Daily Through Dec. 31 Horse Drawn Christmas Caroling HOLIDAY—Cowboy Carriage is hosting Christmas caroling with two Percheron horses pulling a wagon equipped with jingle bells, cookies and hot chocolate through downtown Bend. Caroling books will be provided, all guests need to bring is cheer and singing voices! // Times vary. Meet in front of Pine […]
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TGIF: What to do in Bend this Weekend 12/19-12/21
‘Twas the last weekend before Christmas and all over Bend, holiday events were stirring for family and friends. The microbrews were bottled by the brewers with care, in hopes that no Michelob soon would be there. friday 19 Train Man HOLIDAYS—Perhaps at another time of year, a grown man playing with miniature trains to attract and […]
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Grumpy Crumpet
Santaland at Volcanic Theatre Pub…
If you’re an NPR listener, you’ll know the story well. After all, they run it every single holiday season without fail. Ever since it was first broadcast on Morning Edition in 1992, David Sedaris’ classic Christmas misadventure, The Santaland Diaries, has become a public radio classic, and helped launch the writer’s career. The tale, which […]
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A Christmas Snark
Santaland at 2nd Street Theater…
David Sedaris is a damned national treasure. I’m not saying all of his work is perfect (hell, I’m not sure he has ever topped 2000’s “Me Talk Pretty One Day”), but when Sedaris goes after a subject he is impassioned about, he can find some of the most incisive observational humor of any satirist working […]
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Our Picks 12/3-12/11
friday 5 First Friday ART—December’s First Friday will be stuffed like a turkey with local artists debuting their wares and creations at shops downtown. Take, for example, recent transplant to Bend from Boston, photographer Maria Fernanda Bay. She was last week’s Source cover artist, and her work will be on display at Bishops Barbershop on […]
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The Darker Side of Christmas
Derek Sitter, the one-man elf show in SantaLand Diaries
It’s December, which means malls across the nation are transforming into the North Pole. Fake trees covered in red and green bulbs are springing up from display racks and imitation snow being spread over every inch of linoleum. At the helm of each of these mock North Poles are thousands of Santas, sitting at their […]