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Brianna Brey

Bri Brey is a Bend native who started as an intern at the Source Weekly after her graduation from the University of Oregon three years ago. She is now the full-time arts, culture and music editor.

Committed to bolstering Bend’s growing musical and arts community, Bri takes after the semi-fictional William Miller of Almost Famous. Despite a cynicism cultivated over the 20 years she’s lived in Bend, Bri loves Christmas. She loves decorating and gift giving and prides herself on having the best white elephant strategy. She once devised an It’s a Wonderful Life drinking game. Contact her at bri@bendsource.com with local music, arts and culture events (or the rules to that drinking game).

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The Bay Area's Beats Antique combine belly dance with tribal trance. Midtown Ballroom, 2/4.

Beats Antique performs at the Midtown Ballroom this Saturday.
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The dilemmas of Footloose could have been solved instantaneously if Kevin Bacon had access to a Beats Antique album. Bomont City Council be damned, there is no way to stand still when you hear their unique hybrid of face-melting dubstep combined with world electronica. Add live percussion, a violin player and a resident belly dancer and you have a Beats Antique show. We challenge you not to dance.

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Blindsided by Rock: Animal Eyes offer up multifaceted dance music for the young at heart

Dance music for the young at heart.
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“Hey, are you guys here to see the band?”
“We are the band.”
That's how my night starts at The Horned Hand when five young guys drift up to the bar looking confused. Apparently, they are Animal Eyes. And, apparently, they are playing a show later.
These guys are inconspicuous, to say the least. Probably because they are all barely 21-years-old and were born and raised in Homer, Alaska.They don't look like the types who would rock the roof off a venue but somehow, in a town of about 5,000, they developed a unique brand of worldly folk rock that's turning heads in Oregon.
“Pretty much no bands come there. I didn't see one big show in Alaska,” explains Tyler Langham, one of two guitarists and one of three vocalists.
Without a lot of live music, the band was left to discover their own style. They will be bringing their passionate and unpretentious indie rock-and-roll to a second show at Silver Moon Brewing on Friday.

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Remembering Christmas: Your local weatherman presents A Christmas Memory

Bend weatherman Bob Shaw is a one-man wrecking machine.
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Local news celebrity Bob Shaw – aka the morning weather guy on KTVZ – stars in this one-man show that spurs nostalgia for Christmas past, and a hankering for whiskey-drenched fruitcake.
A Christmas Memory is based on a Truman Capote short story about a young boy's Christmas with his elderly cousin and unlikely best friend. Despite their poverty and misfortune, the two are flush with the spirit of the season and make the best of the little they have. Their adventures and oddball relationship are beautifully depicted by Capote's writing and are brought to life by Shaw's performance.

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Bend Film

By the Numbers
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Next week, BendFilm returns to big screens around town. The festival, which has become a rite of Fall in Bend, is the region’s signature celebration of independent film and a great chance to get out and appreciate filmmaking as both art and entertainment. See the films that Hollywood is too timid or too stupid to […]

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