down from the food carts. Wednesdays, 6-9pm. Through Oct. 15. Bunk+Brew, 42 NW Hawthorne Avenue, Bend. Free.
Commonwealth Pub Happy Hour It’s 5 for 5, with $5 draft beers, $5 house wines, $5 margaritas, $5 crushes and $5 well liquor. Play ping-pong, darts, cornhole, games and enjoy afternoon music on patio and indoors. Ongoing, Noon-6pm. The Commonwealth Pub, 30 SW Century Dr., Bend. Free.
Crosscut Warming Hut: Locals’ Day! Tuesdays are Locals’ Day. Every Tuesday enjoy $1 off regular size draft beverages. Come by the Warming Hut and hang out by the fire. See you soon, Bend! Tuesdays. Crosscut Warming Hut No 5, 566 SW Mill View Way, Bend.
Flannel Friday Happy Hour Come on down in your Northwest best for Happy Hour! 4-6pm every Friday. $2 off drafts, $1 off everything else. Fridays, 4-6pm. Contact: taryn@ thealeapothecary.com. Free.
French Wine Tasting Seminar Join us for an evening with Courtney Lease of Martine’s Wines, a wine importer responsible for bringing in some of France’s most iconic producers. We’ll be pouring a hand-selected flight of wines that Courtney is eager to share. Seating limited; reservations required. 10% off retail purchases of wines tasted. Aug. 13, 5:30-7pm. Join us around the Farm Table for this very special tasting of exceptional fine wine selections from France (and beyond) as presented by Courtney Lease of esteemed importer Martine’s Wines. Grab your seat now for this intimate, one of a kind evening! Aug. 13, 5:30-7pm. Viaggio Wine Merchant, 210 SW Century Dr., Bend. Contact: 541-299-5060. info@viaggiowine.com. $35.
Friday Happy Hour Tapas & Wine Kick off the weekend the right way! Every Friday from 4pm on, swing by for a relaxing and social evening at Elixir Wine. $10 wine specials by the glass and $2 off regular glass pours, including our own Oregon & Washington wines. Fridays, 4-7pm. Elixir Winery and Tasting Room, 11 NW Lava Rd., Bend. Contact: 541-388-5330. tastingroom@ elixirwinegroup.com. Free.
Happy Hour at Mountain Burger Happy Hour happens every day at Mountain Burger! Ongoing, 3-5pm. Mountain Burger, 2747 NW Crossing Dr., Bend. Contact: 5416687177. info@ mountainburgerbend.com.
Happy Hour at Viaggio Wine Merchant $7 and $8 glasses of wine, cold beer and delicious discounted snacks. Cheers! Tuesdays-Sundays, 3-5pm. Viaggio Wine Merchant, 210 SW Century Dr., Bend. Contact: 541-299-5060. info@ viaggiowine.com. Varies by Purchase.
Happy Hour Every Day Make every afternoon a little brighter with a hint of British charm at The Commonwealth Pub! From 3-5pm, enjoy drink specials and a cozy pub vibe that’s perfect for winding down. $3 PBRs $5 RPMs $6 Margaritas $7 Wine Happy Hour bites from Whappos! Mondays-Sundays, 3-5pm. Through Dec. 18. The Commonwealth Pub, 30 SW Century Dr., Bend. Contact: 541-668-6200. thecommonwealthpubevents@gmail.com. Free.
Industry Appreciation Day! 20% off for all Industry friends! Wednesdays, 2-8pm. Contact: taryn@thealeapothecary.com. Free.
Industry Night In homage to our fellow industry folk, featuring $3.33 Lagers, $6.66 Saisons & 10% off at A Broken Angel. Present your server or food handlers card at the bar. Tuesdays, 1-8pm. Through June 17. Funky Fauna Artisan Ales, 1125 NE Second St., Bend. Contact: 458-328-0372. danielle@funkyfaunabeer.com. Every Sunday is Industry Night! If you’re a bartender, server, chef, cook - anyone in the biz - come unwind with: $5 Hornitos or Monopolowa, $7.50 draft domestic beer + well whiskey, and $3.50 tallboys & $10 man-mosas (on special for all!). You work hard-cheers to you! Sundays-Noon2am. JC’s Bar & Grill, 642 NW Franklin Ave., Bend. Contact: 541-383-3000. jcsbend@gmail.com. Free.
Ladies Night Hey ladies! Come out for $8 limoncello-spiked bubbles and $2 off all menu cocktails every Thursday. Thursdays, 2-10pm. Bar Rio, 915 NW Wall St., Bend. Free.
Locals Day! Locals Day at the Ale! $2 off drafts and $1 off wine and cider! Wednesdays, 2pm. The Ale Apothecary Tasting Room, 30 SW Century Dr., Bend. Contact: taryn@thealeapothecary.com. Free.
Locals’ Day Come on down to Bevel Craft Brewing for $4 beers and cider and $1 off wine all day. There are also food specials from the food carts located out back at The Patio! Tuesdays. Bevel Craft Brewing, 911 SE Armour St., Bend. Contact: holla@bevelbeer.com. Free.
Locals’ Night at WaypointBBC Locals’ Night at WaypointBBC! $5 draft beer, $8 house red and white wine and $8 specialty cocktail. Tuesdays, Noon-10pm. Waypoint, 921 NW Mt Washington Dr., Bend. Contact: 458-206-0826. Waypointbbc@gmail.com. Free.
Power Hour Come check out our new Power Hour deals: $3 draft Coors Light, $5 draft beer, food cart specials that will make your taste buds dance! Mondays-Thursdays-Sundays, 8-9pm. Midtown Yacht Club, 1661 NE Fourth St., Bend. Contact: 458-256-5454. midtownyachtclub@ gmail.com. Free.
Sangria Sundays Like Sundays in Spain, just add paella. Every Sunday, 2pm-close at Bar Rio in Downtown Bend. Sundays. Bar Rio, 915 NW Wall St., Bend. Free.
Shades of Pinot: The Many Faces of Pinot Noir Join us for an evening of exploration as we showcase the incredible versatility of Pinot Noir. Your experience will include a guided five-wine flight featuring an exciting range of styles—all crafted from the Pinot Noir grape. From sparkling wine, rosé, white wine, red wine, and even a port. Aug. 14, 3:30-5 and 5:30-7pm and Aug. 15, 3:30-5 and 5:30-7pm. Willamette Valley Vineyards, 916 NW Wall St., Bend. Contact: 5413066000. bend@wvv.com. $25.
Taco Tuesdays Join us for a margarita & three tacos for $20! Follow us on Instagram for our specials, live music and events. Tuesdays, 2-10pm. Bar Rio, 915 NW Wall St., Bend. Free.
Wine Mondays! Every Monday night all glasses of wine are $9! This is an opportunity to try wines from our vast wine list all night long and pair with either tasty small plates or delicious dishes by creative chef Nikki Munk. Mondays, 4-9pm. Portello Wine and Spirits, 2754 NW Crossing Dr., Bend. Contact: 541-385-1777. admin@portellowinecafe.com. Free.
Wine Wednesdays Wine up and wind down, all glasses $10. Every Wednesday, 2pm-close at Bar Rio in downtown Bend. Wednesdays. Bar Rio, 915 NW Wall St., Bend. Free.
Wine Workshop Series: Solena - A Rainbow of Terrior Join us at Flights Wine Bar as we learn the unique geological events that molded Willamette Valley and Columbia Valley. You’ll taste wines of different terroirs and varietals, noticing how climate impacts the aromas and which wine grapes can be planted. Don’t miss these delicious wines by the family-owned local! Aug. 13, 6-7pm. Flights Wine Bar, 1444 NW College Way, Bend. Contact: 541-728-0753. events.flights@gmail.com. $25 refunded with 2 bottle purchase.
Wings + TRIVIA + Whiskey Enjoy $0.75 wings, $4.50 well whiskey, $6 seven & sevens while testing your knowledge with Trivia, hosted by our amazing Cole! Take on our infamous “physical” challenge - think paper airplanes, musical chairs, limbo etc! Come eat, drink and bring your A-game! Wednesdays, 7pm. JC’s Bar & Grill, 642 NW Franklin Ave., Bend. Contact: 541-3833000. jcsbend@gmail.com. Free.
Women Tasting Flights: Brook & Bull/ Vital Wines A monthly group of women connecting with wine and one another. Aug. 19, 5:307pm. Flights Wine Bar, 1444 NW College Way, Bend. Contact: 541-728-0753. events.flights@ gmail.com. $70.
Yappy Hour at the Crater Lake Spirits Tasting Room A dog-friendly happy hour with craft cocktails, free pup cups and a spacious dog park. Enjoy sunshine, sips and tail wags all summer long. All friendly, social dogs welcome. Leashes required outside the dog park. See you there! Thursdays, 3-5:30pm. Through Aug. 28. Crater Lake Spirits Distillery Tasting Room, 19330 Pinehurst Rd., Tumalo. Contact: 541-318-0200. socialmedia@craterlakespirits.com. Free.
Hailing from Ohio, Tropidelic brings its sonic journey of reggae, hip-hop and funk to Bend Sun., Aug. 17, 8pm at The Domino Room.
Courtesy Tropidelic
The Hole Story on 5th Street Bagels
The garlic cream cheese is worth the trip too!
By Megan Baker
Tucked into Ponch’s Place in NE Bend, 5th Street Bagels is more than a food truck — it’s a full-on family operation rolling out small-batch sourdough bagels with intention, heart and a “hole” lotta time and hustle.
In a world drowning in sourdough starters, if yours pays the bills, it’s not just bread—it’s gold. Owner Jacob Dawley started baking bagels at home using a gifted sourdough starter and his passion for feeding people. Today, with help from his wife Jessica, their five kids and a deep-rooted support system, he’s serving up some of the most flavor-packed bagels in Bend. Every bagel is made the old-school way: proofed, boiled and baked fresh daily, because as Jacob puts it, “If it’s not boiled, it’s just round bread.”
As an avid sourdough baker/lover, myself, I’ve tasted my fair share of cream cheeses, but 5th Street’s garlic cream cheese? It’s hands-down the best we’ve ever tasted. Shout out to my youngest son, Jack, who tags along for food reviews as my aspiring photojournalist, foodie and all-around hype guy, who made the call after one bite. I backed him up after two.
With a dream of someday opening a café and art studio to serve bagels and creativity side by side, the Dawleys are just getting started.
What sparked your passion for bagels, and how did that evolve into starting a food truck in Central Oregon?
I’ve always had a passion for feeding people, and bagels just became the most popular of the foods and meals I would share. And when someone gifts you a sourdough starter, you have to share it with the world. A food trailer seemed like something I could at least start out running solo, and the mobility factor is so fun.
How did the name 5th Street Bagels come about? Does it hold any special meaning for you?
I started out making bagels at home. I’ve lived on 5th Street almost my whole life. Seemed like the obvious name and had such a nice ring. I have a very talented younger brother, Josiah, who designed my logo and branding in an agreement that, I joke, is much like the Nike swoosh. He also designed my website and runs my social media.
Do you make your bagels and cream cheeses in-house? Give us the schmear about how that works behind the scenes.
Fresh bagels every day. I’m always playing with some sort of new or different flavor, not all are winners or make the cut. My wife usually helps me come up with schmear flavors. We make what we like.
Right now, I spend a lot of time in the trailer. It’s a commitment. Luckily, I have the most amazing, supportive and encouraging family.
What’s the most challenging part of running a bagel truck in Oregon—and how do you tackle those challenges?
I think the most challenging part was figuring out logistics of how and where you are going to make everything—whether to rent a commissary space or make it all self-contained. My mom always told me, “They aren’t challenges, they are adventures.” And my dad, I swear, can fix anything mechanical.
How do you decide on menu offerings and specials? Do you draw from local or seasonal ingredients?
I make food that I like, so as items become more popular or specials are requested back often, they usually make the menu.
What’s something customers often say that surprises you once they try your bagels?
People have a bagel memory; it’s such a fun way to get to know them. I’m so excited and grateful that people like my bagels and want to share their stories with me. I have so much fun getting to make them. I feel so blessed.
If you could expand the truck, menu or locations to your dream setup— what would that look like?
Someday, we will have a bagel café with an adjacent art studio so my wife and I can work side by side and serve our community together. As for right now, my trailer is a dream come true.
Any exciting plans coming up this year (new items, events, collabs)? Yes! We are getting ready to move to Ballers and Brews. We’re very excited for this opportunity and what this space could bring to Bend.
By Nic Moye
The
Way West
A collab between a local brewery and smokehouse
If you could give one piece of advice to someone dreaming of starting a food truck, what would it be?
It’s going to be a lot of hard work and extremely long hours. Make sure you have fun and love what you are doing and just keep grinding.
Anything else that sets your bagels apart?
One thing that sets us apart (besides being all sourdough) is that I small-batch each flavor. That way, I can put seasoning throughout my bagel dough instead of just putting toppings on a plain bagel.
Whether you're ordering the Villager on za’atar, Lox on double sesame, the rosemary Bacon or just chasing that garlic cream cheese high, one thing’s clear…this family is building something lasting, and this is what it looks like when food and family rise together.
Boil it, bake it, bagel it. That’s the hole story. I still think the word ‘schmear’ will always sound like something you need a prescription for.
#BagelFact
Before bagel shops were a thing, street vendors in 17th-century Kraków, Poland sold their bagels by the stack, threaded on wooden dowels like edible bracelets. That’s why bagels have a hole: it wasn’t just aesthetic, it was practical. The dough was shaped by hand into a ring, then briefly boiled to firm it up before baking. The result being that iconic chew, a glossy crust and a portable breakfast you could carry by the dozen.
5th Street Bagels Tue.-Sun., 6:30am-2pm 62889 NE Oxford Ct., Bend bendbagels.com
Bend Brewing Company is collaborating with Sisters Meat & Smokehouse to open a bar-deli concept called the Way West at the new Jackstraw apartment-townhouse complex. This will be the third location for Sisters Meat, which has delis in Sisters and Redmond. It sells a variety of meat, seafood, smoked cheeses, sides and sauces. Bend Brewing is the second oldest brewery in Bend, and it also operates the Waypoint Brewery & Cocktail Bar at the Grove in Northwest Crossing. It will operate a full bar at the Way West, which will look like a western-inspired horseshoe.
The Jackstraw is a 313-unit residential/retail mixed-use project under construction off Industrial Way next to the Box Factory. It’s expected to be open for residents to move in by October. Construction for the Way West will begin at the end of the year with a projected opening date next spring. It will have indoor and outdoor seating and will be located at the southwestern end of Jackstraw next to a pedestrian plaza. Way West Opening Spring 2026 Jackstraw 310
The Way West will be a joint venture by two local businesses at the Jackstraw, which will have a variety of restaurants and retail shops on the ground floor.
Mbaker photography
LITTLE BITES
By Nic Moye
Rawmona’s Kitchen
A Mexican treat pop-up moves into a brick-and-mortar location
Karla Diaz-Cano moved to Bend about eight years ago and says it’s been a challenge. She grew up in Mexico City and has lived in the U.S. for 20 years in large cities with a lot of diversity. “Coming to Bend was a little culture shock for me,” Diaz-Cano says. Each winter, she returns to Mexico to reconnect with her culture and family.
Diaz-Cano took her first cooking class at age eight and sold cookies in front of her home. She is a familiar face at the Bend, Sisters and Northwest Crossing farmers markets, selling tamales from her food stand named Rawmona’s. She didn’t expect to open a physical location, but while looking for a commissary kitchen, Diaz-Cano found a small kitchen next to Lone Pine Coffee on Harriman Street she could call her own. It’s a tiny space, one Diaz-Cano felt was manageable. Customers remain outside, purchasing food through a half-door kitchen window, and yellow tables and chairs on the sidewalk are offered as seating, although most people place orders to go.
Her menu, written in pastel colors, features five flavors of tamales including chicken-mole, chicken-salsa, beef with veggies, green peppers-corn and plantain with beans. Customers can have them made to eat immediately or purchase frozen to heat at home. She also sells paletas, the Mexican version of a popsicle and a variety of baked goods inspired from her childhood. All of the ingredients are organic and gluten free. Most items are dairy free with no refined sugar. Diaz-Cano spends time reading about the history of ingredients, some of which date back to the Mayans and Aztecs who used them in ceremonial settings.
“I believe nature provides us with everything we need, but we have become so disconnected from that because of the way that our cities are built and our society is built.” She goes on to say, “What I feel really good about in terms of the products that we make is they’re all whole foods. We don’t use anything that’s refined. We make our own white chocolate because all the white chocolate that’s out there is either made with cane sugar or stevia, and the stevia that they put in there most likely is not the pure stevia.”
Rawmona’s also sells jars or bags of cacao, salsa, picapeanuts, picafresa and chamoy, which is a condiment that Diaz-Cano creates from hibiscus and apricots, making it a spicy-sweet sensation. In the colder months, she’ll offer Mexican cacao with homemade
marshmallows and holiday cookie boxes.
Diaz-Cano is also an artist. Her first business is a wholesale greeting card/sticker line featuring the character Rawmona. While her current venture is with Rawmona’s Kitchen, she’s already planning her third business which will be leading trips to Oaxaca. She wants to take a small group of eight to ten travelers in early 2026 and immerse them in culture where they’ll learn how to make tortillas from scratch, traditional chocolate, pottery and possibly plant dying.
“Oaxaca is beautiful. The people are incredible. The food is incredible, the markets, the art, everything about the city is beautiful. Everything is so magical… I’m super excited about it, because it feels like a very natural bridge.” Diaz-Cano explains. “I don’t want to get into the political thing, but there’s a lot of tension and a lot of misconceptions and judgements. There’s so much magic in Mexico, especially Oaxaca. So much depth… I feel like part of my path in this lifetime is to highlight that and share that with people and just be a bridge to that so people can also see and experience that.”
Right now, she’s doing that through food. Rawmona’s Kitchen is currently open Thursdays and Fridays, but Diaz-Cano plans to add Saturdays in early September and possibly expand to five days a week.
She says in Mexico, food and spirituality are deeply intertwined. All of the food she crafts is intended to honor her roots and all the people who walked before her and cared for the earth.
“If we recreate and reconnect to nature, so many of our problems these days would literally go away. They wouldn’t be there. So that’s the deeper intention behind all this.”
Rawmona’s Kitchen Thu.-Fri., 9am-2pm 910 SW Harriman St., Bend rawmonaskitchen.com/
Nic Moye
NC
CULTURE
ope, that’s not a typo; the Bent Alley Cat Races has yowled to life.
That the name of this new DIY bicycle race series is spelled “Bent,” and not “Bend,” speaks to the off-kilter, fringe-y place that bicycle messengers — and all their trappings, like fixed-gear bikes and alley cat races — occupy within the greater cycling culture.
The Bent Alley Cat Races — very likely the first alley cat organized in Bend — began Aug. 7. In short, an alley cat is like a scavenger hunt whose checkpoints you connect in the shortest route possible.
Your intrepid Source reporter — a former bike messenger himself — took part in the race, which meets at Mirror Pond Plaza (in front of The Commons Café & Taproom) at 7:30 pm, each Thursday through October. Racers roll at 7:45 pm. A helmet and, crucially, bike lights, are mandatory. There is no race entry fee because Sean Taylor, the organizer, wants the event to feel like a “loosely organized competitive group ride” instead of a race-race. (And no, you don’t need to have been a courier to take part.)
Last Thursday, five racers showed up, quickly identifiable by their bikes. Luke Serrano, 19, and Charlie Sherman, 20, both students at Oregon State University-Cascades, arrived together on a fixed-gear bike and a single-speeder, respectively. Serrano’s bike was already experiencing a mechanical.
“I hope the fork doesn’t fold in on itself,” Sherman told Serrano, to whom he’d lent the bike for the occasion.
Serrano, in nosing the bike over a curb on the way to the race, misjudged it; he cased the fork so much the front wheel jammed against the frame’s down tube.
As they continued trying to rework the fork, José Liscano arrived on a geared road bike. Samy Metcalf appeared on a single-speed bike. Out of breath, she explained that she’d almost been t-boned by a driver. I joined the crew, as did Adam Shapiro, another former bike messenger and frequent alley cat racer. He told me he worked in San Francisco between 2009 and 2015 — the same years I worked in Manhattan. Shapiro soon ventured out to man a checkpoint in Riverbend Park; he wasn’t racing because he’d bruised his ribs on a recent mountain bike ride, shortly after completing the Oregon Timber Trail with a friend.
Race promoter Sean Taylor, who’s 39 and has worked as a messenger in San Francisco, Sacramento and New York City between 2004 and 2011, spread word of the fledgling underground race series by handing out flyers downtown.
Bent Alley Cat Bicycle Races
A former bicycle courier has brought one of the staples of big-city messenger culture — the alley cat race — to Bend
By Peter Madsen
He profiled less the cyclists than their bikes. Someone got an invitation if their bike looked fast yet had tell-tale signssuch as well-worn handlebar tape- of being ridden hard and often.
Taylor, who now works as a cabinet maker and food cart slinger, said he decided to throw the alley cat series because he wanted to expand his social network beyond his tight group of friends. He also wants to cater to a niche in Bend cycling he says is underserved — urban group riding.
“I’ve gotten a lot of positive support…I’ve been really surprised,” he said. “It’s nice to know that there are bike shops and mechanics in town who want to see more of a shift in bike culture here to make it more inviting for urban riding.”
For the uninitiated, an alley cat race simulates the rhythm and chaos of a typical shift of messenger work: ten minutes before the race’s start, the organizer distributes handbills printed with the manifest, or a list of checkpoints. They’re not in any order; racers use their mental map to connect the dots in the quickest way possible before returning to the start/finish. Volunteers stationed at each checkpoint initial racers’ manifests to prove arrival. An alley cat winner isn’t necessarily the fastest; knowledge of the streets — and awareness of traffic-snarling events, is key. Short on volunteers, Taylor directed racers to take selfies of themselves at each checkpoint — that week, mostly roundabouts.
Per alley cat tradition, Taylor directed racers to position their bikes at a distance. After a countdown, he yelled “Go!” and we sprinted to our bikes. Serrano and Sherman lead the pack through the Welcome Arch, but while walking; they were mindful of pedestrians. Off and pedaling, we checked off an easy downtown checkpoint before pace-lining through River West and soon toward Northwest Crossing, where several checkpoints waited for us on Mt. Washington Drive. At one, Serrano dismounted and began hammering his drivetrain with a rock — a crank arm had come undone several times on the ride there. The improvised repair worked; soon we snapped panting selfies at more checkpoints as we rode down toward the southern-most stop — the kayak sculpture in Riverbend Park.
I realized I’d forgotten a Mount Washington checkpoint and doubled back. Opting to self-navigate from the get-go, Samy Metcalf zipped past me toward the kayaks. Once there myself, Adam Shapiro, the race volunteer and former messenger, signed my manifest and directed me, as he did the others, to dip my front wheel in the Deschutes River. Serrano, Sherman and Liscano had already completed the task and took off toward the finish at Mirror Pond Plaza. Nearby teenagers mocked me while I scampered across the beach, holding my bike like a suitcase.
“He’s stealing a bike! He’s stealing a bike!”
Complicating our direct route to the finish was traffic control related to a show at Hayden Homes Amphitheater by Tedeschi Trucks Band. Certain I’d find the shortest route and secure the win, I rode wide, time-trialing it to the finish.
I was third. Luke Serrano had won, with Charlie Sherman in second, José Liscano in fourth, and Samy Metcalf carrying the red lantern. Completely anaerobic, we cracked the beers Taylor handed to us. In trading race notes, we tabulated an embarrassing list of errors. In his last few miles, Liscano, smelling burning grease, realized his front axle had nearly slid out. He ran the last half mile, he said with a laugh. Sherman detailed the caveman handiwork that had kept his crank arm — kinda — in place.
“I pedaled the last half of the race with just one leg!” he said.
For my part, my seat post made death creaks the whole race — I’d neglected to tighten a crucial bolt.
Taylor was unfazed.
“Everything that happened worked out well,” he said, adding that he hadn’t anticipated the amphitheater crowds. “But that is very much in line with what you would experience as a bike messenger. I can’t believe everyone pulled it off. I’m so stoked.”
Most racers finished the race in about 11 miles with 350 feet of climbing. Newly bonded, we chatted well into dark.
Metcalf, 28, is a daily bike commuter who had never entered a race. She said she was keen to try out the Bent Alley Cat because she’d found a race flyer, which features a cyclist with a screeching feline perched on their helmet.
“The flyer made it look fun, super inviting,” she said, adding that she’ll be there for the Aug. 14 race. “I’m not a competitive person, but the race was very fun and casual — you just do the best you can do.”
For each week’s Bent Alley Cat Race, Taylor will come up with new checkpoints. As for the Aug. 14 race, he offered a checkpoint hint: “wet tires.”
“I love that Adam [the checkpoint volunteer] came up with the river-dip requirement on the fly,” Taylor said. “This week, we’re gonna have a lot of river dips!”
Bent Alley Cat Races
Each Thurs., 7:30pm, through Oct. Mirror Pond Plaza, Bend instagram.com/bentalleycat/ Free
The podium of the inaugural Bent Alley Cat Race on Aug. 7: Luke Serrano in first place; Charlie Sherman in second; Source Reporter Peter Madsen in third; and José Liscano in fourth. Sean Taylor, lower right, organizes the weekly race series.
Leah Shea
SC SCREEN The Art of Being Scared Weapons and the limitlessness of horror
By Jared Rasic
My whole life, people have made fun of me for my deep and abiding love of horror movies. When I was a kid, running around excited, trying to explain the plot of “Evil Dead II” to my family, they would not only question what kind of people come up with such disturbing ideas, but what kind of kid was so enraptured by them? I didn’t have the vocabulary back then to explain that it wasn’t the gore and disturbing ideas that I was so in love with, it was that being genuinely scared out of my wits made me feel breathtakingly, wholly alive.
As a middle schooler, my oldest brother (a bigger fan of horror than I will ever be) ordered a rare and expensive Michael Myers mask out of a catalogue. Once it arrived, he also bought coveralls to complete the costume. So, for a dark summer or two of my childhood, when most kids were going swimming with friends or riding their bikes across the rural countryside, I was stalked around my yard by The Shape, complete with deafening silence and a real butcher knife. Is this why I’m so weird as an adult? Most likely. At least that’s what my therapist tells me.
Running around a dozen acres, hiding from my brother, the serial killer, was terrifying but also life-affirming in a way that’s hard to quantify. When I see a horror movie that fills me with dread or bombards me with imagery that chills me to my bones, I don’t just get an endorphin rush of fear, but also the sweet kiss of nostalgia that reminds me that being scared has been a way of life for me as long as I can remember.
Regardless of how connected I am on an almost cellular level to horror movies, that’s not the only reason why, as a genre, I find them so remarkable. Horror has an elasticity to it that other genres don’t come close to achieving. Just in 2025, for example, we’ve had some of the best new horror releases of the century, and to describe them is to examine how dissimilar and expansive they are as pieces of writing and visual art.
“Sinners” is a bloody and
I crazy, or is that the Naruto run?
unapologetically horny vampire movie that sheds light on the Jim Crow South and brings the real American monsters kicking and screaming into the light.
“Together” is a gooey, hilarious and disturbing metaphor for codependent and toxic relationships that manages to be frightening and gut-bustlingly funny, sometimes in the same scene.
“Bring Her Back” unpacks trauma and grief as a malevolent force of unpredictable nature, featuring an Oscar-worthy performance by Sally Hawkins and a heart-rending ending I haven’t stopped thinking about for months. Or there’s the allegory for aging in “The Rule of Jenny Pen,” the generational trauma of “Final Destination: Bloodline,” or the comparison of the nature of evil vs. the violence of a hungry predator in “Dangerous Animals.” Not one of these movies plays like the other.
At the top of this pyramid of new horror stands “Weapons,” the new film from Zach Creggar, the director of “Barbarian,” as well as co-creator of the sketch comedy series “The Whitest
Kids U’ Know.” Creggar glows up hugely as a filmmaker with “Weapons,” a horror comedy so assured that it feels like the work of a major talent, not someone just releasing their sophomore effort. Go into the film as blindly as possible, because watching the unpredictable story unfold is one of the most sublime experiences I’ve had in a theater all year.
All I will say is this: at 2:17am, 17 children from the same third-grade class in a small Pennsylvania town all run out their front doors and disappear. A month later, the town is still grieving and at a loss as to where the children are. Julia Garner stars as Justine Gandy, the children’s teacher and Josh Brolin is Archer Graff, the father of one of the missing kids, and the two of them team up like Nancy Drew and a Hardy Boy to find the kids and solve the mystery.
More than its spookiness or the moments of pure terror, “Weapons” is also drunk on the possibility of cinema and manages to pack every scene with innovative camera movements, compelling characters that you want to get to
know and a mystery that is consistently fun and original. I already want to go back and see it again, spending more time in this world and paying attention more closely to how Creggar and his team have crafted such a darkly twisted bedtime story that feels like something the Brothers Grimm would find a little too f**ked up.
And, sure, you can watch “Weapons” as a fun and spooky roller coaster ride and nothing more, but Creggar also knows how to, pardon, weaponize the bottomless potential of the horror genre to tell a deeply personal story about loss and grief. On August 7, 2021 at around 2:30am, Trevor Moore, Creggar’s best friend and co-creator of “The Whitest Kids U’ Know,” tragically fell from a balcony and died. The opening night, midnight screenings of “Weapons” across the country would get out late/early around 2:30am on August 7/8. Horror isn’t just how we get scared, but how we secretly grieve sometimes too. Even if you’re not a diehard horror fanatic like me, “Weapons” is an elevated affair without the pretentiousness. It walks a razor-tipped tightrope between exciting entertainment and thought-provoking seriousness at times both breathtaking and awe-inspiring. I found myself staring at some of the genuinely insane imagery on display and was reminded of those months, years ago, running through the fields of my childhood and being stalked by an unknowable, masked serial killer. And, weirdly, I found that comforting. Thank you, horror movies. You saved me. I owe you one.
“Weapons” Dir. Zach Creggar Grade: ANow playing at Regal Old Mill, Madras Cinema 5
Am
O OUTSIDE Bend Teen Swings into National Spotlight
Asia Young Finishes in Top 32 at U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship
By Al Olson
At just 16, Bend's Asia Young is already competing among the top amateur golfers in the world. Last week, Young competed in the 125th USGA U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship in Bandon Dunes, finishing in the top 32 and demonstrating she can play with the world’s best amateurs on one of the nation’s most challenging courses.
Young survived the grueling two-day stroke-play portion of the championship on Aug. 4-5, including a scorching back-nine round of 30 on the second day on an unusually calm day at the notoriously windy Bandon Dunes Golf Course. Her stroke play success allowed her to advance to the do-or-die match play portion, where she won her first match 1-up on the 17th hole. Her streak ended in the round of 32 on Aug. 7 when she fell to Lyla Louderbaugh, who will be a junior at the University of Kansas this fall.
“Overall, it was a successful week and I can take a lot of confidence from how I played. I competed against the best amateurs in the world, and I felt like I could go toe to toe with them,” Young said. “I also saw some areas where I can improve and get a lot better.”
After being eliminated in the round of 32, Young felt a wave of emotions. “But mostly I felt motivated. I know I belong at this level and I also know the areas that need improvement to reach my goals,” she said.
On Sunday Aug. 10, Stanford University’s Megha Ganne defeated recent Michigan State graduate Brooke Biermann to win the championship.
A Breakout Championship Season
Young has been on a tear in the past 12 months — competing in eight American Junior Golf Association tournaments, winning two and finishing in the top 14 in all but one. Before this week’s championship, Young ranked 18th in the AJGA.
In May, Young and fellow Oregonian Natalie Yen won the USGA U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball Championship in Oklahoma, one of the most prestigious amateur events in the nation. Their win was a dominant 5-and-3 final match victory, the second-largest margin in the tournament's history. It earned Young and Yen automatic exemptions into the U.S. Women's Amateur.
A Prescient Picture
But before any of these golf course heroics, let’s go back to 2020 when Young, at 10, drew a prescient self-portrait. The picture is now framed and displayed in her room: a
crayon drawing that Young drew of herself holding up an LPGA trophy, wearing a golf outfit and a broad smile. This picture that demonstrated her joy and determination about chasing her dream of a pro golf career.
"I still have that dream," Young says. "I want to be there."
That dream appears closer today.
"I think to be able to call myself a USGA champion is such an honor," she says. "It really shows I can play in these events and perform well."
She's quick to credit her friendship with Yen as part of the win. "We're friends first," she says. "We both wanted to win, but we are there for each other no matter what."
Learning to Play in Wintry Weather
Young's year-round dedication to golf might surprise anyone who's spent a winter in Bend. She's practiced her chipping in snow flurries, trained through sub-freezing days and hit putts while bundled in layers. Her commitment has always required more than talent — it's taken grit.
"I've had to persevere a lot," she says. "It's not California or Texas. But you make it work."
Young now attends Laurel Springs School, an online high school that allows her to travel to tournaments while keeping up with academics. "On a 30-minute car ride, I'd be
doing math homework while my mom drives," she says. “It gets a little hectic sometimes.”
Young trains at Tetherow when she's home but has a soft spot for many of Central Oregon's courses. "Every tee box has a perfect view of the mountains," she says. Before she found golf, Young was a competitive swimmer. The strength she developed in the pool didn't go to waste.
"I'd say one of my strengths now is being able to hit the ball long," she says. "Swimming was such a physical grind every day. It made me strong when I was little, and I love to work out now."
That strength translates to her swing, aggressive and assertive, which she models after British pro Charlie Hull. "I love how she draws the ball and attacks," Young says. "That's something I try to emulate."
Bandon and Beyond
Bandon Dunes is a special course for Young. Years ago, she played it with her dad during a parent-child event. Now, she's back competing among the best amateurs in the world.
"It's kind of surreal," she says. "There's no other course quite like it — no trees, all wind, link-style. It's a grind, but it's an amazing place to play. I seriously love the mental and physical challenge."
In the long term, Young is focused on college — likely somewhere in the South, where the golf season never ends — and eventually turning pro.
But in the meantime, she's putting in the work, shot by shot.
"You never really know what's going to happen in golf," she says. "But that's why I love it. Even after a terrible shot, the next one might be your best ever."
Asia Young knows how to look ahead. She's been doing it since she was 10, with crayons in hand. Now, she's swinging her way into a future she already imagined. You can follow Asia Young chase her golfing dreams on Instagram at @asia_young15.
At age 10, Asia Young drew a picture of herself winning an LPGA trophy. Courtesy
Asia Young
By Nic Moye
The Best in Show
Hundreds of dogs will convene at the fairgrounds for the AKC All Breed Dog Show
As many as 700 dogs are expected to compete at the AKC All Breed Dog Show at the Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center Aug. 22-24.
“The Mt. Bachelor Kennel Club held its first AKC all breed show at the old fairgrounds at the Fred Meyer site in 1982,” Karen Gray with the Kennel Club told the Source. “Since that time, we’ve had a show every year but two.”
There will be three back-to-back shows and trials each day for conformation, rally and obedience.
“A conformation show is where pure bred dogs are judged based on how well they conform to each individual breed standard. In other words, which dogs best represent their breed in terms of breed type, conditioning, structure and movement and attitude,” Gray explains. “Conformation is what most people think of when they think ‘dog show’. It’s a group of dogs and handlers moving around a ring together. Think Westminster.” Judges are looking at form and function. They assess a dog’s physical build, condition, coat and teeth. The top honor for this category is ‘Best in Show’. Gray says judges are qualified to assess all breeds and have a strong understanding of each breed’s standard. Dogs are not competing against each other in conformation, but against the standards of its own breed. Only purebred dogs can compete in conformation. Mixed breed dogs can compete in performance events.
Obedience competitions require dogs to execute specific skills in a controlled environment both on and off leash. The top honor in this category is ‘Highest Scoring Dog in Trial’. The AKC All Breed Dog Show happening in Redmond is a Region 8 qualifying event for the National Obedience Championship. Gray says it attracts some of the top obedience competitors in the region. The teams compete for a spot at the annual AKC national championship.
“Agility is for the super athletes of the dog world and is probably the most fun to watch. This is where dogs show off their amazing ability to tackle obstacle courses at a high rate of speed,” says Gray. While there are cash awards, ribbons and trophies, Gray says the motivation runs much deeper. “The dog show world is a really passionate community of breeders, owners, trainers, handlers and enthusiasts who really love what they do.”
There are a wide variety of competitions including one for senior dogs over the age of seven and another one for puppies ages four to six months.
“It can be fun to watch as some of the puppies are just learning the ropes and can put on quite a show,” Gray says.
An AKC dog show is one of the few sports where amateurs can compete against professionals. One of the competitions scheduled all three days is the National Handlers Series, which was developed to recognize breeders and owners who handle their own dogs. The American Kennel Club says more than 80% of show dogs are handled by their owners.
When asked about her favorite part of the three-day event, Gray says, “The sense of community I feel being surrounded by people and dogs who share a common passion.”
The competitions are free for the public to watch. All of the events will be held indoors. Vendors will be on site selling dog supplies. Only competition dogs will be allowed to enter the fairgrounds.
A handlers class is judged during a past dog show.
Joyce Golding, MBKC President
JUJU EYEBALL
Bend’s Beatles Cover Band
Wednesday August 20th
6:30pm-8:00pm
Deschutes Historical Museum
CRAFT CR Unique Beer and Beyond Little
Woody will be a treat for your taste buds!
By Nic Moye
The Little Woody beer, cider and whiskey festival celebrates barrel-aged sips and all things tree inspired including whiskey-soaked, oak-aged stouts, tart, berry-infused sours. The Bend festival, which began in 2009, is described as a toast to the forests, orchards and barrels that shape the finest brews. Some of which sound like a fancy dessert.
At least 15 breweries are participating. Buoy Beer Co. from Astoria will offer a crisp West coast Pilsner with a hint of grapefruit and Deep Waters, a stout aged in Pilot House Distillery’s Come Hell or High Water whiskey. Cascade Lakes Brewing Co. is offering This IPA which is described as hop-forward juiciness with flora aromas and its Badlands Imperial Brown Ale, which is made in partnership with Badlands Artisian Distillery in La Pine. It’s aged in double barrel rye casks with flavors of vanilla, graham cracker, candied nuts, molasses, spiced honey and coconut. Wolf Tree Brewery from the Oregon coast has a farmhouse ale aged in Pinot Noir barrels for six months and a Saucerful of Secrets ale fermented and aged on apricots for two years. pFriem is offering Vinifera Saison, a rose-inspired barrel aged ale with grenache grapes and Frambozen, made by adding raspberries to ale. Fort George in Astoria is serving 2023 Matryoshka Barrel Aged Imperial Stout which is aged for a year in whiskey and bourbon barrels, as well as Spruce Budd that’s brewed with spruce tips, pilsner malt and water. Deschutes Brewery will bring its Cherries Jubelale and Black Mirror. UPP Liquids will have its West Coast IPA and Cerveza Negra, a Mexican dark lager. Sunriver Brewing Co. is bringing its Chocolate Ice Cream Stout and Vanilla Baltic Porter. Wild Ride Brew Co. will have barrel aged Laughing Face Imperial Coconut Porter aged in bourbon barrels and Brenna A, an amber lager. Boneyard Beer has Neighbors with Attitude, a barrel-aged black barleywine. Crux will have Tough Love 2023, a whiskey barrel-aged imperial stout and Bramble Candy, a blackberry sour ale aged in red wine barrels. The Ale Apothecary, a small, family brewery that makes spontaneous beers, hasn’t announced its selection yet.
If beer isn’t your thing, 2 Towns Ciderhouse will feature a barrel-aged blackberry and raspberry Imperial and a Westward Whiskey Bad Apple. Avid Cider Co. will serve Apple Pie or Pineapple Mango cider. Legend NW Cider Company will serve Peach Cobbler, Cascade Cooler which is a berry blend, and a grape cider.
Deschutes Brewery
Lazy Z Ranch Wines will have three meads. One is a gin barrel aged grape and plum flavor. A second is called the Berry Bomb which is a mix of raspberries, marionberries and black currants. The third mead is blueberry. Ablis CBD Infusions will serve a strawberry mojito and cranberry blood orange. San Juan Seltzer is bringing huckleberry or wild blackberry lemonade. About a dozen wineries are also participating.
The event starts Friday evening on Aug. 29. Entertainment is provided by local comedians and music by Lickety Split. On Saturday, Aug. 30, festivities start with a 5K beer run at noon. Runners start at The Commons, go through Drake Park and downtown Bend, finishing at the Deschutes Historical Museum with four stops on the way at Worthy Brewing, Crux Fermentation Project, Deschutes Brewery and UPP Liquids. The $45 registration fee provides entry to The Little Woody Festival, a commemorative tasting glass and six drink tokens. Other entertainment Saturday includes a comedy show in conjunction with the Bend Comedy Festival and music by Erin Cole Baker. Tickets to the festival itself vary in price. The Gnomaste $15 ticket includes a tasting glass and five tokens. Prices increase with the number of tokens. A portion of the proceeds benefit the Deschutes Historical Society. The Little Woody is put on by Lay It Out Events, the sister company of the Source.
Little Woody Fri., Aug. 29, 5-9pm, Sat., Aug. 30, Noon -9pm
Deschutes Historical Museum
129 NW Idaho Ave., Bend thelittlewoody.com/ $5-$50
Sailing vessel whose sails are aligned with the keel
46. Bird with 270º head rotation
47. Slice of baloney
48. Charge from an idling cab
52. Butterfingers
53. Kings grp.
56. Rose oil
57. Some IG poses with pouty lips
60. "Same here"
61. Arthur who raised a racket
62. Pitcher's error
63. Eye problems
64. Vibes
65. Brewery installations
By Brendan Emmett Quigley
Pearl’s Puzzle
Puzzle for the week of August 11, 2025
Difficulty Level:
DOWN
1. That's a laugh
2. Beasts on a farm
3. Box spring support
4. Coach Lasso with a "Believe" wall poster
5. Words on a FedEx slip
6. Boxer's mitts?
7. UB40 singer Campbell
8. Number of Grammys Queen won
9. Baubles
10. Pompadour or quiff
11. Viking Ship Museum city
12. Min. divisions
13. General ___ chicken
18. Luge cousins
23. Fingerprint mark
24. Fricassée or goulash, e.g.
26. Staff symbol
27. Muse depicted with turtle doves by her feet
28. Bill of The Rolling Stones
29. Eternally
30. US city nicknamed "Oil Capital of the World"
31. Circular lines?
32. Movie-set light
33. Snake in some hieroglyphics
36. Score board nos.
38. Black Panther Bobby
39. French 101 verb
41. Styles worn by Art Garfunkel and Bob Dylan
42. Unbending
44. Turn things around?
45. Failed to do something on time
48. Chunks of cash
49. Plugging away
50. Very small
51. Cheese in red
52. Dos cubos
53. Frozen Four org.
54. Sander part
55. Pops the question
58. Private support org.
59. No, on a beer can
Fill in every row, column, and 3x3 box with each of the letters
exactly once.
The highlighted letters read left to right and top to bottom will complete the quote: “I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can onl y ________rs.”
- Mitch Hedberg
Answer for the week of August 4, 2025
ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLES
L T S U G F I N H G F I N H L T S U
N H S I T G F L H L T I S U N G F
Answer for the week of August 4, 2025
S U G F N H L I T F I N L T G U H S
T S F G L I H U N I H U T F N S L G
N G L H U S F T I
"Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, And you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling. Laugh, oh how we would laugh at anything, and so pretend a never-ending summer fling."
— K.D. Lang
"Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, And you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling. Laugh, oh how we would laugh at anything, and so pretend a never-ending summer fling." - K.D. Lang O M E T M O A
ASTROLOGY
By Rob Brezsny
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In medieval Europe, pilgrims traveling to the shrine of Saint James in Spain often wore scallop shells. These were badges to signify they were on a sacred path in quest of divinely inspired transformation. The shell also had practical uses. It was a scoop for food and water, underscoring the humility and simplicity embraced by wayfarers on the road. I invite you to acquire and wear your own equivalent of this talisman, Leo. You have begun a new chapter in your self-perception, and life is asking you to proceed without pretense. You don’t need definite answers. You don’t have to rush to the end of the journey. The becoming is the point. I hope you seek out inspirational symbolism and generous companions to help nurture your brave transformations. (PS: Your best conversations may be with people who will lovingly witness your evolution.)
ed and surprised by miracles and wonders?
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In ancient Greek drama, the peripeteia was a term for the moment when everything turns. The pivot doesn’t happen through force, but through the revelation of what was always true. I see the coming weeks as your peripeteia, Virgo. There may be no fireworks or grand announcements. Just a soft spiraling crackle that signifies a realignment of the system, a cathartic shift of emphases. Confusion resolves. Mysteries solve themselves. You might say, “Oh, yes, now I see: That’s what it all meant.” Then you can glide into the future with a refined and more well-informed set of intentions.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In coastal Portugal, there’s a lighthouse called Farol do Cabo da Roca. Built on a cliff where land ends and the Atlantic Ocean begins, it marks the westernmost edge of continental Europe. We might say it’s a threshold between the known and unknown. I believe you will soon be poised at a metaphorically similar place, Libra. An ending is at hand. It’s not catastrophic, but it is conclusive. And just beyond it are shimmers, questions, and a horizon that’s not fully visible. Your job is to finish your good work, even as you periodically gaze into the distance to see what’s looming.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Thou shalt embrace the confounding contradictions, Aquarius. That's the first commandment. Here’s the second commandment: Thou shalt caress the tricky incongruities. Third: Thou shalt whisper endearments to the mysterious ambiguities and invite the mysterious ambiguities to whisper endearments to you. Fourth: Thou shalt rumble and cavort with the slippery paradoxes. Commandment number five: Thou shalt chant spicy prayers of gratitude to the incongruities, paradoxes, contradictions, and ambiguities that are making you deeper and wiser and cuter.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In early medieval gardens, there was sometimes a space called the hortus conclusus. It was a walled sanctuary that protected plants and herbs from harsh weather and predation by animals. It comprised a microclimate and provided a private, peaceful space for contemplation, prayer, and study. Sometime soon, Pisces, I would love for you to create your personal equivalent of a hortus conclusus—even if it’s metaphorical. You will harvest maximum benefits from surrounding yourself with extra nurturing. The insights that would come your way as you tend to your inner garden would be gently and sweetly spectacular.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I Invite you to channel the spirit of Kali—not in her form as the destroyer, but as the fierce liberator. She has the power to burn away stagnation, neutralize the poison of old lies, and slice through illusion with a sword of compassion—and so do you. I believe you are ready to sever a bond that has secretly (or maybe not-so-secretly) limited you. Don’t be afraid of the emptiness that results. It may appear to be a void, but it will quickly evolve into a fresh sanctuary. Into this newly cleared room, you can pour your strongest longings and most rebellious love. What are the wildest versions of your truths?
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In some early maps of the cosmos, Sagittarius wasn’t just an archer. Your sign was symbolized by a centaur with wings: part horse, part bird, part god. I bring this to your attention because I suspect your own hybrid nature is extra wild and strong these days. A part of you wants to roam, and a part wants to ruminate. A part wants to teach, and a part needs to learn. How should you respond to the glorious paradox? I say, don’t force harmony. Let contradiction become choreography. Maybe liberating joy can arise through a dance between apparent opposites.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In Sardinia, there are tombs carved into rock called Domus de Janas—“houses of the fairies.” People once left offerings there to court the help of beings they couldn’t see. They truly believed that fairies are real and can exert effects in this world. In modern times, fewer Capricorns actively consort with invisible presences than any other zodiac sign. But I hope you will take a short break from your usual stance. Mysterious and mythic influences are gathering in your vicinity. You’re being nudged by forces that defy explanation. What do you have to lose? Why not have fun making room to be delight-
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Rama is the star of the ancient Hindu epic story, the Ramayana. I love him! He’s one of my favorite legends! His heroic journey isn’t fueled by a greed for power or personal glory. Unlike 90 percent of modern action heroes, he’s not pumped up with anger or a lust for vengeance. Instead, he is animated by a sense of sacred duty. Against all odds, and in the face of bad behavior by weird adversaries, he acts with exemplary integrity and calm clarity. During your upcoming exploits, Aries, I invite you to be inspired by his exalted and unwavering determination. As you proceed, ask yourself, “Is this in rigorous service to my beautiful ideals? Are my decisions and words in alignment with my deepest truths?” Be motivated by devotion as much as by hunger. Aim not just for novelty and excitement, but for generosity of spirit.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the Mexican festival of La Noche de Rábanos—Night of the Radishes—giant radishes are carved into elaborate altars and scenes. Humble roots become fancy art. I think you’re engaged in a metaphorically similar process, Taurus: sculpting with uncommon materials. Something you’ve regarded as modest—a small breakthrough or overlooked strength—is revealing unexpected value. Or perhaps a previously latent or indiscernible asset is showing you its neglected magic. Celebrate your subtle but very tangible luck. Take full advantage of half-disguised treasures.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In Zen archery, the aim is not simply to hit the target. Instead, it’s to align one’s body, breath, mind, and bow so fully that the arrow releases itself naturally and effortlessly. It shoots itself! I would love for you to adopt this breezy attitude in the weeks ahead, Gemini. See if you can allow an evolving project, relationship, or vision to reach a new maturity, but not through pushy effort. Rather, trust life to bring you the precise guidance exactly when you need it.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): In ancient Rome, the priestesses known as the Vestal Virgins tended an eternal flame. They never let it be extinguished, not even for a moment. Their devoted focus on nurturing the fire was both a religious practice and a symbol regarded as essential for the well-being, prosperity, and survival of the Roman state. I propose, Cancerian, that you engage in your own version of Vestal Virgin-like watchfulness. Assign yourself the role of being the keeper of a sacred promise or resource. What is it, exactly? Identify this repository of spiritual wealth and dedicate yourself to its sustenance.
Homework: What’s crucial for you to learn next? Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com
UNDERSTANDING INTIMACY
A COLUMN THAT FOSTERS DEEPER LOVE BETWEEN COUPLES
By Dr. Jane Guyn
may have drifted apart romantically over the years. The stresses of career and family life often take a toll on romance. Remember what brought the two of you together. You can rekindle your intimacy and connection during this time.
Here’s what you should do now:
1. Accept what’s happening. Life comes with a round-trip ticket. We celebrate the arrival with huge enthusiasm. But, as we get toward the end of our journey, we are less and less open to embracing the changes that inevitably come our way. Unlike other cultures, American culture celebrates youth and vitality beyond all else. This
ing oral pleasures such as kissing. What could feel good for both of you under the current circumstances?
I know that talking about intimacy is challenging. Maybe you’re interested in getting the conversation going, but your partner is hesitant. I hear this all the time in my practice. When you bring it up, be kind. Get help if you need it.
You got this.
Xoxo
Dr. Jane
—Dr. Jane Guyn (she/her) is a wellknown relationship coach who received her Ph.D. in Human Sexuality and is trained as a Professional Sex Coach and Core Energy Coach. Send her your questions at thesource@drjaneguyn.com.
TAKE ME HOME
By Andrea McGinty, REMAX Key Properties
Central Oregon Real Estate in 2005
The Tale of Two Markets
In Central Oregon, 2025 has brought a noticeable shift: a recalibrating housing market where some homes command fanfare and disappear in days, while others linger beyond the norm. Understanding why comes down to inventory and differentiation.
Inventory Is Up—But Not Uniformly
In Bend, the supply has climbed to approximately five months — a high not seen since 2013. That might signal balance, but in nearby Redmond, inventory remains tighter, around a three-month supply. Meanwhile, smaller towns like La Pine and Sisters are still seeing slower movement.
Days on Market Vary Sharply
In June, Bend's median days on market rose to about 24, compared to just 10 days around the same time in 2024. Reductions aren’t frame-breaking, but homes are taking notably longer to move than the blistering pace of the recent past. Even within Deschutes County, homes take on average 138 days to close in aggregate, though about 43% still sell within 30 days, and others stretch past 90 days.
What Sells — What Doesn’t
A clear pattern emerges: well-priced, turnkey homes in desirable areas still sell within days. In Bend, April's houses averaged just 32 days on market, with Sunriver homes closing in as few as 7 days. On the flip side, listings that are overpriced, outdated, poorly presented or stuck in less competitive segments slow to a crawl, with price reductions becoming more common. For sellers, nearly 20–23% of homes had to reduce price in June.
HOME PRICE ROUNDUP
Buyer Behavior & Economic Context
Mortgage rates in 2025 remain elevated hovering between 7 % and slowly easing toward 6 -6.5 %. That affordability pressure has slowed buyer urgency and increased pickiness. Buyers are now concentrating on move-in-ready homes.
Why Some Homes Fly Off the Market
Accurate pricing: Aligning list price with comparable recent sales is key. Homes priced too high often languish.
Appeal and condition: Updated kitchens, staging, curb appeal and professional photos make a difference.
Location and buyer priorities: Prox imity to trails, open space, quality schools and layout (home offices/RV storage) matter more than ever.
Clean marketing presentation: Sellers who invest in a polished, move-in-ready image attract multiple offers — sometimes above asking.
Why Others Drag On
Overpriced: Stale listings that fail to adjust effectively.
Homes needing updates or exten sive work: Buyers in this rate climate shy away from.
Less strategic marketing: Poor staging, mediocre photography, or outdated aesthetic discourages showings.
Less attractive segments: Lower-demand locations or unconventional layouts may require longer exposure.
Bottom Line: Central Oregon remains active in 2025. The advantage now lies with prepared buyers and strategic sellers. Now more than ever, both Buyers and Sellers should rely on experienced Real Estate Professionals to help navigate this market to achieve their best desired outcomes.
