This month is marks the two year anniversary of Hack Bend! So my retrospective will cover 2006 and 2007.

In 2006:

• Newport Market's Thirsty Thursdays were covered;
• Deschutes Brewery was giving away beer in exchange for blood (with the American Red Cross);
• Sam Waterston was in town;
• I wrote about Alpenglow Café and Palmer's Café;
• A preliminary roundup of local restaurant guides;
• The mystery(?) of Sugarbowl Park;
• A preliminary roundup of WiFi hotspots.

In 2007:

• We found out pfundamentals was closing;
• Some first looks at Mary Jane's Park;
• Checking out nearly-hidden Riverside Market;
• Bend made Inc. Magazine's top Boomtowns;
• A really early review of Greg's Grill;
• Longboard Louie's showed up on the east side;
• A really early review of La Costa Azul;
• I discovered a Bend Brewing beer I'd never seen before;
• I declared (and still stand by) the Victorian Café the best breakfast in Bend.