First Friday tonight in downtown Bend and the Old Mill District! The Art Walk runs from 5 to 9pm and features businesses open late with special art exhibits on display, welcoming folks in for art, refreshments, and even live music at places. (And many include wine!) It’s always a great … Continue reading
The Source Weekly is hosting their “Swayze Summer” of movies at the Old Stone Church featuring free showings of Patrick Swayze’s best movies, and tonight they are showing “Point Break”! Here’s a smart thing to do: Go see Point Break, the 1991 Kathryn Bigelow (Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) directed … Continue reading
Tonight down at Drake Park in downtown Bend is the first of this summer’s Munch and Music events, featuring free music from The Motet and food available from a wide variety of vendors as well as a beer garden with beer from Deschutes Brewery. This is definitely one of the … Continue reading
One of my favorite Bend summertime events (after the 4th of July) is taking place this weekend, the annual Bend Summer Festival (aka Summerfest), featuring free live music, arts and crafts vendors, street food, beer and wine, and more, going on all weekend long. Much of downtown Bend will be … Continue reading
Every year for the past number of years I’ve posted a guide to free (or cheap) summertime activities, and tonight I just finished up revising it for 2013. Take a look and let me know if there’s anything I can add.
Looking for something to do on another gorgeous day? Today is the Les Schwab Amphitheater’s Free Summer Sunday Concerts (which started last weekend) and the band taking the stage today is Tremoloco, starting at 2:30: Tremoloco is an eclectic roots band from L.A., some might say purveyors of Gulf Coast Folklorico … Continue reading
This Friday evening it’s once again the First Friday Art Walk taking place downtown and in the Old Mill District from 5 to 9, with galleries and shops open late and featuring special art exhibits, and often free refreshments (including wine and beer). And many places will have live music, … Continue reading
Things have been pretty quiet ’round this site lately. Chalk it up to a couple of the Hack Bend contributors (namely, myself and Jon) keeping busy getting lots of fun events planned for Central Oregon Beer Week, May 20-27. In the meantime… Fire Season is Right Around the Corner. I just … Continue reading
It’s the first Friday in April, and that means in addition to the usual First Friday happenings going on in downtown and the Old Mill, it’s Downtown Bend’s Spring Art Hop! Think “First Friday Art Walk” amped up to be the biggest one of the year, with over 60 businesses … Continue reading
This Saturday the 16th the Deschutes County Sheriff is holding a free shredding, food drive, and prescription drug disposal event at their main office on Highway 20 on the north end of town. It will run from 10am to 1pm, and they will accept up to 4 medium boxes for personal shredding … Continue reading