Step back in time to the 1930s, with a fashion show, music and dance, part of “Art for a Nation: Inspiration from the Great Depression,” a special High Desert Museum collaboration. The fashion show, curated by Linda Evans, will take place at the Tower Theatre on Friday, May 13. This lively and entertaining event is […]
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Picks 5/11-5/18
Thursday 12 Mexican Gunfight MUSIC—Described as a combination of blues grit, country lyricism and gospel, this band has been making beautiful music together for a few years now. The members have played with multiple Northwest groups over the years and have only become more impressive for it. 7 p.m., McMenamins Old St. Francis. 700 NW […]
BendFilm Presents “A Place to Stand”
As a lead-up to its festival in October of this year, BendFilm is hosting renowned poet Jimmy Santiago Baca for a Thursday night reception and film screening of the award-winning documentary, “A Place to Stand,” based on Baca’s critically-acclaimed memoir of the same name. After the viewing, an interactive Q&A will take place with Jimmy […]
The Power of Music
Chuck Hemingway is a soldier with a song. He wrote the lyrics for “Outside The Wire Again” and the song was put to music by Mark Quon. The song sheds light on the ghostly images that haunt him and the way his mind travels back to the deafening roar of an ambush: “John buddy what […]
OperaBend World Premiere
“Vía Láctea," a new opera in English, is coming to life in Bend, transformed from the page by an ensemble of prodigious music, literary and theater professionals from across the country. The original opera will premiere June 10 at the Tower Theatre, where audiences will be the first in the world to see the two-hour […]
A Very Mariachi Christmas
For most of us not regularly exposed to traditional Mexican music, the mariachi genre recalls little more than quick strumming, stacked harmonies and abundant horns and, of course, those lovely elaborate and colorful cowboy suits. But Jóse Hernàndez, bandleader of Mariachi Sol de México—a group he founded in 1981 at just 23-years-old in Los Angeles—explained […]
The Balcony is Open
Roger Ebert made me want to be a film critic because he loved movies as much as I did. More even. Every time he sat down to watch a film, he wanted it to be incredible. That optimism was infectious, and even as his career moved into an internet era where film criticism is too […]

