January 2 Colorado’s Bluegrass Honey Don’t, January 3 VTP presents jazz, funk, soul from The Cutmen, January 4 is Reno’s Actors Killed Lincoln and January 5: Austin’s Ben Ballinger. Honey Don’t is the musical union of Bill Powers and Shelley Gray, a duo also well known as one-half of Paonia, Colorado’s old-time bluegrass band, Sweet Sunny…
Maragas Winery Reopens Lattavo Gallery
The caricature art adorning the bottles of Maragas wines was created by Doug Maragas’ mother, Joanne Lattavo, in the late ’50s and early ’60s. What you may not know is Joanne was an accomplished oil painter with a renowned art gallery throughout the ‘60s. Contemporary artists and entertainment greats such as Harry Wheeler, Mary Ann…
Happy New Year
by RENEE PATRICK Cascade A&E Editor I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don’t really need to have New Year’s resolutions. Tom Ford I love our cover image this month. Dorothy Eberhardt’s Smith Rock Snow to me represents a…
Vía Láctea Enters Second Printing
Ellen Waterston, poet and author who will conduct her sixth Todos Santos writing retreat in February, announces the second printing of her verse novel, Vía Láctea: A Woman of a Certain Age Walks the Camino, a fictionalized account of Waterston’s 2012 pilgrimage on Spain’s Camino de Santiago. Vía Láctea has garnered praise from poets…
Caldera Announces Accepted Artists for Residence in 2015
Caldera has selected its 2015 Artists in Residence (AiR) program. Due to a 56 percent increase in the number of applications this year, the 2015 selection was highly competitive. 2015 two cabins have been added to Caldera’s AiR program. This allows for an increase from 15 artists in 2014 to 21 in 2015, who have…
Bend Filmmaker Produces Log Rolling Documentary
Between 1958 and 1972, four young women from the Lewiston, Idaho area took the log rolling world by storm. These four petite young women won 11 world titles at the Lumberjack World Championships in Hayward, Wisconsinin. In addition to all being from the same timber town they had another thing in common, their coach, a…
Take Flight 666 at the Tower
Fly with British heavy metal rockers Iron Maiden during the Somewhere Back in Time world tour on their private jet, piloted by the band’s lead singer Bruce Dickinson, when the Tower Theatre Foundation screens the rockumentary Flight 666 on Monday, December 29 at 7pm. Winner of Best Music Documentary at the 2009 SXSW Film…
Jazz at the Oxford Continues with Oregon Piano Summit
The Oxford Hotel and G2 Strategic continue the lineup for BendBroadband’s Jazz at the Oxford as the popular series offers its fifth anniversary season. The December performance December 27 features the second Oregon Piano Summit, featuring pianists Gordon Lee, Tom Grant, Mac Potts, Ramsey Embick, drummer Mel Brown and Pink Martini bassist Phil Baker. BendBroadband’s…
Tower Showcases Holiday Cheer Through the Years
The Tower Theatre Foundation brings five decades of Christmas traditions and winter memories to downtown Bend in three special performances December 21-22. The original production A Tower Christmas: Holiday Cheer Through the Years showcases popular stories, dances and songs, performed by Central Oregon’s leading actors and community personalities. Tower Christmas is part of the Marquee…
Patrick Lamb Christmas Concert Presented by Sunriver Music Festival & Sunriver Resort
Award winning and Grammy nominated jazz and R&B saxophonist Patrick Lamb and his band will perform at the Sunriver Resort’s Great Hall on Friday, December 19 as part of the Sunriver Resort’s annual Traditions celebration. Patrick is one of those extraordinary performers who combine raw talent, and energy with a singular ability to captivate…