Film critic and author of food, arts and culture stories for the Source Weekly since 2010.
Historically, January is widely considered to be the dumping ground for theatrical movies studios don’t have any faith in. They slide them into the multiplex after the prestige movies of December, but before Oscar nominees start getting re-released in theaters leading up to the big show. I’ve been taking the doldrums of Theatrical January for […]
OK, yes, there are a lot of Thai food options in Central Oregon. Too many? No way. The expression “too much of a good thing” is impossible to really prove, especially when it comes to Thai food. You could eat Thai seven days a week and not repeat restaurants or dishes for a hot minute, […]
The best thing about my job as a film writer and the even better thing about my lifelong love affair with cinema is that the movies never stop coming. I mean, they do; COVID showed us what a world without new movies looked like and, at least for this boy, that was indeed the darkest […]
It seems surreal to me that we’re already at the end of another year. This one just started like five months ago. It went by fast, but that’s probably because I spent another year consuming as much pop culture as I possibly could while being lucky enough to write about it for you fine readers […]
OK, so do we think Nicolas Cage is a brilliant actor who doesn’t get the credit he deserves or is he an overrated hack who only made it in Hollywood because of his nepo baby bonafides? I’m not sure a middle ground exists, as everyone I talk to falls in one camp or another, some […]
I‘m sure there have been more than two great books written about the act and art of writing, but there were two of them in particular that helped me inch ever closer to finding my voice as a writer. Stephen King’s “On Writing” was filled with great advice from the master about how to treat […]
This is one of those movies that none of you are going to believe is actually great until you see it, so right here is a good time to just quit reading and maybe go check out the new “Godzilla” movie. Even if you don’t like Kaiju films (although, really, what is there not to […]
I have designs on being a spice lord. I used to think I could hang pretty hard when it came to spicy food, but I’m nowhere near as badass as I thought I was. When word hit me back in February that Bend was going to get its very own Fire on the Mountain location, I […]
This is the time of year my mildly OCD self starts making several Best Of the Year lists: One for movies, one for shows, one for music and one for books. I know that I consume more media than the average human person, but technically, it’s my job, so I don’t really feel that bad […]
One of the finest musicals of the last few decades is the absolutely stunning “Spring Awakening” with music by Duncan Sheik and lyrics by Steven Sater. The way that show balances heartbreak and bittersweet hope with show-stopping musical numbers is unlike any mainstream Broadway production since “Rent.” I had heard Sheik and Sater’s follow-up musical, […]
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