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Swine Flu Hitting Deschutes Hard

The Source Staff

The swine flu situation in Deschutes County is more serious than the local news media so far have reported, judging by an e-mail County Communicable Disease Manager Shannon Dames sent to health care professionals today.
Under the subject line “H1N1 Cases are way up!” Dames’s e-mail states:
“I am sure this is not news to you, given what you are seeing in your own clinics, but to be sure we are all in the loop:

Schools are seeing higher absentee rates – some up to 25%
The Bend and Redmond emergency rooms are packed – 44 ILI [influenza-like illness] admissions in two days early this week, and 22 positive results [for H1N1 flu] from the State lab.

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Our Picks for 10/14 – 10/22: Ignite Bend 3, The Federation, Tracorum, Eric Tollefson, Battle of the Bags

The Source Staff

Ignite Bend 3
wednesday 14
The third installment of the Powerpoint presentation show hits the Tower this week with another wide variety of talks, as well as some music from Kousefly. Slideshows have never been this exciting and this time through, topics include fire, running, diabetes beer and walking, among others. $3 suggested donation. 6:30pm Tower Theatre, 835 NW Wall St.
Namaspa Movie Night: 2012: The Mayan Calendar
thursday 15
You've heard all the gloom and doom about 2012 by now and rather than sit aimlessly waiting for three years to pass so you can just get this all over with already, head to this documentary screening and get the facts (or, um, assumptions) on what the Mayans say about 2012. $5, kids free. Bring a chair or cushion. 7:30pm Thursday, Oct 15. Namaspa Yoga Studio, 1135 NW Galveston Ave.

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Embrace Your Inner Couch Potato: Flicks and books to keep you stoked

Pam Stevenson

I'm sure somebody will lambaste me for not being hardcore enough, but the cold, rainy weather we are in store for this week makes me want to embrace my inner couch potato and throw a log in the fireplace. This is a great time of year to overhaul your bikes, grind your skis, go to the movies or just get under the down comforter with a good book.
SKI FLICK SEASON
Shorter days. Cooler temperatures. Fall colors. All signs of the changing season. None more so, though, than a proliferation of ski flicks. Last week it was big mountain skiing movie The Edge of Never at the Tower followed by the Powderwhore movie Flakes at McMenamins. If that wasn't enough movie watching, we had BendFilm all over Central Oregon the rest of the week. Personally, I'm not ready for winter yet, so the film I caught was The Women and the Waves, a documentary about women's surfing pioneers. One of my favorite quotes: “When someone said 'You surf like a girl' it used to be an insult. Now it's a compliment.”

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Child's Play: Wild Things turns make-believe into devastatingly emotional art

Source Weekly

You could argue without fear of contradiction that Where the Wild Things Are is the most ambitious film ever conceived that was inspired by a 10-sentence-long picture-book – but I don't think even that sentiment does justice to this prickly, hilarious, devastatingly emotional work of art.
Maurice Sendak's classic book hinted at the complex psychology of childhood, with its rambunctious wolf-costumed protagonist. Co-writer/director Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich), however, has found the feature concept lurking beneath Sendak's minimalist text – and burrowed straight into the heart of a troubled young psyche trying to understand itself.

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Hits from BendFilm: The gamut of cool, eye-opening, heartfelt and comic flicks just keep coming

The Source Staff

note: Our film critic, Morgan P. Salvo, spent the weekend taking in the movies of the BendFilm Festival, where he's long been a volunteer. Here's a list of the flicks that caught his eye and also may have caught your eye, too, if you made it out to BendFilm.
NARRATIVES:
Cold Storage (Directed by Tony Ellwood) This was by far my favorite, although in a semi-packed house I was one of only four people who applauded. A very warped and disturbing movie, it features the same hillbilly perspective of Norman Bates' Psycho world. This gory, graphic and darkly comic flick will make you think twice about taking that trip through the mountains.

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Feel the Love: Alpenglow Café casts a warm light

The Source Staff

When you name a place Alpenglow in a ski town, you better be able to back it up. For mountain dwellers, the very utterance of the word conjures a Zen oneness with nature and feelings of peace and serenity. After a tough day when you look up toward the horizon and see that reddish glow cast on snow-covered peaks at sunset, you are reminded that life in the shadow of the Cascades isn't too shabby. The Alpenglow Café, fortunately, does the term justice. Serving only house-made breads, locally smoked meats, dairy from area farms and fresh foods – absolutely nothing canned or frozen – Alpenglow has the whole oneness-with-nature locavore thing down. In fact, their mission statement offers a $1,000 reward to anyone who can find a can opener on the premises (“no fair bringing in your own!”).

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Feel the Love: Alpenglow Café casts a warm light

The Source Staff

When you name a place Alpenglow in a ski town, you better be able to back it up. For mountain dwellers, the very utterance of the word conjures a Zen oneness with nature and feelings of peace and serenity. After a tough day when you look up toward the horizon and see that reddish glow cast on snow-covered peaks at sunset, you are reminded that life in the shadow of the Cascades isn't too shabby. The Alpenglow Café, fortunately, does the term justice. Serving only house-made breads, locally smoked meats, dairy from area farms and fresh foods – absolutely nothing canned or frozen – Alpenglow has the whole oneness-with-nature locavore thing down. In fact, their mission statement offers a $1,000 reward to anyone who can find a can opener on the premises (“no fair bringing in your own!”).

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