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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Free Cascade Winds Symphonic concert
Jake has the details on the latest free concert coming up from the Cascade Winds Symphonic Band: Sunday, December 6th, at 2pm Location: Summit High School auditorium Free! It’s the kickoff concert of their 2009-10 season, and while free, they … Continue reading
Christmas Tree lighting tonight
It’s late notice, I know, but tonight is the annual Christmas tree lighting in downtown Bend. A great tradition in Central Oregon! The Downtown Bend Holiday Tree Lighting. Spend the evening singing carols, listening to local choirs, music and dance … Continue reading
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Thanksgiving Dinners
Sometimes you don’t feel like cooking on Thanksgiving, or perhaps your plans fell through, or perhaps you have no other alternatives to a Thanksgiving meal. If you need other plans for your Thanksgiving dinner, here are some I’ve found around … Continue reading
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Central Oregon Winery Barrel Tasting
This Saturday Maragas Winery is hosting a winery barrel tasting out at their north-of-Terrebonne location. They’re teaming up with Volcano Vineyards to do this, which is cool. Here’s their news blurb about it: The first annual Central Oregon Winery Barrel … Continue reading
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Good Drop Wine Shoppe grand opening
The Good Drop Wine Shoppe is the new wine place that moved into the old Chocolat et Gateaux space on Minnesota in Downtown Bend. They’ve been open almost a month and are having their grand opening celebration the beginning of … Continue reading
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Weekend happenings (late edition)
This weekend is busy! I’m too late on the Friday stuff, but there’s a bunch more to cover if you’re looking for something to do Saturday and Sunday. Saturday Deschutes Brewery’s Annual Garage Sale starts at 10am and ends at … Continue reading
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Calendar updates
I’ve gone through and added a bunch of stuff to the Calendar, so if you haven’t checked it out in awhile, do so now. I’ll probably be posting some of those items to the blog in a bit, too.
2nd Street Theater is closing
More sucky local economy news: The Source breaks the news today that the 2nd Street Theater is closing. I just got word that, after nine years as a main player in Central Oregon’s theatrical world, 2nd Street Theater will be … Continue reading
New area code
This Qwest notice about the new area code coming up is sitting here on the desk staring at me, so I’m relaying the news for anyone who hasn’t heard it yet: come January 10, 2010, all of Oregon outside the … Continue reading
Restaurant news… and Olive Garden!
The Bulletin had two new restaurant bits on Saturday: NorthWest Crossing gets new restaurant The new NWX Bar & Grill, at 745 N.W. Mt. Washington Drive, replaces Aloha Cafe, which closed Oct. 23. Aloha’s other two restaurants in east Bend … Continue reading
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Renegade Rollergirls are back, Nov. 21
I was wondering when roller derby started back up: for the Renegade Rollergirls, it’s Saturday, November 21st. It’s their season opener. Oregon Renegade Roller Derby; Bend’s only non-profit Roller Derby League, will hold their first bout of their 4th season … Continue reading
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Former Deep space to get new restaurant
I just realized my headline there could be read a different way, which amuses me. Anyway. The Bulletin reports that a new restaurant is finally taking over the space of the former Deep, Jody Denton’s expensive sushi bar that closed … Continue reading
Posted in Restaurants
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Press Release: Time to Volunteer
Been awhile since I ran a press release… this one is for a good cause but since they’re looking for volunteers aged 55 and older, I started to wonder what’s the age demographic of Hack Bend blog readers? Central Oregon … Continue reading
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Weekend happenings
Here’s our weekly look at the goings-on around Bend for the weekend, culled from the calendar. It’s also First Friday tonight, so there are a number of things going on across downtown, the Old Mill District, and Northwest Crossing that … Continue reading
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Mondays at Typhoon
I suspect I’m behind the curve on this one, but Monday nights at Typhoon in downtown Bend are half-price wine nights. Basically, all wine under $100 is half price… that’s per glass and per bottle. No kidding, half off a … Continue reading
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