Local filmmaker Tim Cash is making music videos all over the world these days, including a piece for Brian Lee that took him all the way to Korea. But the man behind Far From Earth Films isn’t above helping out our local music scene.
New Music Video From Cloaked Characters, Featuring Joanna Lee
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Video From Built to Spill in Bend
So yeah, that Built to Spill show at the Domino Room last night easily hopped into my top five shows of the year list and I’m now endlessly obsessed with the guitar work of Doug Martsch after having forgotten its majesty during my two-and-a-half-year hiatus from seeing the band live.
If you were there, you saw the band crank out favorites from across their discography, including standbys like “Car” and “Distopian Dream Girl” and material from the latest BTS studio record, There is No Enemy.
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Of Bambi, Bubbles and BS
Jeffrey Auxier thinks great things are just around the corner for Bend.
Auxier, president and CEO of Auxier Asset Management and Auxier Focus Fund in Lake Oswego, spoke at the Central Oregon Economic Forecast Vision 2011 meeting here Tuesday.
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Win Tickets to Head for the Hills on Saturday Night
As is their wont, Colorado next-generation bluegrass band Head For The Hills, is returning to Bend for yet another show on Saturday night at Silver Moon Brewing.
Knowing that they’ve got plenty of fans in this region, the band is giving away some tickets to the show, right on this very blog! Want to win? Thought so.
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Built to Spill! Tonight in Bend!
After a long month of waiting, I’m happy to announce that the Built to Spill show at the Domino Room is finally here, which makes me feel a bit tingly — I haven’t been this stoked for show in a long while.
The band, which includes guitar god and production sorcerer Doug Martsch, released There is No Enemy a little over a year ago and have been touring steadily since.
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Down, Set, Grub: Surveying the Sunday morning football breakfast scene
With winter arriving this month, or maybe this week, but ski season still a few weeks away, you finally have an excuse not to do anything outside on your Sunday mornings. Rather, you have all the reason in the world to spend the day watching football. But we all know that football at home is about one-eighth as exciting as viewing games in the company of other fans, some of whom wear jerseys from far off locales and cheer loudly for teams like the Detroit Lions. Several bars and restaurants around town open up early on Sundays, offering you special menus and discounted drinks as they screen every NFL game on the schedule. Here's a sampling of some that are little off the beaten pigskin path where you can get flapjacks and bacon with your first downs.
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Want Some Karma with that Burger?: Common Table is serving fresh, local food with a purpose
The first thing you notice when walking into Common Table is the 20-foot-long black walnut table, which runs the length of the new non-profit café on Oregon Avenue. The restaurant, which occupies the former Cork location, has been open for just over a month. Yet, with minimal promotion, save a few articles (we wrote about the enterprise back in August) and some Facebook activity, the café has been packed for both lunch and dinner nearly every day of the week.
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A River Run Right: Surviving a steelhead trip on the lower Deschutes
A successful fall steelhead trip starts with the right provisions. If you're running the lower Deschutes, you'll need a boat capable of surviving a head-on collision with a speeding pick-up truck, about half a dozen rods, and 150 hand-tied flies. If it's October, you'll need clothes suited for the third week of June as well as the first week of January because you're likely to experience weather that oscillates between those two polar extremes on any multi-day float. You'll also want some durable, cleated boots to navigate the river's swift currents and notoriously slick rocks. Finally, you'll need the equivalent of a fully stocked bar, at least one bottle of bitters and a jar of pickled, spicy beans. Oh, and an air mattress, which aids in sleeping and can be used as an inflatable boat, should you happen to leave yours at the bottom of the river, as we nearly did a few weeks ago.
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“Myths and Other Disguises”
The author is reporting from “ObamaCare” and hoping his doctor didn't drink the tea.
No more slanderous ads, robo-calls from famous people who would never give you their number. Shhh… Secret strategy sessions, appointments, impermanent power divvied in dark rooms. The post-midterm election hush has been unusually brief.
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Caring About the NFL is Hard … now that they can't properly knock each other's heads off
On the last few Sundays, I've done some strange things. I've gone to movies, ran (almost) three miles, folded laundry, endured three consecutive hours of a reality show about kids who can see ghosts, and NOT watched NFL football. Well, that's not entirely true. Last week I witnessed the Seahawks give up two touchdowns in 15 seconds of game time. Then I took a nap.
I'm having trouble watching the NFL this year, partially because the Seahawks appear to be half drunk and confused out there and also because it's been an exceptionally awesome college football season.