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BendFilm is well underway, having kicked off last night with a party at the Oxford and screenings at the Tower Theatre and Regal Old Mill.
The festival is showing films all over town at the Oxford Hotel, McMenamins Old St.
First came the over-the-top pre and post-game tailgate parties. Then came those little pennants that attach to car windows and stand straight out and flap in the breeze at speeds over 10 mph declaring love for either the Ducks or Beavers.
It’s been a busy couple weeks in music around Bend, culminating in The Devil Makes Three and Larry and His Flask at the Domino Room on Tuesday night and Greg Brown packing the Tower last night.
Sorry for the delay on posting here, but I was down for a day with that scurvy-like illness that’s been sweeping through town, so I’ve been a bit behind as of late.
Steve Duin’s column about Greg Oden in The Oregonian last week is going to make a lot of Oregonians mad – and not just Greg Oden fans.
Oden, you may recall, is the center who was acquired as a first-round draft pick with much fanfare (and a great many dollars) by the Portland Trail Blazers back in 2007.
After reading last week's Opinion-The Mailbox “The OLCC Still Doesn't Get It,” I felt compelled to chime in on a related issue. As the Source printed several months ago, the Oregon home brewers are having their freedoms trampled on due to a recent OLCC/OR DOJ interpretation of an archaic liquor law. This has effectively forced Oregon's home brewers (and vintners) to keep their creations locked into the confines of their own households, with any off premise travel being prohibited, and punishable as a misdemeanor.
Lola's in the Breezeway, the restaurant that took over the prime Downtowner space downtown between Wall St. and Brooks St.
When I heard that the Jackalope Grill, the well-respected fine-dining restaurant, was holding monthly “supper clubs,” I immediately thought of the evening-long affairs my grandmother attended – which, I hear, were much more about the gossip than the food itself.
The term “supper club” refers to a trend, popularized largely in the Midwest beginning in the 1930s and '40s and continuing through the 1970s. More than just restaurants, supper clubs served as destinations for patrons who would spend an entire evening socializing and dining on classic American fare, including steaks and chops. Recently, the term has taken on a more food-centric meaning, with chefs holding modern fixed-price, fixed-menu “supper clubs” in establishments across the U.S. and Europe.
It’s Wednesday and you know what that means, don’t you? Yes, it’s hump day and your weekend is that much closer, but also it’s become one of the best nights for live music in Bend. Here are a few of our best bets for an enjoyable evening of fine tunes.
The author is reporting from a Druid gathering, a group now recognized as a religion in Britain, tax advantages and sexy cloaks included.
A lovely Virginia road a weekend ago, autumn leaves exploding, the terror of cop lights flashing ahead. Thinking they'd finally found me and wishing my dog Stu a swell life after I'm arrested, the signs became clear: “Thank God for Dead Soldiers” and “God Hates Fags.” Westboro Baptist Church had arrived, protesting a hero's funeral at the Williamsburg Community Chapel, somehow equating dead soldiers with their own (thus God's) disapproval of homosexuality in America. This flock is clearly lost, not in Kansas anymore, Virginia that day then D.C. to defend their 1st Amendment rights this week.
It might be hard for some longtime Bendites to believe, but BendFilm is now in it's seventh year and has long since shed its “new festival” tag, solidifying a reputation among filmmakers and cinema fans for high-caliber shorts, features, animation and documentaries. Once again, the festival will spread throughout town, as well as all the way to Sisters, showing films at the Regal Old Mill, the Tower Theatre, McMenamins Old St. Francis School and, new this year, the Oxford Hotel.
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