Heads up to anyone who was planning on attending Deschutes Brewery’s Chocolate Beer Dinner event tomorrow night (February 11th)… they’ve rescheduled it to Saturday, March 10th. I don’t know a specific reason but this gives you a chance to attend if you couldn’t make it tomorrow!
The speakers for Ignite Bend 8 were announced yesterday, and online ticket sales are going on “sale” today at noon! Here are the details (from the press release): Justin Iverson – What is Ignite? Lisa Flynn – Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Do These Big Girl Panties Make My Butt … Continue reading
Of course the big news over the weekend is that downtown Bend’s Typhoon! Thai restaurant closed—and in fact all five of their locations are closed. It had been rumored that something like this was happening, and news hit over the weekend on Twitter first (I believe Shannon twittered it first … Continue reading
If you’ve gone to the Hack Bend Calendar recently, you may have noticed some changes: I’m in the process of switching it over to a new calendar app (a WordPress blog plugin) and moving away from Google Calendar. Not that there was anything wrong with Google Calendar (and you can … Continue reading
Yesterday, on a whim, we decided to swing over to the westside to see if the new Broken Top Bottle Shop (taking over the old Abbey Pub space) was open yet; I knew that they had been planning to open by this weekend but hadn’t seen any updates online about … Continue reading
It’s First Friday and Art Walk in Downtown Bend and the Old Mill District tomorrow: art galleries and other businesses stay open late to showcase art and often live music, and many also offer complimentary food and wine. The festivities run from 5 until 9pm and with the weather we’ve … Continue reading
Tonight at GoodLife Brewing is the Ignite Bend Battledecks event and voting party: the free “Ignite improv” event where you can come and sign up to do an impromptu presentation to a bunch of slides you’ve never seen—or simply come and enjoy watching others do it. In addition, it’s also … Continue reading
I wrote at the beginning of the month about the Abbey Pub changing hands, to become the Broken Top Bottle Shop, and by the end of this week (if all goes well) the new beer bar (or Ale Café as they are naming it) should be open. Last week one … Continue reading
The deadline for proposals for the next Ignite Bend is tomorrow—Friday, January 27th. So if you have a burning desire to give a five-minute presentation on stage (on anything you want, really, as long as it’s not a sales pitch or recruiting spiel) now’s your chance to submit your idea! … Continue reading
As I’d twittered and posted on Facebook over the weekend, this blog (and a bunch of other sites that were on the same server account) had been hacked with some malicious server code that was redirecting referring links away to some sort of spam/malware sites. Ah yes, the irony of … Continue reading