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Cheesy Gore: Splatterhouse misses the horror game mark

Splatterhouse shares its name and inspiration with an old arcade game that was famous for offending parents with its gory imagery.
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Videogames have done well with the Orpheus myth. Mario descended into the fiery underworld of Bowser’s castle to rescue his beloved princess. I fondly recall exploring lava-laced caverns in pursuit of my pet frog in Master Blaster. A few years ago, I chased my girlfriend into Viewtiful Joe and more recently I pursued her through Dante’s Inferno. This time I’ve followed her into a bloody underworld known as Splatterhouse.
Splatterhouse shares its name and inspiration with an old arcade game that was famous for offending parents with its gory imagery. Rick, the game’s hero, put on an evil mask that transformed him into an avenging monster – sort of a sinister version of that old Jim Carrey movie The Mask – and set him loose in Splatterhouse’s haunted house.

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Iron and Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean

Iron & Wine is certainly responsible for folk melodies owning a popular place in independent music.
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The sonic backgrounds on “Walking Far From Home,” the first track on Iron and Wine's new album Kiss Each Other Clean, craftily connects Iron and Wine's impressive effort on The Shepherd's Dog while, as the song title suggests, being away in a new time and place. We could infer, by studying the cover's illustration of a home in flames, that singer Sam Beam – calm, motionless and knee deep in water – is responsible for the fire and smoke.

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Our Picks for 2/9 – 2/17: Spoken Word Poet Buddy Wakefield, Conspirator, Break Science, Trivia Bee, Oliver! and more

Looking for something to do in Central Oregon this week? Check out Our Picks!
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Ignite Bend 6
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Believe it or not, this is the sixth installment of Bend's take on the world-popular Ignite events, which place a presenter on the stage for five minutes, armed only with a microphone and a Power Point presentation of their choosing. Bend is just one of 50-plus Ignite events taking place across the world this week – so we're not the only ones who like this sort of thing. 7pm. Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall St.

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Bend's Road Tax Pitch: City to asks residents to pony up for improvements

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Bend's Transportation Costs
Bend residents will have an opportunity this week to weigh in on a proposal that would create a new street tax to tackle some $30 million worth of needed street projects that currently have no source of funding.
City staff last week presented councilors with several ways to approach the almost $100 million in backlogged transportation projects that have been largely idling since the start of the recession. Councilors endorsed a plan that focused much of the short-term efforts on the Reed Market Road corridor between 3rd Street and 27th Street where the major east-west arterial would be widened to three lanes. The project also includes a multi-lane roundabout at 15th Street and a new bridge at American Lane. However, residents will have a chance to discuss their transportation priorities with city staff at Thursday night's open house from 5-7 p.m. at the Bend City Hall, 710 NW Wall St.

Posted inOpinion

Lawmakers, Ban That Bag

Legislators, do your duty and join us in giving plastic bags THE BOOT.
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Behold the humble plastic grocery bag. It is small, flimsy and almost weightless, but in numbers it is mighty.
Since its introduction about 30 years ago, the plastic grocery bag has become as ubiquitous as the cockroach, but a lot more harmful to the Earth. An estimated 500 billion of the things are used worldwide each year. The United States alone uses about 84 billion.
Only 1 to 3 percent of these billions of bags are recycled. The rest end up in the environment – in landfills, or in lakes, streams, oceans, forests or your backyard.

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The Super-Duper Straight Poop From All Over

Scoop Lewis, Ace Reporter, reviews the pasts weeks most noteworthy events.
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Monday,
Jan. 31
Second Amendment fun: Utah Legislature considering a bill to make the Browning M1911 handgun the official state firearm. “It’s an implement of freedom that has defended America for 100 years,” said the bill's sponsor, Rep. Carl Wimmer. “This firearm is Utah” … Unconscious irony: Former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a chief architect of the Iraq war and supporter of torture, wins “Defender of the Constitution Award” from Conservative Political Action Conference. Must be a different Constitution than the one I know … Family squabbles: Barbara Bush, daughter of ex-President George W. Bush, backs gay marriage initiative in New York; her dad supports an anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment … Didn't get the memo: TeleSource Center, a telemarketing outfit, says it's moving to new offices in Bend to accommodate its growth. Somebody forgot to tell them they were supposed to leave Oregon after Measures 66 and 67 passed.

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Don't Shoot Your TV!

So much for trying to have some levelheaded discourse in this country.
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KTVZ ran a piece this week about issues surrounding gun sales and firearm possession in Central Oregon in the wake of the Tucson shootings. The story – which was hardly controversial in its reporting – featured gun owners, a gun club leader, but also the director of Ceasefire Oregon, a gun control advocacy group… and boy did that stir up some fire. The story received more than 60 comments online as of this printing and every single one of them was vehemently against any sort of gun control and, of course, included a request for the reporter to take her “a – -” back to California.

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What's up With Mt. Bachelor's Holiday Pricing?

Letter to the editor.
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I'm new to town and am really perplexed by Mt. Bachelor’s “condition-based pricing.” We had friends fly here for MLK (Weekend) because we love Bend and the mountain and wanted to share it with them. Was shocked that the crappiest ski day I have ever had in my 35-plus years cost $70. There were really only two lifts running, no visibility and miserable conditions (yes, I get I maybe should have stayed home).

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Conflict in the 9th Circuit Threatens Old Growth Forests

Letter to the editor.
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This fall, the 9th Circuit issued its final decision and reversed an earlier ruling by Judge Hogan in Eugene, Oregon, on a large old-growth timber sale in the Deschutes National Forest. Local citizens and volunteers with the Sierra Club, Cascadia Wildlands Project and the Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project spent years field- checking the sale.
The citizens tried to approach the Forest Service to change the controversial plan, but the agency moved ahead. Judge Hogan found that the agency’s logging plan would degrade this forest for decades and that the agency’s claim that the logging would reduce fire risk was not supported by the scientific evidence in the record.

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Super Bowl: A Decade of Hate

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Ummm… WELL? Are you just going to sit there ogling my structurally perfect ass or are you going to wish me a happy anniversary? THAT'S CORRECT! This week, I celebrate ten glorious years of disparaging the idiot sport of football, and in particular the SUPER BOWL (which will attempt to bore the shit out of me once again on Fox, Sun Feb 6, 3:30 pm).
Yes, it seems like only yesterday when I started writing repetitive fanatical columns about this utterly useless national event, ranting on and on like a mouth-foaming, meth-addicted Andy Rooney trying to fathom the difference between e-mail and Twitter. For example, this is what I said in 2005:

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