BendFilm is an inspiring, passionate and economically beneficial event embraced by the community in a pretty big way. An independent film festival that was once a dot on the radar is now one of the top 50 film festivals in the world named by MovieMaker Magazine. The four-day dream catcher gives our community a firsthand…
Since 1959 after an unknown painter left a house to Deschutes County for use as a community painting studio, SageBrushers Art Society has been consistently providing a cooperative home to increase knowledge of skills and principles of the arts for our community. Imagine the abundance of art this organization has championed over the past nearly…
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain The Big Easy Wows You with Culture, Weather…
At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important. ~ M.C. Escher A long time ago, according to the visionary Bill Smith (owner/developer of the Old Mill District), Sisters was just a blimp on the map and you could have purchased…
Going back to Africa after all this time, there’s the excitement of a first adventure. I love Africa and I feel it’s another home, and any time a man can feel that, not counting where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.” – Papa Hemingway When you think of adventure your thoughts might lead to…
by PAMELA HULSE ANDREWS Cascade A&E Publisher 2015 will mark the twentieth year that Cascade Arts & Entertainment has been published in Central Oregon. I created the magazine in Bend, Oregon in 1995 as a special addition to Cascade Business News. It began as a newsprint tabloid, but the arts and cultural amenities…
by PAMELA HULSE ANDREWS Cascade A&E Publisher I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music. ~ Tom Waits The luxury of the internet, if you put it in the extravagance…
by PAMELA HULSE ANDREWS Cascade A&E Publisher I awoke this morning for a devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I’m reminded every day to be thankful for my numerous blessings from a loving and talented family, charming, loyal friends and canine companions, the generous people…
by PAMELA HULSE ANDREWS Cascade A&E Publisher Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel Proust (French novelist, critic and essayist 1871-1922) It’s hard to believe that I would compare a brazenly weird survival camp to a mainstream harmonious…
