“The Last Five Years,” at 2nd Street Theater, was written by Jason Robert Brown and premiered in Chicago in 2001, eventually moving Off-Broadway in 2002. That year the show won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics and was nominated for several more awards. Most recently, in 2014, Richard Lagravenese (“P.S. I Love […]
Jared Rasic
Film critic and author of food, arts and culture stories for the Source Weekly since 2010.
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Midnight Radio
Hedwig puts the wig back on her head
The Angry Inch slowly comes on stage, tuning instruments while the bassist banters with the audience in her thick, German accent. Hedwig’s assistant, husband and backup singer Yitzhak (played by director JoEllen Ussery) comes to the stage to say that Hedwig is in the dressing room, being a diva again and the show will start […]
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The Mountain That Loves
The Mountain is one of the scariest characters on Game of Thrones, especially now that he’s (SPOILERS) a zombie or whatever. The actor that plays him, Hafรพรณr Jรบlรญus Bjรถrnsson, is also one of the strongest men on the planet… and one of the largest. So, this is him with his 12-week-old puppy, the tiny Pomeranian, Asterix. Li […]
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Flat Picking & Good Vibes
Sean Watkins plays The Belfry
Sean Watkins has been making music since 1989 and none of what he releases is predictable. Comparing his music with Nickel Creek with his solo work shows the depth and breadth of the man’s talent and his abilities as singer, songwriter and guitarist. It’s very easy to pigeonhole him as simply a bluegrass artist, but […]
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Summer Movie Lineup
Mandatory Fun, Part I: May & June releases
Welcome to the Summer Movie Preview. Last weekend’s arrival of “Captain America: Civil War” was the early dawn of 2016’s summer movie season. There will be big actors, enormous explosions and the largest budgets the American film industry has ever seen this year. The following mandatory fun list includes the bigger flicks of May and […]
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“Faces of the Deschutes”
This year, Deschutes County turns 100. For its birthday party celebration, the county and the Deschutes County Historical Society are throwing a year-long celebration that will focus on the area's, past, present and future. Local actor and playwright Clinton Clark has been commissioned to write a three-part look into the area's history called “Faces of […]
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Marvel Swings For The Fences
“Captain America: Civil War” is an ideological trip to the MCU
Captain America debuted in Marvel Comics in March of 1941, based on the character of Steve Rogers, a young man whose parents have died, who grew up during the Great Depression. Trying to enlist for World War II to fight the Nazis, he fails to pass the physical requirements, but is invited to take part […]
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New Radiohead Has Arrived
This is just a reminder that the new Radiohead album, “A Moon Shaped Pool” has been released and it’s awfully good. This is their first record since 2011’s “The King of Limbs” and the wait has been worth it. The band has also released a few new tour dates, which you can find here. Enjoy […]
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Rayni Williams’ Unique Vision
Rayni Williams’ photography tells a story, calmly. Her nature work, cityscapes and portraits find the ghosts hidden within regular perception. For example, a rain-drenched bench downtown late at night doesn’t just convey the chilly expanse of the evening; instead, her lens finds the isolation of the moment. A photo of Smith Rock doesn’t just capture […]
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Presumed Guilty
“12 Angry Jurors” raises difficult questions
“12 Angry Jurors” is a combination of a few different things. It takes the script based on Reginald Rose’s 1954 teleplay and small pieces of the script for “12 Angry Women” by Sherman Sergel and mashes them together. The 1957 Henry Fonda film is still in circulation, so multiple generations are familiar with the seminal […]
