“Compromise … or you risk it all,” the President of the United States warns an ideologically rigid member of his own party—and no, you haven’t just walked into a Campaign 2012 reality show. The setting is January 1865 in Steven Spielberg’s grandly intimate Lincoln, and it’s Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis) trying to shore up support […]
Robert Cray’s Oregon story begins in Eugene in the late ‘70s. The five time Grammy award winner had moved there and formed a blues band with another relative unknown at the time, Curtis Salgado.
Salgado, who recently kicked off the Jazz at the Oxford series, and Cray’s lives changed in 1978 when National Lampoon’s Animal House came to Eugene. Salgado became friends with John Belushi and became the inspiration for one of the characters in The Blues Brothers.
Billy Farwig is pissed.
The lifelong skier and popular ski coach at the Mt. Bachelor Sports Education Foundation has dedicated a large chunk of his life to honing his ski technique. An expert skier, Farwig’s on-snow skills have allowed him to shred big mountains all over the world, most recently in Chile. But it took the 55-year-old skier decades to cultivate such skill.
And now, with the advent of all-mountain skis, it seems an intermediate skier can become an expert overnight, just by stepping onto a new pair of planks.
Astonishing. Remarkable. Sinister. Those words come up again and again in reference to the wave of voter identification laws that has swept through more than 30 Republican-dominated state legislatures in recent years. These bills sound innocuous enough. For instance, when a voter shows up to the polls on Election Day, he or she must present valid photo ID in order to cast a ballot.
The goal, proponents say, is to combat in-person voter fraud—claiming to be someone you’re not and entering a vote in their name. But study after study, including an exhaustive investigation by the Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has found almost no evidence that in-person voter fraud occurs. Culling through 5,000 documents over 10 weeks, a News21 study found only 10 cases of in-person voter fraud since 2000.
I have long been a fan of Mother’s Juice Café, patronizing the small house on Galveston Avenue since it first opened for business back in 1999.
From one tiny kitchen came countless choices for smoothies, fresh juice, breakfast and lunch. And despite the economic ups and downs of the last decade, Mother’s has proved its staying power.
Not by reinventing itself or cutting quality for the sake of cost, but by continuing to appeal to active Bendites by offering “healthy, wholesome goodness.”
Anyone under the impression that every event in Bend involves lightning-fast athletes or souvenir beer-sampling mugs, hasn’t spent enough time investigating the Nature of Words, a five-day celebration of all things literary.
The annual festival runs from Nov. 7 through 11, with a packed schedule of events featuring authors, poets, essayists and storytellers from all walks of life. If attendance from previous years is any indication, many events are likely to sell out.
There is nobility in striving for a cause that seems foolhardy, toward a goal that, if reached, could bring greater joy and understanding to the world. That’s one of the many ideas bubbling through the sprawling Cloud Atlas, yet it’s also pretty clearly a way of thinking about the project itself.
David Mitchell’s 2004 novel seems like it should be unfilmable, with its six semi-stand-alone stories that span centuries from the 1840s to a 23rd-century post-apocalypse.
You’d have to be slightly nuts to think three different directors—The Matrix trilogy’s Andy and Lana Wachowski, and Run Lola Run’s Tom Tykwer—could wrangle that material into something that works as a cohesive three-hour cinematic experience instead of a frantic, over-ambitious cacophany.
Dishonored, from Bethesda Softworks, is a dark tale set in a world that melds a renaissance world with the arcane in a seamless way to create a living environment. This is a single-player experience that allows players to determine the style in which they want to play.
Bad things happened at a cabin near little lava lake one cold winter.
The brutal butchering of three trappers at a desolate cabin in the dead of winter, 1924 and a psychotic axe attack on two college students in 1977 make up two of many examples of brutal unsolved mysteries across Central Oregon.
Here’s the beef.
How many cows are in that burger?
The answer to this question changed the way I ate forever.
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