TEDxBend, which I blogged about previously, is just over a week away! Taking place next Saturday the 28th at Summit High School, it’s bringing together amazing speakers in true TED tradition with an overall theme of, appropriately, “Bending Rules.” The speakers are: Blake Canterbury Raj Dhingra Myrlie Evers-Williams Charles Jennings … Continue reading
In honor of Earth Day on Sunday, Cascades East Transit is offering free rides all day today for all their routes. CET services Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson counties and offers both city-to-city service and intra-city routes within all of our main towns. It’s a good service, and free rides today … Continue reading
There’s been some more concerts announced as coming to the Les Schwab Amphitheater this summer, so it’s time to update the list I posted previously and include the free Summer Sundays concerts. The Shins: Friday, May 25, $35 (with The Head and the Heart and Blind Pilot) Tenacious D: Saturday, May … Continue reading
I wish I’d blogged about this sooner, as we’re in the middle of it now! This weekend (from today, the 13th, through Sunday the 15) the Bend Spring Festival is taking place over in Northwest Crossing, the free seasonal festival to usher in the spring that offers “art, food, spirits, … Continue reading
On Memorial Day weekend, the Happy Girls Half Marathon is taking place: this second annual event features the eponymous Half Marathon, as well as a 5K run and a “Happy Little Kids” 1.5K run spread out over Saturday and Sunday (the 26th and 27th) and offers up a number of … Continue reading
WhatTheBend posted this first: that Italian restaurant Trattoria Sbandati will be moving from their westside location (at the base of College Way in the old La Rosa space) to the empty Bourbon Street Bend location, downtown (the old Firehall). This is a great move for them, providing plenty of traffic, … Continue reading
Last Wednesday a new radio station premiered: “The Wild” on 107.7 FM. So far it’s not too bad (the little I’ve listened to) but it is a bit heavy on electronic, hip hop, and Autotune for my tastes. According to KBND’s story, it’s “geared to listeners between 18 and 34” … Continue reading
This Friday the 6th—tomorrow!—it’s not only the monthly First Friday Art Walk downtown (and in the Old Mill District), but it’s the annual Spring Art Hop! (Think regular Art Walk on steroids—one in the Spring and another in October in the Fall.) From 5 to 9pm art galleries and many … Continue reading
I got the word today that the winners of the Tour du Chocolat passes for Friday were selected (by COUNTRY Financial, the company behind the event): commenters dbrown and Melanie. (They were selected randomly from the comments on the original post.) Congratulations! I hope you have a good time, and … Continue reading
This Friday, April 6, is the annual Tour du Chocolat, a dessert tasting event that brings together a great lineup of local chocolatiers who compete with their chocolate creations in a variety of categories—and the best part is, it’s open for folks to come taste the results. A “must stop” … Continue reading