I don’t go on a lot of dates. I think I’m bad at them. But when I booked a reservation at Salute Restaurant & Bar in order to write this article, it seemed like going there alone the day after Valentine’s Day would be just this side of mildly depressing. The reservation was set for earlier […]
Jared Rasic
Film critic and author of food, arts and culture stories for the Source Weekly since 2010.
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Heavy Hangs the Shield
“Captain America: Brave New World” loses focus
I know it’s not cool to still like Marvel movies because they’re apparently the nadir of cinematic excellence, but I do… even when they keep letting me down. There are two specific reasons why I keep turning up at the theater on opening weekend for this forever franchise: 1) After 35 movies and 26 shows, I’m […]
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Love, Sheep and Other Disasters
Four movies, one man
February has been a mellow month for movies so far, with studios front-loading theaters with the midsize movies they don’t have a ton of faith in gaining box office momentum. This is normal as the studios usually wait until after the Oscars to start leaning into the films they’re excited for. February is historically when […]
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Romantic and Delicious
A few ideas for foodies on Valentine’s Day
Bend is a pretty romantic town most of the time. I don’t just mean our cute cafes, bars and private little nooks dotted throughout the city limits, but we’re also surrounded by some of the most beautiful lakes, mountains, trails and waterfalls on the planet. But, as a very dedicated food writer who eats out […]
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Love to Love You
Cookies, drag and painting… what else do you need for Valentine’s Day?
For some of us, Valentine’s Day can be less of a romantic holiday spent luxuriating in connection and more of a flashing neon sign pointing out the failure to find love. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had a lovely V-Day or two, but more often than not, I find myself unpacking what’s missing from my […]
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My Specific Valentine
11 movies to love each other by
When writing a piece about movies to watch with your spouse, partner, significant other or all by your damn self for Valentine’s Day, I found myself focusing on the futility of such an endeavor. Every single relationship is different, obviously, but even more specific are the things that each one of us defines as romantic […]
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The Good, The Bad and Whatever the Hell ‘Emilia Pérez’ Is
Oscar preview 2025
I‘m not a big fan of the Oscars. Don’t get me wrong, I love the pageantry, and I love the few weeks of the year where it seems like everyone else cares about movies almost as much as I do. Ultimately, whatever wins or loses rarely does so based on the actual quality of the […]
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Wildest Heart
Goodbye, David Lynch
We lost the artist David Lynch on Jan. 15, just five days before his 79th birthday. As a writer, director, painter and designer, he spent his entire career finding ways to map the human subconscious, making movies that feel like glimpses of half-remembered dreams, scripts that turn dream logic into tactile reality and paintings that […]
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From Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z
Robbie Williams struggles to be a “Better Man”
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: So, you take the traditional musical biopic like “A Complete Unknown” or “Walk the Line,” but instead of casting some popular actor like lil’ Timmy Chalamet or Joaq Phoenix to play the subject, you instead have the musician played by a computer-generated monkey. Yeah, me neither. But […]
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The World Is a Vampire/Rockstar
A Complete Unknosferatu
While I knew it wouldn’t quite have the same cultural cache of “Barbenheimer,” I was still very excited for the same-day release of the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” and the Robert Eggers remake of the classic vampire film “Nosferatu.” In my mind, the two films wouldn’t be quite as disparate as the same-day […]