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Central Texas has never looked so good, nor has a post-wildfire-ravaged landscape. Filmed over 16 days in freshly burned pine and oak forest, Prince Avalanche is a timely story; if ever there was a visual lesson to the ecological havoc of extreme fires, the backdrop of this movie teaches it with ease. Although directed by […]
Mescaline is a psychoactive substance that has been used by humans for more than 5,000 years. Native to Chile, the San Pedro cactus is one of the few sources of mescaline in the world. Crystal Fairy is in part a movie about this cactus. Crystal Fairy follows the standard equation of a late summer flick. […]
If you tried to throw a pre-movie screening party for The Wall, it might go something like this: Spend the day alone fasting. Hike up a mountain and use a scythe to clear a field of grass. Once that's done, make your way back home, and eat only a light serving of half a potato […]
Since its opening more than a century ago in 1911, Bend’s go-to flower shop has been run solely by women. This makes it not only one of the oldest continually run businesses in town, but undoubtedly the oldest female-owned and run business in Bend, a tradition in its own right. Today, Donner Flower Shop continues […]
Last Monday, when I arrived on the Warm Springs Reservation, it was a whirlwind of confusion. A pillar of smoke billowed in the background. The Warm Springs Incident Management Team was in the process of transferring firefighting duties to Oregon Interagency Incident Management Team 4 (ORIIMT4)—a well-trained crew made up of federal, state, and municipal […]
It is 6:02 am when I arrive at RC flying field. I am two minutes late, and already the hot air balloon is swelling with air. Its hand-painted high desert mural of old-growth junipers and raptors are billowing in the wind as if they were alive. Several people are swarming around the balloon like ants […]
Two years ago, I showed up at Paradise Campground on the McKenzie River for my first private whitewater kayaking lesson. Coincidently, it also was my first blind date—with the instructor. A few days earlier, I had been bellyaching to my coworkers how badly I wanted to learn to paddle on the McKenzie; as luck would […]
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