Boy-Man Problems: Cyrus provides a touching emotional battle of the wills

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Boy-Man Problems: Cyrus provides a touching emotional battle of the wills

Morgan P Salvo

Mark and Jay Duplass, the directing/writing team of the Puffy Chair (winner of Bend Film's Jury Prize in '05) and the offbeat horror comedy Baghead, venture out of super indie mumble-core mode to semi-mainstream mumble-core mode in their newest flick Cyrus. The signature style of the Duplass bros somewhat mesmerizing in Cyrus, mainly because it hasn't progressed, it just employs more recognizable actors.
John (John C. Reilly) is a big, goofy, disheveled, middle-aged loser who meets Molly (Marisa Tomei) at a party. Breaking all the dating rules, things move too fast and hit a wall when John encounters Cyrus (Jonah Hill), Molly's 21-year-old son still living at home who exudes heartfelt yet bogus politeness, undermining his hostility and resulting in an escalating war of wills with John.

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Tour de France: Tart's French fusion fare finds a welcome and waiting audience

Amy Belasen

When 28 closed this spring, I shared the sentiments of friends who'd felt broken up with and betrayed. How could one of the best spots to grab a martini and a flatbread pizza be sold out from under a group of loyal patrons? Left to find another hip night spot, I was in a daze.
Fitting in someplace else proved difficult. Astro has martinis but the atmosphere is different. 900 Wall has a slightly older crowd and Amalia's seems to cater to a younger crowd. It felt like an effort for me to fit in elsewhere and a series from Blockbuster with a bag of popcorn began to seem more my speed. Just as I was about to give in to another season of United States of Tara, Tart Bistro announced their opening in the old 28 location. Instantly intrigued, I waited for what couldn't have come soon enough (and really did emerge as if overnight), the opening of Tart, with its promise of a French-based, globally inspired eatery and libation destination.

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Little Bites: Eat, Drink, Man and Woman: Our Happy Hour preview

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Blame it on the recession or our enlarged livers, but Bend has a happy hour scene that rivals most towns two or three times our size. It seems you can't turn around in downtown Bend without running into a drink special or a discount appetizer. But where to find the deal that's right for you? That's our job. Our forthcoming Happy Hour guide contains the most comprehensive rundown of Central Oregon's libation liberation. More than 100 happy hour hours in all. Look for Thirsty: The Source's Happy Hour Guide in our July 29 issue. Meantime, here's a sampling of some of the listings. You can find more at tsweeklychow.com by following the Happy Hour link. – EF.

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Click For Us, Please: The Bend natives of Adventure Galley have a solid new EP, and now they're in a big-time music contest

Mike Bookey

A lot of bands enter contests. This typically means a high-school battle of the bands, or perhaps engaging in a larger affair, like the recent Last Band Standing. But with the Internet, music competitions take on an entirely new style and scope. In other words, electronic-based contests are a new and different world.
This is something Adventure Galley, a band comprised mostly of Mountain View High School graduates who've relocated to Eugene, discovered when they tossed in an application to the Toyota Music Rock the Space contest this spring. They didn't know what to expect – so they really didn't expect anything, especially when the quintet discovered that some 17,000 other acts had entered the contest.

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Dark Night of the Soul

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DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse
Capital Records

If you only dig music that makes you feel good, you might want to avoid Dark Night of the Soul, the recently released collaboration between Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse. Not that there aren't shiny, bright hooks, but the album's underlying sense of despair gnaws those moments to bone and nerve.

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Bend's Brothels: The Sin-Dustry That Built Our City

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“This is the road to travel, but wives take care of your spouses, and keep them at home, for I assure you there are a host of bright eyes on the way to Boise.”
– from C. Aubrey Angelo's 1866 book, Sketches of Travel in Oregon and Idaho

Two streets along the tracks, a town built on timber and toil. A time of too many men: Saws abuzz and itches needing scratching, alleys with rough-hewn wooden stairs leading to dark doors. A passage-point that became a destination, a seedier city than what we now know- – and far more recent than many choose to remember.
Welcome to Bend and the brothels that helped build it. Where winters are freezing and we all must thaw somehow; summers too hot yet an inviting smile from an open window. Fall in love for a fee and promise to return after earning more. Tell your friends, not family, blame the altitude for late night lust. She's with who knows right now, drink up, we'll be back into the woods by sunrise. Farewell Bend as such.

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Tammy Baney Takes a Stand

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In politics, going along to get along is often the easiest and safest course. Nowhere is that more true than within the cozy confines of the Deschutes County Commission, where there are only three members and anybody who doesn't go along is a conspicuous minority of one.
Last week Commissioner Tammy Baney refused to go along with her colleagues, Alan Unger and Dennis Luke, in speeding the approval of the county's new destination resort map. The obstacle, in Baney's mind, was a special provision involving the Cyrus family's Aspen Lakes development.

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Our Picks for 7/21 – 7/29: West Wind Ranch Americana Music Festival, Los Lonely Boys, Dusty Rhodes and the River Band and more

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Derrick Brown
wednesday 21
If you're one of Bend's many slam poetry fans, you should hustle to the Poethouse where Derrick Brown, the acclaimed slammer and performer who was once a paratrooper, but is now an accomplished author. All ages. $7/general, $5/student with ID. 7pm. Poethouse Art, 55 NW Minnesota Ave.
Adventure Galley
thursday 22
The youthful Bend-based band comes back from Eugene to play songs from their new EP, The Right Place to Be. See this week's Sound feature for more. 9pm Boondocks Bar and Grill, 70 NW Newport Ave.

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