A stool frame, a hubcap, a 50-gallon drum and a school desk are some of the materials that make up “Sinister Fish,” an extremely angry-looking, four-foot-long metal sculpture of an imagined sea creature. The art piece was assembled in just two days, using only materials found in the eastside Pakit Liquidators Junk Yard. Turning trash […]
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Our Picks 4/24 – 5/2
The Road Uphill thursday 18 FILM—One time grand-tour contender Andy Schleck has tumbled from Tour de France favorite to peloton punching bag. He spends more time drunk than at the front of bike races, and his brother Frank is still serving a 12-month ban. This is the film that RadioShack team manager Johan Bruyneel doesn’t […]
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Information Animal, Vegetable and Mineral
Acting students absorb lessons through “Pirates”
Thirty-five young actors, ages 6 to 21, have taken on the task of becoming singing, dancing buccaneers and maidens for the upcoming Bend Experimental Art Theater production of the musical “Pirates of Penzance,” which first debuted in New York in 1879. The play is the first under the direction of Jimena Shepherd, a former BEAT […]
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Forty-Five Candles
An interview with Molly Ringwald
Molly Ringwald is one of those celebrities who is more famous for what she did decades ago than for what she’s doing today. At 45, Ringwald, seems OK with that—kind of. She is happily married and the mother of three young children (the twins, Roman and Adele, are in preschool and her eldest, Mathilda, is […]
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Our Picks for 4/10- 4/18
Matt Hopper thursday 11 MUSIC—It’s a mystery why Alaska’s Matt Hopper isn’t a household name. The illustrious singer-songwriter has accomplished a handful of pretty amazing things over the past decade: opened for Cold War Kids, lost his apartment to Bobby Bare Jr. and named his last album, Jersey Finger, after Richard Swift’s (Shins) bum digit. […]
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Our Picks for 4/3 – 4/11
Three Times Bad thursday 4 MUSIC—Pass the moonshine! With knee-slapping bluegrass songs about chasing the reverend’s wife, cornbread crumbs and possum stew, Three Times Bad aims to ignite an Appalachian hoedown tonight. 8 p.m. The Horned Hand, 507 NW Colorado Ave. $5. Fly Fishing Film Festival thursday 4 FISHING/FILM—With swooping cinematography of sunset painted rivers, […]
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Have You Met TED?
TEDxBend intellectually ignites community
In its nearly 30-year history, TED has built a distinguished collection of stories from the world’s best thinkers, inventors and doers discussing what they do best—thinking, inventing and doing. Bill Clinton, Jane Goodall, Malcolm Gladwell, Richard Dawkins and Bill Gates, along with thousands of others, have presented for TED. Sharing their experience in bite-size nuggets […]
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Eat Up
Operalicious feeds an aria-starved Bend
Since the closure of the nonprofit volunteer-run Obsidian Opera Company five years ago, Bend has been in an opera lull. Fear not Opera-fanatics, Operalicious, in partnership with The Rotary Club of Bend and End Polio Now, are bringing back a fun-infused sampler platter of favorite mini-opera bites on Saturday. For free! “The big concept behind […]
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Our Picks for 3/27 – 4/4
A Deeper Shade of Blue thursday 28 SURFING FILM—Surf filmmaking maverick Jack McCoy is back. This time he leaves behind his typical focus on riding waves and explores the history of surf from the first folks who dreamed of mastering the breakers to current technologies and culture. Followed by onscreen panel discussion. $12.50, 7:30 p.m., […]
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Our Picks for 3/20 – 3/28
Road to Roubaix thursday 21 MOVIE—The one-day spring classics are gripping. They’re also notoriously difficult. Paris Roubaix, the Queen of the Classics, is coming up. Get psyched for it with this 2008 doc that looks at the passionate racers, mechanics and fans who consider the 160-mile contest one of the world’s most prestigious races. $5. […]
