With A Whimper: Roland Emmerich ends the world, again in 2012

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With A Whimper: Roland Emmerich ends the world, again in 2012

Holly Grigg-Spall

The theory behind Roland Emmerich's latest disaster movie is vaguely interesting. According to the Mayan calendar (gee, that looks so stupid in writing) the world will end in the year 2012. A frighteningly large number of people actually believe this and are busy preparing for the fire, flood and all. An equally vast contingent of people of the New Age variety believe 2012 will bring a shift in consciousness, and we will all get along together in a more friendly way forever after.
In a few years time something will happen because people believe it will – be that mass suicides, or mass yoga practices. The level of intrigue for most of us is probably on a par with our interest in who wins American Idol. 2012, however, is such a nothing nothingness of a film that it should be consigned to a pile marked “unreviewable,” so there's little to say in the face of all its tired old silliness.

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Hey Mister DeeJay: DJ Hero grinds but never grooves

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I don't think of DJs as being particularly heroic. Recently, the best-known examples – DJ AM and Samantha Ronson – have been famous for OD-ing and dating Lindsay Lohan respectively – acts that require a certain fortitude, to be sure, but are hardly heroic.
I understand the heroism of guitarists. Guitar Hero gets me standing up in my living room, rocking my hips and scowling at my fingers while I play a plastic “guitar.” Whenever I screw up, the music sounds like crap. And when I'm rocking, I'm synced with the music in a physically interdependent way – like dancing, but in my case more coordinated.

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It Came, It Brewed, It Conquered: Three Creeks puts Sisters on the microbrewery map

Alice Finer

The most junior member of Central Oregon's league of microbreweries, Three Creeks has quickly made Sisters an important stop on the beer-drinkers' tour. The accompanying brewpub, an oasis in the high desert emerging from the trees as you enter town from the east on Highway 20, almost instantly became a local favorite. While there are plenty of places in Sisters to find a good meal, Three Creeks is the most versatile. It's perfect for a family meal on the restaurant side of the massive barn-style building, or on the bar side, a burger and football, a few pints and a game of pool or dinner and live music on a Saturday night. My visits have run the gamut – a quick beer on the way home from Hoodoo, bar snacks and baseball in the afternoon, the full dining experience – and in all scenarios Three Creeks fared well. It's the kind of place that seems to effortlessly suit your mood, whatever it may be.

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It Came, It Brewed, It Conquered: Three Creeks puts Sisters on the microbrewery map

Alice Finer

The most junior member of Central Oregon's league of microbreweries, Three Creeks has quickly made Sisters an important stop on the beer-drinkers' tour. The accompanying brewpub, an oasis in the high desert emerging from the trees as you enter town from the east on Highway 20, almost instantly became a local favorite. While there are plenty of places in Sisters to find a good meal, Three Creeks is the most versatile. It's perfect for a family meal on the restaurant side of the massive barn-style building, or on the bar side, a burger and football, a few pints and a game of pool or dinner and live music on a Saturday night. My visits have run the gamut – a quick beer on the way home from Hoodoo, bar snacks and baseball in the afternoon, the full dining experience – and in all scenarios Three Creeks fared well. It's the kind of place that seems to effortlessly suit your mood, whatever it may be.

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The Neon Warrior: Why Brad Jones could play a rave, your birthday party or with Justin Timberlake

Mike Bookey

On the cover of his soon-to-be released album, No Strings, Brad Jones wears black sunglasses and his emergency orange baseball cap cocked about 50 degrees off center. It's also worth noting that his shoelaces are the same DayGlo tone of his hat.
And another thing: Brad Jones is 38 years old.
But 38 isn't too old to reinvent oneself, either with an admittedly goofy stage clothing style or musically, as Jones has done with his 14-track disc of electro-pop-meets-dance-party-meets-high-tops cuts which he recorded largely on his own. It's a highly accessibly club-friendly album that might surprise some who know Jones as the keyboardist for local jam band The Mostest. As he acknowledges, there's nothing like No Strings being made in Bend, but that might not make it, or Jones as a performer, any easier to classify.

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Another Gathering of the Locals: Homegrown Music

Mike Bookey

Yes, it is now almost winter and starting to snow, the mountain is open, there's a frozen turkey in my freezer, but I'm still intermittently suffering from a Bend Roots Revival hangover. It comes and goes, but there are times when I stop and look back on that last week of September and realize that, damn, there's a lot of good music here.
This week there's an indoor local music gathering called the Homegrown Music Showcase to revive some of that Roots spirit with a lineup that will, once again, remind you of the talent we have here in town. The show, which benefits the Ronald McDonald House here in Bend, is largely on the lighter side – sorry metal, punk and hip-hop acts – but is nonetheless diverse.

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Bend’s 2nd Street Theater is Closing its Curtain for Good

The Source Staff

I just got word that, after nine years as a main player in Central Oregon's theatrical world, 2nd Street Theater will be closing for good following the upcoming run of Harvey.
From our angle, things seemed to be going well with the 2nd Street, with the theater recently wrapping up a month-long run of Evil Dead: The Musical, which featured several packed houses (and plenty of stage blood, too) in October.

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Our Picks for 11/18 – 11/26: Moon Mountain Ramblers, Too Slim and the Taildraggers, The Ascetic Junkies, GWAR, Renegade Rollergirls

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Moon Mountain Ramblers
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It seems that most recent Moon Mountain Ramlers shows are connected with some sort of holiday extravaganza… their Labor Day weekend festival, the recent Halloween Hoedown, and of course their New Year's Eve show next month. But sometimes it's nice to just see a normal Ramblers show in a normal packed bar. Not too much to ask, right? $7. 9pm. Silver Moon Brewing Co., 24 NW Greenwood Ave.
Too Slim and the Taildraggers
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This Seattle-based rock quartet is fronted by Tim “Too Slim” Langford and offers a tear-down-the-house mix of blues, rock, country and much more. Check out the band's new record, Free Your Mind. $13/adv, $15/door. 8pm. The Annex, 51 NW Greenwood Ave.

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