Our Roots: The Blessed Tree Jesse Roberts, the creative director for Rise Up International, is premiering this short film that he recently made on a trip to Palestine. The film is Our Roots: The Blessed Tree offers a unique perspective into a Palestinian olive harvest, and tells a collection of stories related to what life […]
Jared Rasic
Film critic and author of food, arts and culture stories for the Source Weekly since 2010.
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Jared’s 14 Favorite Films of 2014…And Some Runners Up
Who the hell am I to say what the best movies of 2014 were? Just a guy…who watched around 300 movies in total across the year. But what the hell does “best” even mean? Instead, I’ll say these were my top 14 (because a top ten is so 2013) favorite movies of 2014. Opinions are […]
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Top 5 Moments at Tin Pan
Don’t trust me. I’m biased. I work a lot of shifts at Tin Pan Theater, and help program the movies we show. But heck, with that said, here are my top five favorite moments this year at Tin Pan Theater. 5. Spaghetti Western Wednesdays: There’s no substitute for watching people eat spaghetti while laughing. Sometimes […]
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A Christmas Snark
Santaland at 2nd Street Theater…
David Sedaris is a damned national treasure. I’m not saying all of his work is perfect (hell, I’m not sure he has ever topped 2000’s “Me Talk Pretty One Day”), but when Sedaris goes after a subject he is impassioned about, he can find some of the most incisive observational humor of any satirist working […]
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Film Events 12/17-12/25
Spaghetti Western Wednesdays Every single Wednesday at Tin Pan Theater (except for Christmas Eve!) there is all-you-can-eat spaghetti, garlic bread and salad partnered with a damned ridiculous western from the late-’60s to the late ’70s. Every week the film is a surprise, so when the lights go down and William Shatner comes up playing twin […]
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‘Tis The Season To Shop Local
Fa La La La La, La La La Craft Faire
It is a tale of two craft fairs, and a true holiday tale of joining forces together, and with a moral that would make Jimmy Stewart’s heart swell two times its size, Central Oregon Locavore and The Old Ironworks are joining forces to promote their same-day local, holiday craft and food events. The two events […]
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Film Events 12/10-12/18
The Metropolitan Opera: Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg While Regal has been playing the Met’s operas for several years now, they have never assaulted the senses so thoroughly with an opera so unyeildingly long. Die Meistersinger is listed on Fandango as six hours long, even though most versions of the show run around four and a […]
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A Christmas Carole
Humbug gives Scrooge a gender twist
Christmas plays can be tricky. For starters, not everyone celebrates Christmas, which potentially alienates part of the theater-going crowd. Also, most Christmas plays are often shoddily written, more about sentiment than substance, and a means to distract children with pageantry instead of quality. Oh, and finally, if the play decides to approach Christmas from a […]
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Film Events 12/3-12/11
Final Pose It isn’t clear whether they will provide chairs or if attendees will be “required” (ya’namaste) to sit in a pose or their yoga mat, but this is a special screening of “A Final Pose,” a short documentary on the end of life journey of Sisters yogi Myra Fisher, which screened at Bend Film […]
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Film Events 11/26-12/4
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation The Griswold clan returns with another attempt to make solid family memories. This time instead of going to Wally World or Europe, all they want to do is stay at home and have a successful Christmas with each other. What they fail to realize is Christmas will more than likely be […]