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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
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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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I’ll Have What They’re Having: Going the Distance mostly finds what works in a 20-year-old romantic comedy formula

It’s been more than 20 years since a tale of enemies who become friends who become lovers became the gold standard for the contemporary romantic comedy.
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It's been more than 20 years since a tale of enemies who become friends who become lovers became the gold standard for the contemporary romantic comedy. But Going the Distance helps us understand why every exploration of what works or doesn't work in the genre circles back to When Harry Met Sally.

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Linda Blair Witch Project: Exciting and fresh at first, The Last Exorcism then drops the ball

The Last Exorcism is a pain in the ass. A lot of movies tick me off, but this one takes the cake.
Morgan P Salvo

The Last Exorcism is a pain in the ass. A lot of movies tick me off, but this one takes the cake. Movies with either “Exorcism” or “Haunting” in the title have a high rate of sucking, but with The Last Exorcism I thought I'd found something completely different. I was once again duped and mistaken because this flick had me entertained with its initial direction, but in the last ten minutes defeated its entire purpose with an utterly stupid ending. The super creepily shocking previews are beyond misleading. I mean, I counted five bone cracks in the previews and there was merely one in this flick (not that more would have redeemed it).

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Hey, Oldie! You're OLD!

Ever get the feeling the years are flying by? Well, get ready for a coronary, grandpa, because MTV’s The Real World is finishing its 16th season [As of next week, it’s finishing it’s 24th season! ACK!—Humpy].
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[Hey Guys! I'm on vacation this week, so enjoy this old-timey episode of I Love Television™ designed to make you – and myself – feel old. Mission accomplished! – Humpy]
Ever get the feeling the years are flying by? Well, get ready for a coronary, grandpa, because MTV's The Real World is finishing its 16th season [As of next week, it's finishing it's 24th season! ACK! – Humpy]. Did'ja hear that, you old bag of undigested Metamucil? SIXTEEN YEARS! That means you are now officially OLD! In fact, you're SO old, this is how old you are…

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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
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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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We are All Common: A non-profit restaurant wants the haves and have-nots to eat together

Sara Roth

Zach Hancock has been a carpenter and a schoolteacher. He is an ordained Presbyterian minister and has his Masters in divinity. At 36, he's thin, energetic and tends to wax philosophical. With disheveled brown hair, thick-rimmed glasses and wearing a worn Phillies T-shirt (though he says he's not really a fan), Hancock looks and acts like a young professor – one who you could have a beer with. And he's been hired by Bob Pearson to coordinate the opening of a new restaurant whose mission goes beyond food and profits. Common Table, as the restaurant is known, opens mid-September in the old Cork space on Oregon Avenue, ushering in what could be a new era of food and philanthropy in Bend.

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