Les Misérables is a strange beast. When the musical opened in London in 1985, the reviews were less than kind, with the Sunday Telegraph calling it “A lurid Victorian melodrama produced with Victorian lavishness.” Yet tickets for the production were selling in record numbers and public opinion was stellar enough to open the show on […]
Jared Rasic
Film critic and author of food, arts and culture stories for the Source Weekly since 2010.
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Film Events 9/11-9/18
Janapar: Love on a Bike Presented by Pine Mountain Sports and the Central Oregon Trail Alliance, Janapar follows 23-year-old Tom Allen and his attempt to cycle and camp his way around the world. Janapar is the Armenian word for journey and Allen initially started his with two friends who quit after only a few weeks, […]
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Film Events 9/4-9/11
Sleepless in Seattle It is Tom Hanks week in Central Oregon (as well it should be). Sleepless in Seattle tells the story of a manipulative child that tricks an emotionally distant father into finding the woman of his (cold, drizzle and distant) dreams. Although still mourning his deceased wife, Hank’s precocious half-orphaned child decides to […]
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Film Events 8/28-9/4
Ghostbusters 30th Anniversary, Frozen, and The Amazing Spider-Man
Ghostbusters 30th Anniversary Not that there needs to be a good reason to see Ghostbusters on the big screen, but the 30th anniversary seems like as good a reason as any. Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Dan Ayckroyd, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, Sigourney Weaver and William Atherton as that jackass Walter Peck work their […]
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The Gentleman Doth Look Like A Lady
Twelfth Night in three nights
In 1954, theatrical producer and director (and founder of the Public Theater!) Joseph Papp founded the New York Shakespeare Festival, which was initially conceived as a way of making the Bard’s work more accessible to the public. Thus, Shakespeare in the Park was born. It started as a series of workshops for actors and directors […]
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Way Up High
The Wizard of Oz lifts the curtain
For many people, L. Frank Baum’s classic The Wizard of Oz is a collection of firsts. Whether it is the first movie they can ever remember seeing, the first time they remember getting scared (damn flying monkeys) or the first time they ever truly felt the wonder and power of a film. For 75 years, […]
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Best Bartender
Cori Hamilton
A bartender for nearly 20 years, Cori Hamilton first started at Monet’s Garden, a popular bar that she launched in the ’90s. “It was originally a way to pay my way through school,” she explains. “Then I realized the schedule, co-workers, creating cocktails and friends that I make in this business are exactly what I […]
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Eugene Comes to Bend
Brighton Beach Memoirs opens at CTC
Playwright Neil Simon can sometimes get a bad rap. It is easy to pick on him for being the poster boy of “safe” and “easy” theater because of his shows like Barefoot in the Park and Sweet Charity. Most of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, in thier liftime, never achieved even a modicum […]
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Film Events 8/13-8/21
GMO OMG, Rifftrax:Godzilla (1998), E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, The Way Bobby Sees It
GMO OMG This alarming (and somewhat alarmist) documentary focuses on the loss of seed diversity and how lab assisted genetic alteration of food can affect freedom of choice around the world. The most interesting aspect of the film is not the parade of information about GMOs and some of the effects they could have on […]
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Best Hangover Food
D&D Bar and Grill
The D&D takes pride in the fact that they mix the stiffest drink in town while also serving the best hangover food, no matter the time of day. It is comforting to know that it's possible to get obliterated and then build it right back up again all under the same roof. “The fact that […]