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The Killer Cocktails podcast marries true crime with adult libations—and makes you laugh while doing it
If you visit the Killer Cocktails website about now, one of the first photos you'll find will be of hosts Shawndreya "Dreya" Garliepp and Jackie DeGear, each of their hands duct-taped around 40-ounce bottles of beer. DeGear's mouth is in a straight frown of resignation while Garliepp chugs down one of her Busch Classics.
By Nicole Vulcan
Jul 10, 2019
Shawndreya Garliepp Jackie DeGear podcasts true crime
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Saturday Market in Redmond offers pop-up storefronts for crafters and entrepreneurs
On any given Saturday, you can find Susan Robertson bustling from booth to booth with her clipboard, making sure vendors in her pop-up market next to General Duffy's Waterhole have what they need. Her husband, Dick Robertson, describes her as the camp counselor of the Saturday Market—hands-on and always helping.
By Keely Damara
Jul 3, 2019
Bend Rock Gym Redmond Saturday Market Jessica Warwick Britz Beads General Duffy's Waterhole
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The 30th Central Oregon Wildflower Show is coming to the Sunriver Nature Center this weekend
On July 6, the Sunriver Nature Center will host the 30th Central Oregon Wildflower Show—but this time, the focus is not just on the flowers, but also on the pollinators that help them along.
By Chris Miller
Jul 3, 2019
Bees honey pollinators Sunriver Nature Center and Observatory Native Plant Society
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New Summer Solstice Celebration focuses on health, music and the arts
Back in March, Joshua Jacobs (sometimes known as SinSay, when he DJs) began to put the puzzle pieces in place for a new gathering in Central Oregon. While the birth of the idea came from his brain, Jacobs makes sure to tell me that it was a total group effort of everyone involved.
By Isaac Biehl
Jun 26, 2019
Joshua Jacobs Bend Urban Fest Summer Solstice Celebration Elephants Now
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...then create Central Oregon's 'Schizoclectic Radio'
Let's get this out of the way up front: I'm an eccentric baby boomer. I mute ads on commercial radio stations and do the same thing while watching TV... drives my wife crazy.
By Bill Mintiens
Jun 19, 2019
Grateful Dead JiveRadio KJIV Jeff Cotton Bill Graham
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Local events honor LGBTQ+ community and mark the 50th anniversary of Stonewall riots
We're well into Pride Month, and the main event is kicking off on June 22 at Drake Park in downtown Bend. In addition to an impressive lineup of entertainment and speakers, this year's event will also join Pride celebrations across the nation in marking the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots—the 1969 protests that are credited as the birth of the modern LGBTQ+ movement.
By Keely Damara
Jun 19, 2019
Human Dignity Coalition Crater Lake Spirits Silver Moon Brewing Bend Pride Fun Run & Walk Jamie Nesbitt OUT Central Oregon
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OSU-Cascades hosts a multi-day festival centered around the written word
Even with its relatively small population, Central Oregon has something of an embarrassment of riches when it comes to concerts, events, restaurants—and also, cultural wealth of other forms. With events centered around writing and reading happening over a three-day span, the upcoming literary festival, "Rendezvous with Risk," put on by Oregon State University-Cascades' Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program—is just one example of this profusion.
By Nicole Vulcan
Jun 12, 2019
Lindsay Wong Christopher Boucher Nicole Georges authors Columbia University
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At the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, staging shows outdoors brings an element of the unknown
It's almost dark when a crow shoots across the sky, making its signature "caw" during a pause in the dialogue of "Macbeth." As much as it endeavors to curate the audience experience, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival can't control everything that happens in the Allen Elizabethan Theatre—the outdoor space which saw the opening of its summer season June 7.
By Nicole Vulcan
Jun 12, 2019
Shakespeare Macbeth Alice in Wonderland All's Well That Ends Well theater Elizabethan era
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Lonely opposites attract in "She Loves Me"
Richard Choate's vision was mostly achieved, he says, once a cadre of fine players was cast for "She Loves Me," a romantic, musical comedy opening this weekend at the Cascades Theater. When a director finds a winning cast, Choate says, only a small part of the challenge remains.
By Elizabeth Warnimont
Jun 5, 2019
Cascades Theater Richard Choate You've Got Mail
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