SHOWING Friday, October 11 @ 12:30, Tower; Saturday, October 12 @ 8:30 pm, Regal 2 According to Sports Illustrated, there wasn’t any 20th century figure on whom more ink was expended than Muhammad Ali, the repeat heavyweight champion boxer and one of the most important civil rights heroes of the ‘60s. In more recent years, […]
Phil Busse
Phil Busse has done his tour of duty with alt-weeklies, starting in 1992 right after graduation from Middlebury College as the first environmental beat reporter for San Francisco Weekly. After a brief detour through the University of Oregon School of Law, Phil returned to writing as the first Managing Editor for Portland Mercury. In 2006, he started the Media Institute for Social Change in Portland, through which he continues to host a summer program teaching college students to produce documentaries.
Until he was 25 or so, Phil thought that he would be a spy, and took scuba lessons to prepare, and learned to drive a motorcycle and an 18-wheeler. Perhaps, then, it is unsurprising that his favorite holiday is the Fourth of July (he loves blowing stuff up). He feels at home with Joseph Conrad's fictional characters.
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BendFilm: Hank and Asha
SHOWING Friday, October 11 @ 8:30, Tin Pan; Saturday, October 12 @ 10 am, McMenaminsBoth testament to modern communication and traditional courtship, Hank and Asha is an endearing romantic story about two budding filmmakers. The two first meet after Asha, a cute young Indian studying film in Prague, sends a video to Hank, who is […]
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Art as a Window to the Soul?
An Object of Beauty is a fun romp
As long as Steve Martin has been a standup comedian, he also has been an art collector, buying his first painting in 1968, the same year he took to the stage. And throughout his career, Martin has alluded to that “hobby,” brief solar flares from his private world into his public career; LA Story begins […]
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The Steve Martin Issue
In praise of the versatile musician, comedian, actor, filmmaker, writer
For almost five decades, Steve Martin has been entertaining us. He began his career as a bearded banjo player. In a publicity photo circa 1968; Steve Martin stands in front of an American flag with a white peace sign set in the blue field where the 50 stars should be. He looks like a member […]
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BendFilm: Finding Hillywood
SHOWING Friday, October 11; 12:30 @ Oxford; Saturday, October 12 @ 10:30 am @ Regal 2 FINDING HILLYWOOD (2013) documentary trailer from Inflatable Film on Vimeo. In April 1994, the central African nation of Rwanda was ripped apart in ethnic violence. Over one month, more than one million Rwandans were murdered; many hacked to death […]
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Film Festival kick-off!
I always hated when people introduced me by way of my (famous in allergy doctor circles) dad. “Oh, this is Dr. Busse’s son.” As if I didn’t have my own personality. But, here I go anyway: Dee Snider! The massive-haired Twisted Sister? Well . . his son is a sick mo-fo, in the most glorious, […]
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I Wish There Were No Place Like Home
Written about another era, Model Home is a story about now
It is safe again to read Model Home, a slyly funny yet tragic novel about the housing boom—and, ultimately, an intimate portrait of a California family that is counted as collateral damage to the housing bust. Written by Eric Puchner, a recipient both of the coveted Pushcart Prize for short fiction and of an esteemed […]
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Still the Greatest
Another Muhammad Ali documentary, and still not enough!
According to Sports Illustrated, there wasn’t any 20th century figure on whom more ink was expended than Muhammad Ali, the repeat heavyweight champion boxer and one of the most important civil rights heroes of the '60s. In more recent years, that fascination with Ali seems to have turned to another medium—and one which truly showcases […]
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The Democracy of Smoothies
Sarah’s Raw & Vegan Café has something for everyone
As we sat on a collection of chairs lining the alley running parallel to Colorado Avenue, with moody weather blowing through streets, we witnessed a strange phenomenon: SUV after hulking white suburban pulled into the tight lot behind the row of Craftsman buildings and bulldozed into the few parking spaces there; a middle-aged woman would […]
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Say Goodbye to Summer
The Cascade Lakes offer a final hoo-RAH!
Summer is ending. And, as much as that means the start of football season, the coming of the World Series and time to ramp up for ski season, it also means that, soon, the Cascade Lakes Highway will be snowed in. Like a summertime daydream, much of the Cascade Lakes Highway only exists during the […]
