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Jared Rasic

Film critic and author of food, arts and culture stories for the Source Weekly since 2010.

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Steal Me, Sweet Thief

OperaBend and Cascadia Opera present The Old Maid and The Thief
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For those interested in piercingly beautiful falsettos, earth shaking baritones and storylines so ridiculous they are only rivaled by daytime soaps, but intimidated by the occasional massive running time or the Italian language synonymous with traditional opera, OperaBend presents The Old Maid and the Thief, a one-act performance with an English libretto performed by Eugene’s […]

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Film Events

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The Princess Bride Some might say that is hyperbolic to call Rob Reiner’s incredible tale of Westley and Buttercup one of the greatest films of all time. To them, I say NAY! This movie has it all: A heroic and mysterious man in black, a beautiful farm girl, a six-fingered man, a fire swamp, swordfights, […]

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Metal as Hell

COMAG exhibit opens at The Oxford
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On Aug. 2 and 3, the Central Oregon Metal Arts Guild (COMAG) is having its 13th annual show at the Oxford Hotel and it is going to melt your face—if your face is made of metal. Metal working is ancient and can be traced all the way back to 8700 BCE with the discovery of […]

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Film Events 7/23-7/31

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Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret Cowspiracy is a documentary focused on the animal agriculture industry and the staggering figure that it occupies up to 45 percent of all land globally and uses one third of all fresh water. The film also looks into the idea that enough food is grown in 2014 to feed 12 billion […]

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They Dreamed a Dream

Les Miserables is almost here
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One of the toughest challenges about producing live theater in Central Oregon is that right when an actor feels like he or she is in that sweet spot—where all the moving parts are perfectly in sync—there are probably only one or two shows left in the run. With a limited number of patrons to fill […]

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The Balcony is Open

Life Itself is a beautiful ride
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Roger Ebert made me want to be a film critic because he loved movies as much as I did. More even. Every time he sat down to watch a film, he wanted it to be incredible. That optimism was infectious, and even as his career moved into an internet era where film criticism is too […]

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Monty Python Live (Mostly): One Down, Five to Go Aside from the gone too soon Graham Chapman, most of the crew from Monty Python are still alive and kicking. Join Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin and Terry Jones as they come together in what they’re calling their very last live reunion. Tickets […]

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Film Events 7/10-7/17

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Grateful Dead: Meet Up at the Movies Hey man, you should really come down to this far out event that’s one night only at that big movie theater, man. It’s a love-filled meet-up at the theater for Jerry’s Kids where we will then screen the Dead’s show that they played at the Beat Club in […]

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The Charge of the Bite Brigade

A Bite of Bend postmortem
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What is wonderful about Bite of Bend, which came and went like a circus train this past weekend, is that it is a preview to an entire summer worth of eating. This is not some strange festival that pops up, teases you with an idea that life could be all about Ferris wheels and whirly-jigs, […]

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Film Events 7/2-7/10

The Accidental Death of a CyclistOthelloDouble feature
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Pantani In conjunction with Le Tour de France and the Cascade Cycling Classic, Sisters Movie House and the Sisters Athletic Club are screening this documentary about cycling legend Marco Pantani. Pantani won the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia and only six years later was dead in a cheap Italian hotel room. This intense […]

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