St. Patrick’s Day is coming up this Saturday (already?), and McMenamins has a two-day celebration going on. In addition to having their seasonal Irish stout on tap (it’s pretty good), they are: Featuring live music by the Moon Mountain Ramblers, The Severin Sisters and others, with McMenamins Irish Stout, Irish … Continue reading
Starting Monday, March 12th, work is set to begin on a roundabout at the intersection of Bond and Wilson, on the edge of the Old Mill District. Traffic will be detoured; check out the image below to see how it’s being routed. Via this blog.
In my previous post Kina in the comments pointed to the site Restaurants For Sale Online, basically a searchable directory of—you guessed it—restaurants for sale. Checking out what they have for Bend, there are four items: A "Concert venue/Night club/Restaurant" for $1.2 million. Vino Mercato ("Busy Bend Bistro with Great … Continue reading
Papa’s Pizza, south of town across from Fred Meyer, is changing its name to "Pappy’s Pizza." My wife saw this while in the area today. Vino Mercato, the wine bistro and deli downtown, is closing. It was a blurb in the paper today and Duncan mentions it on his blog. … Continue reading
Who else saw the blurb in Saturday’s paper about Redmond’s UFO convention being planned for June? If the Redmond Historical Commission, The High Desert Society of the Arts and the Redmond Downtown Merchants have their druthers, airplanes won’t be the only craft descending upon Redmond come June. The groups are … Continue reading
I am often amazed at how much freely available information the City and County have put online—not that I think this is a bad thing, mind you. What’s more amazing to me is the fact that more people don’t know about all of this! In this article I’ll show you … Continue reading
JC’s Bar and Grill has announced their grand opening party for Saturday, March 17th starting at 6pm. The occasion, of course, is celebrating the completion of their expansion (which seems like it’s been going on forever) into the old Australia (Oztralia? What was the name of that store?) space next … Continue reading