Capote Tribute Philip Seymour Hoffman was perhaps the greatest actor of his generation. Seriously. We will fist-fight anyone who says otherwise. During his two-decade career, he emerged from that-guy-who-is-in-every-film to the marquee actor, creating dozens of indelible characters during his all-too-short career: rock editor Lester Bangs in Almost Famous, reform-minded priest Father Flynn in Doubt, […]
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seattle friday 14 Valentine’s Day Savage Lovecast Live Taping Celebrity rags are always trying to christen the latest Hollywood starlet as “America’s Sweetheart,” when in reality, he’s a gay male advice columnist living in Seattle. With aplomb and some biting wit, Dan Savage handles questions concerning all that is fair (and unfair) in love and […]
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Foxy, SCHWING!
The Grand Anderson Film Series continues
Except perhaps the filmmaker who brought him to life on screen, Wes Anderson, no one rocks a corduroy suit quite as fantastically as Mr. Fox, the title character of The Fantastic Mr. Fox. This adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl story was Anderson’s foray into the animated realm and, really, who else could round up […]
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FAA bans beer-delivery drones
After our recent coverage of drones, a recent article caught our eye: the FAA has banned a Wisconsin brewery from using quadcopters to deliver beer to bored-and-thirsty anglers out in ice fishing shacks. Too bad…who wouldn’t like a nice frosty one delivered to a nearby peak while skiing or directly to your tube during a […]
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portland thursday 6 37th Annual Portland International Film Festival Opening Night For nearly twenty years, director Hayao Miyazaki has Spirited Away audiences to a Castle in the Sky with the help of Princess Mononoke, and the adorable Ponyo. His latest trippy, manga creation, The Wind Rises, opens Portland’s 37th Annual International Film Festival, along with […]
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Rush-MORE, not less
The Grand Anderson Film Series begins
Max Fisher: I like your nurse’s uniform. Dr. Peter Flynn: These are O.R. scrubs. Max Fisher: Oh, are they? And so begins the Source‘s latest film series, “The Grand Anderson,” a celebration of the great quotes, storylines and characters penned and brought to life by writer and director Wes Anderson. Rushmore—a classic tale of one […]
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See Bend in a New Way: XProHeli Videos
The written word can only do so much to describe the work being done by Bend-based XProHeli. Company founder Hans Skjersaa sent along some of his favorite videos captured on their quadcopters. See more on their YouTube channel. Mt.Bachelor: Smith Rock Highline: Outside Games hosted here in Bend: Ragtime Highlining featuring the YogaSlackers Off-Road Racing
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It’s Elementary
Since bursting forth on the page in 1887, magnifying glass in hand, Sherlock Holmes has been depicted on screen more than 250 times, gaining him the Guinness Book of World Records title of “most portrayed literary human character in film & TV.” Benedict Cumberbatch is the latest to try on the famous detective’s deerstalker hat […]
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seattle sunday 2 The Super Bowl The Seahawks take on the Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII (that’s 48 for those not up to snuff on their Roman numerals). Who will win? Who will lose? Who will go nuts on camera and give the world its next viral video? How will cornerback Richard Sherman offend half […]
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Is “Drone” a Dirty Word?
A new world takes (unmanned) flight
In 1959, a year before Bono was born, U-2 was the name for a classified, unmanned plane that flew past the Iron Curtain and across the restricted airspace in the Soviet Union. Concerned about sending pilots into hostile air space, the US Air Force launched a program—code name “Red Wagon”—to send “unmanned aerial vehicle”—or, what […]