This is pretty much an eastside restaurant mini-review feature that I’ll be running periodically. You can view my “lunch bite” critera at this first post. The Aloha Café is located in the Crossroads shopping center on the northeastern corner of the Highway 20/27th Street intersection (across the street from the … Continue reading
Tomorrow is Veterans Day, and at 11am downtown is the annual Veterans Day Parade. The streets downtown will be closed as the parade follows essentially the same route at the Christmas Parade: Wall Street to Franklin/Drake Park to Galveston to Harmon Street (unfortunately I don’t know exactly how long the parade … Continue reading
A couple of local winery events are coming up at the end of the month, both on the 26th as it turns out (Thanksgiving weekend). Maragas Winery: 3rd Annual Barrel Tasting & Harvest Fest Saturday, November 26, 2011 from 10am to 5pm. This year’s event is FREE with the donation of … Continue reading
Just got word tonight (via my wife, who got the news from our daughter, and she called to confirm) that The Paper Factory in the Bend Factory Stores (the factory outlets) is closing, and their last day is Saturday. If you’re unfamiliar with the store, it’s largely a party supply … Continue reading
For a good couple of months now, the Brew Shop has been doing business in their new location, the former Ernesto’s restaurant building on Third Street (which I blogged about here and here). In addition to moving the homebrew supply and bottle shop, the owners also renovated and opened the … Continue reading
Happy Halloween! Hopefully the day is shaping up to be a good one and tonight (for those of us who have kids) we’ll be enjoying a not-too-cold evening for trick-or-treating. And if you’re doing that please be safe! There’s a certain amount of common sense involved, of course—don’t let you … Continue reading
The Des Chutes Historical Museum is presenting a couple of great Halloween-themed events that span the next few days (actually one started today, the 27th, and runs through Saturday the 29th, the other, the 29th through Halloween): Historical Haunts of Downtown Bend, sort of a Heritage Walk for buildings with … Continue reading
This Friday the 28th is the 4th annual Monster Ball presented by the Power 94 local radio station: the live music, dance party, costume contest “extravaganza” taking place at the Century Center. There will be performances by Mosley Wotta, Necktie Killer, So Cal’s famous DJ Kay Rich, Performance by the … Continue reading
It’s that time of year again with Halloween less than a week away, to start tracking the various Halloween events going on. So expect a bunch of these posts the next few days! The Tower Theatre is again showing the Rocky Horror Picture Show this year, on both nights this … Continue reading
That would be the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile—you know, the car (truck? van? vehicle) shaped like a giant hotdog. I saw the story on KTVZ tonight, and yes, there were some details I got in email as well: The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile will ketchup with families in the Bend area between … Continue reading