News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Folk musician Johnsmith will perform at Sisters Athletic Club on Thursday, July 28. Johnsmith is a veteran of the Sisters Folk Festival, where he both performed and served as an instructor at the Americana Song Academy. The singer/songwriter is a past winner of the Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk Award and has won wide acclaim for his earthy delivery of finely crafted songs. Local songwriter and Sisters Folk Festival Songwriting Contest winner Dennis McGregor will open the show. The concert starts at 7 p.m.; doors open at 6... Full story
All the Chinese were wearing Mao suits in 1980. Under Deng Xiao Ping the country was becoming the tiniest bit capitalistic but remained culturally isolated from the rest of the world. No one I talked with there had heard of John Wayne. Given Hollywood’s global grasp (and perhaps my own provinciality), I thought everyone knew the Duke. Wayne acted in 175 movies. Three of them began with “rio”: Rio Grande (1950), Rio Bravo (1959), and Rio Lobo (1970). Los tres rios (as the Mexicans would say) are set in Texas, faithful to th... Full story
