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 […]
Jared Rasic
Film critic and author of food, arts and culture stories for the Source Weekly since 2010.
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They Dreamed a Dream
Les Miserables is almost here
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
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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Film events
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
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
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
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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Brain Man No Die
Morgan P. Salvo’s WTF masterpiece rough cut
When asked about the content of Brainman No Die, Morgan P. Salvo (aka, Wayne Newcome) tells me: “It’s a horror/slasher/comedy paying homage to the Grade-B driven horror flicks and all the Grade-Z exploitation films of the ’60s and ’70s. It’s basically a twist on the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story with the romance of […]
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Home is Where the Art Is
Gavin Douglas returns to Bend for Summer Shakespeare
Bend native Gavin Douglas is an actor. A real one. The kind of actor that does not remember why he wanted to act in the first place because it’s what he has always done for as long as he can remember. “I did a play in kindergarten, and then did one every year because it […]
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Cannibal: The Musical
2nd Street’s Sweeney Todd fills the belly
Sweeney Todd is just your average comedic/dramatic thriller about vengeance, insanity, murder and cannibalism. Yeah, as if that’s a genre! Actually, Sweeney Todd has always been one of the weirdest—and most enduring—shows ever to grace the stages of Broadway or the West End as it swings wildly between camp, comedy, drama and outright horror. Part […]
