This Memorial Day weekend, the 2nd annual Happy Girls Run is taking place with a half marathon, a 5K and a “Happy Little Kids” 1.5K run, with proceeds going to benefit the KIDS Center—and even if you’re not participating directly, you can still help raise donations for the Run to benefit the KIDS … Continue reading
Today is the first day of the first-ever Central Oregon Beer Week! All this week I’ll be posting daily about the events for the day, starting with today’s: Specials Bend Ale Trail special all week long Anyone who completes the Bend Ale Trail during the Week will get a special, … Continue reading
One of the Central Oregon Beer Week events that was just confirmed this week is a very cool beer dinner that Brew Werks Brewing and Old Mill Brew Werks (yes, the two are separate now, though still closely affiliated) are hosting on Wednesday, the 23rd: Chef Rudy has worked out … Continue reading
The roundabout on Mt. Washington in the heart of NorthWest Crossing (the intersection with NW Crossing Drive, in fact) has been closed for a while now while undergoing some much-needed construction. Needless to say this has been a hassle since it breaks one of the main north-south routes on the … Continue reading
Little Pizza Paradise, which used to be located at the intersection of 27th and Butler Market on Bend’s east side, has moved up north to the Cascade Village shopping center this month. They’re in the old Bend Draft House location next door to Sleep Country (just around the corner from … Continue reading
There are a lot of great events listed for next week’s Central Oregon Beer Week, and one that I think is really cool and unique is Wanderlust Tour’s “Pre-release Backstage Brew Bus Tour” that will be visiting both The Ale Apothecary and Crux Fermentation Project—two brand-new breweries that almost nobody … Continue reading
The Les Schwab Amphitheater has added more music to this summer’s concert lineup (from Ben Salmon’s Frequency blog today): Counting Crows, ZZ Top, and Brandi Carlile. Seems to me it’s shaping up to be a pretty good summer for music in Bend this year! Here’s the updated concert list (including … Continue reading
Attention beer geeks: Deschutes Brewery has possibly one of the beer-geekiest beer dinners coming up (and for Deschutes beer events, that’s saying something!) on Friday, May 18, celebrating the release of their first collaboration beer (“Conflux #1”), named Collage, that they brewed and blended together with Hair of the Dog … Continue reading
In just a scant couple of weeks the first Central Oregon Beer Week kicks off! From Monday, May 21st through Sunday the 27th there are a growing number of beer and beer-related events taking place, and still more are being finalized! And, if you have a beer event you’d like … Continue reading
Tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo* and since it falls on a Saturday this year, you can bet there are lot of things going on for it! Here’s a rundown, and if I find out more I’ll update this list. Festival de Banderas at the Les Schwab Amphitheater all day from 10am … Continue reading