Bachelor got their pipe cut just in time for this weekend's Enter The Dragon competition. The park crew has really been putting in the hours to make all our jumps nice every day, and they groomed the pipe two days in a row which is a first.
Our region has been bombarded by sun recently. Unfortunately sun in January usually means ice, and this is no exception.
With this uncharacteristically warm and mild weather in town and wet at best conditions up in the mountains, my attentions have been slightly diverted. Trying to stay constructive, I focused my energy on some summer sport fun and construct a new riverboard.
The back to the future at the pine. Last December, Christmas came early in Prineville. A handful of days before St. Nick was scheduled to shimmy down chimneys and/or bathroom vents of good little boys and girls, Prineville received the best gift a town could ask for: a movie theater.
Scratch that, an open movie theater.
You see, Prineville always had a movie house; there was just this small matter of it not showing any films for the last 20-odd years. Word on the street is that the Pine Theater-first opened in 1938-went dark on account of rowdy teenagers. Damn those youths (insert fist waving in air)! Oh, and something about lack of appropriate fire exits.
Yet one chilly night, nine months ago, the neon sign flickered on and the marquee lit up. After a twenty year hiatus, date night in Prineville was back; and not a moment too soon.
Over the last decade, Prineville swelled from a big town to a small city of over 10,000 people. While new shops opened catering to locals, entertainment options were in short supply. There were no venues for live music, no brew pubs for smoke-free socializing, and the only bowling alley sits miles from downtown.
Separate ways, worlds apart. Traitor works well on two very important levels: one, as just good old fashioned thriller with a wide variety of settings - London, Marseilles, Yemen, Toronto, and of course Washington DC - and two, it reminds us in not-so-subtle ways that the people who brought us 9/11 haven't gone away.
But the issue here is confused morality. How do you reconcile a seemingly good man doing heinous things?
Guy Pearce (LA Confidential) and Don Cheadle (Crash) head this international terrorism story, with one my of my favorite actors, Jeff Daniels (The Squid and The Whale) in a small but critical role.
Cheadle plays Samir Horn, an American-educated Muslim, who comes to terrorism early in his life after witnessing the car bombing of a family member. Reminiscent of all those "why is this good guy doing bad stuff" political thrillers, we start trying to wrestle with that question early on in the film as we find Horn in the company of some very unsavory characters.
Horn shows up on the radar of FBI agent Roy Clayton (Pearce). It is their relationship, the nuances of good and evil in the world, where loyalties really lie, and the complications of the "truth" which make this one of the more fascinating and believable international thrillers I have seen in recent years.
To laugh or not to laugh. Hamlet 2 is a mixed bag of treats, missed opportunities, inspired comic genius, dull plodding and failed timing. In short, some parts are good, while others…not so much.
The film starts off with a collage of the "work" of actor Dana Marchz (Steve Coogan) including infomercials and roles in Xena, showing real humorous potential. Cut to the present where he is a depressed but optimistic dweeb acting teacher in Tucson. He is on the verge of losing the drama department due to the lack of talent in his plays (stage versions of movies like Erin Brockovich) plus fiscal cutbacks and a really mad, conservative principal (the always underrated Marshall Bell) who hates his guts. He then inadvertently adopts a bunch of inner-city kids into his class and comes up with the idea to do a sequel to Hamlet. Since everyone dies in the first one, as we all know, Marchz (his name is constantly mispronounced) solves that problem with a time machine, Jesus and a lot of gay references.
Steve Coogan is brilliant in the lead role, but perhaps too brilliant - he is given way too much leeway to over act. At first it works, but then it becomes tedious and overkill. Coogan's character drains you of any sympathy and after a while you just want to punch him in the face. As Marchz's wife Brie, Katherine Keener does her smartest and bitchiest person in the room shtick (nothing new there), and drinks a margarita that's the size of a Herculean goblet. Then there's Elizabeth Shue, playing herself, and has given up on acting and become a nurse. This is, thankfully, underplayed.
Taking a bite out of high priced dining at pastini.Pastini Pastaria, another addition to the burgeoning Old Mill eatery scene, has been anxiously anticipated by all those Bendites familiar with the six Portland area locations. The restaurant's claim to fame is 36 different pasta dishes at affordable prices. With entrees priced from $5.75, Pastini will be a welcome addition to what many think is a high-priced dining culture.
Before opening to the public, Pastini threw a fundraiser and introduction party to benefit the High Desert Museum. Guests were invited to pay a small fee for a six-month membership to the museum and were treated to an open bar and a meal comprising sample portions of dishes. This was a smart move on the part the management-before trying to turn a buck, they ponied up to provide a venue for a great cause. Although the restaurant is part of a Portland-based chain, it's already giving back and becoming an active member of the community.
Pasta reigns supreme on the menu with the dishes separated into chicken, meat, vegetable and special pastas. To start the sample meal, we were served the Parmigiana Bread ($3.95), a baguette grilled with Parmesan cheese accompanied by marinara dipping sauce. It was simple and will be a big hit with the kids.
Taking a bite out of high priced dining at pastini.Pastini Pastaria, another addition to the burgeoning Old Mill eatery scene, has been anxiously anticipated by all those Bendites familiar with the six Portland area locations. The restaurant’s claim to fame is 36 different pasta dishes at affordable prices. With entrees priced from $5.75, Pastini will be a welcome addition to what many think is a high-priced dining culture.
Before opening to the public, Pastini threw a fundraiser and introduction party to benefit the High Desert Museum. Guests were invited to pay a small fee for a six-month membership to the museum and were treated to an open bar and a meal comprising sample portions of dishes. This was a smart move on the part the management-before trying to turn a buck, they ponied up to provide a venue for a great cause. Although the restaurant is part of a Portland-based chain, it’s already giving back and becoming an active member of the community.
Pasta reigns supreme on the menu with the dishes separated into chicken, meat, vegetable and special pastas. To start the sample meal, we were served the Parmigiana Bread ($3.95), a baguette grilled with Parmesan cheese accompanied by marinara dipping sauce. It was simple and will be a big hit with the kids.
Two brothers, two violins.Former child violin prodigies Mysore M.
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