Crow’s Feet Commons bike/ski shop is moving to Northwest Crossing in September and plans to launch in the fall, but you can still hang out and order coffee, beer and wine and listen to live music at the cafe. “The Rademacher house and the Riverfront Plaza has become a community hub through the hard efforts […]
David Marchi
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Single Speed World Championships
A week-long mountain bike party is coming to Bend. Here’s what locals and visitors need to know
Bend has hosted many local, regional and national championship events ranging from running, cycling, skiing, climbing and fly-fishing. But for one week in October, single-speed mountain bikers from around the globe will descend upon Bend for a bicycling event of galactic proportions: the 2018 Mountain Bike Single Speed World Championships. A little history SSWC began […]
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Sheila Dunn: Painting Bikes
Bend artist Sheila Dunn has a new canvas these days: bikes! Approached by David Marchi, owner of Crow’s Feet Commons, to customize the Open brand bike frames they were selling, Dunn has taken her unique style to create these one-of-a-kind bikes. Taking her style of broad colorful brushstrokes and translating that style to a clean […]
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Worthy Enough for Downtown
Taps and Tacos livens up Brooks Street even more
It says something about the density of Bend’s beer scene that not only are there several neighborhoods perfectly suited for craft pub crawls—but in some cases, there’s no need to so much as turn onto a different street at all. Take Brooks Street downtown, which saw last weekend the grand opening of Worthy Taps & […]
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Ski Town, USA
Crow’s Feet Commons brings back the party
Aprés Ski is defined as “the social activities and entertainment following a day of skiing.” That’s still somewhat a thing as people hook up for food and brew somewhere warm and talk about their day, but the act of aprés ski used to be much more of an event. David Marchi, the curator of Crow’s […]
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Problems on the Plaza
Bend’s downtown is a gathering place for the city—but business owners, officials and loitering youth all differ on how the area should be used
In 2010, the historic Rademacher House—home to Bend’s first mayor—was the site of Arts Central’s educational programming. That year, the organization opted to close down classes in the space, after “a vile act was committed in full view on the porch.” Inside, a group of young children were gathered for an arts class when the […]