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Our Picks for 9/29-10/7: Ellen Waterston, Evil Dead, and more

What to do in Central Oregon the week of 9/29-10/7/2010.
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Ellen Waterston Book Launch
wednesday 29
The executive director and founder of the Nature of Words is releasing her new book, a collection of essays entitled, “Where the Crooked River Rises, A High Desert Home” at this event. If you want a sample of Waterston's fiction, check out her short story in this week's special Fiction Issue.

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Our Picks for 9/22-9/30: Against Me! Oktoberfest, Bend Roots Festival, Blind Pilot, and more

Our Picks for 9/22-9/30 Against Me! Oktoberfest, Bend Roots Festival, Blind Pilot
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Little Shop of Horrors
wednesday-saturday 22-25
We had the chance to check out the opening night of Little Shop of Horrors and can say with no reservations that it's downright delightful. The musical numbers are extremely well done, the set is incredible and the acting is as solid as anything we've ever seen here in Bend.

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Brew La La: Bend Brewing Company's Tonya Cornett is quietly making award-winning brews

Bend is a beer town. With eight breweries, many of them award winning, our little city rivals any on the West Coast in terms of quality beer production.
Sara Roth

Bend is a beer town. With eight breweries, many of them award winning, our little city rivals any on the West Coast in terms of quality beer production. And one of the smallest breweries, Bend Brewing Company, is producing some of our region's most well-received beers out of a studio-apartment-sized space above its brewpub on Brooks Street. The brewer behind these creations is Tonya Cornett.

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Our Picks for 9/15-9/23: Willie Nelson, Little Shop of Horrors, and more!

Our Picks for the week of 9/15-9/23/2010.
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I am Indie Open House
thursday 16
With both BendFilm and the Future Filmmakers' 72-Hour Shootout quickly approaching, take this opportunity to find out from the filmmakers what it takes to make an independent film on a dime. Check out high-end video equipment (stuff that puts our flip cameras to shame, for sure); ask the filmmakers questions about their films, careers, and the industry itself. All ages welcome. 5:30pm. Rage Production's Studio, 20727 High Desert Ct, Ste 5.

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The Diva Plant: Cat Call Productions enters its second year with Little Shop of Horrors

Mike Bookey

Tifany LeGuyonne is sitting in a third row of seats of a mostly empty Tower Theater, looking up at an equally blank stage where a few crew members and musicians are hustling around in preparation for that evening's community showcase, which will give the public its first glimpse of LeGuyonne's latest artistic endeavor – a full-scale production of Little Shop of Horrors.

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Our Picks for 9/8-9/16: TJ Grant, Rise Up Fashion Show & Concert, Sisters Folk Festival, Empty Space Orchestra and more!

What to do in Central Oregon the week of 9/8 – 9/16/2010.
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TJ Grant
wednesday-sunday 8-12
This front man of Seattle act, If Bears Were Bees, goes solo to show off his super-smart songwriting skills that he couples with an incendiary wit and rapid-fire vocals. He's playing for five days straight in some places you typically wouldn't find music. Wednesday: Boneyard Beer, Thursday: Parrilla Grill, Friday: Bend Brewing Co., Saturday: Rockin' Dave's Bagel Bistro, Sunday: 10 Barrel Brewpub.

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Bargains Ahoy!: Garage Sale-ing through the neighborhoods of Bend

Mike Bookey

There are telephone polls in the westside neighborhood in which I reside that are wrapped almost completely in neon-colored paper. The colors change and sometimes when I ride by there's less paper than usual, but there's always at least one sizeable chunk of Day-Glo green (or pink or yellow or orange) poster board emphatically declaring a “massive” or “huge” or “multi-family” garage sale. Or estate sale. Or moving sale. Or yard sale.

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Our Picks for 9/1-9/9: The Ascetic Junkies, First Friday, The Little Woody, Downtown Cruiser Crit, and more

The Source Weekly’s Picks for the of 9/1 – 9/9/2010.
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The Ascetic Junkies
thursday 2
Go. See. This. Band. After big shows at the Silver Moon and the Bite of Bend, there is reason for our region to love this Portland-based pop and indie folk act. Fronted by Kali Giaritta and Matt Harmon, the band excellently blends Americana sounds with a modern and poppy edge. Erin Cole-Baker Band opens. Free! 7pm. McMenamins Old St. Francis School, 700 NW Bond St.

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Our Picks for 8/25-9/2: The Dirty Words’ Farewell Bend Show, Bob Dylan and John Mellencamp, Art in the High Desert, Clink Black, and more

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Bonnie & Clyde ends sunday 29 If you read last week's paper, you learned from Suzanne Burns' review that Bonnie and Clyde is one of the stronger musicals to hit Bend in some time. The two-person play is closing this weekend, so if you haven't had a chance to see Jessica and Jeremy Bernard depict the infamous couple, jump on it. Plays Wednesday-Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 6pm. $20/regular, $17/students, seniors, groups. Thursday, Aug 26. Bend Performing Arts Center, 1155 SW Division St.

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wRite: Peach Pie

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My life is a whirligig. It is symptomatic of the plague of busy busy busy that has seized so many of us. Nonetheless, my daughter and I decided to write a two-woman story. Hers is hers, but mine is yours. We chose the theme Peach Pie. Here is what emerged from the multiple whirligigs of my childhood, my love for my mom and daughter, and my Now.
My mom died 15 years ago. She wasn't afraid to die. She told me so in her room in a little Finger Lakes, New York, hospital. She'd been drifting in and out – peacefully drowsing when she was out, lucid and tender when she returned.
A few years earlier, we'd come out the other side of decades of conflict – caused in part by circumstances over which neither she nor I had control. It was a joy to be with her in the peaceful room, to give her the small gifts of a shoulder rub, a fresh cup of tea, time for her to tell me the last remaining secrets she'd held a long time.

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