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Back in Vogue: Knitting takes center stage at Imperial Ranch event and in yarn bombs around town

Knitting is taking over Bend with yarn bombing and Vogue Knitting.
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According to Jeanne Carver, Imperial Stock Ranch is 90 miles and 100 years from Bend.
This working ranch is a National Historic District where over the past 141 years, owners have raised cattle, sheep, grain and hay using bio-diverse and sustainable ranching practices.
You may recognize the name from locally-sourced restaurant menus across Central Oregon such as Crave Restaurant in Redmond or Jackson's Corner in Bend, both of which carry their lamb meat. But it is their lambs' wool that has caught the attention of the premiere knitting magazine in America, Vogue Knitting.

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Our Picks for 05/09 – 05/17

The weeks picks and popular events you’re sure to enjoy.
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The 44’s
wednesday 9
The traditional, raw sound of this Los Angeles-based blues band will transport you back to a smoky Chicago tavern circa 1950. Their music is packed with the sort of guitar solos and harmonica riffs that you'd expect from a band that plays vintage instruments.

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Our Picks for 05/03-05/09

This weeks picks and events you’re sure to enjoy including a list of places to visit on Cinco de Mayo.
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KPOV Simulcast of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
thursday 3
What's that? You forgot to go to New Orleans this weekend and see the Jazz and Heritage Festival this week? Don't sweat it – KPOV has you covered. Tune in to 88.

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Get Your Sexy On: Bachata Latin dancing is sweeping the nation – do you know the moves?

Bachata dancing is becoming more and more popular with its sexy moves and smooth Latin music to dance along to.
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It's all in the hips. That's the take-home message from dance instructor, Andres Garcia, who, every Wednesday night offers free bachata dance lessons at Seven.
Since we live in Bend and not, say, Miami, chances are you are just as unfamiliar with the sexy Latin dance as I was. If, however, you're already hip to the history of the forbidden dance, it's Cuban hip motion and international sensation Romeo Santos, you can skip the next paragraph.

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Our Picks for 04/25-05/03

This week’s must-see events.
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Rabbit Hole
wednesday 25
This 2007 Pulitzer Prize winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire follows a family as its members reel from a tragic accident. Cascades Theatrical Company presents the show, which you should read about in this week's Culture section. $12-$20. Wednesdays-Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at 2pm, through May 6. Cascades Theatrical Company, 148 NW Greenwood Ave.

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Local Books

A few great books we encourage you to read written by Central Oregon authors.
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If your summer reading list is shaping up around big blockbusters cranked out by giant publishing firms, you're missing out. Central Oregon authors are doing a great deal of quality writing themselves. Here's our guide to the latest books published by writers from our own neck of the woods. Be sure to check out the events many of them will be hosting in the coming months.
Ed Kennedy's War: V-E Day, Censorship and the Associated Press
By Ed Kennedy, Edited by Julia Kennedy Cochran
LSU Press, Baton Rouge, 2012
Julia Kennedy Cochran's father died when she was just 16. For the next forty years, this Bend resident moved Ed Kennedy's memoirs of becoming the most infamous newsman of WWII from closet to closet until she was ready to immerse herself in his story of defying a news embargo about the surrender of the Germans. His decision got him fired from the Associated Press, but cemented his spot in history as a defender of free speech. With a powerful introduction from the President and CEO of the Associated Press, Ed Kennedy's name is cleared through his daughter's new book. Kennedy Cochran, a former AP newswriter herself, heads to the East coast in just a few weeks to present the book to gatherings in Washington D.C. and New York. Check her out in Bend at a May 24 reading at The Nature of Words.

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Picking up the Pieces: CTC takes an unvarnished look at love and loss with Rabbit Hole

Rabbit Hole will be performed at the Cascades Theatrical Company Wednesday through Saturdays, continuing until May.
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If you didn't run out to see Nicole Kidman's Academy Award-nominated performance as a grief-stricken mother in 2010's Rabbit Hole, you can be forgiven. Not everyone, including the Academy, is interested in such weighty cinematic material as the death of a young child (Kidman did not receive the Oscar nod). But it would be a mistake to sit out Cascades Theatrical Company's presentation of the David Lindsay-Abaire play that served as the basis for the film's script.
In fact, after walking out of CTC's production of Rabbit Hole, I had to let it percolate through my mind for a day. Ultimately I decided I really did like it, and I would recommend it to anyone, but with a warning: this is not a happy play. It is tragically sarcastic, but it is definitely not happy. Don’t go to this play on a first date, or if you are looking for something light.

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Arm-Wrestling Addiction: We went on the inside to see what it takes to go over the top

Arm wrestling is becoming a popular sport around the nation with plenty of competition to go against.
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Nano Cruz’s hands are thick and meaty. They feel like they’re twice as big as mine – and they might very well be. When shaking hands with Cruz, a hulk of a man with a warm smile and a soft voice, my palm is lost in his. His fingers feel like sausages.
Cruz's large, powerful hands are one of his most potent weapons because Cruz is a competitive arm wrestler. He and his three Bend teammates travel the country attending arm wrestling tournaments – competitions that aren’t on the radar of most sports fans. They're good, too.

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Our Picks: 4/11-4/17

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Polyrhythmics
wednesday 11
If you didn't see these guys last time they were in town, the Seattle band is giving you another chance. The Afro-funk band is one part funk, one part jam band, and one part world music (horns!, keys! bells! flutes!). Add all these parts together and you get all-night dance music. If you go to this show, pace yourself – the eight-piece band usually outlasts its fans. 21+. $7 at bendticket.com, $10 DOS. 9pm. Players Bar and Grill, 25 SW Century Dr.

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