It’s perhaps best to think of the Counselor (Michael Fassbender) not as a lawyer but as an investor. An investor who has made a terrible investment. That isn't to say he's stupid. He's clever enough to know how handsome he is. He's clever enough to have fallen in love with the gorgeous Laura (Penélope Cruz), […]
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Back in the Game
Blues music isn’t just for old timers any more
Bend blues band Blackflowers Blacksun doesn't necessarily need the help of modern-day, big-name blues artists conjuring up meaningful relevancy for the genre to pack its shows and win over new fans. But the fact that blues music is reaching new heights in this era of indie music dominance certainly doesn’t hurt things either. That's something […]
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The Horror, the Horror!
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by monsters—well, maybe just consumed
It was a dark and stormy night in the summer of 1816 when Lord Byron gathered a group of friends and authors to the shores of Lake Geneva and proposed a contest: He read German ghost stories aloud, and then challenged the attendees to write their own horror story. A 19-year-old Mary Shelley submitted a […]
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Cross Crusade Turns Twenty
How Oregon’s insanely popular cyclocross series advanced women’s racing
Tina Brubaker, a cheery, petite powerhouse, fondly remembers racing cyclocross in Oregon in 1994, just one year after the Cross Crusade series was established. With a roaring fire, cold beers and even a brother-sister duo that sang and played the banjo, those early races, which attracted approximately 50 racers and were often held at a […]
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Deep Into That Darkness Peering
Local actor explores Edgar Allen Poe
in one-man show
“I’m not some kind of goth, just so you know,” Alastair Morley Jaques asserts. “I’m an alarmingly happy and optimistic person.” But for the past five Halloweens, Jacques has taken on the personality of a man fascinated by death and darkness—poet and author Edgar Allen Poe. The 31-year-old father of two studied theater at Evergreen […]
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Wicca-pedia
What is modern pagan witchcraft?
A grouping of generically bland apartments in Redmond are not the dark gothic mansion on the hill with flickering lightning and roaring thunder I imagined (hoped?) to be a Wiccan’s home. I approach the numbered door, and it opens with a whiff of musky incense. Standing in front of me is Toby Hurd, a tall, […]
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Unreasonable Mount
The Summit sorts the tragedy of K2
dIf you wonder what drives someone to want to climb mountains, look elsewhere. The documentary The Summit does not attempt to justify people risking frostbite and skull smashing in order to get a life-affirmingly fantabulous view. Director Nick Ryan is on a different, more specific mission: to sort out what went wrong in early August […]
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Scary! Funny! Furry!
Gremlins helped breed a genre of comedy-horror films
There’s a good reason to have conflicting emotions about the 1984 film Gremlins. It is a wonderfully entertaining film, but also one that is equal parts adorable, scary and silly. A brief recap, as it has been nearly 30 years since its release: In search of a Christmas present for his grown son, a father […]
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Making History
Saturday is Bend’s biggest jazz night…EVER!
Along Third Avenue, by the auto parts stores and low-slung hotels, is an unassuming beige building—not unlike the other blocky buildings along the no frills stretch of Bend. There is nothing on the exterior to indicate that Just Joe’s Music is a worm hole into another universe—one filled with blaring saxophones, screaming trumpets, memories and […]
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Indulge in Reading
Deschutes library announces star studded Author! Author! line-up
This past week, the Deschutes Public Library Foundation announced its second lineup for the popular Author! Author! series. In its sophomore year, the series is rolling out some of the best and most entertaining writers in the country. Leading the pack is Sherman Alexie, who burst onto the literary scene in 1993 with his collection […]
