Never have I seen two franchises team-up to create one super sized franchise hybrid baby, but here we are. The director of the last “Muppets” movie teams up with Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill to bring us “21 Jump Street” meets “Men In Black.” Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones won’t be reprising their roles, […]
Jared Rasic
Film critic and author of food, arts and culture stories for the Source Weekly since 2010.
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Album Review
Kanye Confesses His Sins
Kanye West’s “The Life of Pablo”(TLOP), released Feb. 14, is an audacious, layered piece of work that finally sees West deciding not to make a huge statement, but instead looking inward and giving us a chance to relate and empathize instead of judge. Whether his hijinks in the media are performance art or the shouts […]
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Central Oregon Wine Country
A lovely beginning
Central Oregon is famous for quite a few things: a world class ski resort, the staggeringly good beer, some of the most beautiful lakes on the planet, riding and hiking trails galore, and quite a few more things, too. One thing that doesn’t immediately spring to mind, however, is wineries. Central Oregon weather can be […]
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The Sea Itself
Lit-folk quartet Darlingside amazes
Hearing Darlingside find its sound over the course of two full-length albums and an EP is astounding. The biggest change being that, between the first full-length album and the second, the group went from being a quintet to a quartet, losing a drummer, but finding something approaching excellence. Darlingside is made up of Dave Senft […]
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Jah Bend
Rebelution’s DIY reggae returns
The best way to describe Rebelution’s sound is White Jam Band Reggae. There are aspects of roots reggae, Santana-esque electric guitar solos and California easy listening involved as well, so it’s pretty hard to lock down exactly what Rebelution is after when it comes to its sound. However, since they had the best selling reggae […]
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OSCAR 2016 Predictions
Well, it’s not Oscar night unless we make some Oscar predictions, so here are a few of mine before the big night happens. These aren’t necessarily all the things I want to win, as much as they are the things that will probably win, but I’ve never been that great predicting the Oscars anyway. BEST […]
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“Race” Comes in For a Bronze
Gutless bio-epic falls short
A movie can’t be successful artistically just on good intentions. If that were the case then “Race” would be the best picture of the year (or of many years). Alas, a modern telling of the story of Jesse Owens with a good-sized budget to hire a few great actors and recreate the Olympics will have […]
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Beware “The Witch”
A quiet creeper that will disappoint most
“The Witch” premiered to great acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival, with critical quotes providing unrestrained buildup, such as Stephen King saying it scared the hell out of him. Once it took the Best Director award at the festival, the hype accelerated. The movie is being marketed as the scariest horror film in decades, but […]
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Book Review
“Legendary Locals of Bend”
“Legendary Locals of Bend” is filled to the brim with some amazing history. Every page focuses on a different person that shaped the community of Bend in ways subtle or massive. Many of these stories come as a complete surprise. The book was compiled by Les Joslin, past president of the Board of Directors of […]
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All Good Things
Artist Katie Daisy is wild and free
A few years ago I met a gal. I was officiating a wedding and she was the maid of honor. It was my birthday, so after the ceremony we went downtown to get some drinks and ended up hitting it off swimmingly. Much later that night, we found ourselves in Tin Pan Alley, drunkenly stumbling […]
