I Remember You is a play about embracing nostalgia in doses. It is easy to get caught up in memories of a glorious past until all that is left are recently polished trophies and a contact list made up of people you don’t know anymore. Deep in that sense of ennui is where we meet […]
Jared Rasic
Film critic and author of food, arts and culture stories for the Source Weekly since 2010.
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Love in the City of Lights
Le Week-End is a commitment worth making
After the first 15 minutes of Le Week-End, I couldn’t stand the film’s two lead characters, Nick and Meg Burrows. He was drowsy and a bit oafish, while she was sour and prickly to the point of being unlikeable. Luckily, a few moments later I realized I was not supposed to like them since they […]
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M.C. Full Blown Genius
Atelier 6000’s Escher exhibit stuns
When looking at an original Escher work, hanging on a wall a foot away, it is impossible to oversell it. The shading is so precise and the lines are haltingly delicate, yet so strong and breathlessly assured that being in the same room as those prints is akin to existing in a state of perpetual […]
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Calm Like a Bomb
The Rocket fires on all cylinders
During the Vietnam war, Laos became the most bombed country in history. Two million tons of bombs were dropped between 1964 and 1973, including 260 million cluster munitions. An estimated 30 percent of that ordinance never detonated, and to this day Laotians are still maimed and killed by the bombs every year. Director Kim Mordaunt […]
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Tempeh it Forward
Young co-owner of Cafe Yumm, Karli Foster means business
When Karli Foster walks into Townshend’s Tea House for her interview with the Source, she is dressed in the uniform of one of the front counter employees of Cafe Yumm. Since she is the co-owner of the Bend Yumm, one would think she would be in civilian clothes, but Foster doesn’t work that way. “I […]
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Not Your Stereotypical Gun-toting Grannie
Helen On Wheels rolls deep
The first three plays written by Cricket Daniel evoke a feeling more than they inspire emotion. The feeling of watching an 8-10 pm sitcom block with family, sprawled out on the couch, after a giant dinner. Her characters are archetypical with flashes of heart, but mostly serve as joke delivery machines and to accentuate the […]
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Mo Money Mo Problems
CTC’s Funny Money Plays Through the Pain
There’s a reason why the week leading up to opening night of a show is called “Hell Week.” Quite simply, it is not pleasant. Usually, those final days are spent adding the final drops of paint to the set, hanging lights and setting cues so the actors aren’t standing in the dark and mostly just […]
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As the World Turns
The World Goes ‘Round keeps your feet in the air and head on the ground
One of the most important elements of theater is confidence—as in confidence that the show being put on is going to transport the audience into a fabricated otherworld. Without, actors are just lying to a group of total strangers for two hours, hoping that when it’s all over they can get to their car without […]
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Making The Grade: A menu makeover has the Platypus Pub’s casual vibe feeling just right
With a new menu, 15 beers on tap and more than 500 bottled beers upstairs in The Brew Shop, the Platypus Pub is ready to be seen as a serious contender in the ever-expanding Central Oregon brewpub market.
With a new menu, 15 beers on tap and more than 500 bottled beers upstairs in The Brew Shop, the Platypus Pub is ready to be seen as a serious contender in the ever-expanding Central Oregon brewpub market.
When the place opened last year, it didn’t make a huge splash in the beer scene, but that’s the way owner Tom Gilles, a former Bend mail carrier, wanted it. Instead Gilles and his partners have quietly tweaked their operations, morphing their bar into a Mecca for local beer lovers who crowd the cozy basement pub in the former Ernesto’s to get a taste of a British-style bar on this side of the pond.
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Alien Nation: The Watch mashes up genres to limited success
Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn star in the newest comedy The Watch.
The first time I saw the trailer for The Watch (then called Neighborhood Watch) was two days after George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin. All you could really do is wince at the timing and feel sorry for everyone involved in the project. As the months progressed, the trailers focused more on the alien invasion plot line as opposed to the neighborhood watch aspects. It looked like maybe the film could avoid the negative comparisons it was receiving at the beginning of its marketing run.
As of press time, The Watch had flopped pretty horribly, making only $13 million in its opening weekend on a $68 million dollar budget. Some speculate that the movie bombed because of the neighborhood watch subject matter, which I don’t buy since the Aurora massacre had absolutely no negative effects on The Dark Knight Rises record breaking box office totals. I think The Watch is tanking because critical reviews are poor, word of mouth is nonexistent and everyone is still spending their movie budget on Batman. But it’s unfair to judge films on what they aren’t, so let’s look at what it is.