We all know St. Patrick's Day is marked with pints of Guinness, Irish Car Bombs and lots of Irish whiskey.
A Guinness Alternative: Local brews to celebrate the Irish Holiday
Posted inNews
Gone to Look for America: A deep inspection of the country departs from Bend in a shag-covered RV
“She needs a name.” This is what Brad Lockwood says as he’s standing in a driveway halfway up Awbrey Butte staring at a 1979 Ford Econoline RV. He takes a long look at the 22-and-a-half foot vehicle and lights a Lucky Strike cigarette as snow flurries land on the upturned earflaps of his hunting hat. The RV actually has a name, written in brown cursive on the rear door: Van de Gran II. This is of course the name someone else slapped on it some 30 years ago and obviously won’t do because this isn’t just an old RV – it’s Lockwood’s home and office for the next two months. This house on wheels will be the vessel in which Lockwood, a Brooklyn author who has in the past two years made Bend a second home, will sail across the country for the purpose of creating an Internet television show that could become a cable television show or eventually be made into a documentary. Accompanied by video editor and all around “crazy saint” Nicolas Mamula, who prefers to go by the moniker Hank Saga, the duo will be traveling some 200 miles per day creating 52 10-minute segments that will be immediately uploaded to their website, or-bust.com. The purpose? It’s best to let Lockwood explain it.
Posted inCulture
Our Picks for the Week of 3/11-3/18
Empty Space Orchestra, Monk
friday 13
Haven't heard much from
Empty Space lately? Well, that's probably because the instrumental
wizards have been locked in some sort of subterranean recording
facility working diligently on their new disc, Big Bang. This is one of
the band's only shows before their CD release party on May 6 and is
also their first show with their new lineup which sends Shane Thomas to
guitar and brings in Patrick Pearsall on bass. Also check out Monk, a
solid reggae-meets-hip-hop act out of Ashland. 8pm. $5. Silver Moon
Brewing Co., 24 NW Greenwood Ave.
Brazilian Carnival Party
friday 13
Get
a slice of culture in the Old Mill as you shake your round thing to
some Brazilian music. This fundraiser for the Latino Community
Association also includes dance, caipirinhas (the national cocktail of
Brazil) and more spicy fun. 9pm. $3. Old Mill Martini Bar, 360 SW
Powerhouse Dr.
Posted inMusic
CD Review: MV & EE with the Golden Road
Drone Trailer
Dicristina Stair Records
While ravenous movers and shakers devour Animal Collective's Merriweather, and the long list of other January/February releases (Antony and the Johnsons, Andrew Bird, Bon Iver, A.C.
Posted inOutside
The Other PPPs: PPP, R2R, Ski to Sea and G2G
Take a number.Pole Pedal Paddle is only 10 weeks away. It's time to start thinking
about your training program. But the most important training technique
of all, in my opinion, has nothing to do with heart rate training
zones, lactic acid removal, 40-30-30 diets, intervals, overdistance or
visualization. It's specificity. In other words, the best thing to do
to prepare for racing PPP is to race PPP, or at least something like
it. Believe it or not, there are some other towns as obsessed with
outdoor sports as Bend, with equally crazy events. I like to put some
of these "other PPPs" on my race calendar.
Posted inCulture
A Video Collector’s Nightmare: I’m moving and it sucks
Moving… it's a video collector's nightmare. I am now in the process of
moving across town and in my day I bought out five, maybe six video
stores. That may sound outrageous, but I needed those movies to produce
Onslaughts.
What's an Onslaught, you ask? Well, I take lesser-known
movies and combine clips of action, gore, sex, bad dialogue, insane
rock music and schmaltzy TV themes to mind-numbingly fast edits that
blaze directly into your retinas. People have told me that it's like I
invented a new drug-after one Onslaught they have to have another. I
use my videos as an art form, so much so that at one point an art
gallery in San Francisco even had an Onslaught showing. Onslaughts
simultaneously. A cable TV station in Manhattan (MNN) showcased
27-minute Onslaughts for three years. I've made 26 two-hour Onslaughts
so far, each of which took 350 or more movies to make. You do the math.
Posted inCulture
Keeping a Watchful Eye: Watchmen scores and falls flat on a grand scale
Go ahead…The making of Watchmen was besieged with controversy and problems from
the get-go. Producers fought over rights, writer Alan Moore took his
name off the project, lawsuits flew-it was a messy Hollywood legal
battle on a grand scale begging the question: would it ever be
released?
With Zack Snyder (Dawn Of the Dead redux and 300) at the
helm, Watchmen is good for about two hours. There are amazing special
effects, exceptional acting and some of the best dialogue I have ever
heard, but then just when I told myself I could watch this all day,
Watchmen took a turn for the worse and never wholly recovered.
Posted inFood & Drink
Cocktailing: Bars in Hospitals? Why Not?
It is no secret that we as a nation are struggling with how to make
healthcare affordable and available for everyone. The Republicans are
afraid that after the socialization of their beloved banks that the
state might try to subsidize health insurance too. But fret not, there
is a business opportunity to be had that can no doubt bring about lower
healthcare costs. Hospitals need bars in them. Certainly it is a place
where we could all use a drink, from patient to doctor to visitor,
there is plenty of stress that a little highball could do wonders for.
Posted inFood & Drink
Cocktailing: Bars in Hospitals? Why Not?
It is no secret that we as a nation are struggling with how to make
healthcare affordable and available for everyone. The Republicans are
afraid that after the socialization of their beloved banks that the
state might try to subsidize health insurance too. But fret not, there
is a business opportunity to be had that can no doubt bring about lower
healthcare costs. Hospitals need bars in them. Certainly it is a place
where we could all use a drink, from patient to doctor to visitor,
there is plenty of stress that a little highball could do wonders for.
Posted inFood & Drink
The Jackalope Grill: Northwestern cuisine that’s haute but never haughty
Elk medallions and blackberries, Jackalope style. Although the Jackalope Grill has been open a little more than three
years, there's something very enduring and lived-in about it. You'll
find no scene or gimmicks here. You can expect the old standards in the
background to be playing at low volume, the crowd to be civilized, and
the service to be professional and knowledgeable.
It's hardly the
first day on the job for the husband-and-wife team who own it. Kathy
Garling, the front of the house, has been working in the industry for
over 25 years and Chef Tim Garling has been in the kitchen for over 20.
Focusing on fresh, locally produced ingredients whenever possible, the
menu is largely a high-minded take on meat and potatoes. And with
Garling's classical training in French cuisine coupled with his
attention to the flavors of the Pacific Northwest, it makes sense.