May 21, 2013 4:00 am
Ray Manzarek, second from right — with fellow members of the Doors, from left, John Densmore, Robbie Krieger and Jim Morrison — has died at 74.....MORE
May 21, 2013 4:00 am
NEW ORLEANS — “If I had a dollar every time they asked me for the next Honey Boo Boo Child," said James Bearb, a Louisiana native and the president of Hollywood South Casting, “I swear I would be the next millionaire."On a recent....MORE
May 20, 2013 4:00 am
Competition took many forms at the U. S. Bank Kids' Mini Pole Pedal Paddle on Sunday. Parents cheered loudly, and kids from first grade through sixth grade raced through the course. But a few kids knew they had won before they even started. Bizarre....MORE
May 20, 2013 4:00 am
NEW YORK — It isn’t easy to coax a smile out of January Jones. Perched on a velveteen banquette at the NoMad hotel in the Flatiron district recently, Jones didn’t engage in the dithery banter that in Hollywood passes for charm. What ....MORE
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
With just one departure, “Saturday Night Live" is losing its excitable “Weekend Update" city correspondent, Stefon; its frenetic incarnations of James Carville, Al Pacino, Vincent Price and Julian Assange; and any number of unctuous,....MORE
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
“The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum" by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 256 pgs. $28)Much of autism’s mystery and fascination lies in a paradox: On one hand, autism seems to create a profound....MORE
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
“Bad Boy: My Life Onand Off the Canvas" by Eric Fischl and Michael Stone(Crown, 368 pgs., $26)A few words of warning to the Hamptons socialites and view-to-the-ocean magnates who mingle with the artist Eric Fischl on their summer rounds:....MORE
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
The Nature of Words (NOW), the nonprofit literary education center and festival based in Bend, recently made several announcements. In late April, Stephen Archer resigned after two years as president of the NOW board. Kristin Kovalik, previously the ....MORE
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
CORVALLIS — When Fifth Street Growlers started pouring for the first time this month, the line of people at the bar to fill reusable jugs with their favorite brew was 15 deep. And some local beer lovers couldn’t even wait till the new....MORE
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
“The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II" by Denise Kiernan (Touchstone Books, $27)Now in their 80s and 90s, the girls of Atomic City are no longer in the dark about the jobs they took during the....MORE
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
“Midnight’s Children" by Salman Rushdie (Random House, 536 pgs., $16)“Midnight’s Children" is Salman Rushdie’s sweeping, multigenerational story of the birth of independent India and the life of the big-nosed, big-....MORE
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
“The Third Coast:When Chicago Builtthe American Dream" by Thomas Dyja (Penguin Press, 508 pgs., $29.95)“The Third Coast" is an odd title for Thomas Dyja’s engrossing, wide-angled cultural history of Chicago in the middle of the....MORE
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
Publishers Weekly ranks the best-sellers for the week ending May 12Hardcover fiction1. “Dead Ever After" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)2. “12th of Never" by Patterson / Paetro (Little, Brown)3. “Silken Prey" by John Sandford (Putnam)4.....MORE
May 19, 2013 4:00 am
“Although I’ve never read a book all the way through, I’m sure excited to write one."This is how Martin Short, in a statement from his publisher, announced that he had struck a deal to write his first book, a memoir of his life and ....MORE
May 18, 2013 4:00 am
By Michael Korb© Zap2itYou’ve got to love it when people are willing to mix it up a little. Let’s face it; the traditional cop show has felt tired for years. Most are so formulaic that the crimes almost solve themselves. But with....MORE
May 18, 2013 4:00 am
The board of the Cascades Theatrical Company has arranged a tentative deal to sell the Greenwood Playhouse, which has housed the company since the 1980s. Several board members believe selling the building, located on Northwest Greenwood Avenue, is....MORE
May 18, 2013 4:00 am
HARTLAND, Vt. — It was a perfect day for plowing, a little overcast with a cool breeze. You could hear the sound of the birds, the chink-chink-chink of the harness. Stephen Leslie, an artist and former Benedictine monk, guided two Norwegian....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
I don't expect a lot when I dine in dedicated sports bars. I expect TV sets and pool tables, beer taps and maybe a couple of dart boards. But I don't expect homemade soups and salad dressings, nor potatoes baked in foil and served with all the....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
Nearly a year after its anticipated opening, El Rey Azteca (“The Aztec King") began greeting diners in early April. Owned by Carlos and Martha Reyes and their son, Jesus, who also have the tiny Tortilleria Reyes on Souteast Division Street,....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
Mark 2013 as a banner year in classical music. Not only is it the bicentennial of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner — two of the most influential composers of opera music — it’s also the centennial anniversary of....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
Central Oregon saw the advent of its first full symphony orchestra — replete with winds, brass, strings and percussion — when Amy Goeser Kolb founded the Central Oregon Youth Orchestra last fall. After auditioning and seating nearly 60....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
Husband and wife Matheu DeSilva and Stacey Joy are two artists and expatriates who make their home in Ecuador. The two are visiting Bend and touring around small venues to promote their art. DeSilva, 39, is originally from southern England and....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
ORLANDO, Fla. —Say this much for the new films in the long-running “Star Trek" franchise: They’re real “share the wealth" exercises. It’s not just about Kirk, Spock and Bones and a couple of red shirts boldly going....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
May 25 — Cake (alt-quirk), Les Schwab Amphitheater, Bend, www. bendconcerts. com. May 25 — The Sugar Beets (roots), The Belfry, Sisters, www. belfryevents. com. May 25 — McDougall (blues), The Horned Hand, Bend, www. facebook.....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
Hawaii-bred and SoCal-based Pepper — popular with people purported to prize pedestrian pop-reggae — is gearing up for the release of its self-titled new album, which comes out in July on the band’s own LAW Records label. Step....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
After a year off, the Sisters Starry Nights concert series returns Saturday with a show by blues musician Keb’ Mo’. Tickets are already sold out. Starry Nights was founded in 1997 by Jeri Fouts and Susan Arends in the face of budget....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
Here’s a fun fact that you may not know: Last summer, on Aug. 4, the pop band Hot Chelle Rae played for what I believe to be the biggest concert crowd in Central Oregon’s history at the Deschutes County Fair. The group drew an estimated ....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
‘STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS’Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence. What it’s about: The Enterprise crew chases a terrorist across the cosmos. The kid attractor factor: Space, spaceships, Spock and....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
“Motive" 10 p. m. MondayIf you were reading a generally competent mystery novel, would you fight the temptation to flip to the end to learn the motive if you already knew the culprit?Let’s put it this way: There have been some great....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
Molly Cogswell-Kelley assures one of the many annoying reporters who have been phoning her that her voice “normally does not sound like this."Oh? How does it usually sound?“Not raspy!" she said. “I'm getting laryngitis ... sorry if ....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
n For the week of May 17-23. Story times are free unless otherwise noted. Barnes & Noble Booksellers2690 N. E. U. S. Highway 20, Bend; 541-318-7242n ONCE UPON A STORY TIME: All ages; 11 a. m. Friday. C. E. Lovejoy’s Brookswood Market19530 Amber....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
Naked Winery, a Hood River-based vintner with the marketing slogan “We aim to Tease," plans to open a tasting room in the Old Mill District. The winery plans a temporary opening for Memorial Day weekend at the tasting room, 330 S. W. Powerhouse....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
The following is a list of other events “Out of Town."ConcertsMay 17 — The Quick & Easy Boys, Wonder Ballroom, Portland; TF*May 18 — The Decibel Magazine Tour, Wonder Ballroom, Portland; TF*May 18 — Cold War Kids,....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
May 24-30May 24-25 — “THE SUNSET LIMITED": Stage Right Productions presents the Cormac McCarthy play about an encounter on a New York subway platform that leads two strangers to a tenement where a life-or-death decision must be made; $18,....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
ToDAYREDMOND GARDEN CLUB PLANT SALE: Nonprofit club will have a variety of annuals, perennials, herbs, shrubs, fruits and vegetables to sell; proceeds from the sale finance the club's community activities; free; noon-6 p. m.; 2614 S. W. Quartz Ave.;....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
Actor, musician and author Paul Reiser is back where he started: traveling around the country and telling jokes on stage. On Saturday, the 56-year-old will bring his stand-up act to the Tower Theatre in Bend (see “If you go"). Although there....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
“Badland" is controlled by only pressing a single finger against the screen, but it defies easy classification as yet another simplistic mobile title. Developed by two of the minds behind “Trials Evolution," “Badland" shares many....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
Michael Buble“To Be Loved"Reprise RecordsTo have Michael Buble singing Frank Sinatra's latter-day finest — and on the label Old Blue Eyes started — would either bring a smile to the Chairman's lips or cause him to turn in his grave.....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
Let's get this out of the way: Tartufi is the band that was playing when local police cited The Horned Hand for excessive noise last summer. That's one of those things that was a bummer when it happened, but with the passage of time — and the....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
If The Staxx Brothers frontman Davin Stedman is anywhere near as fast-talking and energetic and smart on stage as he comes across off of it, you should be in for a good time Saturday, when the Seattle group plays its “hard-ass soul" — a....MORE
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
If The Staxx Brothers frontman Davin Stedman is anywhere near as fast-talking and energetic and smart on stage as he comes across off of it, you should be in for a good time Saturday, when the Seattle group plays its “hard-ass soul" — a....MORE