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The Gathering – Dudley's

Sounds like the title of a horror movie, maybe Dudley and a gang of teen-age buddies are drawn to a giant vampire plasma TV sitting in the desert.

Source WeeklyJune 9, 2010May 1, 2025

Sounds like the title of a horror movie, maybe Dudley and a gang of teen-age buddies are drawn to a giant vampire plasma TV sitting in the desert. Or some crafty beyotch who thinks that environmentalists caused the Gulf oil disaster and gets the word out through her minions as thousands of terrified brainwashed Americans gather at her side. This Gathering is not a horror movie – though it began with a desperate call for help. This gathering is the opposite of vampire television or a cold-hearted political calculation.
This gathering happens every day at Dudley's, a downtown independent used-book store whose owner, Terri Cumbie, has a deep commitment to community – not hypothetical community, but hard-work community. Language groups, including my own writing circle, book clubs and free writing classes for kids meet in the store for modest or no rent. Every Friday local bands play for free. She pays them and hopes the audience will buy enough books and drinks to give a profit. Too often her customers tell her they treasure what she has created – and buy nothing. Two weeks ago, Terri sent out an e-mail to her list saying that the bookstore was in peril of closing the day after Memorial Day. She had run out of money.

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Queen of the Cowboys: A family rodeo dynasty begins

This weekend, 19-year-old Shelby Ross will ride into the Sister's Rodeo Arena on the back of her 18-year-old gelding, Boss, fulfilling her lifelong dream of being the Sisters Rodeo Queen.

Sara RothJune 9, 2010February 2, 2024

This weekend, 19-year-old Shelby Ross will ride into the Sister's Rodeo Arena on the back of her 18-year-old gelding, Boss, fulfilling her lifelong dream of being the Sisters Rodeo Queen.
Ross, who grew up in Sisters and is currently studying Animal Equine Science at Oregon State University, remembers the first time she saw the Sisters Rodeo Queen. “I thought it was the coolest thing for the Rodeo Queen to come out all blinged out and shiny – she was just awesome,” Ross says. “The second I turned 18, I tried out for rodeos.”

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Our Picks for 6/9 – 6/17: Sisters Rodeo and Parade, The Zoo Story, The Lights Out & Rosa's Buds and more.

Last Band Standingthursday 10Last Band Standing is still going, and it’s finally the last round of the preliminaries, which will include some familiar names like Anastacia, Audiolized, Guy J.

Source WeeklyJune 9, 2010April 11, 2025

Last Band Standing
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Last Band Standing is still going, and it's finally the last round of the preliminaries, which will include some familiar names like Anastacia, Audiolized, Guy J. Jackson and David Finch, in addition to some band called Empty Space Orchestra. $3/adv, $5/door. 8pm. Boondock's Bar and Grill, 70 NW Newport Ave.
MOsley WOtta
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Kicking off the “Party on the Patio” series out at Country Catering is MOsley WOtta, the hip-hopper, spoken word artist and generally affable man around town. Hopefully, he'll give us a taste of that super secret new album he's about to release. 5:30pm-7:30pm. Country Catering Company & Deli, 900 SE Wilson Ave.

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Hair is in the air: Let it grow for the Beard and Moustache National Championships

The life of a beard starts out as just a little stubble on a man’s face. The man thinks, perhaps I’ll just let it grow a little more, see what happens. His wife and coworkers humor him, thinking it’s just a phase.

Sara RothJune 4, 2010December 29, 2023

The life of a beard starts out as just a little stubble on a man's face. The man thinks, perhaps I'll just let it grow a little more, see what happens. His wife and coworkers humor him, thinking it's just a phase. A few weeks later, his beard enters the second and pivotal stage: unkempt. He may be trimming and preening his facial hair, but unfortunately at this point in time, the man's wife or coworkers will glance his way and, for a few seconds, think he is homeless. And then comes stage three, when the beard grows into its shape and begins to fit the man's face. He thinks, this is me. I am now a bearded man. His wife decides she loves it. His coworkers start growing their own beards. This is the stage we like to call Awesome. And next week, there will be a whole lot of Awesome in Bend.
If you've been living under a rock, let us be the first to inform you that Bend will host the first National Beard and Moustache Championships on Saturday, June 5. Thousands of awesome facial-haired dudes (and perhaps some gals – there will be no gender testing) will converge at Les Schwab Amphitheater for the competition where they'll compete for $5,000 in prize money and eternal glory.

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Just Desert: The gang swaps Berkin for burqas in the second Sex and the City movie

Holly Grigg-SpallJune 2, 2010November 22, 2023

Sex and the City 2 is dull and this dullness has a lot to do with the amount of time Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte spend in the desert. Within the first quarter of the film, they are swept off to Abu Dhabi on a trip that is beyond luxurious. They have personal butlers, champagne and macaroons served under a silk canopy and a hotel suite with its own fully staffed kitchen, all the while they are situated in the middle of miles of sand dunes. Plausible!
Most of us who watched the show held little hope of having the apartments, wardrobes or endless brunches the characters enjoyed in New York – but the lifestyle was at least potentially obtainable – that is, with the help of a whole lot of maxed-out credit cards. Here we are in a big recession and, in my opinion, some of the blame should be shouldered by the Sex and the City franchise. SATC's answer? Step up the decadence, right into a realm enjoyed by a total of perhaps fifty people in the entire world. Absurdly funny as it is, this detracts from the characters' drama and makes it all the less relatable – not good when common ground is so crucial for Carrie to keep, well, carrying on.

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Dagger of Mass Deception: Prince of Persia proves that some video games are better left alone

Joining the ranks of flicks vying for worst movie of the year award is Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Persia is like a bad combo of Pirates of the Caribbean and The Mummy.

Morgan P SalvoJune 2, 2010January 4, 2023

Joining the ranks of flicks vying for worst movie of the year award is Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Persia is like a bad combo of Pirates of the Caribbean and The Mummy. Making Disney adventures out of a videogame is a testament to producer Bruckheimer's money-making schemes, but I can only assume that this is the most boring video game ever.
Beginning with a credo of destiny mumbo jumbo, this sword-and-sandal adventure takes place in the golden-hued sixth-century Persian Empire (now Iran) and focuses on the trials and tribulations of Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal), an orphan plucked from the streets by a king (Ronald Pickup). In an only thinly veiled metaphor, the Persians invade a holy city to seize weapons of less-than-mass destruction (fancy swords) on false pretenses and bad intelligence. Thrown into the mix are Dastan's two stepbrothers, Garsiv and Tus (Toby Kebbell/ Richard Coyle) and their evil uncle (Ben Kinglsey). The plot hinges on a time machine-like dagger; one press of a button on the handle sends the holder back in time… or time goes back… or time spins around in a smoldering golden whirlwind. Yes, it's that confusing. The dagger comes in to play when Princess “pouty lips” Tamina (Gemma Atherton) is captured then escapes. Treacherous deceit and dagger pursuit ensues.

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Big Sky Country: Red Dead Redemption dreams big and nearly delivers

One of the most frustrating things about designing a world is that someone will always come along and criticize it. The days are too long. The nights aren’t long enough. Weather patterns are erratic. The trees lack variety.

Source WeeklyJune 2, 2010January 4, 2023

One of the most frustrating things about designing a world is that someone will always come along and criticize it. The days are too long. The nights aren't long enough. Weather patterns are erratic. The trees lack variety. Can't I play any poker game other than Hold 'Em? Why do the telephone poles look old and weathered when they've been newly installed? And what kind of cougar stalks somebody who has been firing a rifle for the past five minutes?
The designers of Red Dead Redemption have undertaken videogaming's most ambitious virtual world to date – an outdoor, open-ended Old West circa 1911. And while the game aims to simulate an actual environment, it also makes necessary concessions to videogame flow. The landscape is divided into several distinct climates, ranging from tumbleweed dry to boggy swamps, each within a few minutes ride from one another and all encircled by trains like a giant theme park.

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Gay in that Way

Source WeeklyJune 2, 2010February 5, 2024

Look, let's get one thing clear: regularly watching Glee does not make me gay. Reading Men's Health magazine makes me gay. Thinking up increasingly convoluted high-fives to give my softball teammates makes me gay. Cut off jean shorts – makes me gay. Spending waaay too much time detailing my car? Makes me gay. In fact there are tons of “straight guy” stuff I do every day that makes me flaming gay. (However, squealing like a girl when I heard Liza Minnelli doing a cover of Beyoncé's “Single Ladies” – that makes me a very different kind of gay.) My point is that it really doesn't matter how many women or men I've pleased sexually (87 and 42, though that's a conservative count). While Glee may, in fact, be the gayest show on television – gayer than RuPaul riding a rainbow unicorn at the annual Gaytown Gay Rodeo – it's a show that celebrates everyone: gays, straights, minorities, majorities, nice people, and a-holes. Though I'm pretty sure it hasn't celebrated gay monkeys yet. They should get on that.

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Opening the Doors: Teafly's “We Live Here, Too” project lets us meet our neighbors, one photo at a time

Mike BookeyJune 2, 2010November 6, 2023

Theresa “Teafly” Peterson arrived in Bend in 2003 when her van broke down and she decided to stick around for the winter. Around that same time, a gay man was beaten at a Bend nightclub, leading to the passage of the Bend Equal Rights Ordinance.
Peterson had grown up in a Massachusetts town with a sizeable gay community, but the crime and the fallout that followed forced her to realize that there was some work to be done in her new hometown. Since then, Peterson has solidified a place for herself in the area's artistic landscape – making short films, shooting photographs, painting and teaching for the Caldera program while also exploring other creative endeavors. But she's also remained a close ally of Central Oregon's LGBTQ (Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) community.

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Our Picks for 6/3 – 6/10: Beard Team USA National Beard and Moustache Championships, Tyrone Wells, Tommy Gaffney, The Laramie Project and more.

The Source StaffJune 2, 2010April 11, 2025

The Helio Sequence, Empty Space Orchestra
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Before heading off on a month-long tour of Europe, the Portland power pop duo makes a stop at the Tower for the second installment of the PDXchange Program. If you don't know The Helio Sequence, you really should because the duo – comprised of Brandon Summer and Benjamin Weikel – has been playing some of the Northwest's best indie rock for about a decade now. And could there be a collaboration between The Helio Sequence and our own Empty Space Orchestra? We don't know, but that would be awesome. $15 + service fee. PDXchangeprogram.com. 7pm. Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall St.

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