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Girl Power: The Hunger Games soars when it focuses on its singular, gripping heroine

Jennifer Lawrence stars as Katniss Everdeen in the popular series, The Hunger Games.
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Here's what's remarkable and extraordinary about Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games: not all that much, really. Don't misunderstand; there's nothing wrong with it. It's a solid, satisfying read, no crime against literature, unlike other much-adored recent book series we could name. But Collins mines familiar dystopian ground, building around the kind of public-spectacle blood-and-circuses concept that has fueled everything, from Logan's Run to Death Race 2000, from The Running Man to the Japanese Battle Royale. Once again, the future's such a blight, you gotta wear blades.

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Intentional Walk: Gamers can sit out Schilling's first video game foray

Reckoning is full of real-time combat and weapons customizable to your liking.
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Come with me to a strange and magical world. No, not the Kingdoms of Amalur. I’m talking about the real world of videogames – the big business extravaganzas of interactive entertainment. It’s a world that our hero, Curt Schilling, hopes to conquer.
Schilling is the superstar pitcher who retired from baseball in order to create videogames, and Reckoning is the first game from his company 38 Studios. For his initial delve into the dungeon of digital entertainment, Schilling has assembled a team of veteran warriors, each of whom is credited on Reckoning’s cover.

Posted inOutside

Nine miles deep: Carving backcountry lines with Cat Ski Mt. Bailey

Challenging the backcountry slopes Mt. Bailey has to offer.
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“The fact that this nine-mile snowmobile access road is the only in and out is a pretty significant safety issue here,” says our guide Ross Duncan over the rumbling engine noise of the snow cat as we travel further and further away from paved road and deeper into backcountry. “From that sno-park it's about 100 miles to the nearest hospital.” Food for thought that, for some, would probably be a solid reason to stay home. But for the eight of us and our three guides, it's why we're here, fresh tracks in the middle of nowhere.
My morning started five hours ago in Bend with a 3 a.m. alarm, immediately followed by a prompt smack of the snooze button. There aren't a lot of things that can get me to wake up at an hour that I once considered a bedtime. But in the last 24 hours about 2 feet of fresh snow has fallen on Mt. Bailey, two hours south of Bend and just north of Crater Lake, near Diamond Lake resort.

Posted inOpinion

Running Out Daylight

The changes and effects Daylight Savings has on us.
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Why is it so hard to get rid of some old things? Take changing the time all over the country. Granted Daylight Savings Time is not a bad idea in that it allows us to enjoy a longer “light” period each day in the spring and summer. But why not set it, and forget it?
I could understand changing the clocks two times each year if some sinister corporation was making tons of money on it. But, I don’t think that’s happening.
DST had a purpose when first instituted way back in the early 1900s, then it was abolished, then someone saw fit to bring it back.

Posted inOpinion

Set Bridge Cost Record Straight

Response to the Editor’s note in Good Bridge, Bad Bridge.
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We are writing this to set the record straight in reply to the Source Editor's note re: “Good Bridge, Bad Bridge” (Opinion 3/1).
The cost estimate for the Option B bridge over the Deschutes near First Street Rapids was quoted by the Source's editor as being between $430,00 and $575,000.

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A Good Flip-Flop and a Total Flop

Gene Whisnant goes from being in the wrong position to the right.
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When a politician changes his position on an issue, he usually gets ridiculed for “flip-flopping.” But when a politician flips from the wrong position to the right one, that's something to applaud.
Several weeks ago we gave state Rep. Gene Whisnant THE BOOT for blocking bills designed to protect homeowners facing foreclosure, including one to create a mediation process and another to stop the notorious “dual track” scam by requiring lenders to keep borrowers fully informed about all stages of the foreclosure process.
Whisnant not only blocked those bills by refusing to schedule them for hearings before his House committee, but also was poised to block similar bills – SB 1564 and SB 1552 – after they were passed by the Senate.

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Fresh Recycling: 21 Jump Street shows the right way to find creativity in a familiar name.

Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill star in the recent comedy, 21 Jump Street.
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It’s all well and good that, early in 21 Jump Street, a police chief (Nick Offerman) informs rookie cops Jenko (Channing Tatum) and Schmidt (Jonah Hill) that they’re reviving an old undercover-in-high-school program from the 1980s, because the only ideas anyone can come up with now is to “recycle sh-t from the past.” But what do we really expect at this point from movies that cash in on nostalgia for old TV shows, cartoons, toys and board games? Is it enough for a brand-name reboot to wink at us and say, “Yep, we’re out of ideas, but at least we’re honest about it?”

Posted inMusic

If you don't know Bobby, You don't know Jazz: Legendary saxophonist Bobby Watson be-bops into Bend this weekend

Watson, who plays the Oxford jazz series this weekend in Bend, has become a jazz powerhouse, working with some of the best jazz musicians alive and directing numerous ensembles like the Grammy-nominated Tailor Made Big Band.
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Imagine you're a young jazz saxophonist, fresh out of college and living in Manhattan. The year is 1977: John Travolta is dancing at the discoteque in Saturday Night Fever, America is swept up in three-piece suits and neck scarves, and you have just landed a spot in Art Blakey's Jazz Messangers, a group that's been the definitive New York jazz ensemble for more than two decades.

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Don't Open the Door to Discrimination

An insight of same-sex marriage.
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The Chamber Commerce of Bend wants the world to believe that we are a progressive city that is a great place to do business. I wouldn't disagree with that at all – until there is support for businesses that openly discriminate and set us back a few centuries in their thinking.
A recent article in The Bulletin reminded me that instead of moving forward, Bend would rather move backward and send a very different kind of message to the world.

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