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Camped Out: An afternoon at the Occupy Bend village

Travis Cowan spends an afternoon with Bend’s most popular protesters.
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As a steady current of wind kicked up dust through the vacant lot opposite from Pioneer Park that has been the location of the Occupy Bend village for the past two weeks, protesters hurried to cover tables strewn with the remnants of the previous night's meal and pamphlets explaining citizens' rights.
But as the wind began to blow harder, in what seemed like a turn of positive karma or deus ex machina, local contractor James Rice of Mr. Rooter Plumbing drove in to spray several hundred gallons of water meant to quell the dust storm. And while the ground was dry by sunrise, the dust gently refracting in the morning light, Rice's donation of water is an appropriate representation of the communal spirit that seems to be the aim of the temporary village.
The protesters are encamped legally on the plot, which is owned by the city and was once the location of The Bend Bulletin. At a city council meeting last week, members of the Bend Police Department and city officials agreed to allow Occupy Bend Village to continue their stay in the lot until October 29. When asked what the Bend Police Department's course of action would be if the occupants do not leave by October 29, Police Liaison Steve Esselstyn said that they would be cited for trespassing.

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Against the Machine: Rage almost gets the apocalypse game right

A review of the angry new video game from the creators of Doom and Quake.
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With great power comes great responsibility. I learned that from Spider-Man, but it’s been driven home by the current generation of videogames. Since the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 arrived under my TV, and Nvidia’s graphics cards arrived in my PC, I’ve been playing videogames that have the power to replicate reality.
But as games have become more detailed and lifelike, they have also started to show their seams. Every fake-looking eyeball and each unnatural movement spoils the game’s illusion. Whenever I see the landscape ripple and tear as the graphics engine attempts to draw it into existence, I’m thrown out of the world that I’ve been pulled into.
Rage immediately impressed me with its visual intricacy. Gone were the endless straight lines that always reveal that I’m walking in a world created by computer. Even the floor of the simplest room in Rage undulates and fragments. Rage is set on Earth after a meteor has plowed into the planet, and the haphazard, uneven appearance is perfect for the aftereffects of an apocalypse.

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How we got that outrageous cover shot

The process of creating a colorful cover.
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This week's cover features one of the coolest images we've ever featured on the face of this publication. But it wasn't, however, easy to produce this photo.
For our Snowrider's Guide, we wanted a photo that captured the mystique of our huge winters (while also getting our readers into the Halloween spirit) and so we tapped the skills of local artist Willow Durant, a painting teacher who took to face and body painting about four years ago after turning a friend into a clown and has been excelling the medium ever since. For our model, we chose local backcountry skier and instructor Jana Rogers, who was bravely up to the task. The 23-year-old University of Oregon graduate who has been skiing since she was three years old can be found out at spots like Lake Paulina and Todd Lake during the winter months.
“I've gotten more into getting up early and skiing before dawn when there's nobody out there,” she says, adding that she was also drawn to the project because of her interest in art and architecture, which she studied in college.

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Occupy Your Food: Second annual Real Food and Resistance conference brings diverse speakers from Northwest

The Real Food and Resistance Conference lands in Bend.
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From a common seed of discontent and passion, Bend will be home this weekend to both the Occupy Bend rally, a local outpost for the expanding national Occupy Wall Street movement, and the second-annual Real Food and Resistance Conference (RFRC) organized by Bend native, Casey Corcoran. While both events grapple with the fallout of economic problems and disenfranchisement, the RFRC is anchored in food.
Through a two-day series of lectures, films and open community discussions at the PoetHouse in downtown Bend, the RFRC is trying to work outside of the framework of preconceived political dogma and demands and the comforts of sugar-coated “buy local” campaigns to look at food as a means of re-localization and empowerment.
“Our focus is food,” explained Corcoran, “because food is fundamental to everyone's daily life and it's intimately connected to all the other crises we are facing, it's the real crux.”

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Mastodon: The Hunter

A review of Mastodon’s killer new album.
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Mastodon fans were getting itchy: the Georgia band put out its magnum opus, the progressive and heavy Crack the Skye in 2009 – a monolith of layered, experimental, progressive genius. How could the band possibly follow that up? Could they possibly do better?
The band's newest, The Hunter, isn't better. There are moments when it is great, moments when it is groundbreaking – but many, many moments when it feels like the band is stumbling, the weight of the last record too heavy for them to carry again.
If The Hunter proves one thing, it's that Mastodon is comfortable with their manhood. They aren't too metal to write pop music, talk about love or construct lyrics around cheesy rhyme schemes. Songs like “Curl of the Burl” and “Blasteroid” even show the band harmonizing between the usual guitar noodlery.

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Out of Town: Zombie Walk, Film Festival, Parade

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Portland
wednesday 26
5th Annual Portland Latin American Film Festival
ยกViva el cine! Portland rounds up the best in Latin American film in a multiday showcase that ends on Thursday. The festival calls attention to Latin American film and culture while offering diverse perspectives for Portland viewers. This year's lineup includes two Colombian films (The Colors of the Mountain, The Wind Journeys) and a Mexican film (Chicogrande), the 41st release from director Felipe Cazals. If you're into war metaphors, soccer balls stuck in mine fields and rap battles, head over and check it out. Hollywood Theatre.
wednesday 26
Tit Pig
Named after a gay porn star, the Seattle band promises a memorable and outrageous show full of screaming hardcore and hair-farming musicians. Green Noise Records presents a bill that includes Bi-Marks, Doom Patrol and DJ Ken Dirtnap. The thrash rock band is rumored to be able to start a mosh pit just about anywhere so the show should leave you sore, sweaty and satisfied. 8pm, The Know.

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Our Picks for 10/27-11/2: Miles Davis, The Nature of Words, Halloween

The Source Weekly staff gives its picks through November 2.
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Stephanie Schneiderman
thursday 27
You might know her as a member of the band Dirty Martini, but Stephanie Schneiderman is also an amazing solo performer. This free show will showcase the gorgeous songstress at her best. Go check it out. Free. All ages. 7pm. McMenamins Old St. Francis School, 700 NW Bond St.
Miles Davis Experience
thursday 27
We have a story this week about the Oxford's jazz series, so if you want to get in the jazzy spirit before those shows begin, take some time to hear the music of one of the genre's greatest performers, Miles Davis. This multi-media performance features the music of Ambrose Akinmusire, who leads a presentation that includes photos, film clips, beat poetry and live performances by trumpet phenomenon Ambrose Akinmusire. Go ahead and check out videos of this performance. It looks incredible. $30 at towertheatre.org. 7:30pm. Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall St.

Posted inOpinion

Costa's Flaherty Feud

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There has been no shortage of good story lines coming out of the DA's office in the past year or so: mass firings, costly lawsuit settlements, clashes with county government, but the Bulletin's front-page Sunday story about Pat Flaherty's request for a new software and email system isn't one of them. It's no wonder that Flaherty won't even return a reporter's phone calls anymore with this kind of thinly veiled witch hunt emanating from Chandler Avenue.

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Knocking the Poop Straight Out of the Park Every Week

A look at the weekly happenings from around the world.
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Monday, Oct. 17
Popular with the home crowd: Poll finds 67 percent of New Yorkers agree with Occupy Wall Street protesters, including even 35 percent of Republicans … Toke on this: Support for legalizing marijuana hits all-time high (pun intended) as Gallup poll shows 50 percent of Americans favor it, up from 46 percent last year … Book now, avoid the rush: Virgin Galactic, space tourism venture of billionaire Virgin Airlines founder Richard Branson, opens spaceport in Las Cruces, NM; tickets for suborbital flight to cost $200,000 per … This is SO wrong: Sesame Street's YouTube channel back on line after somebody hacks it, puts up porn videos … This is SO French: French police official Jean-Christophe Lagarde alleged to have flown prostitutes to NYC for Dominique Strauss-Kahn. What, there weren't enough hookers in New York?

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High Noon in the Pumpkin Patch

Terrebonne pumpkin patch may require permit, facing fine.
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For years, Matt Lisignoli's pumpkin patch and corn maze near Terrebonne have been a Halloween-season tradition with Central Oregon kids and their parents. They go there, wander through the maze, pet some farm animals, maybe pick out a future jack-o-lantern or two. A wholesome, non-noisy, non-intrusive good time is had by all.
But now, like Lucy sadistically yanking the football away from Charlie Brown, Deschutes County wants to kill all the fun. It's telling Lisignoli that his operation is a “commercial use” of agricultural land and is threatening him with a $720 fine if he doesn't jump over the requisite legal hurdles to get a permit for such a use.
Those hurdles could turn out to be pretty high. First there are the county fees, which (according to county officials) could run anywhere from about $400 to several thousand dollars. On top of that, as the county explained in a letter to Lisignoli in January, “there may also be building safety and waste disposal requirements related to the use which would not be known without an actual site plan review.”

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