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Our PIcks for 3/30 – 4/7: Juniper Grass Music Festival, Art Walk, Budo Fights, Ice Cube, The Baseball Project and more

The Source Weekly provides our picks for Bend’s best bets in local entertainment.
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Juniper Grass Music Festival
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It's already been two years since the president signed the Wilderness Bill that created the Oregon Badlands and now it's time to celebrate that victory with a night of rootsy music. Appearing at this show, which benefits the Friends of Oregon Badlands Wilderness, are the bluegrass tag team of Moon Mountain Ramblers and Blackstrap, as well as Mark and Linda Quon. Jam out for a good cause, y'all! $10. 8pm. Old Stone Church, 157 NW Franklin Ave.
First Friday Art Walk
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Yeah, it's April Fool's Day on Friday, but we're not joking around when we say that there is some incredible art to be seen around town for the monthly art walk. And as a bonus, it's supposed to be relatively warm for this month's celebration of visual arts! Downtown Bend and Old Mill District, beginning at 5pm.

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Ignore the Silliness and Enjoy the Ride: Limitless provides good popcorn-gorging entertainment

Morgan P Salvo

Limitless plays havoc with the old adage that most people use just 10 to 20 percent of their brain. But what if the other 80 or 90 percent were suddenly made available? Interested in what might happen? Thought so.
Broke, facing extreme writer's block and rejected by his girlfriend, deadbeat New York writer Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) is convinced that he has no future. Things change quickly when a shifty figure from his past introduces him to NZT, a new synthetic drug that enhances mental abilities. Immediately after popping a clear little pill, Eddie's neurons get turbocharged. Stoked on NZT, Eddie rises to the top of the financial world. He attracts the attention of tycoon Carl Van Loon (Robert De Niro), who believes he can use Eddie to make a fortune. But Eddie also suffers from terrible withdrawal side effects, a dwindling supply and bad decisions (including Russian mob involvement) that threaten to destroy his future.

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He Ain't ET: Paul effectively smashes Hollywood's alien stereotypes

Anne Pick

When it comes down to it, with a movie like Paul, only one thing truly matters: that it makes you laugh. Were there times when you laughed out loud? And the true test of a film like Paul, did you laugh consistently through the whole film, or were most of the jokes wasted in the preview? Remember that in a dorky stoner comedy, technical details don't really impact your enjoyment of the film, as long as the movie makes you laugh.

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Shades of Gray: Pokemon Black/White delivers, but doesn't dazzle

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During a lifetime of playing videogames, I’ve learned quite a few things about myself. I’ve learned that I’m remarkably good at planning military defenses. I’m a disastrous drug dealer. Never, ever ask me to drive the getaway car. The killer inside me prefers a knife to a gun. And most recently, by playing Pokémon Black/White, I discovered that I’m still a ten-year-old at heart.
Adulthood, you haven’t taken me yet! I was thrilled when my otter-like Oshawott evolved – all whirling double helixes and sparkles – into a sleek, feline Dewott. I felt clever when I went ahead of the game and caught a Pokémon that gave me an advantage in an upcoming battle. I was suitably impressed by the movement of the creatures when they fought. (They’ve never been animated before.) And yeah, I pored over my Pokémon collection, trying to complete the whole thing.

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A Movie Proposal: How does Hollywood get grown-ups back in theaters? It's simple math.

A modest proposal for a different ticket pricing system for movies.
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If you're reading this section of the paper, odds are you're a) someone over the age of 18, and b) someone who is interested in what's going on in movie theaters. Congratulations on being a survivor in a species on the verge of extinction.
It's no breaking news story to anyone who follows the movie industry – or anyone who looks occasionally at the movie listings – that mainstream movies are directed overwhelmingly at teenage boys. Exactly how long that's been the case, and to what extent it has gotten worse in recent years, is up for constant debate. In a recent GQ article, film journalist Mark Harris traces the trend back to Top Gun in 1986; plenty of others have pointed to the Star Wars summer of 1977. But however and whenever it began, there's little questioning that Hollywood now depends on serving the young male audience – as a seemingly non-stop buffet of comic-book and video-game adaptations bears constant witness.

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April Comes in Like a Lion With a Roaring Theater Scene

Tickets are on sale for Shakespeare in the Park, Tuesdays With Morrie opens and Guys and Dolls comes to Summit High.
Anne Pick

Tuesdays with Morrie
Cascades Theatrical Company's production of Tuesdays with Morrie continues through Sunday, April 3. Sixteen years after his graduation, Mitch, a career-driven journalist, begins visiting Morrie, his former college professor, weekly. The visits turn into a last class in the meaning of life. Runs Wednesdays through Saturdays at 7:30pm, with Sunday matinees at 2pm. Now – April 3. Greenwood Playhouse, 148 NW Greenwood Ave.

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WRite – Moving On

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I began wRite almost two years ago. I envisioned it as a Rite – a community Rite. I invited Bend writers, poets, writing teachers, writing organizations, local bookstores and those of us who have to transcribe what's in our minds on cocktail napkins, bus tickets, and any other paper that is in range, to be part of the ritual. I asked you to send me press releases, announcements of poetry slams, readings and your own words. Almost no one responded.
A one-person ritual can become nothing but obsession. I've run out of things to write about writing, except for this: If you want to write, pick up a pen and paper and begin. Write enough that your mind and muscles remember how to move. When you can't imagine a day without writing, switch to the computer. Forget about whether or not you'll find an agent. A publisher. Just fuckin' write.

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Our Picks for 3/23 – 3/31: Bent Blog Launch Party, Galactic, Igor & The Red Elvises, LA Guns, Pine Party, Tom Grant Band and more

What to do in Central Oregon the week of March 23-31, 2011.
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The Source Weekly's
Bent Blog Launch Party
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Yes, there are a couple of big shows going down on Thursday night (see below) but before you head out to Greenwood Avenue, you should come over to Velvet and say hello to the staff of the Source, who will be celebrating the launch of our new(ish) blog, Bent. We're giving away hella (yeah, we mean hella) CDs, books and other stuff. Also, the drinks are cheap. 7pm. Velvet, 805 NW Wall St.

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Hungry Like the Wolf: Red Riding Hood takes a bite out of the classic fairytale

Anne Pick

It seems that recreating classic fairytales has become one of the latest trends in Hollywood moviemaking. Last year, Tim Burton took on the fantastical Alice in Wonderland, and instead of following the beloved original storyline, created a sequel. Now, Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) directs Red Riding Hood, shifting the story to tell of a not-so-little red riding hood.
Viewers be warned, the new film takes next to nothing from the original story. Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) lives in a medieval town on the outskirts of a dark forest. For two generations, a wolf has tormented the town and in order to keep the wolf at bay, the townspeople offer an animal sacrifice. When the wolf kills Valerie's sister, a wolf hunter arrives to rid the town of the beast. Meanwhile, Valerie is stuck in a love triangle with her arranged fiancé Henry (Max Irons) and her childhood friend Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), whom she loves deeply.

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Boy! Potheads Are Sensitive!

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I Love Television™ reader Karly from Oregon writes: “Your 'Ten MORE Reasons to Dislike Miley Cyrus' [March 2] was so hateful. Are you so poor a writer that you must resort to gross-out ass humour? Sad. And us medical marijuana users couldn't care less what you think of pot smoking. Again, an awful lot of hate. Over 25 percent of human genes are the same as those of a banana. Get over yourself!”
Dear Karly, thanks for writing! Allow me to respond: (1) I did not know that about bananas! That's an interesting – if not exactly surprising – thing for a pothead to say. (2) I never “resort” to “gross-out ass humour.” As regular readers know, “gross-out ass” is my preferred method of “humour” – mixing it up occasionally with “depraved prostate humour,” “sickening vagina humour,” and “grody pee-hole humour.” (3) “Humour” is actually spelled “humor” unless you're a pothead from 18th-century England.

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