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Our Picks 12/08-12/16: The Breast of Bend, Brent Alan, and More!

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Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show
thursday 9
Where some may just see a pile of trash, eco-minded creative types see the latest fashions. Add to the holiday spirit the sustainable spirit of this year's Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show. This fundraising event for REALMS Charter School's Arts Program features eclectic, wearable art in a runway show, as well as a live and silent auction and a gallery marketplace where contributing local artists sell and showcase their renewed creations. Stay in fashion, while staying ecologically minded. $10. All ages at 6pm, 21+ at 8pm. Century Center, 70 SW Century Dr.

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The Golden Dumpster: Inside Bend's freegan movement

“In the course of a week, I’ve found whole pizzas, wrapped sandwiches, bags of onions, garlic, shallots, salad mix, boxes of donuts and cookies and all kinds of vegetables,” says a 20-something Bend resident who is also an on-and-off dumpster diver.
Suzanne Burns

“In the course of a week, I've found whole pizzas, wrapped sandwiches, bags of onions, garlic, shallots, salad mix, boxes of donuts and cookies and all kinds of vegetables,” says a 20-something Bend resident who is also an on-and-off dumpster diver. He tells me his name is Mr. Nobody, and doesn't want his identity known because in many instances, dumpster diving equates to trespassing.

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Our Picks for 12/01-12/09: The Nutcracker, The Autonomics, and more!

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A Bend Christmas Celebration with Michael John
thursday 2 – sunday 5
Spread the holiday spirit and engage the whole family with sing-a-long carols, music and storytelling with local music man Michael John. One hour before the performances, children are given the opportunity to make holiday artwork and decorations for the theatre with provided art supplies. Get tickets in advance, as Friday, Dec 3 and 10 are already sold out. The show continues next week as well with Thursday-Sunday performances. $10/adults, $5/children under 12. 7pm Thursday and Friday. 2pm Saturday and Sunday. Bend Performing Arts Center, 1155 SW Division St.

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The Cool School: Cada Casa redefines learning through sincere interest and passion

After finishing his undergraduate degree, 26-year-old Tymon Emch took time off to study for the MCAT and work and volunteer at a hospital. He hoped the latter experience would move him a step closer to his goal of becoming a pediatrician.
Anne Pick

After finishing his undergraduate degree, 26-year-old Tymon Emch took time off to study for the MCAT and work and volunteer at a hospital. He hoped the latter experience would move him a step closer to his goal of becoming a pediatrician. During that year after college, it occurred to Emch that medicine might not be exactly what he wanted. So he changed directions. Today, Emch works with Bend youth, but in a different way than he once imagined. Emch founded Cada Casa, a non-profit organization focused on community education.

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Our Picks for 11/24-12/2: Empty Space Orchestra, Holiday Tree Lighting, and lots more!

our picks for 11/24-12/2
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Party on Thanksgiving
thursday 25
It's Thanksgiving and you're free to eat and drink as much as you'd like. It's your right as an American. But after the food has settled and the family has gone to bed, head down to the Madhappy Lounge and dance off each and every one of those 5,700 calories you ingested. And if you want to bring the family, that's also your right as an American. Isn't this a great country? 10pm. Madhappy Lounge, 850 NW Brooks St.

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No Day but Today: Rent hits the 2nd Street Stage

A youthful take on the legendary musical Rent.
Sara Roth

Rent, the Pulitzer prize-winning musical about struggling musicians and artists living in New York's Lower East Side during the early '90s AIDS epidemic, is a difficult show – vocally, physically and emotionally – for any seasoned performer to complete. Yet B.E.A.T., the theater workshop made up mostly of high school-aged students, is currently in the middle of a three-week-long run of the show at 2nd Street Theater.

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Our Picks for 11/17-11/25: GWAR! Talib Kweli, and much more!

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11th Annual Powder Hound
wednesday 17
The yearly photography and filmmaking show returns to the Tower this year to display shots of your neighbors having fun in the snow. There are also plenty of giveaways to be had, including $2,500 worth of raffle items from Pine Mountain Sports and other free schwag. $12/adv at Pine Mt. Sports, $14/door. 7pm. Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall St.

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Our Picks for 11/10-11/18 Out in the Silence, Pray for Snow, and lots more!

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Out in the Silence
wednesday 10
This documentary, which focuses on gay rights and equality in small-town America, arrives for two screenings in Redmond and Bend at an especially apt time, considering all the news surrounding issues of teen bullying. The film is directed by Joe Wilson, who returns to his hometown after an announcement of his marriage to another man was put in the local paper, and looks at the lives of several LGBTQ people in the small Pennsylvania town. Redmond: 3pm, Redmond Public Library, 827 SW Deschutes Ave. Second screening at the Hitchcock Auditorium, COCC from 6-9pm. 3pm-5pm Redmond Public Library, 827 SW Deschutes Ave.

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Meet the Writers: A sampling of the authors at The Nature of Words

Mike Bookey

Brian Turner
This poet is the author of Here, Bullet a collection of poems centered on his time serving in the Army during the Iraq war. Turner, who Benjamin Percy called one of his favorites when he appeared in Bend last month, was on the ground in Iraq at the war's onset in 2003 and the poems in his debut collection recount some of those experiences. This year, Turner published his second collection of poems, Phantom Noise, which again gave readers a look into the Iraq war, in addition to a glimpse into the minds of the soldiers fighting the battles. Turner's poems are marked by highly descriptive, yet largely straightforward language delivered in a crisp voice and hearing him read should only further bring his pieces to life.

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