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In case you laid in bed all day, like I wanted to, you might look out your window and think, “Oh, it looks nice out there.” In this instance you would be wrong.
WinterFest is underway tonight at 5 p.m.
One of Central Oregon’s biggest outdoors festivals, Bend WinterFest, kicks off tonight with a new addition to the snowy weekend – Winter Fringe, but Mike will have more about that for you later today. This year’s festival is bigger than ever and includes something for everyone.
A national online magazine/blog has given Bend’s WinterFest a nod as one of the Top 10 winter festival destinations for road tripping families.
Road Trip For Families published a piece this week identifying WinterFest among the nation’s must-see winter celebrations alongside such well known festivals as St.
The Deschutes Public Libraries have been providing after school craft and game programs for children and teenagers on a regular basis, but until now it seems a certain group has been left out of the fun. Adults now have the opportunity once a month to join others in their community for a night of either gaming or crafting.
Ignite Bend, the ongoing multi-media event that brings locals up onto the Tower Theatre stage to give five-minute slide show presentations on a variety of topics, has just announced a date for its sixth installation.
Ignite Bend 6 is slated for Wednesday, February 9 at the Tower and coincides with Global Ignite Week.
Call it a victory lap of sorts, but the winner of Central Oregon’s Last Comic Standing is performing tonight at the Old Stone Church as part of No Contest, a show that gives some stage time to the top funny people from the contest, but this time with no prizes on the line.
The winner, Jim Mortenson — a funny, funny, hilariously funny dude — will be on hand, as will runner-up Jake Woodmansee.
There are funny people among us here on the High Desert and some of those folks will test their hilarity tonight at the opening round of Central Oregon’s Last Comic Standing. They’ll tell jokes and do impressions and make fart sounds and all the other sort of good stuff that makes you explode in laughter.
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