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Good morning, Bend! Only two more weeks to get those costumes picked out and yards decorated. I’m starting to put together a list of Halloween happenings that should be ready soon. With Halloween falling on a Saturday night, it’s shaping up to be a very busy evening.

In today’s Bend Buzz:

Let’s get to it.

— Derek Carlson

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Startups, venture capitalists, and folks looking to break into the scene will all be in town for the Bend Venture Conference, which gets underway on Thursday. Come for the networking and stay for the pitches to see who will take home some money to take their biz to the next level.

As usual, Bend was well represented at the Great American Beer Fest over the weekend with many of our local beers medaling and one brewer taking home the Brewery of the Year award. Here’s a list of the local winners:

🥡 Lao Teng opens at Bevel Brewing: Bevel Brewing is getting a new (to Bend) Thai food cart. Lao Teng Thai Kitchen is open now and serving up all your Thai favorites (including our favorite, Khao Mun Gai). They’re open Thursday - Monday for lunch and dinner ( 12 - 8 PM).

🛞 Les Schwab to add a 4th Bend location: Tired of waiting in hecka long lines to get your tires changed over for the winter? (More on that in a second.) Hopefully, this news helps a little. Les Schwab will be opening their 4th Bend location at SE 27th and Ferguson. There is no timeline yet for when the store will officially be open for business.

And speaking of seasonal tire changes, we’re only a month away (hopefully a little less, even) from when we usually start to see some real snow start to fall on the mountain. If you’re in the once it snows, I rush to get my winter tires put on camp, then this reminder isn’t for you. But if you want to save yourself a headache and having to subsist on a lunch of Les Schwab popcorn while waiting around all day for your new tires, you can make tire changeover reservations now at most of the big tire stores. I just checked, and there are still a lot of spots open from mid-November to mid-December.

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Fresh off performances in London at Sadler‘s Wells, two of the most innovative
and acclaimed international dance companies take the stage in Ballet Bend’s
next double bill on October 23rd & 24th at the Tower Theatre.

Montreal’s Tentacle Tribe in PRISM
&
Vancouver’s Rebecca Margolick in BUNKER

Montreal’s Tentacle Tribe bring their genre- and gravity-defying dance work,
PRISM to America for the very first time! Nobody in the world creates dance work
like this. 5 dancers moving and manipulating a giant mirrored set multiply
dimensions and bodies beyond the realms of this reality. A wonder of the world.

From one award-winning international artist to another - Rebecca shares her original
work BUNKER, that’s been performed in 13 different countries. Her commanding
presence and performance style completes Ballet Bend’s most uniquely powerful
program of the season!

Tickets available at BalletBend.org →

🦋 Nature Kids: Get the kids outside and exploring nature at this free event hosted by the Deschutes Land Trust. 10:30 AM Metolius Preserve

🤣 $5 Comedy: Need some cheap laughs on a Wednesday night? Silver Moon has you covered with a $5 comedy night. 7:30 PM Silver Moon

🦖 Costume Group Run: Don your running shoes and favorite costume and hit the road as FootZone’s monthly group run makes its way from their downtown store to The Haven. 6 PM FootZone

🥕 Final Downtown Farmers Market: Come say goodbye to your favorite farmers, ranchers, bakers, and everyone else at the final downtown Bend Farmers Market of the season. 11 AM Brooks Alley

📖 The Way of Integrity Book Club: Head to Bend Tea + Art Lounge for a weekly conversation through Martha Beck’s The Way of Integrity, a book about recognizing where we’ve lost touch with ourselves and finding our way back to a life that feels genuinely our own. 5 PM Bend Tea + Art Lounge

🌈 Reading the Rainbow: Join poets Carol and Judy as they read poems saturated with color from a new anthology, The Color Wheel. 6 PM Central Library

🥾 BOW Breakout Pitch: Join Bend Outdoor Worx for a live pitch event. The winning company (as chosen by the audience) will walk away with a $10k cash prize. 5 PM Volcanic Theatre Pub

🐟 Fall Fish Rescue: Each fall, irrigation districts reduce flows in the Upper Deschutes to refill Wickiup Reservoir. As flows drop, side channels near Lava Island Falls run dry, and thousands of fish become stranded. The Deschutes River Conservancy and a team of volunteers head to the river to rescue as many of these fish as possible. This year’s spots are all filled, but you’re still welcome to come check out the action, meet the team, and learn more about how you can volunteer in the future (hint…sign up for their newsletter to get the news first). Wednesday - Friday Lava Island Falls

👻 Disaster Dungeon: It’s spooky season at Tin Pan Theatre, and on three nights this month, they are showing a mystery horror movie. See if you can guess the flick by the hints on their post. 6 PM Tin Pan Theatre

🎬 Boss Baby: No spoooooky movie night here as this week’s (kid-friendly) feature presentation at Ballers & Brews is Boss Baby. 5:30 PM Ballers & Brews

📽 Young Frankenstein: Need a little fright on the big screen? Head to Dogwood for a showing under the stars of Young Frankenstein. 7 PM Dogwood at the Pineshed

🍵 Ceramic Mug Workshop: Bring the kids (ages 8 - 18, please) to the tea lounge where they can create their own ceramic mug. 7 PM Bend Tea + Art Lounge

💽 What the Tech, Bend Meetup: Come hang with Bend’s tech scene the evening before BVC kicks off. 5:30 PM Crux

👽 Sculpture Needle Felt: While the alien autopsy footage may be fake (or is it????), that doesn’t mean you can’t have a little fun and needle felt your own wool alien, complete with fuzzy guts. 2 PM Central Library

🧠 Quizhead Games Trivia: Put your trivia knowledge to the test with Quizhead Games’ always entertaining night of questions. 7 PM JC’s Bar & Grill

🍰 Cake Club: Now this is the kind of club that I can get behind. Foxtail is hosting its first Cake Club night that includes cake (duh) as well as creative stations and a chance to connect with fellow souls. 6 PM The Den

🎭 Young Frankenstein: Cascades Theatrical Co is back with a very timely series of performances of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein. 7:30 PM Cascades Theatrical Co

🎸 Shock Rock: Join David Miller (musician, broadcaster, musicologist) for a tour through the birth, history, and stories of rockers who incorporate horror, fear & dark subjects into the music they create. 3:30 PM Central Library

🌲 Livable Future Forum: The Deschutes Land Trust is kicking off the first of three Livable Future Forums with a talk about water with Dr. Len Necefer and Graham Zimmerman. 6:30 PM COCC - Ray Hall Atrium

🍴 Family Fun in the Kitchen: Help your kids build confidence in the kitchen and a better understanding of the food they eat with the last of this series of hands-on classes at Hanai. This month’s recipe is pumpkin muffins. 4 PM Hanai

🎤 Karaoke Collab: New Friends Bend and Bend CNCT are teaming up for an evening of karaoke. 6 PM Works Real Estate

👩 Embodied Exploration: A workshop for the woman who desires to (re)connect with her body and her desires. 6 PM Pine & Prism

🪢 Glacier Climbing & Crevasse Rescue: If you’ve spent any time on glaciers (haven’t we all) and want to learn more about climbing and crevasse rescue, then this event should be right up your alley. 6:30 PM Roundabout Books

🍁 Autumn Leaf & Tree Walk: It’s leaf peeping season in Central Oregon! The crew from Nighthawk Naturalist School will be guiding the walk and helping you ID the trees that are aglow with color. 3 PM Park TBA

🎓 Get Ready for College: Got a teen interested in heading off to college? This class will put them on the right path to picking schools, putting together an application, and more! 6 PM Central Library

🏙 Beyond City Limits: Join city managers from Bend, Redmond, and Sisters for a discussion around how regional collaboration is necessary for the future of growth in Central Oregon. 8 AM COCC - Wille Hall

John Hewitt & The New Americans | Silver Moon | 7 PM | Tickets

Babes In Canyon | The Domino Room | 8 PM | Tickets
Long Gone Wilder | River’s Place | 6 PM
Dry Canyon Stampede | Mountain Burger | 6 PM
Skinny Dennis | The Lot | 6 PM
Barringer & Baker | Stoller Wine Bar | 6 PM
Sweet Motor | Commonwealth Pub | 8:30 PM
Scott Brownwood | M&J Tavern | 9 PM

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