Spring Art Hop

This Friday, April 3rd, is not only the monthly First Friday "Gallery Walk" where art galleries downtown and in the Old Mill District stay open for wine and festivities—it’s also the Spring Art Hop. Thousand of folks will be downtown to appreciate art, wine and food. The bi-annual arts event … Continue reading

Library book sale Saturday

This Saturday, April 4th, is the "Friends of the Bend Library Spring Book Sale". As usual it takes place downtown at the Library Administration Building at 507 NW Wall (in the basement). Time is 10 until 4. This is a quarterly favorite of mine (as you regular readers all know). … Continue reading

The Brew Shop expansion, beers

Central Oregon only has one beer brewing supply shop that I’m aware of: The Brew Shop. If you homebrew, you get your stuff there, and for a long time it occupied a small space at 2538 NE Division, a small, industrial-type building, just big enough to have supplies in the … Continue reading

Deschutes Brewery promo event at Reed Pub, Thursday

Geoffrey from All Around Bend sent this tip along: Hey man, there is a Deschutes Brewery promo event this Thursday from 4-6pm at the Reed Pub. Pints are $1.75 each and there will be prizes to win! I can’t find anything else online about it, which seems odd because this … Continue reading

COWPU meeting… Wednesday!

I haven’t blogged about COWPU in a while—possibly because there hasn’t been a meeting lately, or possibly because, er, it might have slipped my mind—but there’s a meeting this Wednesday, the 25th. Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 5:30pm G5 Search Marketing, 906 NW Harriman Street – Bend, OR 97701 Merb … Continue reading

Cold Stone Creamery benefit for public school students

This came via email and it seems like a worthwhile event/fundraiser: Eat Ice Cream & Support A Free Program for Local Public School Students! March 24th from 5:30 – 7:30 PM Cold Stone in the Cascade Village Shopping Center is serving ice cream for two hours……20% of all purchases will … Continue reading

Spring Break! What to do?

Today is the first day of spring and school is out for spring break all next week. But now you have to entertain the kids—what to do? The Bulletin has a comprehensive and innovative list of things, particularly for those on a budget (and aren’t we all these days). Go … Continue reading

Talk of the Town: Meet Your Legislators

I’m sure you’ve seen the local commercials for "Talk of the Town"—the locally-produced cable-channel "town hall" TV program—and like me, haven’t paid them much mind. After all, they’re a little goofy in that "public access television" kind of way. But this Monday’s Talk of the Town sounds pretty interesting: it’s … Continue reading

Upcoming Jackalope Grill events

(From backlogged email.) I guess technically this is an upcoming event (singular) and a notice. At any rate, Jackalope Grill is one of those restaurants still open and doing interesting things. From the email: April Cooking Class Monday, April 6 Tim will be teaching a cooking class on March 2, … Continue reading

Renegade Rollergirls canceled on Saturday

The Renegade Rollergirls events I blogged about last week has been canceled. It was the bout scheduled for this Saturday, the 21st. No word on if it will be rescheduled, or if they’ll just pick up again next month.